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Qubee posted:I have this monitor, and it screen tears so bad. I don't know how to describe it other than I get a line in the middle of my screen that gets shifted all the way to the left of the monitor. It's like a vertical band 5 pixels wide that shifts all the way to the left, so if I put my mouse cursor right over it, I'll see a weird distorted cursor and then a cut segment of it to the left. That sucks. Do you have a question?
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Sep 11, 2018 21:41
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yeah i'm half asleep, my question is: how do I fix this, or figure out why this issue is happening. it's driving me nuts, especially when i'm watching movies.
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Sep 11, 2018 21:43
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Qubee posted:yeah i'm half asleep, my question is: how do I fix this, or figure out why this issue is happening. it's driving me nuts, especially when i'm watching movies. You just need to troubleshoot. Swap OSes, cables, ports, GPUs and/or computers until you isolate the bit that’s hosed up. Replace or repair the hosed up bit.
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Sep 11, 2018 21:49
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Are they running on the same video card?
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Sep 11, 2018 22:31
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Qubee posted:I have this monitor, and it screen tears so bad. I don't know how to describe it other than I get a line in the middle of my screen that gets shifted all the way to the left of the monitor. It's like a vertical band 5 pixels wide that shifts all the way to the left, so if I put my mouse cursor right over it, I'll see a weird distorted cursor and then a cut segment of it to the left. So you say you have two monitors, have you tried switching the ports the monitors are connected to? Cuz if the same artifact appears on the other screen when its hooked up in the reversed way, at least you know the monitor is fine and its your GPU that's messed up.
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Sep 11, 2018 22:33
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Hipster_Doofus posted:Are they running on the same video card? Yeah so if changing the cables and ports and drivers and OS doesn’t solve the problem, you swap with a different GPU and see if it’s that. If it’s a laptop you plug a different laptop in. I’m sure there’s a more efficient way to do it but that’s how I’d troubleshoot the problem. 
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Sep 11, 2018 23:00
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How can I make the YouTube website never enable auto-play ever again? It seems like every few days I have to toggle that drat switch back off. I don't even watch a whole lot.
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Sep 14, 2018 02:53
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hooah posted:How can I make the YouTube website never enable auto-play ever again? It seems like every few days I have to toggle that drat switch back off. I don't even watch a whole lot. Various browser extensions can handle that. I like Enhancer for Youtube, which also has settings to automatically remove annotations and in-video ads, plus lots of other features.
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Sep 14, 2018 05:41
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hooah posted:How can I make the YouTube website never enable auto-play ever again? It seems like every few days I have to toggle that drat switch back off. I don't even watch a whole lot. Are you logged in? It stays off permanently for me.
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Sep 14, 2018 06:54
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What are those big kitchen sinks called with the detachable hoses and wide basins? The one shown in this video.
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Sep 14, 2018 18:18
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I’m looking for a page from a Winnie the Pooh book that I saw posted on Facebook a couple weeks ago. It’s from one of the older books I believe, and it has Pooh sitting there doing nothing. Someone (rabbit?) comes and tells him he needs to go do something and Pooh talks about listening to the trees or some poo poo. Does anyone know what I’m talking about?
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Sep 14, 2018 18:51
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The sink's just an ordinary flush-mounted stainless steel sink; they come in a wide choice of widths here. The fancy faucets are usually advertised as "restaurant style" or "commercial style". (edit to add: you can get sinks that size and bigger for cheap at Home Depot, which is I guess the equivalent of B&Q or Homebase in the U.K.?) AlbieQuirky fucked around with this message at 18:58 on Sep 14, 2018 |
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Sep 14, 2018 18:52
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Fork of Unknown Origins posted:I’m looking for a page from a Winnie the Pooh book that I saw posted on Facebook a couple weeks ago. It’s from one of the older books I believe, and it has Pooh sitting there doing nothing. Someone (rabbit?) comes and tells him he needs to go do something and Pooh talks about listening to the trees or some poo poo. Does anyone know what I’m talking about? I got you. 
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Sep 14, 2018 18:55
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Whats that long hamburger thing you can get at Mediterranean restaurants called ? The one that looks exactly like a turd but tastes really good.
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Sep 15, 2018 00:40
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Sounds like kofta, one of the pinnacles of human achievement.
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Sep 15, 2018 00:50
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Kofta Kebab? Maybe a falafel?
