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

I’d like it to be able to work on PCs on both my home network and PCs other networks I have access to.
When you say other networks, do you mean you're connected to these other networks in some way either locally or via VPN, or are you trying to access these computers remotely without doing that?

If it's the latter, you could VNC or RDP on different ports for each computer you want to connect to, and tunnel those ports through SSH so when you connect to those ports using VNC/RDP, it gets tunneled through SSH to the network the remote computer is on. You should be able to have multiple SSH connections open at once, and in theory of the VNC/RDP connection is over a different port for each machine, you should be able to have multiple instances open at once. This obviously requires an open port for SSH, a keypair, and a computer to connect to via ssh on each network. Do not set up an open port for SSH using a password, you shit is going to get hammered constantly once you open a port, even an obscure one, so you really need to use a keypair. Usually I'd recommend a Rasperry Pi plugged directly into the router on each network to do this, but since they're so hard to get, you're going to have to try to use something like an Orange Pi if you go for this type of setup. This setup would probably run you $20-$40 in one time costs to setup per network.

Chrome Remote Desptop may also be an option if you don't mind using Google shit.

If you are connected to the other networks locally or via VPN already, just use VNC and set a different obscure port for each machine.
 
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My PC's power supply is constantly making a ticking/clicking noise. How long before I die?
It has been making this noise for at least a year, I think it might be the fan.
It could be dust build up, a blast of compressed air could fix that, or you're just waiting for it to die if that doesn't fix it. If so, replace it
The same problem happens to my PSU about once a year. Each time I'll take it out, take off the grill, and blast it with the air compressor and then it's all good again.
 
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So, I have been using Invidious.io as a frontend to skip YouTube's bullshit and ads for awhile. However, does anybody know why videos will often freeze and stop loading, with no indication of buffering, or anything like that? If you leave the video alone, it will "finish" playing, as the seeker bar will go all the way towards the end of the video after the video has frozen itself for awhile without actually playing the part of the video from when it froze itself.

Switching instances does not seem to help, as it appears to be an Invidious-wide problem.
 
I'm curious - is there an open source project that I can run locally to train on a text based dataset to use as a language model? I've got a couple Tesla cards to use.
 
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I think the keyword you are looking for is "ASIC", which I think will help you finding a place to buy them since a quick google search yielded quite a few places selling them, though I never got to the point of ASICs so no experience with any of them. Hopefully someone else can speak to that.
I still can't find the old company's name/site but I found that multi-GPU rigs are readily available and am considering one of those. Now to do some electrical math and go shopping.
 
How can I make an instagram account without getting all my data scraped and sold? I hate sm but my business is at a weird impasse, might have to make one afterall. Dont want the app on my phone at all.
 
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I swore that months ago, I saw a discussion on KF somewhere about how all major hard drive manufacturers had sneakily started using some new and less reliable technology in their hard drives, where data could just fail to be written to the drive completely silently, with no failure indication at all, until you went to open it and it was just gone like it was never there to begin with (which was in fact the case). I seem to recall that it was near-impossible to avoid because they would silently switch over to the new tech a few months into any given drive model, so you couldn't even make a known-bad/known-good list of HD model numbers. Does anyone else remember what I am talking about?
 
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Does anyone know if there is an extension for Brave or Troonfox that brings back the previous Youtube UI?
 
I'm thinking of upgrading my laptop's storage with a M.2 in addition to the current 256gb SSD. 500gb minimum, does not need to be turbo autistic, price is a big factor. Laptop itself is unimpressive: Intel I5 core, Intel graphics, 8 gigs DDR4, so I'm not exactly gonna be playing crisis on this. Recommends on cheap but reliable M.2 drives?
 
Using Tor Browser on Android, when I hit 'like' on KF posts, I can see all the reactions but can never select them. It defaults to a 'like' which has led me to liking some autistic stuff. Does anyone have a solution for best Tor KF experience on Android?
If you open the reaction button in a new window(by right-clicking or long-pressing it), you will get a prompt asking whether you want to give the reaction "like".

You can change this to any of the others by going to the end of the URL and changing the number just after "reaction_id=" from 1 to another valid reaction code.

@NOT Sword Fighter Super compiled a list of the valid reaction codes back in 2020:

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He left 34 = political sperging out.

Yes, this is more autistic than the average speedrunning meet, but it solves the problem.
 
I'm thinking of upgrading my laptop's storage with a M.2 in addition to the current 256gb SSD. 500gb minimum, does not need to be turbo autistic, price is a big factor. Laptop itself is unimpressive: Intel I5 core, Intel graphics, 8 gigs DDR4, so I'm not exactly gonna be playing crisis on this. Recommends on cheap but reliable M.2 drives?
I'm currently rocking a WD Black SSD, around 52 days of uptime later it's still going hard. Brands I've liked in the past are Samsung, Crucial, and Intel. Ones without a DRAM cache will be slower than otherwise, however cheaper, and might not be too noticeable.
 
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I'm currently rocking a WD Black SSD, around 52 days of uptime later it's still going hard. Brands I've liked in the past are Samsung, Crucial, and Intel. Ones without a DRAM cache will be slower than otherwise, however cheaper, and might not be too noticeable.
Again, not too worried about the speed autism, the computer itself is the bottleneck, even if I got a super fast drive, it would be wasted. Samsung drives are on sale on Amazon, 60 bucks for 1tb, not terrible.
 
If you open the reaction button in a new window(by right-clicking or long-pressing it), you will get a prompt asking whether you want to give the reaction "like".

You can change this to any of the others by going to the end of the URL and changing the number just after "reaction_id=" from 1 to another valid reaction code.

@NOT Sword Fighter Super compiled a list of the valid reaction codes back in 2020:

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He left 34 = political sperging out.

Yes, this is more autistic than the average speedrunning meet, but it solves the problem.
I think I left that out because that particular rating didn't exist yet, but I'm adding it now.
Thanks.
 
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If you open the reaction button in a new window(by right-clicking or long-pressing it), you will get a prompt asking whether you want to give the reaction "like".

You can change this to any of the others by going to the end of the URL and changing the number just after "reaction_id=" from 1 to another valid reaction code.

@NOT Sword Fighter Super compiled a list of the valid reaction codes back in 2020:

View attachment 5162860

He left 34 = political sperging out.

Yes, this is more autistic than the average speedrunning meet, but it solves the problem.
It works! I love how autistic this is!
 
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Depends on what version of Pcie you are rocking. If it's pcie2 don't bother. For Pcie 3 and up you will probably want to go for a 970 EVO from Samsung.

Edit:This is for the laptop guy.
 
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Null has drilled the difference between lower and uppercase i internets into my brain to the point that I'm obnoxious about the difference IRL, which lead to a question.
Are we on the Internet currently?
Tor can access the clearnet and the clearnet can access tor through things like tor2web, but are they really part of the same network?
I don't want to misgender onion services, so someone, please clarify.
 
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