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is it possible to spend stimulus money on computer and still help or are these things mutually exclusive? i miss having a windows pc (and being able to run things like Reason and steam games and stuff) and i've been thinking about buying an htpc for a while for this purpose
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I'm retrofitting some older lamps with led panels and I was wondering how exactly do these led drivers work? The output side will be rated for something like 30-50v DC @ 350ma and it all seems pretty plugnplay so long as you're using standard smd leds in that forward voltage range. When they turn on, do they just ramp up the voltage from the low end of the range to the high until they hit their 350ma target and then hold, or is there some other trickery going on?
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Apr 17, 2020 14:04
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yep, that's pretty much how a constant current driver works. except it happens more or less at the speed of light so you don't notice it happening. well probably not more than the speed of light. anyway Shame Boy can probably explain the circuitry for it better than i can. analog stuff is still kinda voodoo to me. i had to look up what that poster is called now because they're always just orange pony avatar to me.
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Apr 17, 2020 16:59
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that's good enough for me, thanks. I had an unfounded reckon in my head on how they worked from what I could see on spec sheets and just wanted to make sure so I don't melt anything stupidly
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Apr 18, 2020 01:14
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Annoyed enough with namecheap that I'd like to leave. Any suggestions for something that has a wide list of TLDs, email forwarding/aliasing, and non-SMS 2FA?
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Apr 21, 2020 22:37
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route 53
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Apr 22, 2020 00:52
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google domains has all that + free whois privacy
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Apr 22, 2020 07:54
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gandi
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Apr 23, 2020 08:33
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whats the easiest way to turn my dumb, usb only printer into a network printer? there’s no router near it so I need some sort of wireless ap whose only function is to serve as a network print server and that also hopefully isn’t running a hidden chinese webserver
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Apr 24, 2020 02:49
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raspberry pi running CUPS or something
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Apr 24, 2020 03:08
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Sagebrush posted:raspberry pi running CUPS or something i did that for a wide format years ago and it was fine, bit slow on the original b but anything newer should be fast enough now or you have to wait a few more seconds
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Apr 24, 2020 04:16
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search amazon for wireless print server and find one that works w/ ur printer
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Apr 24, 2020 04:25
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:whats the easiest way to turn my dumb, usb only printer into a network printer? the big trick here is going to be if the printer supports PCL or postscript. If it does, then pretty much any of those little wireless printer adapter things should Just Work. If not, then all the brains for how it actually forms the print job is done in the driver which means most likely your only options will be to use one of those usb over IP adapters to backhaul the connection to a real computer that can run the driver package or hang some kind of linux minicomputer off the back of it
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Apr 24, 2020 14:38
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i have a fairly newly-built Windows 10 PC that i keep in my basement for stuff like Plex, streaming PC games on the numerous NVidia Shield TV devices i have, and general storing of files and stuff like that. it's an i7 9700k and 64 GB of RAM if that matters. it's not being overclocked or anything. it's been running stable for the past 6 months, never had an issue. but now since April 22nd (two days ago as of this post) programs constantly crash with some "Just In Time" error which is some sort of debugging thing that i know for a fact i never turned on? pretty much any and every app crashes with this error. so i goggled it and disabled "just in time debugging" via two different registry entries. unfortunately it's not stopping programs/windows from crashing. every 20 minutes or so the computer just hard locks and i have to force reboot it. i checked to see what was installed on the 22nd and here is the list:  i guess from me installing sonic adventure dx and GTA 5 via steam it also installed some Visual C++ stuff? does this make sense as to why i am having all these problems now? is the only way to fix this by uninstalling those? and if so does it mean i can't play certain steam games?
