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allquicatic

00:04

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Journeyman Geek

00:37

I'm trying to work out if something is an SR or SU question ._.

I'm trying to work out a way to switch within a subset of my audio devices with a hot key

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo better to use alcohol indeed. a q-tip (cotton ear swab) might clean that stuff without anything else.

Bob

@JourneymanGeek There's already an SU Q on that.

iirc AHK answer

...

uhm. ok, that was my AHK answer

=> superuser.com/questions/426293/…

tbh I don't particularly like it

bwDraco

huffingtonpost.com/entry/…

lol

Bob

but the other answers are good :P

bwDraco

I generally don't kill spiders unless they're particularly intrusive.

Journeyman Geek

00:53

lol

will take a look

hmm

If I could be bothered I might be able to use the macro keys + synapse + nircmd to do it

Psycogeek

I think there is a little bit more to that article they left out :-)

Burgi

spiders are cute!

Psycogeek

Dont feed the ones in the house, screens and not leaving doors open, putting outdoor lighting on motion sencors.

we have the famed black widows here, less is bette.r

Burgi

i don't actively feed them

i assume them help themselves to flies and other bugs that i don't want to eat

bwDraco

To me, spiders serve a very valuable function.

(sorry, phone is low on RAM and SoC is heavily throttled)

Psycogeek

01:08

Don't store stuff on the roof of your domicile? Where the heck is that?

Journeyman Geek

@Bob ah hah. Created a few batch files calling nircmd and toggled those with synapse.

Its ugly and unmaintainable, but shrug Its one machine, and I will probably wonder how I did this in a few months

Burgi

@Psycogeek looks like south america

Ramhound

"How one can procedurally get in direct contact with a supervisor to ask for an investigation and perceived danger is suspected" do I need to worry because a user feels a perceived danger?

Burgi

a danger about what?

Ramhound

I have no idea.

But I don't want some random person getting my information because the sue me in some third-world country.

Burgi

01:18

ask them to log a ticket and you'll get to them ASAP ;)

Ramhound

because they feel a perceived danger.

@JourneymanGeek knows about the meta question

if I need to move this to another room I can

or I can in a little while on my phone currently

Journeyman Geek

@Ramhound TBH, it really feels like OP just wants attention

Burgi

oh! this is a SU issue

Journeyman Geek

Don't worry about it

Burgi

i thought you were talking about something irl

Journeyman Geek

01:20

The best thing you can do now is ignore the OP

Burgi

i once had a ticket "there are some empty boxes in the main office, can you move them?"

is it ok if i just go ahead and nuke the konica tag?

Journeyman Geek

sure

Burgi

or is there a proceedure i need to go through?

Journeyman Geek

ask a question on meta

but if its used once or twice, meh

Burgi

0

A: Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again

While going through the google questions I came across one with a konica. Konica are a manufacturer of printers, scanners, etc. (I think they have a heavy industry division as well). There are only a few (about 6) questions using this so I will run through them quickly and remove it.

Ramhound

01:23

Oh I am ignoring it. But when I read perceived danager, that worries me, like I said don't want this made up issue (I am not following this user around, nor stalking him, nor doing anything specifically to that user). I wasn't worried with the original title now I am, sounds like I should contact a CM, and keep a paper trail ;$

Journeyman Geek

I was actually hoping a CM would get to me on this

But yeah

since this person seems intent on escalating this, contacting a CM would be a good idea

Burgi

is there any point to the "laser" tag?

superuser.com/questions/tagged/laser?sort=newest

Journeyman Geek

However I advice against engaging this person directly in comments or otherwise

Burgi

01:41

w00t! my first wiki tag!

do you really get +4 rep for wiki tags?

Journeyman Geek

nooo idea

Bob

s/wiki tag/tag wiki/

Burgi

0

Q: Pew Pew the Laser Tag

While working my way through the manufacturer tag clean up list I came across the tag laser. It has no description and the questions listed all appear to refer to laser-printer. Am I ok to remove this tag or would a tag synonym be more appropriate?

Burgi

02:18

Why do we have a chinese tag?

superuser.com/questions/tagged/chinese

Journeyman Geek

kinda feels in between "needs a tag wiki" and "is crap"

Burgi

"chinese is a language spoken in China[citation needed]"

Journeyman Geek

I'd definately suggest metaing "Take away the chinese tag" ;p

Burgi

lol ok i will in a sec

i have a couple of google ones left

bwDraco

dpreview.com/news/1176543217/…

Always-on BLE for continuous photo transfer to your phone. That's new.

