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

Ivan Shatov said:
What's the best way to buy a PC these days?

Have to get one for work, don't want to build it myself. Used to get everything from Frys, but they only have like 4 pre-built systems right now and they all suck.

Going to use it for big data, complex modeling software and video rendering. Processor, RAM and GPU are what matter. Don't need monitors or peripherals.

I've been looking for systems with a AMD Ryzen 9 processor, there aren't many and most of the ones I found are out of stock. Would like to get a GeForce RTX video card for raytracing and specific tensorflow optimizations. Can't seem to find anything with this specific configuration. Will probably run it with 64GB of RAM, would like an option for 128GB.

While I'm not too concerned about money, I'd feel bad going over $3k.
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Just build it dude. You can build a very nice machine for $3k and realistically it's what? 2-3 hours of actual work.
 
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Never Scored said:
Just build it dude. You can build a very nice machine for $3k and realistically it's what? 2-3 hours of actual work.
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Pricing parts out now.

Looked on NewEgg, they get some custom builds from Adamant Custom. Nice, but nothing with the exact specs I'm after.

- AMD Ryzen 9
- Geforce RTX 2080 SUPER
- DDR4 4000

Lots of things with Quadros, DDR4 3000, etc. Going to have to decide...
 
What's a good box to plug into a 4K set that can play any media on a plug in harddrive? Assuming I want it hardwired and not over WiFi.
 
I never bought a 4K set before and getting ready for a move.
 
how do i remove information on my computer. My computer is running out of space on its cd, and I need to clean it. Academics please respond
 
If a computer is randomly going to sleep/black screen every 5 days or so, but the hardware is still running when the screen goes black and you can't get it to wake up and have to restart the computer, what is the likely culprit? Power supply, motherboard, graphics card, the computer itself runs fine with no symptoms or issues except for these random moments. Can dual monitors make it go crazy?
 
mandatorylurk said:
If a computer is randomly going to sleep/black screen every 5 days or so, but the hardware is still running when the screen goes black and you can't get it to wake up and have to restart the computer, what is the likely culprit? Power supply, motherboard, graphics card, the computer itself runs fine with no symptoms or issues except for these random moments. Can dual monitors make it go crazy?
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AFAIK the PSU slowly dying would result in sudden power-offs or restarts, not sleepy-sleep. If there's no screen distortion or other weird effects I'd say it's the motherboard instead of the graphics card. Could be the RAM as well.
 
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If a computer is randomly going to sleep/black screen every 5 days or so, but the hardware is still running when the screen goes black and you can't get it to wake up and have to restart the computer, what is the likely culprit? Power supply, motherboard, graphics card, the computer itself runs fine with no symptoms or issues except for these random moments. Can dual monitors make it go crazy?
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Do you know if anything is still running when it is on but won't wake up? Try pinging it next time and see if it responds. It could be some USB fuckery where it completely shuts off your keyboard/mouse to the point where it's no longer listening for input that would wake it up. Pulling the USB-dongle and inserting it into another port might work, if so you should dig around in the device manager and the power options. Also check the event logs, even if there's nothing useful there you might see when/if windows stopped logging events and that gives you a bit of a timeline.
 
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This is the computer specs, I got it right at the start of the coof shutdowns because I needed a new home pc to do graphic design and PC parts were being gobbled up by people in a panic. But for the price of 680 bucks it's been above and beyond what I need for a home computer since I don't play a lot of modern PC games.

I've wondered if it might be the wireless Microsoft keyboard and mouse I'm using since it's the only thing I can think of that has been added to the computer. I did try plugging in a wired USB mouse when the most recent sleep/blackout occurred friday evening but it didn't seem to turn anything back on so I hit the reset button.

I will dig around in the power options and I have both 24" monitors on DP cables just in case the HDMI was being spazzy, but it's just been confusing since it just happened in the past month or so. I'll ping it too next time to see as well.
 
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mandatorylurk said:
This is the computer specs, I got it right at the start of the coof shutdowns because I needed a new home pc to do graphic design and PC parts were being gobbled up by people in a panic. But for the price of 680 bucks it's been above and beyond what I need for a home computer since I don't play a lot of modern PC games.

I've wondered if it might be the wireless Microsoft keyboard and mouse I'm using since it's the only thing I can think of that has been added to the computer. I did try plugging in a wired USB mouse when the most recent sleep/blackout occurred friday evening but it didn't seem to turn anything back on so I hit the reset button.

I will dig around in the power options and I have both 24" monitors on DP cables just in case the HDMI was being spazzy, but it's just been confusing since it just happened in the past month or so. I'll ping it too next time to see as well.
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Go into your power settings and change screen sleep to "Never", if it isn't already. Install this and set it to save recordings every second, shut down your PC when the screen turns off and reboot, upload your log here (make sure there's no usernames in it first).

Then try doing a stress test on your graphics card, like 3DMark, wait for the screen to go blank, reboot and dump the logs here.
 
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@mandatorylurk Have you tried hitting the power button to wake it up? It could be that the motherboard is ignoring wake up events from USB. It could be that it accepts them to wake up from sleep, but not from hibernation. So that the keyboard still works after a short time, but not if it was off for several hours.
 
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A recent android update seems to have corrupted my micro SD card. Is there any software to format it so its usable again (and possibly rescue the files on it)?

The card is in RAW and the disk management utility and diskpart in Windows don't work. Tried GParted in linux and that failed too. GParted is telling me the card has no partition table but when I try to create one it gives me an error and doesn't complete. Wondering if its salvageable or if I should just get a new one.
 
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but when I try to create one it gives me an error and doesn't complete
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For the love of God, stop fooling with it! Don't do anything that will write to the card.

I've had some decent luck with R-Linux in the past when dealing with ext4 filesystems (which is presumably what you have if it's Android)

Data Recovery and File Undelete freeware for Linux files

Free Data recovery and Undelete software for Ext2/Ext3/Ext4 file systems. Unformat Linux disk.
www.r-studio.com www.r-studio.com
 
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@mandatorylurk Have you tried hitting the power button to wake it up? It could be that the motherboard is ignoring wake up events from USB. It could be that it accepts them to wake up from sleep, but not from hibernation. So that the keyboard still works after a short time, but not if it was off for several hours.
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That's a really good idea, it could be in the hibernate mode for laptops. Laptop sleeps, boop the power button, computer wakes up.
It happening after ~5 days is weird though, it shouldn't shouldn't freeze after idling over a certain time, my gut reaction is to fire bomb Adobe, but check the event logs to see if anything happened. The system running with no output feels like the CPU is overheating.
Pre-made system or homebuilt?
 
Safir said:
I need to make a customer revenge site (e.g. paypalsucks.com except aimed at a vastly less dangerous opponent, so I don't need much resilience). I'm a backend developer and I know fuck all about The World Wide Web. What's the easiest way to do it, preferably so that the total cost to me (in money and wamen-hours) doesn't exceed the amount I got scammed for?
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To expand a little on @twat-waffle's post, your main concern should be any legal liability.

If your time is expensive and your perceived legal threat low, maybe just use Wix.

If your time is less expensive, Hugo and similar site builders are interesting to play with. If you anticipate a legal risk developing, make sure you're covered as far as anonymity goes- use something like Njalla to buy the domain with Monero, and host it (behind Cloudflare) on a web host or cheap VPS you can pay for with Monero or gift cards or similar.
 
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so digging through some crap I found a Garvin or one of those other old dedicated GPS gizmos. Do any of those have some voodoo you can perform to make them play video games or something?
 
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