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

Aidan said:
Productive distractions. Learn to code or something.
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Learning to code is pretty much the worst possible way of avoiding negative thoughts.
Python: 
if x + y = 2:
    #do something
else:
    #do something else

Output: "Here's a really obscure error message that will return no results when you Google it! You managed to fuck up in just four lines of code in a way nobody else has ever managed before!"
 
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Aidan said:
problem solving things do me good
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Different strokes for different folks, friendo. It just really annoys me when a program should run and I can't figure out why it won't, lol. At least Python doesn't have those easily-missed semi-colons, I guess.
 
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I've got an opinion question:

My friend and I are looking to build a LAN-café-like XP setup. We already have a Socket 939 Athlon 64 X2 setup going with RAM and a new video card on the way.

As a compliment to this computer, I wanna build an LGA 775 machine, but I'm debating on which era of 775 processors I wanna draw from. I already know I don't want to use nVidia chipsets on any potential boards. Anyone have any suggestions?
 
Hermann the German said:
I've got an opinion question:

My friend and I are looking to build a LAN-café-like XP setup. We already have a Socket 939 Athlon 64 X2 setup going with RAM and a new video card on the way.

As a compliment to this computer, I wanna build an LGA 775 machine, but I'm debating on which era of 775 processors I wanna draw from. I already know I don't want to use nVidia chipsets on any potential boards. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Budget and availability aside, depending on the intended usage, a Wolfdale Core 2 Duo or a Yorkfield Core 2 Quad should satisfy your needs. These are 45nm CPUs with a TDP of either 65 W or 95 W, released between 2008-2010.
 
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Boris Blank's glass eye said:
Budget and availability aside, depending on the intended usage, a Wolfdale Core 2 Duo or a Yorkfield Core 2 Quad should satisfy your needs. These are 45nm CPUs with a TDP of either 65 W or 95 W, released between 2008-2010.
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Mainly playing games released c. 1995-2010 or so. I settled on an HP Elite LGA 775 board with plenty of room for expansion, paired with a Q8400 processor just for ease of use and budgetary purposes.

I was looking at putting a Firepro V5800 in it for the graphics since equivalent workstation GPUs seem so much cheaper than the mainstream equivalents, and since this is just a hobby thing mixing and matching whatever I figured it wouldn't be a huge deal, but if anyone knows otherwise feel free to say so.
EDIT: plus the V5800 supports Crossfire, which I've never tried out but thought it might be fun to fiddle with
 
Bender said:
Learning to code is pretty much the worst possible way of avoiding negative thoughts.
Python: 
if x + y = 2:
    #do something
else:
    #do something else

Output: "Here's a really obscure error message that will return no results when you Google it! You managed to fuck up in just four lines of code in a way nobody else has ever managed before!"
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>obscure
obscure.png

🤔
(You use double equals signs == to test value equality, bro.)
 
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Hermann the German said:
I was looking at putting a Firepro V5800 in it for the graphics since equivalent workstation GPUs seem so much cheaper than the mainstream equivalents, and since this is just a hobby thing mixing and matching whatever I figured it wouldn't be a huge deal, but if anyone knows otherwise feel free to say so.
EDIT: plus the V5800 supports Crossfire, which I've never tried out but thought it might be fun to fiddle with
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Workstation GPUs, at least Nvidia Quadros aren't well-suited for gaming AFAIK. Different drivers and optimization for a different intended purpose. They are great for CAD, CGI, and high-precision scientific calculations plus they work pretty much 'til the end of time, but they aren't for gaming.

It might make a nice project, though.
 
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Wingus Dongshire said:
If you're first starting out and don't know the syntactical difference between assignment and comparison operators, you shouldn't be in the IDE yet.
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I'm starting to think I should've used a PHP script with a missing semi-colon as an example, because that just gives you a blank page.
 
Boris Blank's glass eye said:
Workstation GPUs, at least Nvidia Quadros aren't well-suited for gaming AFAIK. Different drivers and optimization for a different intended purpose. They are great for CAD, CGI, and high-precision scientific calculations plus they work pretty much 'til the end of time, but they aren't for gaming.

It might make a nice project, though.
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A GPU of that age won't be much different than its desktop counterpart. There shouldn't be anything stopping the regular Radeon drivers from working, both AMD and Nvidia used to block consumer cards running the pro drivers and I can't imagine they put in the effort to block pro-users from running consumer drivers.
 
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At what point should I consider upgrading my hardware versus building an entirely new rig from scratch? I have a decent rig right now, and I figure I can upgrade the GPU or CPU when the need arises, but when would be a good time to just build a new system outright?
 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
when would be a good time to just build a new system outright?
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When you need to. That's not snark, upgrade when your computing needs gets too fat for its computing britches, like if you don't have a NVME slot but would benefit from the upgrade or if in the future you rely heavily on RAM speeds and DDR4 isn't cutting it anymore or if there's a lot of spiders in the case.

Upgrading for the sake of upgrading is fine if you have money in your pocket that you're not doing anything with, that's the enthusiast space. If the money used to upgrade for no useful reason means that you have to tighten your belt that month, don't do it.
 
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Google Chrome has stopped allowing me to download anything, I always get "virus scan failed" even if I know it's something safe.
 
Dom Cruise said:
Google Chrome has stopped allowing me to download anything, I always get "virus scan failed" even if I know it's something safe.
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Chrome scans your downloads independent of any antivirus software?
 
Boy I'm glad this thread exists. Eventually I want to make a new PC build and (I know, I know) I think I'm forced into Windows 10 and Nvidia GPUs for the support and the performance. Can I mitigate the worst of their telemetry + other bullshit with the right software and, most importantly, a pihole? I wanted a pihole for a long time so I'm wondering if I can kill two birds with one strone here. Or should I keep sinning and stay with Windows 8.1?

Also whoever said 'dual booting is a meme' was half-wrong because I stuck with a Linux OS for about a year and a half alongside Windows. I've got 3 physical drives, two of which are for Windows and the third is for Linux; when booted into Windows I can't see my Linux drive (intentional) but on Linux I can see my stuff in Windows but can't do move or alter the files - I'd like to be able to but anything I learnt about file systems while I was doing this hack job years ago is long forgotten. Can I get what I originally wanted: Windows only accessing the drive for games while Linux can access everything and everywhere?

plz no bulli and dumb the advice down for me a little because since I'm still learning
 
BroccoliBrain said:
Boy I'm glad this thread exists. Eventually I want to make a new PC build and (I know, I know) I think I'm forced into Windows 10 and Nvidia GPUs for the support and the performance. Can I mitigate the worst of their telemetry + other bullshit with the right software and, most importantly, a pihole? I wanted a pihole for a long time so I'm wondering if I can kill two birds with one strone here. Or should I keep sinning and stay with Windows 8.1?

Also whoever said 'dual booting is a meme' was half-wrong because I stuck with a Linux OS for about a year and a half alongside Windows. I've got 3 physical drives, two of which are for Windows and the third is for Linux; when booted into Windows I can't see my Linux drive (intentional) but on Linux I can see my stuff in Windows but can't do move or alter the files - I'd like to be able to but anything I learnt about file systems while I was doing this hack job years ago is long forgotten. Can I get what I originally wanted: Windows only accessing the drive for games while Linux can access everything and everywhere?

plz no bulli and dumb the advice down for me a little because since I'm still learning
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The current in-kernel NTFS driver is read-only, you need this userspace driver to write: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G

There is a recent experimental read-write kernel driver, it might be better than the userspace one in a few years.
 
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