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Does anyone know the deal with snew? I used to use it to lurk rantgrumps and thecinemassacretruth but it hasn't been working recently.
'No Stupid Questions' (NSQ) Internet & Technology Edition
- Thread starter Arm Pit Cream
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Maybe someone can help out with this, idk.
Is there anyway to fix "SSL certificate" errors? For some reason this only happens with two specific pieces of software (youtube-dl and Clamav) in which I can't update either one because it spits that error out all the time. I found an answer to where typing "--no-check-certificate" would bypass it, but a lot of sources say that's NOT recommended. A couple other possibilities I found said it could be a Cloudflare issue, or censorship issue (even though I'm using a VPN), or even a configuration issue with my OS (I'm using Devuan Beowulf A.K.A. Debian 10 ). I just want to rule out everything before I decide to back-up my shit and re-format my hard drive to re-install my OS.
Is there anyway to fix "SSL certificate" errors? For some reason this only happens with two specific pieces of software (youtube-dl and Clamav) in which I can't update either one because it spits that error out all the time. I found an answer to where typing "--no-check-certificate" would bypass it, but a lot of sources say that's NOT recommended. A couple other possibilities I found said it could be a Cloudflare issue, or censorship issue (even though I'm using a VPN), or even a configuration issue with my OS (I'm using Devuan Beowulf A.K.A. Debian 10 ). I just want to rule out everything before I decide to back-up my shit and re-format my hard drive to re-install my OS.
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Look for a package called something like "ca_certificates" or "ssl_ca_certificates" and make sure it's up to date. It's a collection of certificate authority files. Pretty much every UNIX-like has a package like this and I think Mozilla controls the ultimate upstream package of most of them, so with that installed and updated, you should be able to connect to anything Firefox can connect to without warnings. The process for updating packages can vary widely by distribution and I don't know what the process is for Debian specifically, but if you're running Debian on your daily driver, you can probably figure it out.
If you've updated that and are still having connection problems, maybe try disabling your VPN at least temporarily, if you can stomach it. That would be a less time-consuming step than reinstalling everything, at least.
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listen: i'm an actual retard who does not understand anything. BUT, i do want to learn shit, so (1) how do i learn about programming and that shit, and (2) how can i learn about how labtops/computers function? btw i know the questions sound stupid - but like i just want to be able to know what the fuck is happening if any of my technology decides to have a stroke and so i don't have to rely on some random apple nerd person.
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Install Gentoo. Every time you see a word or acronym you don't recognize, look it up. Keep doing this until you know computer, or at least know what you want to do with computer. If you want a piece of paper that qualifies you to ask "have you tried turning it off and on again?", get an A+ cert.
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The answer will be different depending on how you learn. If you, like me, tend to be not very disciplined when it comes to self-study, something with formal hours and homework like IRL college courses might be best. If you can stick to a self-set schedule, there are online college and certification courses. Learn better with books? Buy books. Learn better with videos/lectures? Watch YouTube or Lynda/LinkedIn Learning videos. Etc. It's a question you kind of have to answer for yourself, but if you have an idea of what method of learning works best for you, we can offer some better suggestions.
In terms of how computers work, I would suggest getting a CompTIA A+ certification, or at least studying related materials. It has a bad rap for being really basic and elementary, but that's the proper place for a newbie to start IMO. For programming, check out our programming thread, especially the OP.
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I don't know much about the first, but I know a bit about the second. You learn about it the same way people learn about cars. Get some old broken computers and take them apart and fix them. Google the problems you run into and then you'll know how to deal with those problems when you run into them in the future.
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Something with LXQT, I suppose. Does Mint have a variant with that as the DE?
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Relieved to hear Mint , recently got an old Acer netbook up and running with that.
Someone had attempted to up it from XP to 10 and nearly crippled it in the process. Runs Mint now like a charm.
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Something with LXQT, I suppose. Does Mint have a variant with that as the DE?
Does Mint let you just install one of any of the DEs they have in repos? Maybe if you use the net install you could be given the option to pick one of the available DEs.
Does Mint let you just install one of any of the DEs they have in repos? Maybe if you use the net install you could be given the option to pick one of the available DEs.
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- Are you asking how to learn or where to learn about programming? If the latter then go to python.org and keep going. Everything uses python and you can use python for everything. (You can stick with it for most of the stuff you may want to do once you've got it down.) There are not that many weird programming idioms in python, so it's great place to start.
- Computers all have a few components in common: A CPU, thing that does math. A GPU a think that makes pretty pictures and is common to see built into CPUs. Memory or RAM, this is the computers short term memory that is lost when the computer turns off and on again. And finally, a hard drive which is the computer's long term memory. These days they're call SSDs. The earliest consumer computers had all these parts. Maybe at the exception of a floppy disk to load the OS and programs instead of Hard Drive, but it's still just long term memory. A keyboard, mouse, and monitor are all fungible.
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I usually hit up Newegg.
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Depends on your country. Unfortunately like @Never Scored said, it will probably be Amazon. Support local (online) shops!
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Sometimes Newegg. Thing is they always take the prices and skew them so the cheaper are more expensive compared to amazon. Ex:
| Size in TB | Amazon | Newegg |
| 1 | 50 | 52 |
| 2 | 70 | 80 |
| 3 | 100 | 90 |
They are not Amazon; going for them. Newegg also has a number of extra worker process when you open it Chrome; runs heavy.
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U 'MIRIN BRAH?
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For those of us retarded enough to only put 8 gigs of DDR3 in our build years ago, worth it to upgrade to 16 GB as a stop gap until PC part prices and supply issues calm down?
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Yes, if you regularly use 7 of those 8 gigs it's a good idea to avoid swapping to disk. If you don't have an SSD you should go for that first, you can get a nice 500GB SATA SSD with DRAM for 80-90 bucks, logging in to Windows and you'll immediately notice the difference unlike having more RAM. If RAM is cheap there's no reason to not buy it as well because even with an SSD swapping to disk can be felt. Or you can spend all that money on RGB shit to make your computer look faster.
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Yeah my wife went from 8 to 16 a few months back in her gaming rig and the difference was night and day. The increase in framerate was really noticeable because even on low graphics settings most games or other hardware-intensive applications are going to page to disk and grind to a halt - even paging to an SSD will nuke your performance compared to having enough RAM.