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the suggestion was already accepted, but i'll just to second here that even though autohotkey is incredibly archaic and weird it is absolutely the tool for the job, and is able to do much much more than that besides
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I used it to map a playstation controller’s analog stick to a slider in a crappy winforms GUI that was the only interface provided by a vendor of a swivelling camera mount. It worked great.
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thread, i have a new laptop running arch linux (that's not the problem shut up shut up) and the teetering pile of jank i installed doesn't support multitouch gestures. what is the best thing to throw on the pile so i can swipe to navigate forward/back in firefox, because those are the only gestures i really use
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autohotkey is really good. i used to use it to hit 7 buttons in a weird loop for farming when i was playing mmos
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Nomnom Cookie posted:thread, i have a new laptop running arch linux (that's not the problem shut up shut up) and the teetering pile of jank i installed doesn't support multitouch gestures. what is the best thing to throw on the pile so i can swipe to navigate forward/back in firefox, because those are the only gestures i really use throw a macbook on the pile
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Jonny 290 posted:autohotkey is really good. i used to use it to hit 7 buttons in a weird loop for farming when i was playing mmos i've used it to automate fishing in torchlight and also used it to extract an entire database from an emulated as400 terminal into an excel spreadsheet. ahk is one of my favorite programs of all time!
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"loops with delays" were banned on the particular server I was on for a while, but i built a script that would hit three buttons, wait 120 seconds until an ingame timer reset, and play windows_ding.wav . Admins said it was legal as i was the part making it 'loop' (i'd alt tab, hit the macro button and go back to shitposting)
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my computer is making a periodic fading whining sound about every 15 seconds. i think it's coming from the power supply fan but it does this insidious thing where it stops literally every time i get close to it to check it out. it sounds kind of like it's resonating at some specific speed, or like it's constantly stopping and starting and making the hum as it accelerates. is there a way to fix this without disassembling the PSU to put in a new fan, or is that my best bet?
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anyone have a dosbox config they like? it seems like i need to have opinions about things in order to choose a config and i really don't care enough to figure it out. I just want to c&p someone's upscaled config so i can confuse the poo poo out of my daughter with an old copy of Incredible Machine I found edit nevermind i found this and its perfect: https://mattiasgustavsson.itch.io/dosbox-crt Corla Plankun fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Oct 30, 2021 |
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Oct 30, 2021 00:15
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Sagebrush posted:my computer is making a periodic fading whining sound about every 15 seconds. i think it's coming from the power supply fan but it does this insidious thing where it stops literally every time i get close to it to check it out. it sounds kind of like it's resonating at some specific speed, or like it's constantly stopping and starting and making the hum as it accelerates. it might be as simple as cleaning an extremely thick layer of dust off of everything.
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Sagebrush posted:my computer is making a periodic fading whining sound about every 15 seconds. i think it's coming from the power supply fan but it does this insidious thing where it stops literally every time i get close to it to check it out. it sounds kind of like it's resonating at some specific speed, or like it's constantly stopping and starting and making the hum as it accelerates. well it involves disassembly but maybe a drop of oil in the fan bearings?
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what's a good oil for that? one of my cpu cooler fans gets a buzz at some speeds and always sorta has, figure it's worth a try to oil it before pulling and replacing
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Agile Vector posted:what's a good oil for that? one of my cpu cooler fans gets a buzz at some speeds and always sorta has, figure it's worth a try to oil it before pulling and replacing I've used a single drop or maybe two in dire situations of 3-in1. If you can safely direct it, ballistol can work but that would be hard unless you put it in a dropper bottle first. I'm sure there's specialty oil for such purposes.
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Is Calibre good at organizing data sheets and technical manuals? It looks like it prefers to store metadata in the database itself, whereas I’m more looking for a tool to edit metadata and rename/move documents into a sane directory structure, etc. Any other recommendations? All I have are PDFs.
