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Does anyone know of any Bluetooth receivers for 2 copper pin iems? I like mine, but the cable can make it hard to listen to shit when I'm not at home, so I'm just looking for something that will connect them to Bluetooth so I don't need to use the cable.
 
Bought a 970, thx for the suggestion man!
A bit late but if you are ever in the market for a future SSD, you might want to check out something like this which will display in autistic detail the specs of the SSDs you will find on the market, the NAND type especially. One of the shady things some companies have been doing is moving, often quietly and with the same branding, from TLC to QLC, which isnt immediately apparent because the speeds and such can be comparable but the drive life and endurance will be quite a bit shorter for QLC drives, and the reason they do this of course is it's cheaper to make QLC drives and most consumers don't know what it even means.
 
This is weird. Looks like Brave Mobile (not desktop - I checked and that works) is blocked from watching free movies on YouTube. Has this always been a thing and I've just not been paying attention? I have Brave set to desktop so I can play videos minimized, too lazy to turn it off and see what happens then. Maybe I will at some point.

Kind of weird that they explicitly state which browsers they support, isn't it? And Brave ain't one of them.


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Here's the link, if anyone wants to try and re-create my error message:

 
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A bit late but if you are ever in the market for a future SSD, you might want to check out something like this which will display in autistic detail the specs of the SSDs you will find on the market, the NAND type especially. One of the shady things some companies have been doing is moving, often quietly and with the same branding, from TLC to QLC, which isnt immediately apparent because the speeds and such can be comparable but the drive life and endurance will be quite a bit shorter for QLC drives, and the reason they do this of course is it's cheaper to make QLC drives and most consumers don't know what it even means.
Actually canceled it, so I'll take this into consideration, though I'm not too worried. I'm backing stuff up on flash drives periodically, so even in event of failure, I'm not completely screwed
 
Actually canceled it, so I'll take this into consideration, though I'm not too worried. I'm backing stuff up on flash drives periodically, so even in event of failure, I'm not completely screwed
In all honesty, a good TLC drive from a reputable brand will likely last you longer than your laptop. I've seen plently of good ones like the Samsung 980, Sk Hynix Gold, and various WD Blacks fall below $50 for 1TB. As a sidenote, given you are looking at NVMe drives, I would say more budget drives without DRAM (like the 980 non-pro) are no longer as much an issue, given most will now have HMB. In the old days of SATA drives, it was common advice to always get drives with DRAM, as DRAMless drives were just absolute dogshit for SSDs since once they ran out of cache, they would become slow as shit. Nowadays, many NVMe drives, if they lack DRAM cache on the drive itself, can use system ram as a cache, and really, unless you are autistic about benchmarks, this is completely fine for ordinary use.
 
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This is weird. Looks like Brave Mobile (not desktop - I checked and that works) is blocked from watching free movies on YouTube. Has this always been a thing and I've just not been paying attention? I have Brave set to desktop so I can play videos minimized, too lazy to turn it off and see what happens then. Maybe I will at some point.

Kind of weird that they explicitly state which browsers they support, isn't it? And Brave ain't one of them.


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Here's the link, if anyone wants to try and re-create my error message:

Brave Mobile doesn't support DRM/content protection at the moment so you won't be able to play it or do anything to fix it without being a developer/working with the source code. The other browsers in the support list have a DRM solution installed so they would work fine if you were to use those (ensuring DRM was enabled).
DRM is required to play movies on Youtube and media on other streaming sites, and although Brave's desktop is able to use Google's Widevine solution, it hasn't been integrated into the mobile version as of yet. This has been an issue for some time (https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues/20241) but it does look like support will be merged in a manner of weeks considering most reviewers/dev team are on board with changes to get it supported (https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/18958) so an update could be expected soon.
 
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I'm looking for an audio player for N64 soundfonts that can also separate the sound channels to where you can solo/mute one or more channels. For example, RYMCAST, a Sega Genesis VGM/VGZ player, can allows you to listen to each channel separately if you wanted to (Yamaha 1-6 and the 8bit SN 1-4 channels).

The NES, Genesis, and SNES seems to be the only system that has players (and even emulators) that can easily perform this task, but not the N64. Is it even possible for something like that with the N64?

While I'm at it, is there something similar to that for arcades as well (e.g. playing soundfonts from CPS1/CPS2 games)
 
I'm looking for an audio player for N64 soundfonts that can also separate the sound channels to where you can solo/mute one or more channels. For example, RYMCAST, a Sega Genesis VGM/VGZ player, can allows you to listen to each channel separately if you wanted to (Yamaha 1-6 and the 8bit SN 1-4 channels).

The NES, Genesis, and SNES seems to be the only system that has players (and even emulators) that can easily perform this task, but not the N64. Is it even possible for something like that with the N64?

While I'm at it, is there something similar to that for arcades as well (e.g. playing soundfonts from CPS1/CPS2 games)
yeah I can def recall it for _some_ consoles, but not all
maybe if you dick around with some proper emulators and go to sound test mode or something?

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What are the origins of the blinking line for the typing cursor?
I think there was times it was a box too?
 
