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

[Battlefield42]

60GB of hotspot data.

What the nigger is this shit? "Unlimited plan"
Looks incomprehensible to me as an europoor

 

[Sithis]

So I managed to build a PC as I mentioned earlier, first time doing it on my own but it ended up coming together rather nicely and got through the POST with my only issue being I had the CPU cooling fan hooked up wrong on the RGB side of things.

I feel like I fucked up though because I ended up buying a vertical GPU mount that wasn't from the case manufacturer and as a result the cooler master thing I bought has about half an inch of clearance between it and the case around the edges of it. I'm thinking I could just get some fine wire mesh and cut a hole for the monitor connection and stick it to the back and be fine, might look janky if someone was bothering to inspect the back but as long as it works should be fine? I'm more concerned with preventing dust buildup and it just feels weird having that much open space.

Also I keep checking HW Monitor pro and it is throwing a random 119 C average temperature somewhere. I've checked CPU, GPU temps using other software and know I removed the plastic from the heatsinks etc. Unless it's just picking up the actual copper plate from the AIO idk.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

Verizon now has an unlimited ultimate plan for smartphones. It means on-device data is "truly" unlimited and it has 60GB of hotspot data.

I mean... high speed internet is so cheap why would you? You can get 100s of MBs of upload and download speed for like as little as 30-40 dollars in a lot of places. If you're rural, you're probably better off with something like Starlink.

 

[Aidan]

I mean... high speed internet is so cheap why would you? You can get 100s of MBs of upload and download speed for like as little as 30-40 dollars in a lot of places. If you're rural, you're probably better off with something like Starlink.

Starlink is expensive and people already have phone plans. Data caps in general are lame but 60GB is more than most rural people use a month.

 

[Leaded Gasoline]

Also I keep checking HW Monitor pro and it is throwing a random 119 C average temperature somewhere. I've checked CPU, GPU temps using other software and know I removed the plastic from the heatsinks etc. Unless it's just picking up the actual copper plate from the AIO idk.

It's normal, monitoring software almost always fucks up the readings for a few sensors

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Is there a no-nonsense data recovery software that doesn't just dump a bunch of CHK files on my computer and refuses to elaborate on what they are? I've tried a few...Disk Drill, Raise...both of them were able to find CHK files and restore a few but neither has helped out on what they were, and I'm not paying them if they refuse to elaborate.

Only one recovery app actually showed that the file names were intact and indicated that the file system was just corrupted.

 

[Kosher Dill]

data recovery software

The best I've tried is PhotoRec/TestDisk:

https://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/photoRec

If there's something to be got, it'll get it.

It seems like Disk Drill, which you've already tried, is just a front-end to that.

 

[lichen]

I've got a bunch of images I'd like to run through google translate, and save copies. I can do it one by one pretty easily, but the number of pages I'd like to do could get into the triple digits. I thought about tinkering with Javascript, but from what I can tell by poking around google dealing with files on my hard drive will require manual input which somewhat defeats the purpose.

What I'd like to do is, go to the google translate page, pick the first file in a folder, and let some sort of script run through upload/download for each file in the folder I selected. Is this possible? Would something someone with little to no experience could reasonably attempt to put together or should I just stop overcomplicating this?

I tried combining the images in to a PDF, but google translate rejects the file saying it can't translate scanned PDFs. (I assume it's because the document isn't OCR'd, which I don't think I can do with my current tools)

 

[krazy orange cat]

@lichen You can upload files to https://cloudconvert.com to get them converted to a variety of formats including .doc and .txt. The resulting file can be copy/pasted to a Google Docs document or uploaded to Google Drive and then opened with Google Docs. Under tools in Google Docs is Google Translate which will translate the entire document.

 

[lichen]

Unfortunately that's not working - the resulting .doc file isn't rejected when attempting to translate in Google Docs, but the translation tool doesn't do anything. I assume Docs is looking for text, not images, and cloudconvert just dumps the image pages into a .doc file. Converting to .txt just result in a blank file, so it clearly doesn't attempt to pull text out of image data.