Never expected anyone to use BLE for continuous streaming of large amounts of data, but BLE is bloody efficient, requiring mere milliwatts.

I've honestly never seen anyone do OBEX over BLE.

Burgi

02:39

0

Q: Take away the chinese tag

While working on Manufacturer & Company tags are back. Again I have come across the tag chinese. There are quite a few questions on there of varying quality. What is it for, why do we have tags specifically for human languages? Similarly I have found the following language tags: spanish germa...

discussion tags tag-wiki

as requested!

bwDraco

lol

Hindsight is 20/20, but continuously streaming photos in the background from camera to phone without interrupting shooting is really, really useful.

Journeyman Geek

blah. I kinda want one of these store.treoo.com/brainwavz-truss-dual-headphone-hanger.html

bwDraco

lol @ "blah"

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco I've been through 4-5 iterations of DIY stands

bwDraco

Context?

Oh, okay.

Journeyman Geek

02:44

@bwDraco I bought a headset, so I have 2 pairs of daily driver headphones. My current setup lets me hang one, but having both of them handy would be nice

bwDraco

My Pistons have seen quite a bit of abuse without any issues except the ear tips constantly falling out.

I bought two pairs but never had to open the second package :\

Burgi

ok i have found one legitimate use of the laser tag...

1

Q: Coreldraw importing from autocad incorrectly

Ok I have an odd issue. We use coreldraw to print to our laser cutter. (X3 usually but this happens in X5 as well). You can see the issue in the photos below. In autocad the squares are equidistant from the outer perimiter however after importing into corel the ones on the top are closer than the...

image-editing vector-graphics autocad coreldraw laser

bwDraco

That's too specialized. Remove the tag anyway.

Journeyman Geek

Oh, this is for the gaming headset and for the proper headphones

bwDraco

Not an online gamer so I don't really need a gaming headset (my first choice would probably be Sennheiser if I had to choose).

I just plug the Pistons into my laptop.

bwDraco

02:56

Back to the "camera to phone/tablet" transfer discussion: My compact camera lets me use NFC to quickly connect the two over Wi-Fi and transfer data using the Nikon Wireless Mobile Utility app. It's rather unwieldy, though.

My DSLR has no built-in wireless functionality. Any wireless capabilities are relegated to a memory card in slot two, either a purpose-made FluCard (which was supplied with my camera as a promo) or an Eye-Fi card. Neither of these cards deliver the sort of performance needed for heavy continuous shooting.

In practice, I'm more likely to use my old Kingston MobileLite Wireless mobile media reader (the original MLW221), which is painfully slow.

@JourneymanGeek ricoh-pentax.com.sg/camera/dslrs/… (link tailored to your country)

Burgi

@dave you might need to update your answer recommending iffy sites: superuser.com/a/470850/393570

bwDraco

Post a comment to the answer. Dave doesn't frequent RA and can't be pinged this way.

Burgi

he was here earlier wasn't he?

bwDraco

I'm really tempted to get DOOM but 1) the rather short single-player campaign is hard to justify at $60 and 2) my laptop is barely able to run it.

Burgi

it was 50% off last week because quakecon was on

bwDraco

03:11

Oh well.

Burgi

thats when i bought it

bwDraco

Minimum requirements declare a GTX 670 (1344 CUDA cores in 7 of 8 SMXs on Kepler GK104 @ 915-980 MHz; 2 GB GDDR5 @ 6 Gbps on 256-bit bus).

My laptop has a GTX 780M (1536 CUDA cores in 8 of 8 SMXs on Kepler GK104 @ 771-849 MHz; 4 GB GDDR5 @ 5 Gbps on 256-bit bus). That falls just short of the desktop GTX 670 but can be made to match with a modest overclock (but throttling is likely to be unavoidable due to overheating).

The game will run but very marginally. Since DOOM is designed to be played at constant high frame rates, settings may have to be turned down to minimums for playability at 1080p. 40-50 fps will not cut it.

This is putting more pressure on me than ever before to upgrade again. As if less than three years is acceptable service life for a gaming laptop...

Burgi

no such thing as a gaming laptop :(

bwDraco

I expected contemporary premium games to remain playable (stable 40+ fps) at 1080p medium settings three years down the line and this is clearly not going to be the case

!!/extraheaddesk

ChatBot John Cavil

Burgi

03:26

what were those boxes you used to attach parallel printers to the network called?

bwDraco

My old laptop was replaced after it had trouble running games at medium settings at 1366x768 due to the extremely old and underpowered GPU (overclocking helped but did not make a huge difference).

