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

Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
It is 100% legit brother, using 2 for 1 offer I got ten 3080Ti for just five hunder dollars!! I swear to Shiva this is true!
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They promised to treat me like family.
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I fucking hate like half of my family, so no business from me.
 
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How do you find out what your internet password is? Used to be you could go in the internet-settings and it was somewhere in a sub-menu. Haven't been able to find it again on the current Windows iteration
 
What's the point of reading books about programming for Python? Wouldn't just learning c++ (or other basic object oriented languages) be enough to know what's going on behind the scenes? The only one intricacy I know Python has is the no real multithreading part.
 
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
What's the point of reading books about programming for Python? Wouldn't just learning c++ (or other basic object oriented languages) be enough to know what's going on behind the scenes? The only one intricacy I know Python has is the no real multithreading part.
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Learning any object oriented language is not going to teach you what happens behind the scenes because behind the scenes is compiler and machine code. For beginners, whether or not a language is "closer to the metal" doesn't matter in practice for most mainstream languages.

Python is considered babby's first language because it abstracts away a lot of the parts of coding that some beginners struggle with like data types and memory management. The point is to get beginners started writing algorithms and manipulating data without having to teach implementation details and boilerplate which vary from language to language.

You can certainly just start learning c++ first but the learning curve is steeper and there are many implementation details, computer basics and idiosyncrasies you have to be familiar with in order to write decent code. I think c# is the sweet spot for mainstream object oriented language that's easy to learn, but not obfuscating too much.
 
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Troonologist PhD said:
What PC should I get for gaming and what shit should I avoid? It's only for gaming. Some of the games I want are only compatible with Windows, and I want to use a lot of mods and CC. I'm an ignorant retard when it comes to tech, BTW.
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prices have dropped under the bubble, but honestly they are still shite.

we honestly are in the doldrums before a big release happens.... so while i cannot financially say now is a bad time [given the last string of releases] it's just all up in the air.

Prices of videocards and cpu's are still shite right now so regardless of INTEL/AMD/NVIDIA, and ram sucks too. Even if things get more expensive, you are still likely getting shafted in the future.
 
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Troonologist PhD said:
What PC should I get for gaming and what shit should I avoid? It's only for gaming. Some of the games I want are only compatible with Windows, and I want to use a lot of mods and CC. I'm an ignorant retard when it comes to tech, BTW.
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Are you going to buy a pre-built or are you going to build your own? I'm pretty tech retarded myself and I've managed to successfully build a couple PCs. Also depends on how much you're willing to spend of course.

If you're gonna build your own, what I'd suggest doing is going to pcpartpicker.com, make an account, click on the 'completed builds' tab, filter by how much money you're willing to spend, and look at what other people built. Then start making your own concept build on the site. It gives useful feedback about if you're adding incompatible parts and stuff like that.

If you're gonna do a pre-built, I guess make sure it's windows 11 compatible for future-proofing at least. At least 16, maybe 32 gigs of DDR4 RAM (DDR5 is best, but rare and expensive still). You probably want at least a 3070 card of some sort if you're going nvidia... I dunno AMD stuff. Uhh... 2TB m.2 drive for your main disk would be good. 1TB is passable. I guess do research on brands. EVGA graphics cards are top of the line. Asus cards are pretty good too. Not sure about other brands. A lot of people complain about shitty power supply units in pre-builts, so maybe you'd want to buy a good one of those and replace the stock one.
 
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Troonologist PhD said:
What PC should I get for gaming and what shit should I avoid? It's only for gaming. Some of the games I want are only compatible with Windows, and I want to use a lot of mods and CC. I'm an ignorant retard when it comes to tech, BTW.
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Do some research on the case and the PSU you want. Lots of "gaming" cases have absolutely shit airflow these days due to solid front panels and Gigabyte managed to burn a lot of their credibility with their exploding PSUs.
Their Aorus line of cards are solid though, both looks- and performance-wise. Assuming you like LED lighting on a graphics card.
Malt said:
EVGA graphics cards are top of the line. Asus cards are pretty good too.
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Go for a triple fan cooler setup if you can. ASUS has a "Dual" line featuring a twin-fan cooler. Its components are solid but thermals are okay-ish at best and its relatively low board power limit doesn't allow for much overclocking. My 1660 Super runs at 70°C when reaching 100% load (125 watts). The RTX 3070 has a reference TDP of 220 watts - two fans are a bit weak for that. The EVGA FTW3 or the ASUS ROG/TUF should be able to maintain their 300 watt board power limits without throttling. yeah I'm planning an upgrade, but I'll have to get a beefier PSU first
 