 

[Aidan]

I have no clue what the process entails but you could try generating a list of paths and hardcode that into Javascript if that would work. Alternatively, you could use something like Autohotkey or Python to do automate the same stuff you're doing manually.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole 2]

Unfortunately that's not working - the resulting .doc file isn't rejected when attempting to translate in Google Docs, but the translation tool doesn't do anything. I assume Docs is looking for text, not images, and cloudconvert just dumps the image pages into a .doc file. Converting to .txt just result in a blank file, so it clearly doesn't attempt to pull text out of image data.

Open it in OneNote and use the OCR function. Or find some online OCR-thing.

 

[Wacht am Rhein]

I've been getting bluescreen on Windows 11, which seems to be pointing towards faulty RAM.
I ran MemTest86, yet the test claims there's nothing wrong with RAM.

Here's a copypaste of the minidump analyzed with WinDbg if it helps at all:

Spoiler: minidump

*******************************************************************************
*                                                                             *
*                        Bugcheck Analysis                                    *
*                                                                             *
*******************************************************************************

MEMORY_MANAGEMENT (1a)
# Any other values for parameter 1 must be individually examined.
Arguments:
Arg1: 0000000000061941, The subtype of the BugCheck.
Arg2: 00007ffa6dabc5e0
Arg3: 000000000000001d
Arg4: ffffaa0cbadaf460

Debugging Details:
------------------


KEY_VALUES_STRING: 1

Key  : Analysis.CPU.mSec
Value: 921

Key  : Analysis.Elapsed.mSec
Value: 992

Key  : Analysis.IO.Other.Mb
Value: 0

Key  : Analysis.IO.Read.Mb
Value: 1

Key  : Analysis.IO.Write.Mb
Value: 0

Key  : Analysis.Init.CPU.mSec
Value: 234

Key  : Analysis.Init.Elapsed.mSec
Value: 9269

Key  : Analysis.Memory.CommitPeak.Mb
Value: 88

Key  : Analysis.Version.DbgEng
Value: 10.0.27725.1000

Key  : Analysis.Version.Description
Value: 10.2408.27.01 amd64fre

Key  : Analysis.Version.Ext
Value: 1.2408.27.1

Key  : Bugcheck.Code.LegacyAPI
Value: 0x1a

Key  : Bugcheck.Code.TargetModel
Value: 0x1a

Key  : Dump.Attributes.AsUlong
Value: 21008

Key  : Dump.Attributes.DiagDataWrittenToHeader
Value: 1

Key  : Dump.Attributes.ErrorCode
Value: 0

Key  : Dump.Attributes.KernelGeneratedTriageDump
Value: 1

Key  : Dump.Attributes.LastLine
Value: Dump completed successfully.

Key  : Dump.Attributes.ProgressPercentage
Value: 0

Key  : Failure.Bucket
Value: 0x1a_61941_PAGE_TABLE_RESERVED_BITS_SET_IMAGE_hardware_ram

Key  : Failure.Hash
Value: {c6e5c6cf-692e-7852-5dc5-b74944540fc0}


BUGCHECK_CODE:  1a

BUGCHECK_P1: 61941

BUGCHECK_P2: 7ffa6dabc5e0

BUGCHECK_P3: 1d

BUGCHECK_P4: ffffaa0cbadaf460

FILE_IN_CAB:  010225-6640-01.dmp

DUMP_FILE_ATTRIBUTES: 0x21008
Kernel Generated Triage Dump

FAULTING_THREAD:  ffffad067d185080

BLACKBOXBSD: 1 (!blackboxbsd)


BLACKBOXNTFS: 1 (!blackboxntfs)