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You might want to look at citation management systems. I think zotero and mendeley are the popular ones so i assume they're good. Personally i just print out little half size booklets of any reference i think I'll use but plenty of grad students use computers.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:i have a buddy who once had an issue with a network outlet in his house. turned out that it was just hosed up enough that his NIC would fail and report no connection when trying to negotiate up to 1gb, but would connect fine when he forced to it to a slower speed (can't remember if 100mb worked or if he had to slam it all the way down to 10mb) right, well, turns out it is something like this. the nic that doesn't get link with auto does work fine if manually forced to 100baseTX. probably either an actual break in one of the wires, so much untwisted cable at one end that it falls out of the gigabit spec, or something like https://superuser.com/questions/644228/why-is-my-lan-not-gigabit anyway it turns out that linux actually has a built-in cable test tool now, but it only works with a very small set of nics: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/11ca3c4261cdb4e2f33e32daf6447f8185843317 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/search?q=cable_test_start long shot, but anyone know if there's a USB ethernet adapter that would happen to use one of those? doubtful, since it looks like the feature is mostly in server nics or fancy stuff for automotive systems. looks like the rpi people were trying to port support for their broadcom chip but without success https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=316679
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when you say the ethernet is provided to your apartment, who is actually responsible for the cabling and the equipment on the other end of the cable? if it's not you, at this point you should just contact them and say "hey, my equipment is failing to connect, please send someone to fix it."
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Sagebrush posted:my computer is making a periodic fading whining sound about every 15 seconds. i think it's coming from the power supply fan but it does this insidious thing where it stops literally every time i get close to it to check it out. it sounds kind of like it's resonating at some specific speed, or like it's constantly stopping and starting and making the hum as it accelerates. it turns out it wasn't my psu at all, it was the stupid comcast cable modem in the corner behind it. i knew my own computer parts weren't going bad. i'm tempted to just open it up and oil the fan and see what happens. or unplug the fan, let it burn itself out, and take it back and say it broke and maybe the next one will be quieter
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Sagebrush posted:it turns out it wasn't my psu at all, it was the stupid comcast cable modem in the corner behind it. i knew my own computer parts weren't going bad. pretty sure you can just go to the comcast store, give the disinterested clerk the gear with "the fan is making a noise" and they will give you a new one that said, why are you using their modem for like $10/mo instead of buying your own
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holy poo poo what kind of cable modem needs a loving fan lol you gotta get up in the wee hours to throw a tiny shovel of coal in that thing?
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Raluek posted:pretty sure you can just go to the comcast store, give the disinterested clerk the gear with "the fan is making a noise" and they will give you a new one yeah, they have a rotating stack of refurbed units and will grab the next one from the shelf that said, I just bought my parents a modem and router to get them out of the two year cycle of the company crappy modem router combo failing and having to waiting for a subcontractor to plug a "new" one in or going to the store and drive there to help them set it up. the latter was easier because the dude with a magnet sign and a van never set anything up really
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Raluek posted:pretty sure you can just go to the comcast store, give the disinterested clerk the gear with "the fan is making a noise" and they will give you a new one Yeah you're probably right. I turned it over on its side and at least now it's just making a gentle wooshing instead of the infuriating mosquito noise. If it comes back I will get a new one. As to why I have it: I do own my own cable modem, but as of the last time I dealt with them, they wanted to charge me more (5 bucks a month but still) to use it. I assume this is because their integrated modem-router thing produces one of those xfinitywifi networks and they're trying to encourage people to do that. If you set the modem up using their phone app it will spew out that public network, but on the device's own administration page you can just disable all Wi-Fi entirely, so I do that and use my own router, and so far I haven't seen any Xfinity networks in my house.