@Burgi JetDirect?

Burgi

thats it

Journeyman Geek

Productive day

headphone hanger MK II built. Got a thing set up to switch between audio sources (and announce which source is in use before switching...)

bwDraco

Mobility Radeon HD 5650: 400 stream cores in 5 of 5 SIMD engines on TeraScale 2 RV830 @ 500 MHz; 1 GB DDR3 (!) @ 1.6 Gbps (800 MHz) on 128-bit bus.

That's how old that laptop is.

Bob

my eyes are bleeding

bwDraco

03:37

lel

That GPU was constantly starved of memory bandwidth and had very little memory overclocking headroom.

Burgi

flag it as "unclear"

ok a bit of NMS before sleep

bwDraco

At least throttling was never an issue due to the chip's low TDP, even when overclocked.

My current laptop is far worse under load.

Oy vey.

Now we have laptops that can truly match high-end desktops thanks to a combination of dramatically improved performance and greatly reduced power consumption.

Well, buying this laptop near the end of the Kepler era did not help.

Journeyman Geek

@bwDraco that's one reason I don't game on laptops

bwDraco

I thoroughly underestimated the improvements Maxwell brought:

never mind: GTX 900 series was not yet out. Maxwell was limited to the GM107 (640 CUDA cores in 5 SMMs) and mobile Kepler cards only got a small boost.

I guess I didn't quite buy at the very end of the Kepler generation, but I had thoroughly underestimated the advances NVIDIA was making.

!! s/500 MHz/550 MHz/

ChatBot John Cavil

03:54

@bwDraco Mobility Radeon HD 5650: 400 stream cores in 5 of 5 SIMD engines on TeraScale 2 RV830 @ 550 MHz; 1 GB DDR3 (!) @ 1.6 Gbps (800 MHz) on 128-bit bus. (source)

bwDraco

Jul 27 '13 at 18:14, by DragonLord

Mobility Radeon HD 5650, stock 550 MHz shader 800 MHz memory

Burgi

04:07

nn

Linus

04:22

mornin

Journeyman Geek

arf ternoon

2

bwDraco

Night.

Linus

:P

Journeyman Geek

04:52

How to Fix your Laptop

►

Bob

@JourneymanGeek Ah, eyebrow-guy! :P

Journeyman Geek

@Bob he dosen't shock himself in this one!

Bob

@JourneymanGeek No boom? :(

Journeyman Geek

No boom today, Boom tommorrow. Always boom tommorrow.

Psycogeek

he he

Hennes

05:34

Morning

@bwDraco Burgioalready set it. There is not gaminglaptop (yet). You can have a semi portable gaming desktop. But a laptop (like a device you can actually put on your laptop where it will be comformtably cool) and gaming do not match yet.

Eloquent javascript in the joy of coding bundle on humble.

The title alone makes me want to buy it.

Hennes

05:50

@burgi: I ran into quite a few lasers lately. GLad they are gone. :)

Psycogeek

06:12

oh yea, that's right, delete the one question I was (capable of) answering this week, but only after writing half a page.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek The issue is that tip is already at the size of recess and cotton makes it bigger even. Do I have to take it off and split the wood in half and then wrap with cotton again?

Psycogeek

If i wanted to be shot down before finishing, I would have a girlfriend. :-)

@Boris_yo yea probably to big for that, but the idea is, the cotten would squish down on in there.

I think thier idea of a brush of some kind is good.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek Not toothbrush though?

Psycogeek

I think thier idea of water, is not so smart, knowing stuff will capilary into places where it shouldnt be.

@Boris_yo a brush is a brush. I will show you some day how you can clean your teeth with a toilet brush :-) They just vary in size and strength of bristles.

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek The earphones are for swimming anyway. That's why they mention water.

Psycogeek

06:20

OH?

Boris_yo

@Psycogeek This link does not display images inside in Chrome. Same with Opera but whern I set "Opera Turbo" they display.

Seems DNS issue on my end?

I still use Opera 11.64 because users said last time it's better than newer versions.

Psycogeek

the picture is not housed on the same site as the text of the web page. could be some browser is being very secure. Not allowing content to just come from anyfreaking where. cause that is how people can get crap.

in IE, there is some switches in the advanced stuff, of that type, for prompting or dissallowing such activity.

Todays web pages are bloody messes with crap everywhere, comming from everywhere. Sooo, so much for any security , and still having function and feature.

