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

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Just a boring name said:
I think I need a simple website for my business.
No Ecommerce or payment facility needed, just an Internet presence that isn't Faceache/Twatter/Instaspam.

I don't know any I.T. people, so I'd either have to search for someone and hope they don't rip me off due to it being obvious that I know fck all about building websites, or go to one of those godaddy sites or similar.

As far as I understand it, with these build your own website companies, the website is hosted by the company, which you pay for, and your website name (Domain name? ) is often included for the first year by that company but then you have to pay for it. So they are two separate things.

Is it actually a huge Ballache to use one of these all in one sites, whether the actual building of the website itself, to ridiculous locked in contracts that last longer than a scientology contract?!

Are there any in particular that you would encourage me to avoid?

Any snidey tricks or common pricebloating, or added on stuff that I wouldn't really need, that I should look out for, from the companies or independent I.T. website builder person?

What is the normal scope of work expected of the website builder person - do they just build your website, choose your hosting company then leave you to it, expecting you to update the website and deal with renewals yourself, or would they be willing to update the content a certain number of times over a certain timescale that you have paid for?

Also, I am V.I. (Visually Impaired), so although I would be up for having a go at making the website myself, I don't want to get into a frustrating struggle resulting in a shit website - are these DIY site companies easy to use?

And what about the safety of things like mailing list subscribers, not getting hacked, DDOS etc?

Thankyou.
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Excellent troll.

However, I saw right through you. Only disgusting shysters advertise non-stick surfaces. All non-cast iron cookware is a sham.
 
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Okay so I just built my first gaming PC and I've run into a very strange issue.

I built my PC with the RTX 2060, right? And the PC recognizes that it's there but only selectively. I downloaded GeForce Experience to download the latest drivers and stuff, but nearly everything else doesn't recognize it. I downloaded Doom 2016 and I had to force it through GeForce Experience to use the RTX instead of the onboard graphics. But when I try to open the Nvidia control panel, I get an error stating my display isn't connected to an Nvidia graphics card. Even though it clearly is and even used it. Meanwhile opening Diagnostics says it's working even though neither Nvidia nor the games I'm playing says it does.

I have no idea how to get the damn thing to recognize the card and it's so odd because it knows it's there; BIOS shows I have it installed but it's like it just won't do it.
 
How vulnerable would I be to hackery dackery doo if I just straight up used DOS and maybe a shell program to navigate easier?
 
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Strange Rope Hero said:
By DOS do you mean the command prompt, or MS-DOS.
If it's MS-DOS, any program can delete your hard drive's MBR.
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I literally have at least 3 different 5.25 floppy sets around of MS-DOS kicking around, so I immediately thought of that for the feels.

If I were to do this it would probably be from a FreeDOS livecd.
 
Do we already have a "dummies guide to DES and AES" yet? I can't find one anywhere
 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
Okay so I just built my first gaming PC and I've run into a very strange issue.

I built my PC with the RTX 2060, right? And the PC recognizes that it's there but only selectively. I downloaded GeForce Experience to download the latest drivers and stuff, but nearly everything else doesn't recognize it. I downloaded Doom 2016 and I had to force it through GeForce Experience to use the RTX instead of the onboard graphics. But when I try to open the Nvidia control panel, I get an error stating my display isn't connected to an Nvidia graphics card. Even though it clearly is and even used it. Meanwhile opening Diagnostics says it's working even though neither Nvidia nor the games I'm playing says it does.

I have no idea how to get the damn thing to recognize the card and it's so odd because it knows it's there; BIOS shows I have it installed but it's like it just won't do it.
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Make sure the monitor is, in fact, plugged directly into the back of the card - you might have a display port on the motherboard, but it will use integrated graphics if it's plugged into that. Another thing that's not obvious is if there are multiple slots, you want to plug the card into the topmost PCIe slot closest to the CPU - that's the primary.
 
Short Thor said:
Make sure the monitor is, in fact, plugged directly into the back of the card - you might have a display port on the motherboard, but it will use integrated graphics if it's plugged into that. Another thing that's not obvious is if there are multiple slots, you want to plug the card into the topmost PCIe slot closest to the CPU - that's the primary.
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Yeah I actually figured this out last night and I felt like an idiot.

I plugged in the HDMI to the I/O shield on the motherboard and not the GPU itself. I didn't even know you could do that or that you had to do that until it was suggested. It didn't help that it technically ran when I used GeForce Experience so I was completely lost why it would work for that but nothing else.

Again, this is one of those things that people don't mention but can completely fly over a newbie's head because it's not obvious to someone with no prior experience with a GPU.
 
Duncan Hills Coffee said:
I went back and made sure to push down on the screws and it actually worked. Thank you so much. It's insane how no one will explain stuff like this to people new to PC building.
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I'm not gonna pretend like I never failed to understand a shitty hardware diagram, but they did explain it...
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EDIT: Another thing that might not be obvious to a new builder are dual-channel RAM slots. The RAM slots on your motherboard should be color coded, and you'll want to put each pair of RAM sticks into slots with matching colors or their performance will be needlessly cucked.
 
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My shitty iPhone 5’s battery finally decided to die and I upgraded it to an XR, and the bevel is cutting off text. Is there an option anywhere to add bars to safari, or an option on the site? I’m a boomer on pretty much anything that doesn’t involve desktops. Sorry if this is an idiotic question.
 
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Takayuki Yagami said:
My shitty iPhone 5’s battery finally decided to die and I upgraded it to an XR, and the bevel is cutting off text. Is there an option anywhere to add bars to safari, or an option on the site? I’m a boomer on pretty much anything that doesn’t involve desktops. Sorry if this is an idiotic question.
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Try desktop mode.
 
are there any other steps one should follow in ditching their current internet identity (as much as you can) other than switching IP's and never touching any of the accounts you accessed from the old IP ever again?
 
Venomine said:
are there any other steps one should follow in ditching their current internet identity (as much as you can) other than switching IP's and never touching any of the accounts you accessed from the old IP ever again?
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Use VPNs. Use Tor. Delete or at least change the names on old GMail or other accounts where you can access them. Don't attach anything new to your 'old' phone number.

TLDR
Delet ur account
 
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Venomine said:
are there any other steps one should follow in ditching their current internet identity (as much as you can) other than switching IP's and never touching any of the accounts you accessed from the old IP ever again?
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You need to stop doing everything you're currently doing on the internet as well if you want to shake the glowies, your habits is a fingerprint.
 
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