@Dog do you know of any drugs which are 1. Inexpensive 2. Easy to get hold of 3. Don't have severe side effects 4. Make the person taking it very, very happy?
@ThatBrazilianGuy “When you have insomnia, you're never really asleep, and you're never really awake. With insomnia, nothing's real. Everything is far away. Everything is a copy of a copy of a copy.” ― Chuck P.
Wow. I just realised I've not moved my laptop in 8 months.
Also I wonder how much a thunderbolt docking station costs these days... Disconnecting 25 cables so I can take my laptop to bed to read stuff is a total pita. Even if I've literally only done it once this year.
I am no stranger to using laptops as desktop replacements.
And even I had to deal with 4-5 cables connected to the laptop that I have to unplug whenever I needed to take the laptop with me. That includes USB keyboard and mouse, power cable, and one or two external monitors.
And sometimes reinsert the battery into the computer (because I had a habit of removing it to preserve battery service life when plugged in for an extended period of time).
It's not crazy, especially when it's a gaming laptop where you're going to set it up like a desktop when you're at home.
@OliverSalzburg woulda been cooler with a 1TB microSDZC (made up term) card from 2018, but oh well
@allquixotic ...lol. It's SDUC (for Ultra Capacity) and it won't be necessary until cards exceed 2 TB in capacity. And while we don't quite have 1 TB microSD cards yet, we're almost there: anandtech.com/show/13339/…
So your prediction was surprisingly accurate ;p
But if microSD cards can hit 512 GB, full-size SD cards can reach 2 TB with current technology. It's just too expensive to be viable right now.
Assuming, of, course, cutting-edge 3D TLC NAND and all.
A whole hard drive's worth of storage... in a device that's not much larger than a postage stamp. Simply amazing.
(FWIW that 512 GB microSD card may very well be using QLC NAND)
Ok so who wants the challenge of locating a stolen laptop based on only having some files that were transferred to my PC, possibly a bit of hardware info I can dig up from that archive
I wish i knew how to keep my mouth shut i really do, but i could help but make a joke about it, and he knew immeadiately what i was implying
but oh well last ditched effort, I really just want to get my $300 and laptop back tbh, I feel so trapped having to stay at home or go without reading and studying
I was thinking about this - I have a collection of images say 365 images and I just want that my android phone let me know through notification at a certain time chosen by me the images I collected one at a time!, is there any app that does this? any help
Google Photos has a timeline, and it has automated notifications wherein it shows you pictures whick you clicked exactly one year ago on the same date. Pretty neat.
@BAYMAX @RahulJain Welll so, we kinda have a few conventions in this room since we really want to avoid that old IRC thing where we have many folks asking others to solve their problems
it works really well here
In general, if you have a question - it might belong to the main site (or another site)
then again, what have I said to like xD might as well have said asdfghjklpoiuytrewqazxcvbnmnbvcxzasdfghjklpoiuytrewqasdfg... an it still would have made as much sense
whaddaya think of that prediction that .NET Framework 4.8 is the last, @Bob ? other than the struck through bit where apparently someone called BS on him all but factually stating it... the rest of the article is at least couched in language of it being a guess rather than him stating a fact as if he were an MS employee
I certainly do prefer Core myself but Core needs proper GUI support :P
Hello everyone, My android phone v6.0(marshmellow) is locked. I can neither enable adb, nor was it rooted. Whats the option I am left with to get my data backup?
Right, home. New camera ... uhm. I mean new phone. Galaxy S9+ And probably the only person on earth who is waiting for it to charge before turning it on.
If you can, completely discharge it (and I actually will put the system into the BIOS setup to discharge that last bit of power, power management be damned), then recharge it fully.
Yes, I did say that deep discharges are bad, but I only do this every few months.
(for Android devices, I'd put it into the bootloader or recovery modes, which similarly ignore the battery's fuel gauge and only shut down when the battery itself is genuinely depleted)
IME that will trip the battery's over-discharge protection, typically set at 2.5V per cell. It's imperative that you plug it immediately (or otherwise as soon as possible) after the device powers down to prevent damage to the battery.
(for most applications, a lithium-ion cell is considered fully discharged at 3.0V, and recharging before the cell drops below ~3.2V is a good idea, except, of course, when calibrating a smart battery's fuel gauge)
Anyone know a surefire way of nuking windows update? I deleted WU's system files, deleted software distribution folder, deleted update assistant, and it is still updating lol. WTH
@WeavingBird1917 - Just use WSUS. You then have complete and total control of when updates are installed. However, if you are running Windows 10, you should note that eventually even stable builds (1607,1703,1709,ect) eventaulyl must be upgraded.
Existing questions have answers that outline, how to do what you want, and they still work for 1803.
I'll eventually have to reinstall windows, since the problem is that it tries and re-update but never completes. The user profiles on this install was also corrupted by the upgrade, no new user profiles can be created. Is there a way of doing so without using WSUS? I'm just looking for a quick fix until I reinstall it in a few weeks, which is why I don't bother nuking system files. I moved: wuapi.dll wuapihost.exe wuauclt.exe wuaueng.dll wuautoappupdate.dll
, but it still seems to be updating. I'm wondering if there is another file I should move, or is it just updating because there were s…
@NordlysJeger Oops I deleted the SoftwareDistribution folder, while trying to figure out why it was restarting on boot even though I moved the WU system files.
I never deleted it on win10, but on win7 a net stop wuauserv, delete all in the software distribution folder and a net start wuauserv solver most of my windows problems
Yes, the log should be somewhere, since everytime I look at the newly created log it starts from 2016. Thanks for the link, I don't have the Group Policy editor, but the second answer looks like it could work. The only reason I'm doing it is because the update fails to complete very time, after my next installation this would probably be fixed, but I'm just looking for a quick fix as of now.
set +e
echo Disabling password complexity rules...
samba-tool domain passwordsettings set --complexity=off --min-pwd-length=6
# domain should equal your SCHOOLCODE in caps!
domain=EXAMPLE
validate_username () {
local -r linenum="$1"
local -r username="$2"
local tst
[ -n "$username" ] || {
echo "Line ${linenum}: Username is empty"
return 1
}
samba-tool user list | grep $username >/dev/null 2>&1 && {
echo "Line ${linenum}: Username ${username} exists; skipping"
It only runs through adding one name at a time, even though the list will have hundreds of names. It runs through the checks OK for all the existing usernames, so the issue is somewhere in how it add the user and their home folder
@WeavingBird1917 - You can add the group policy editor to Home editions of Windows, of course, even if you had the group policy editor it wouldn't disable Windows Updates.
@CanadianLuke - Might be blind, but I don't see a loop, outside of reading the bash line.
Thanks, the second answer linked by Nordlys seemed to be quite non-intrusive (setting up fake WSUS server), but lengthy, so I'll just stick with the current dirty fix for now until I reinstall. There isn't any more files that I need to move is there? I guess the restart was just due to residual files in SoftwareDistribution.
If I have user one SecretPassword on one line, and joe smith SuperPassword on the next, and user.one already exists, it prints that the user exists, and moves on to joe smith. It creates the account, adds the home folder, then exits, without caring about any names after. If I re-run the script, it shows that user.one and joe.smith exist, and move on to line 3
Hmmm... Good question... I shouldn't care, to be honest....
OK, I fixed it kinda... After the ssh fs1... line, I added & true. Now the loop keeps going. Now I got another issue to sort out, but the loop is at least working!