@Boris_yo But back to the problem, the earphones no longer connect and charge? How old are they, it is likely that the battery in there (tiny little thing) needs a replace, and that is the problem your actually having. Had the same problem with a Jawbone that uses much the same style of connection. it was connected, but the battery is so old and dead, it will not charge again without fixing something.

Boris_yo

06:51

Frequent disconnections. LED lights on and lights off and I hear Windows' Safety Hardware Removal sound goes on and off. LED stays off for a while and then suddenly turns on. That's where I see chcarge update from 50% to 77% or 99% if it happens to complete charging.

In addition to above, sometimes I get Hardware Not Recognized until suddenly it is recognized and battery completes charging.

Psycogeek

@Boris_yo ok well that sounds most like a poor connection indeed.

Burgi

07:19

@Hennes that said the macbooks are pretty decent

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi er. Not really

Just that they're focused on ~~hipsters~~ specific sorts of users. They make no illusions of being gaming laptops

Hennes

Hardware wise mac is not bad. Not sure if an equally prices Dell is better or worse.

(or any other non-mac brand)

Burgi

@JourneymanGeek i think they can certainly hold their own, especially over time

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi I have a mildly upgraded, thinkpad from 07 still in active use ;p

so, thinkpads for longivity.

Burgi

agreed but not gaming

Journeyman Geek

07:34

I don't see macs as a (mainstream) gaming platform

Burgi

both steam and gog are available on OSX and macOS...

Burgi

07:58

@BenN you mentioned something about data.SE for finding obsolete tags in the first post queue. Can you elaborate?

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi We're talking hardware tho

My current gaming system can be upgraded gradually.

A mac can't

Burgi

08:14

true

Oliver Salzburg

08:24

Why is it that when you copy a string from pgAdmin, it is wrapped in ", but when you have a string in a SQL query, it has to be wrapped in '?

It's a rhetorical question :P

The answer is "Fuck you, that's why!"

DavidPostill

08:39

Huh?

0

A: How to get assigned IPs by hostednetwork?

Giovanni Mounir I was wondering who the pathetic piece of bs hacked my network to copy "INFO" as you put it and glad to finally call you out. Not cool

This fits every flag reason (except spam). I went for rude/abusive in the end.

Oldskool

@DavidPostill That seems most fitting.

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill damnit. I don't know what mod message to send.

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Just nuke the account :)

Journeyman Geek

I did the usual troll (tm) check

DavidPostill

09:12

Ah. Good idea.

Journeyman Geek

09:54

Right that's properly overengineered

Turns out you can rename devices in sound manager so I've given my 3 usual devices distinctive names. Then I've created a batch file that 1. Announces the device I've set as default on the main speakers 2. Sets it as default 3. Instahides the window (all from nircmd)

It does steal focus if I do it in a fill screen game but I can live with that

DavidPostill

10:14

Cross site spammer. This user superuser.com/users/631226/graphic-treasury is spamming the same identical answer across multiple sites.

Journeyman Geek

handled

Bob

10:33

12

Q: How to change default sound playback device programatically?

How to change the default default audio device for playback and recording in vista programatically ? Is there any registry setting for it like sound manager in window XP? Which API does it?

windows winapi visual-c++ mci

@JourneymanGeek ^

Journeyman Geek

@Bob I already have nircmd installed ;p

I can't remember why

Bob

@JourneymanGeek At the very least, you can read the current name without stealing focus, via documented APIs.

Writing, on the other hand... undocumented.

Journeyman Geek

@Bob the stealing focus is not that important

and I'm a nitwit

actually no, I'm not

synapse dosen't let you launch a program without actually directly pointing at it.

Bob

oh, if it's just cause cmd then it's trivial to get around

Journeyman Geek

having to use a batch file is manky

Bob

10:44

then don't :P

C#, System.Diagnostics.Process.Start()

Journeyman Geek

;p

rewrite my batch files in C# ....

0_0

Bob

eh, easy enough :P

heck, if you really wanted you could have .NET launch a cmd window without stealing focus

@JourneymanGeek if you want something more specific, you're gonna have to provide what you currently have...

dino

and Bob will fill it for ya

Journeyman Geek

11:01

Currently using this nirsoft.net/utils/nircmd.html

each 'macro' that synapse fires off is a batch file

Bob

@JourneymanGeek ...I meant the specific contents

Journeyman Geek

nircmd.exe win hide ititle "cmd.exe"
nircmd speak text "Audio Set to Speakers"
nircmd setdefaultsounddevice "Speakers" 1

First line 'hides' the remaining bits. Second line reads out what's there. Third one changes the device. You can substitute "speakers" with "Fastrack" and "Man O War" for the other two batch files.