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Sep 15, 2018 00:51
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Yeah that's it. Thanks.
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Sep 15, 2018 00:53
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Tiggum posted:Are you logged in? It stays off permanently for me. Yes, I'm logged in.
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Sep 15, 2018 01:38
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veni veni veni posted:Whats that long hamburger thing you can get at Mediterranean restaurants called ? The one that looks exactly like a turd but tastes really good. Never quit your day job to become a food critic. Please.
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Sep 15, 2018 02:24
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PainterofCrap posted:Never quit your day job to become a food critic. A Pakistani coworker of mine brought me one one day. It is impossible to overstate how much this thing looked like a turd in a bun. But it was delicious.
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Sep 15, 2018 06:30
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Answered!
value-brand cereal fucked around with this message at 19:01 on Sep 20, 2018 |
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Sep 15, 2018 17:43
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Is there someplace online where I can either download for free, or purchase printed a large, high quality topographical map of a given area I select? Continental US. I'm looking to get about a 200x200 square mile map that I can print at about 3.5x3.5 feet, so it needs to be pretty darn high resolution.
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Sep 15, 2018 17:46
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value-brand cereal posted:I bought a generic, cheapest option locking doorknob from home depot for my bedroom door. I did so because I'm 90 percent sure one of my room mates was looking through my stuff and moving around my personal items. Other than buying some spy cameras and setting them up in my room, I can't say for sure. And I'd rather not go through the trouble of recording myself. That's weird. Also I'm not able to break the lease, and will have to be here for several months. I don't want to rock the boat and make poo poo worse, or weird. It's a shared kitchen/living room and I do have to see them. Raking a lock, particularly a cheap lock, is often an easy and quick way to lockpick a door. Nothing like camera evidence - probably your best bet.
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Sep 15, 2018 18:01
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value-brand cereal posted:I bought a generic, cheapest option locking doorknob from home depot for my bedroom door. I did so because I'm 90 percent sure one of my room mates was looking through my stuff and moving around my personal items. Other than buying some spy cameras and setting them up in my room, I can't say for sure. And I'd rather not go through the trouble of recording myself. That's weird. Also I'm not able to break the lease, and will have to be here for several months. I don't want to rock the boat and make poo poo worse, or weird. It's a shared kitchen/living room and I do have to see them. unless he takes the lockset up to a hardware store to get the thing rekeyed to a master key, no, i dont think so. i used to rekey locks at a hardware store about ten years ago, but i dont have an expert level of knowledge, so someone please correct me if im wrong.
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Sep 15, 2018 18:04
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kedo posted:Is there someplace online where I can either download for free, or purchase printed a large, high quality topographical map of a given area I select? Continental US. I'm looking to get about a 200x200 square mile map that I can print at about 3.5x3.5 feet, so it needs to be pretty darn high resolution. The USGS has something called the National Map, which is topo and has a print feature. You might have to zoom in to your desired area and print it as a grid and edit it together (or edit the pdfs together into a large image and then print that). There might be another service somewhere on their site I'm not seeing that's easier, too, but give them a shot.
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Sep 15, 2018 18:09
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Van Dis posted:The USGS has something called the National Map, which is topo and has a print feature. You might have to zoom in to your desired area and print it as a grid and edit it together (or edit the pdfs together into a large image and then print that). There might be another service somewhere on their site I'm not seeing that's easier, too, but give them a shot. Nice, that looks like it could be exactly what I'm looking for... now I just need to make it actually export a map at the size I need.  Thanks!
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Sep 15, 2018 18:47
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value-brand cereal posted:I bought a generic, cheapest option locking doorknob from home depot for my bedroom door. I did so because I'm 90 percent sure one of my room mates was looking through my stuff and moving around my personal items. Other than buying some spy cameras and setting them up in my room, I can't say for sure. And I'd rather not go through the trouble of recording myself. That's weird. Also I'm not able to break the lease, and will have to be here for several months. I don't want to rock the boat and make poo poo worse, or weird. It's a shared kitchen/living room and I do have to see them. Someone with basic lock-picking skills and the right tools could open the lock fairly quickly, like thirty seconds quickly.
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Sep 15, 2018 18:55
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Shifty Nipples posted:Someone with basic lock-picking skills and the right tools could open the lock fairly quickly, like thirty seconds quickly. If it is one where the bolt is pushed in, then out, when the door closes, you can open it with a bit of bent metal about as quickly as using the key.
