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Dead Gay Muppet Gangbang said:
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?
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i am not sure how hard microsoft will track you after debloating everything, but there you go:


 
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anustart76 said:
You mean yt-dlp? Try passing these options:
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--write-sub --write-auto-sub --sub-lang "en.*"
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No, yt-dlg, the GUI version.

Dead Gay Muppet Gangbang said:
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
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This one?
 
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My audio interface (Audiobox 96) appears to have died. This happened once prior, and I had it RMA'd. Unfortunately I think that the window for doing so again has passed. Exactly the same thing occured as prior; it stopped being recognised properly, and nothing I do seems to rectify this. I have attempted to uninstall and reinstall the driver but this resulted in the device being recognised as merely a generic DFU interface.

If anyone has any suggestions, they would be more than welcome, though failing that I'd be interested in some recommendations for replacement audio interfaces. I use this (condenser) microphone for basically everything so it's really rather annoying not to have use of it. I'll probably see about getting a backup microphone of some description as well. Thanks.

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St.Davis said:
My audio interface (Audiobox 96) appears to have died. This happened once prior, and I had it RMA'd. Unfortunately I think that the window for doing so again has passed. Exactly the same thing occured as prior; it stopped being recognised properly, and nothing I do seems to rectify this. I have attempted to uninstall and reinstall the driver but this resulted in the device being recognised as merely a generic DFU interface.

If anyone has any suggestions, they would be more than welcome, though failing that I'd be interested in some recommendations for replacement audio interfaces. I use this (condenser) microphone for basically everything so it's really rather annoying not to have use of it. I'll probably see about getting a backup microphone of some description as well. Thanks.

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give snappy driver tool a try.
 
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does anyone know where i can get a free tool to get an exact autotune voice changer for livestreams? "magic chords" isn't really cutting it for me, so voicemod.net is out of the question.

example below:

 
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Is it bad for the health of a computer or its peripherals (keyboard, monitor, speakers, etc) in any meaningful way if I have a fan sitting on the desk? I notice that when the fan is on, I can feel the vibrations through the keyboard and the tower. Is that harmful over the long term, or does it not really matter if you're not a super gamer that needs every 0.001% of your computer power? Pretty much everything I found online related to people pointing a fan at the computer to attempt to cool it, which is not what I'm doing. I'm just worried about the vibration- is it actually an issue?
 
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bliblblblbbllb said:
Is it bad for the health of a computer or its peripherals (keyboard, monitor, speakers, etc) in any meaningful way if I have a fan sitting on the desk? I notice that when the fan is on, I can feel the vibrations through the keyboard and the tower. Is that harmful over the long term, or does it not really matter if you're not a super gamer that needs every 0.001% of your computer power? Pretty much everything I found online related to people pointing a fan at the computer to attempt to cool it, which is not what I'm doing. I'm just worried about the vibration- is it actually an issue?
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Computer fans used to vibrate far more than your desk fan and were far closer to the components. The only thing mechanical that could be sad is if you still have a spinning hard drive, but probably not even then.
 
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bliblblblbbllb said:
Is it bad for the health of a computer or its peripherals (keyboard, monitor, speakers, etc) in any meaningful way if I have a fan sitting on the desk? I notice that when the fan is on, I can feel the vibrations through the keyboard and the tower. Is that harmful over the long term, or does it not really matter if you're not a super gamer that needs every 0.001% of your computer power? Pretty much everything I found online related to people pointing a fan at the computer to attempt to cool it, which is not what I'm doing. I'm just worried about the vibration- is it actually an issue?
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unless your stuff is very very fragile, you should be fine. my computer shakes alot on its own, and ive never had problems from it.
 
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For anyone with desktops, currently my motherboard is a B650M HDV/M.2 with a Corsair 4000D. For the case's front audiojack, should the jack in question be TRS or TRRS? Also, should I download the audio drivers of the motherboard just in case? I can't check if its updated since I'm on Linux.
 
Is there a program (for Windows, preferably free) that will convert segments of movies into animated .gif's directly and easily off of a DVD/BD disk? Many many years ago I seem to remember a program which did just that, it was some tiny program written by a user of a forum I read, and it didn't seem to get any publicity. The forum had a mini explosion of animated gifs from movies but it died off over time.

I've been on the internet for a long time but I've never had any interest in making animated gifs or really anything at all to do with photoshop/AV/multimedia type programs. I am totally clueless about how this works. In five minutes of web searching "research" it seems like I have to use a program get the segment (or whole movie file) to my hard drive, then use a separate program to convert the segment into gif. I'm sure I could learn, but I'd probably never do it again, at best a few more times. So, a self contained program would be ideal. Anyone know of anything out there?
 
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How to debug an old motherboard that doesn't make beeps? I have an ASRock Z97 Pro4 with i5-4460 CPU. The problem is that the PC powers on (CPU gets hot, fans spin, HDDs spin), but nothing shows up on the monitor, the monitor doesn't even get a connection from the mobo. I tried disconnecting all components except CPU, CPU Fan, RAM, HDD without success.

When I power the machine on without a vital component like RAM, there are no beeps, so I can't understand where the problem is coming from.

I know the PC worked before, but I kept it in a box for about a year and my goal is to make it work again.
Edit: I've tried resetting the CMOS battery and checking if the mobo is connected to the PSU correctly, but nothing changed.
 
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kvas said:
I know the PC worked before, but I kept it in a box for about a year and my goal is to make it work again.
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Have you tried tightening the CPU cooler a bit? Shitty coolers like the Intel stock can get loose and the failure you are getting is what happens when the CPU has a bunch of bad connections

If that doesn't work then you probably have a dead power supply / motherboard
 
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kvas said:
How to debug an old motherboard that doesn't make beeps? I have an ASRock Z97 Pro4 with i5-4460 CPU. The problem is that the PC powers on (CPU gets hot, fans spin, HDDs spin), but nothing shows up on the monitor, the monitor doesn't even get a connection from the mobo. I tried disconnecting all components except CPU, CPU Fan, RAM, HDD without success.

When I power the machine on without a vital component like RAM, there are no beeps, so I can't understand where the problem is coming from.

I know the PC worked before, but I kept it in a box for about a year and my goal is to make it work again.
Edit: I've tried resetting the CMOS battery and checking if the mobo is connected to the PSU correctly, but nothing changed.
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You using onboard video or a GPU? I've accidentally connected to the motherboard HDMI and gotten no output, and only realizing after a bit of troubleshooting.
 
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kvas said:
How to debug an old motherboard that doesn't make beeps? I have an ASRock Z97 Pro4 with i5-4460 CPU. The problem is that the PC powers on (CPU gets hot, fans spin, HDDs spin), but nothing shows up on the monitor, the monitor doesn't even get a connection from the mobo. I tried disconnecting all components except CPU, CPU Fan, RAM, HDD without success.

When I power the machine on without a vital component like RAM, there are no beeps, so I can't understand where the problem is coming from.

I know the PC worked before, but I kept it in a box for about a year and my goal is to make it work again.
Edit: I've tried resetting the CMOS battery and checking if the mobo is connected to the PSU correctly, but nothing changed.
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Having a HDD connected isn't necessary to get to the POST screen so I would disconnect it for troubleshooting.
If you have multiple RAM DIMMs, try removing all except for 1 of them, and try using a single DIMM in both the A and B channels to see if that changes anything.
That motherboard has 3 different onboard video ports. Maybe the port or cable you are using is bad. Have you tried checking all the VGA, DVI, and HDMI ports for video output?
 
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