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Incidentally if any of you know how to spoof the hardware MAC address on a Netgear cable modem please do tell
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everything about this question reflects poorly on me as a person and I'm ashamed to ask but i can NOT figure this out: how do i re-enable the audio panel that shows up under notifications on an Android phone? Backstory: i used to use google's app to play mp3s off my phone's hdd, but then they disabled that functionality so i tried to open an mp3 and see what happened. It opened in some dumb os media player thing with no playlist functionality or anything and i was so pissed off about it i long-pressed and silenced its notification out of anger. It turns out that i silenced literally all of the audio player widgets and it looks like either nobody else has ever done this and changed their mind, or it is impossible for me to come up with the right phrase to google for. It has persisted across a factory reset and reload, so it is probably in the settings somewhere i just can't find it
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Is it a mini player? Like has the play pause forward buttons? You should be able to reset defaults for any app buuuuut what the hell is persisting thru a reset? Accessibility poo poo? Maybe set up a new user profile? Is there a cache needs wiping? I hope you like questions?
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down1nit posted:Is it a mini player? Like has the play pause forward buttons? sorry, it is persisting through a reset and then loading my backup or whatever. So it is some configuration thing I did and not a bug. but i think i just figured it out and i guess i misunderstood the problem from the get go. i just reenabled spotify notifications and that allowed the mini player to come back so i guess i also muted spotify at the same time? idk. phone oses are fucken weird and im too old to adapt to this poo poo.
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Corla Plankun posted:it is all over the place. I think my graphics card just doesn't have the necessary space to render a whole 1440p screen. I get screen tearing on youtube and poo poo too the screen tearing situation has gotten much worse. Is this something that could be caused by poor heat dissipation or voltage? this tower is pretty old and i'm wondering if replacing the fans and PSU might help.
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Corla Plankun posted:the screen tearing situation has gotten much worse. Is this something that could be caused by poor heat dissipation or voltage? this tower is pretty old and i'm wondering if replacing the fans and PSU might help. I haven't had desktop screen tearing in a long rear end time, what os are you using?
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oh maybe thats it? the desktop in question is still running windows 7
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when is the last time you cleaned the dust out of the heatsinks?
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:i mean, hardware failure seems a pretty easy (but not very helpful) first guess, with the cpu/kernel spiking being caused by spurious interrupts from the failed chip ok so I finally got around to fixing this. I had to swap in a new i/o board, which apparently is not an uncommon fault on that generation of MBAs. it was really easy and worked perfectly. I was gunshy to do minor work on a laptop but it was no problem at all. thanks yospos/ifixit https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Air+13-Inch+Early+2017+I-O+Board+Replacement/135933
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can you really not dump USB devices into a VM using Hyper-V? I was trying to do this on Win11 and didn’t realize it apparently is a hassle/can’t be done Does Microsoft have a truce to not encroach on VMWare Workstation?
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Let's do a detective thing. So at 11pm two nights ago I lose all internet in the house. Setup: cheap docsis 2 modem -> edgerouter lite -> netgear gs108 -> the other computers as well as my ubnt access point. Log into the router to see if the modem's down. Oops can't get to the router. gently caress. reboot. nothing. no pings. agggg my er lite died. it happens (when the flash storage wears out). i try a factory reset (this sucks as i had 10000 forward rules and dhcp assignments all set up). nothing. panic. ok poo poo look for routers online. they're all 2 weeks estimated ship. gently caress. i work from home this is no good wait, i was a lazy rear end in a top hat and never sent back my stock xfinity modem router thing. plug that in, call xfinity. spend 30 minutes having the lady try to upsell me to the service i already have. they activate, i plug it into my desktop pc, i have internet. cool thanks lady. ok we're safe. i plug the computer and the lan side of the xfinity router into the switch. no internet. nothing. at this point i've reset the switch too so everything's lost its lease and i can't ping anything else either. plug the computer back into the xfinity router direct. internet. plug it into the switch. no internet. did i kill a dumb gs108? thats weird. they last forever. Unplug things one at a time. wait. its working. when i unplug my Debian server's ethernet cable? what? i rage power cycle it (this was stupid as i coulda turned its monitor on  and investigated to see what happened. )everything works fine now. What the gently caress happened? The only thing I can think of is that some arp table poisoning happened somehow. I don't do any routing or vpn through the linux machine. it just hangs off the network and runs lovely VMs and my plex and stuff.
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