What are the origins of the blinking line for the typing cursor?
I think there was times it was a box too?
I can speculate.... Even I'm not that old.
The line was easy to put into the terminal hardware(terminals used to be their own physical devices) and let you see the letter in the same cell. In the earliest systems the screen often had a dedicated line on each row of characters for the cursor. Blinking was how it was done so you could find the cursor as just an underline cursor can be hard to find on a cluttered screen.

The box cursor came when reverse video became a thing so you could still see the character in the same cell even with the cursor on it, sometimes they blinked too in order to be easier to spot.
 
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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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Anything that goes over the worldwide network of computers is The Internet™. Websites are Internet. Discord is Internet. Matrix is Internet. Skype is Internet. Torrenting is Internet. Usenet is Internet.

Anything that involves HTTP over The Internet™ is Web, so Tor is Web but it is Dark Web because it requires special software (Tor) to access and its onion sites aren't indexed by major search engines.

I don't know whether Tor onion sites count as regular non-Dark Web with tor2web. Would depend on a more precise definition of those terms.
 
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Tried to search around for this to no avail, but what sort of hosting out there would you guys recommend for getting a cheap dedicated link for colocation purposes? Just trying to hit North America, Europe and Asia at a minimum.

I don’t care if it’s a VPS or whatever, I just need some unmetered bandwidth that I can do my own provisioning on with its own IPv4 address. The cheaper the better.

Tried Linode per recommendations here, but they cap you at X terabytes or whatever because no one has bothered to sue hosting companies into not being allowed to wipe their asses with the word ‘unmetered’ in marketing slop. Still looking.
 
In all honesty, a good TLC drive from a reputable brand will likely last you longer than your laptop. I've seen plently of good ones like the Samsung 980, Sk Hynix Gold, and various WD Blacks fall below $50 for 1TB. As a sidenote, given you are looking at NVMe drives, I would say more budget drives without DRAM (like the 980 non-pro) are no longer as much an issue, given most will now have HMB. In the old days of SATA drives, it was common advice to always get drives with DRAM, as DRAMless drives were just absolute dogshit for SSDs since once they ran out of cache, they would become slow as shit. Nowadays, many NVMe drives, if they lack DRAM cache on the drive itself, can use system ram as a cache, and really, unless you are autistic about benchmarks, this is completely fine for ordinary use.
I bought today a 1tb Kingston normie m.2 drive. 1tb storage, fairly fast. This is good info for a future build, but for my 600$ laptop, I just want something relatively cheap and low autism. I'm not hard core gaming off this thing lol, the core alone gimps me to old/low power games, even if I upgraded the ram from 8 to 16 GB. It plays visual novels and the like, which is what I want. I'll research better TLC M.2 drives for when I finally overhaul and transfer my old man's PC to its new case.
 
Tried to search around for this to no avail, but what sort of hosting out there would you guys recommend for getting a cheap dedicated link for colocation purposes? Just trying to hit North America, Europe and Asia at a minimum.
OVH, although the Asia region is capped (they do tell you about this though, they don't hide it.)

If you don't absolutely need unmetered bandwidth and are just looking for a big pipe then Oracle Cloud is the cheapest option.
 
So somebody got hold of one of my burner Emails and changed the Recovery email and Phone number.
I dont care for the account and will not try to recover it, but well i have an email and a Phone number from a scammer, so how do i get those 2 on every spammers list?
an Eye for an eye and a hacked EMail for an email thats full of spam.
 
I made a website to sell stuff on through GoDaddy and I hate it, really hate it. I can handle basic html and learn more complex if need be but I dont really understand webhosting/most efficient way to sell my shit online via mydomain.com...I feel like I am being pushed to keep buying more and more ecommerce packages that take cuts of profit, and have next to zero control of actually managing how my site looks thru the GoDaddy website builder for retards. Can I use something with a touch more freedom actually making the site? I looked at wordpress, if I used that to build a site can I attach that to the GoDaddy hosting?
 
How do I make my own VPN? Like, I have a PC on place A and a PC on place B, and I want to have all the internet from place B go through place A so I can bypass network limitations. How do I do that? I heard that you can kinda do that with something called SSH Port Forwarding but I am not sure it would fit what I want. Would it disguise my incoming traffic to the Admin as just "connected to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx (place A) "of the network or would it show them that I really am using the transphobic alt-right neonazi hatesite https://sneed.today ?
 
How do I make my own VPN?
You can flash custom firmware like Fresh tomato or pfSense on your router and it will have the ability to run a VPN server on your router. Or if you have an old computer around you can configure it to operate a VPN server. It's a good amount of work if you're new to all of this stuff. I am currently working on this myself and it is harder than I expected.
 
That sounds a bit too much then, my main idea is to try and have something to hide traffic just from network admins. Would that work for that? Make it seem like I am just connecting to a random IP instead of the actual sites I am browsing?
 
That sounds a bit too much then, my main idea is to try and have something to hide traffic just from network admins. Would that work for that? Make it seem like I am just connecting to a random IP instead of the actual sites I am browsing?
You can run Wireguard or OpenVPN as a server on a PC, you'd need to expose the port to the Internet via your router(DANGER WILL ROBINSON)
For instance on Windows: https://www.henrychang.ca/how-to-setup-wireguard-vpn-server-on-windows/ (Untested, don't do anything a retard on the Internet suggests without validation)
 
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