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Sep 15, 2018 19:18
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value-brand cereal posted:I bought a generic, cheapest option locking doorknob from home depot for my bedroom door. I did so because I'm 90 percent sure one of my room mates was looking through my stuff and moving around my personal items. Other than buying some spy cameras and setting them up in my room, I can't say for sure. And I'd rather not go through the trouble of recording myself. That's weird. Also I'm not able to break the lease, and will have to be here for several months. I don't want to rock the boat and make poo poo worse, or weird. It's a shared kitchen/living room and I do have to see them. What makes you think your roommate is doing this?
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Sep 15, 2018 19:20
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Put a tiny slip of paper in the door jamb when you close it.
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Sep 15, 2018 19:40
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PainterofCrap posted:Never quit your day job to become a food critic. Wasn't planning on it. Mmmmm, turds
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Sep 15, 2018 23:00
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PainterofCrap posted:Never quit your day job to become a food critic. Are you kidding? I’d love to read more reviews like this.
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Sep 15, 2018 23:54
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Better yet, put a piece of pencil lead in the door and then put a piece of paper in the jamb somewhere obvious. If the paper is there but the lead broken, you’ve got someone trying to cover their tracks.
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Sep 16, 2018 00:05
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Be careful with the knowledge you gain from your counter-espionage activities. Do not do anything to reveal what you know, as it will cause your enemy to alter their own methods, and you’ll be back to square one 
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Sep 16, 2018 00:11
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Farrier Theaks posted:unless he takes the lockset up to a hardware store to get the thing rekeyed to a master key, no, i dont think so. i used to rekey locks at a hardware store about ten years ago, but i dont have an expert level of knowledge, so someone please correct me if im wrong. Cheap locks frequently have a standard set of keys. They're also stupidly easy to jimmy open without they key as well. Master locks are absolute god damned garbage but they're cheap so they're everywhere. Even not exactly cheap locks can be standardized. Like at work every cube has locking drawers, a locker, and some other stuff in it. In theory you can lock up your crap and not have to worry about coworkers or cleaning staff taking it. In practice you can look at the number on the lock, order keys for it online, and open it. So if you got a complete set of the keys for that type of locker and drawer you could open literally all of them. It isn't even restricted to the office I'm in; any office that uses that style container with that style lock can be opened by the standard set of keys. Just get the right number. There's actually one very specific key that locksmiths try first on basically every lock they see as it opens like 25% of them.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Cheap locks frequently have a standard set of keys. They're also stupidly easy to jimmy open without they key as well. Master locks are absolute god damned garbage but they're cheap so they're everywhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9b9IYqsb_U
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Sep 16, 2018 17:47
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Seconded. Deviant Ollam has a lot of great talks but this is a particularly eye-opening one.
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Sep 16, 2018 20:39
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Lock talk: we are in the process of buying a new house, and plan on replacing the locks as soon as it’s ours. What should we look for in terms of a secure, not-cheap deadbolt lock? The inspector recommended getting a number code lock since we will be having kids, and teaching kids a number combo is easier than giving them a key and having them potentially lose it. Are number pad locks in any way less secure than a key lock?
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Sep 16, 2018 22:18
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All locks are only as secure as the social contract in your community. Get whatever lock makes you feel good because nothing’s going to stop someone who REALLY wants to get into your house.
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tuyop posted:All locks are only as secure as the social contract in your community. Get whatever lock makes you feel good because nothing’s going to stop someone who REALLY wants to get into your house. This is the correct advice. But if you are looking for GOOD (as in, operates well, good quality) Schlage is where it's at in the mid tier in my opinion. Don't go buying Kwikset hardware from LowesDepot (Kwikset makes good stuff, you just won't find it there). If you want fancy home automation stuff with a keypad the Schalge Connect series (deadbolt) seems pretty solid. I installed one a week ago and so far so good (did my research first - they seem to be well reviewed). https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00AGK9KJG/ref=oh_aui_search_detailpage?ie=UTF8&psc=1 They also have mechanical key press lockset (for handles) that work very well. Ninja edit: FYI, I would never connect a lock in my house to the internets. My home automation is entirely offline. Motronic fucked around with this message at 23:56 on Sep 16, 2018 |
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