Frail Snail
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Could be because it's dead. Vanced Manager's links to their microG implementation and the Vanced client are most likely no longer working.
'No Stupid Questions' (NSQ) Internet & Technology Edition
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If you’re in the US, get one at Best Buy. You’ll need to use a telegram/discord bot to alert you to restocks, but they have some anti-bot features on their website now, and they don’t price gouge. Best way to get one for MSRP.
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You plug it into your computer and then tell yourself it actually works, and the placebo effect takes over from there.
Fentanyl Floyd
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Is it worth getting an associates in web development? Or is better to just learn the stuff myself? How the heck do I get my foot into the door, job market sucks for entry level 
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Depends on what you want to do and which side do you want to learn in web development. Squarespace and wordpress are easy to set up for various tasks so smaller clients can't be that plentiful. For corporate(-ish) sites with lots of back-end learning Java, Python, Ruby (on Rails) or something like that might be better.Is it worth getting an associates in web development? Or is better to just learn the stuff myself? How the heck do I get my foot into the door, job market sucks for entry level
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If it's affordable, it couldn't hurt. I get the whole entry level glass ceiling, but if you can't get paying clients, at least using a class like this to get some skills and build a portfolio might be enough to stick out a bit among the others.Is it worth getting an associates in web development? Or is better to just learn the stuff myself? How the heck do I get my foot into the door, job market sucks for entry level
Do not hate your clients so much that you'd give them a WordPress site. Have some respect for them, yourself, and the industry as a whole.
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Thankfully I don't work in the industry any more. I didn't imply just giving them a wordpress/squarespace site, only the fact they're cheaper and easier to set up than having someone develop a proper site, which is in turn far cheaper than having someone fix a botched stock site. They never learned.
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Could someone educate me why Nvidia is often preferred over Radeon? Is it because of performance or graphics or maybe something else entirely?
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From the TNT and onwards it has often been Nvidia that had the best performing cards, from the low end to the high end, and the reputation of sometimes rotten Radeon drivers (on Windows) lingers.
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Hm, if that's the case, will Nvidia start shitting itself when I use Linux as my base OS? Or perhaps using Linux as the base OS for a new PC seems like a big fat F to the PC?
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Linux is fine and I don't know about the drivers(virtual machines) but AMD/Radeon seems to have the better reputation while Nvidia drivers on Linux is some sort of meme.
But I really don't know, I have no experience with it.
Frail Snail
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I can't comment on price to performance ratio as I'm not a fan of spreadsheets for my consoomer goods, but Nvidia cards have systems that AMD ones lack (or they're a work in progress). Namely CUDA (machine/deep learning, AI, etc.) and NVENC (video encoding).
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My experience of AMD GPUs on Linux is out-of-the-box they work a lot better. I tried running Manjaro on my GTX 1080 system last year and it was a total disaster, tearing issues galore and once I resolved that, everything was unbelievably choppy (felt like 30 FPS). I switched over to Nouveau and it was somehow even worse.
I'm on a laptop with an RTX 3070 and it works fine on Manjaro with proprietary drivers aside from backlight control issues which I was able to resolve after inserting a kernel parameter.
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Does anyone know how to get access to files stored on an Android phone when the screen is totally broken? By this I mean I cannot switch the default action when a USB cable connects it to a PC from "charging" to "expose the file system" via the touchscreen.
My only other option is to buy a near $40 replacement screen/frame + repair tools and *hope* that will fix all the issues.
My only other option is to buy a near $40 replacement screen/frame + repair tools and *hope* that will fix all the issues.
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Linux will work great by default with almost everything except Nvidia shit and an increasingly few amount of wifi chips.
Because Nvidia purposefully gimps their shit, you have two options when you run an nvidia card on Linux - the open source Nouveau driver, which is absolute ass in terms of performance, but somewhat stable (I mean that loosely, it is still unacceptably unstable in general terms), and nvidia's giant mess of "official" Linux drivers, which offer better performance at the cost of being completely unstable. Good luck figuring out which of the official ones to use though, and good luck with it actually fucking working.
I literally have stopped using a custom machine I built and kept upgraded from 2013 onward because the nvidia card my friend gifted me will not work with anything except nouveau nowadays, and I can basically only do browsing and terminal stuff on that. So as soon as Intel/AMD release something halfway affordable, I'm jumping on it. I will never purchase an Nvidia product. Small word because I did get this card for free but still, holy shit they hate Linux for some reason. Other vendors simply disregard Linux, but won't actively get in the way of people developing solutions that allow their hardware to be used with Linux "for free". Nvidia will.
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Use an OTG cable to connect a mouse and connect the phone to a PC at the same time an randomly click around until you manage to hit the right button?
Beyond that it looks like you have to put your phone in recovery mode and connect to the phone via ADB through the terminal.
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Re graphics support on Linux, I seem to recall hearing that Intel's integrated GPUs are particularly well-supported. I'll leave it to a Linux person to confirm/deny but if you don't need to do any hardcore AAA gaming (and you're not an AMD die-hard), one of their chips with an iGPU might be good enough.
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NVENC is just their hardware HEVC encoder(also h264), AMD have VCE and Intel's got Quicksync, all of them are compatible with regular h265/h264 decoders. The problem for AMD used to be that their HW encoder was shit, performance was there, it encoded video fast enough for streaming, but the output was not great. Strangely enough Intel was the best one for quality but it was part of the iGPU and not available when using a discrete card. I think there's a funky workaround for that but I never tried it. Maybe Nvidia is better now.
The problem with CUDA is that it is so deeply entrenched. The alternative is OpenCL and many applications support that as well. Is CUDA better? idk, but people speculate that Nvidia isn't sending their best people to support OpenCL on a driver level and any CUDA vs OpenCL benchmark in [professional application] will use a Nvidia card, because those are the only cards supporting both, and to no ones surprise CUDA comes out on top. Is OpenCL actually slower? I don't know.