BLACKBOXWINLOGON: 1

CUSTOMER_CRASH_COUNT:  1

PROCESS_NAME:  firefox.exe

STACK_TEXT: 
ffffaa0c`badaf2e8 fffff806`82a7a72c     : 00000000`0000001a 00000000`00061941 00007ffa`6dabc5e0 00000000`0000001d : nt!KeBugCheckEx
ffffaa0c`badaf2f0 fffff806`82e88ecb     : ffffad06`7d185080 00000000`00000538 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!MmAccessFault+0x50c
ffffaa0c`badaf460 00007ffa`6dabc5e0     : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : nt!KiPageFault+0x38b
00000047`f8ebbc98 00000000`00000000     : 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 00000000`00000000 : 0x00007ffa`6dabc5e0


MODULE_NAME: hardware

IMAGE_NAME:  hardware_ram

STACK_COMMAND:  .process /r /p 0xffffad067cf020c0; .thread 0xffffad067d185080 ; kb

FAILURE_BUCKET_ID:  0x1a_61941_PAGE_TABLE_RESERVED_BITS_SET_IMAGE_hardware_ram

OSPLATFORM_TYPE:  x64

OSNAME:  Windows 10

FAILURE_ID_HASH:  {c6e5c6cf-692e-7852-5dc5-b74944540fc0}

Followup:     MachineOwner
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[Kosher Dill]

I've been getting bluescreen on Windows 11, which seems to be pointing towards faulty RAM.
I ran MemTest86, yet the test claims there's nothing wrong with RAM.

Here's a copypaste of the minidump analyzed with WinDbg if it helps at all:

This is just a shot in the dark, but I notice that the dump is from firefox.exe. I once had an older machine where Firefox would sometimes BSOD the whole machine, apparently because "core isolation" was turned on but the hardware didn't really quite support it.
You might try turning that off in the "Device Security" settings (in the nu-Settings menu) and seeing if it helps.

Usual disclaimer applies, you're fooling with security settings, know what you're getting yourself into, I take no responsibility, etc etc.

 

[Wacht am Rhein]

This is just a shot in the dark, but I notice that the dump is from firefox.exe. I once had an older machine where Firefox would sometimes BSOD the whole machine, apparently because "core isolation" was turned on but the hardware didn't really quite support it.
You might try turning that off in the "Device Security" settings (in the nu-Settings menu) and seeing if it helps.

Usual disclaimer applies, you're fooling with security settings, know what you're getting yourself into, I take no responsibility, etc etc.

Unfortunately, core isolation is already turned off.

 

[Major von der Westfront]

My Kraken Razer V2 finally gave out and I really don't know what a good headset will be. Any ideas?

 

[SandyCat]

I got a ryzen 9 3900x, 16 gigglebits of ram and a 2070 super. Would it be worth upgrading my 2070?What about ram? Or wait and save up shekels for a whole new system? I feel like my 2070 is chugging in some games at times.

Used for vidya games and generating retarded ai images and occasionally saying nigger on kiwifarms

 

[Craus8]

I got a ryzen 9 3900x, 16 gigglebits of ram and a 2070 super. Would it be worth upgrading my 2070?What about ram? Or wait and save up shekels for a whole new system? I feel like my 2070 is chugging in some games at times.

Used for vidya games and generating retarded ai images and occasionally saying nigger on kiwifarms

Honestly the 2070 super is fine for todays standards and you could probably get another year or two out of the card before having to upgrade.
I'm also running 16 gigs or ram and its a pain in the ass sometimes. Good idea to upgrade to 32

 

[Sooty Soot]

Thinking of getting a new laptop, sinve I basically got ripped off on my current one (really terrible specs when compared to the price) when i paid good money for it, and it was brand new too, not refurbished or anything.
I've been thinking of getting a thinkpad since ive vaguely heard theyre rather customizable, and partially because the frame not being made from shitty plastic is a big priority for me.
My stupid question is, if I were to get a Thinkpad what model should I get and what should I keep a lookout for when trying to swap out the built in parts? I'm specifically aiming for customizability.

 

[Kosher Dill]

My stupid question is, if I were to get a Thinkpad what model should I get and what should I keep a lookout for when trying to swap out the built in parts? I'm specifically aiming for customizability.

Are you buying a new new laptop? I think any Thinkpad you buy today at retail is going to be equally good (bad) in terms of replacing parts.
What parts would you be replacing?