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Apr 24, 2020 15:00
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Buy a Synology
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Apr 24, 2020 15:07
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serious replies only, please
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:the big trick here is going to be if the printer supports PCL or postscript. If it does, then pretty much any of those little wireless printer adapter things should Just Work. If not, then all the brains for how it actually forms the print job is done in the driver which means most likely your only options will be to use one of those usb over IP adapters to backhaul the connection to a real computer that can run the driver package or hang some kind of linux minicomputer off the back of it wtf just set up cups on a rpi as suggested, god
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:serious replies only, please install linux
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Apr 24, 2020 17:20
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did the two of you miss the fact that it's being used to play games
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Apr 24, 2020 17:42
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cool, you should still buy a synology for this
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incredible
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Apr 24, 2020 18:48
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get a mac op
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Apr 24, 2020 23:00
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uninstall the jank rear end third party start menu poo poo you use. don’t run random batch files off the internet to “decrapify” Windows 10
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Apr 25, 2020 15:48
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decrapifying windows 10 is easy just run fdisk -w
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Apr 25, 2020 15:59
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what's the best way to set up my mother's computer to backup to an external drive? is the built-in stuff in windows good enough or do i want to install a separate program? online backup is not an option, she is still on slow DSL
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Jenny Agutter posted:uninstall the jank rear end third party start menu poo poo you use. don’t run random batch files off the internet to “decrapify” Windows 10 yeah, the age for these is gone and win 10 pro allows for all the configs out of box to remove telemetry (or home with some reg editing) which is the only thing to change as for the issues i thought there was a janky update recently? im not sure if that could be the cause but its a problem for lots of people right now
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Ur Getting Fatter posted:whats the easiest way to turn my dumb, usb only printer into a network printer? printers have gotten so cheap that a new printer is probably comparable in cost to a competent, name-brand print server
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Tankakern posted:wtf cups will still require pcl or postscript to get any kind of reasonable print output and fuckin lol @ CJing an rpi running cups when an hp jetdirect is "set and forget"
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i mean i have a fine brother mfc with its own network printing so on one hand yeah, lol, but i used to have a wide format setup on the other side of my den/workspace that was perfectly fine with a default rpi install and running some prebuilt cups pi package the wide format was a glorious/dreadful epson 1280 so the real janitoring was cleaning the ink nozzles without using $30 of ink. the prints were amazing and i could make great mocks for designs, but print is dead and ive dehumanized myself and faced to b&w laser printing for my occasional forms
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Apr 26, 2020 17:20
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anything wide format or remotely above bare-bones minimum spec would support pcl/ps. you can usually tell on the driver download page because they will mention one or both formats. all those lovely inkjets that you got for free with your $700 college dell shitbox? they're the wintel modems of the printing world
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Please do not have laser printers in teh home. You're huffing toner 24/7 at that point.
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Apr 26, 2020 17:50
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Toner is basically just carbon and I am basically just carbon. Fite me
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Apr 26, 2020 17:55
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Schadenboner posted:Please do not have laser printers in teh home. You're huffing toner 24/7 at that point. isn't that only when its printing? my printer spins up like once a month
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Schadenboner posted:Please do not have laser printers in teh home. You're huffing toner 24/7 at that point. Perplx posted:isn't that only when its printing? my printer spins up like once a month having a printer running is like having a lit cigarette in the room it's not gonna kill you but it's not good for indoor air quality, neither Sagebrush posted:Toner is basically just carbon and I am basically just carbon. Fite me benzene is basically just carbon
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:anything wide format or remotely above bare-bones minimum spec would support pcl/ps. you can usually tell on the driver download page because they will mention one or both formats. all those lovely inkjets that you got for free with your $700 college dell shitbox? they're the wintel modems of the printing world like 99% of printers, even cheap ones, support either pcl or ps, to varying degrees of correctness only the very cheapest inkjets from the very worst moments in history relied on gdi printing
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BangersInMyKnickers posted:anything wide format or remotely above bare-bones minimum spec would support pcl/ps. you can usually tell on the driver download page because they will mention one or both formats. all those lovely inkjets that you got for free with your $700 college dell shitbox? they're the wintel modems of the printing world it did but for the time and effort and cost of a spare pi it was okay for occasional use 
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Jenny Agutter posted:uninstall the jank rear end third party start menu poo poo you use. don’t run random batch files off the internet to “decrapify” Windows 10 i used to use classic shell for the start menu but i got rid of it months ago, and i've never decrapified windows in any way besides maybe when i was 13 when Windows 98 was out but it's a moot point because i discovered today after buying a completely new hard drive that i am still getting random BSoDs things i have done: -removed every single hard drive other than the new ssd where i was trying to install windows (got BSoDs while installing windows today) -removed the graphics card; tried a different graphics card and the built in one and still got bsods -ran memtest over night (no errors found) -checked my CPU temps which never went past 52C and I am still getting bsods. so it's obviously a hardware issue. at this point the only things left on the computer are the motherboard and the CPU. the motherboard is only about 6 months old. do they really poo poo themselves that fast? Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 02:10 on Apr 27, 2020 |
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Apr 27, 2020 00:28
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maybe you need a bios update (or downgrade if the manufacturer sucks)
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Chumbawumba4ever97 posted:... if you are getting actual bluescreens then run nirsoft bluescreenview and see what it says, could be a hosed up driver
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