Chump said:
How do make a blog/ basic website for as cheap as possible
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Presuming you don't have any web development or web app installation experience and aren't interested in learning it… SquareSpace isn't terrible for the price and is pretty powerful and customizable. If you don't want to pay and you're just doing this for fun, WordPress.com and Medium are popular free platforms.

theshitposter said:
Is the app "clubhouse" still relevant or dead?
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I think it's pretty relevant given that Twitter and other services blatantly ripped off its functionality. Is it still active? I'd say yes to that too, though maybe perhaps not in any fields you're interested in. I'd say there's no harm in giving it a try.
 
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theshitposter said:
Is the app "clubhouse" still relevant or dead?
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I never actually used clubhouse so I can't say firsthand, but I've heard it basically died more or less after vaccines were widely out and things started to somewhat normalize in the West. People say once they could meet in real life, it lost its relevance. I've also heard some people complain that as it got bigger, it got flooded with retards who would disrupt conversations or otherwise create an undesirable environment via racism or just the kind of stuff you'd expect in the autistic thunderdome. This kind of behavior was cited as a significant factor in driving away the 'intellectuals' that most people wanted to listen and speak to. Once the 'smart' people left the platform, it was just a bunch of tard-ragers nobody wanted to listen to. It's been somewhat supplanted by twitter spaces, where there is apparently more control over who can actually participate in the conversation.

Oh yeah, another complaint was that it got flooded by scammers and get-rich-quick types who poisoned the atmosphere.
 
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Malt said:
It's been somewhat supplanted by twitter spaces, where there is apparently more control over who can actually participate in the conversation.
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Well, Clubhouse works the same way; the person who starts the room can invite others to speak and also mute them again if they get out of line. It's not the case where you can just join the room and start screaming the N word to everyone or something like that. You first have to press a button to "raise your hand," after which the speaker might choose to invite you to speak, thus allowing others to hear you. Only then can you start screaming the N word at everyone.
 
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Boris Blank's glass eye said:
Do some research on the case and the PSU you want. Lots of "gaming" cases have absolutely shit airflow these days due to solid front panels and Gigabyte managed to burn a lot of their credibility with their exploding PSUs.
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Thanks for reminding me about Gigabyte. I've vowed to never buy anything related to Gigabyte products due to whatever tomfuckery they've been doing. Hopefully Corsair is an ok choice.
 
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Least Concern said:
Well, Clubhouse works the same way; the person who starts the room can invite others to speak and also mute them again if they get out of line. It's not the case where you can just join the room and start screaming the N word to everyone or something like that. You first have to press a button to "raise your hand," after which the speaker might choose to invite you to speak, thus allowing others to hear you. Only then can you start screaming the N word at everyone.
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Sounds just like twitter spaces. I'm just repeating what I heard from the Very Smart Twitter People, but I can't remember exactly who it was and I can't find their tweets about it. Seems like everybody moved to twitter spaces or the callin app for some reason. Twitter spaces is the only one I've ever actually personally used.
 
WULULULULU said:
Thanks for reminding me about Gigabyte. I've vowed to never buy anything related to Gigabyte products due to whatever tomfuckery they've been doing. Hopefully Corsair is an ok choice.
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Corsair should be A-OK with Jon Gerow a.k.a. jonnyGURU being their director of PSU engineering.
Malt said:
Using an 850W myself, but worried that won't be enough for when the 4000 series cards come out. They're supposed to have ridiculous energy draw.
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Based on speculations 850W should be enough for a 4070. If the 4080s and 4090s keep the tradition of high transients and fluctiations, well, you'd better get a 1200W Platinum piece.
 
What's the best online course to learn C++? I'm familiar with Java and html was simple enough to understand from free code camp, but for whatever reason C++ just doesn't integrate for me as well as I'd like, I mean I get it so far, I'm just not remembering it as well as I'd like.
 
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