Bob

actually, gotta nip off for an hour

Journeyman Geek

lol

no rush. I'm not even sure this is a major annoyance

Hennes

11:39

gluten free, low sodium, bio degradable, non-GMO, 100% fat free high fructose corn syrup...

(blam, semi random thing I got offers after mentioning that I was going AFk to drink some gluten free water)

Journeyman Geek

"high fructose corn syrup" - You monster... ;p

DavidPostill

11:54

@Hennes What exactly is "gluten free water"? AFAIK there is no gluten in tap or bottled water ...

Journeyman Geek

@DavidPostill that's the joke

DavidPostill

@JourneymanGeek Hmm. I suppose this is a joke :)

claraglutenfreewater.com

You can buy gluten free water ...

Dog

!!caaaaaat

ChatBot John Cavil

Journeyman Geek

or DHMO free water...

DavidPostill

11:59

The Shocking Truth Behind Clara Gluten-Free Water - a nice rant from "The Angry Chef" (Exposing lies, pretensions and stupidity in the world of food.) ;p

Psycogeek

@DavidPostill joke turned into a product , such more, so love, much stupid

I still have to question my sanity, because either the world is insane or I am, it IS one of us.

DavidPostill

"Even more annoying is the tendency of manufacturers make disingenuous claims about the gluten-free nature of products that have no reason to contain gluten anyway.

They are insinuating non-existent health benefits, looking to add value to a product by simply confusing the consumer.

Clara Gluten-Free Water, is the ultimate expression of this exploitative trend. It is the exact sort of vile pseudoscientific bullshit that I created Angry Chef to rail against. All water is gluten-free. Tap water is gluten-free. This is nothing more than a cynical attempt to exploit consumer fear and misconce…

Hahaha. And of course it turns out to be a hoax ...

Dog

Weird AF.

If I don't have a drive with the letter I:, all my drives after the letter I: disappear from Explorer

If I rename Y: to I:, then everything shows up fine

Psycogeek

12:29

poor thing, if a drive was corrupt or microsoft was horribly confused it will sit there waiting for things to get better. In other words it was not designed to quickly time out.

what if it has nothing to do with your rename, just that the disk is acting better now.

Dog

12:50

There wasn't any timeout, it showed immediately. No delays, just disappearing disks (Heck, most of them were network drives)

Hennes

13:12

@DavidPostill It is the enhenced version of diet water.

Burgi

terrifying!

We are from a professional elevator company, but usually these displays are outsourced and they come with windows xp embedded software's where thes suppliers are usually from China. The support from them is not possible, and haven't been receiving any support at all. — Sanju Rk 54 mins ago

the elevator company doesn't know how to fix their elevators....

Journeyman Geek

@Burgi tempted to ask what elevator company and building

So I can stay the hell away

Burgi

agreed

or take the stairs

BSOD in your lift...

Dog

My name looks so stupid in comments on SU

Woof. You should use dd, not some silly CD authoring tool. Or R-Studio, the free demo version will clone disks just fine. — Dog 45 secs ago

Bob

@JourneymanGeek files.vulpin.com/s/XbsDg6TAhpb3CUT

For the record, code:

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using System.Windows.Forms;

namespace RunCommands
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            var exePath = Process.GetCurrentProcess().MainModule.FileName;
            var cmdsPath = exePath + ".cmds";

            if (!File.Exists(cmdsPath))
            {

(yea, it's fancier and more complex than strictly necessary... I was bored :P)

Dog

13:27

Urgh, taking over 45 minutes to du on my zfs/home directory. Which I haven't even accessed for a year, and is only 30GB

Rahul2001

@JourneymanGeek nircmd is awesome!

Rahul2001

13:56

medium.com/@MMFlint/…

Hehehehehehehe

Burgi

14:17

lol! our client has asked for a database of every single school in the country

the government doesn't even have that data

there is only a list for schools in england

partially for wales

and no data at all for scotland and NI

Oldskool

@Burgi good luck with that ;-)

DavidPostill

@Burgi How hard did you look?

gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/School-Education/Datasets

School contact details as at September 2015 including school roll, FTE numbers of teachers and denomination.

academia.edu/1743568/…

an excel database for information of all post-primary schools in Northern Ireland

Rahul2001

@Burgi I think you should hire @DavidPostill... ;P

DavidPostill

14:34

ukschoolsdata.co.uk

Ben N

@Rahul2001 I think he's actually trying to become more presidential: blog.dilbert.com/post/149034022801/trumps-foreign-policy-speech

DavidPostill

Includes Schools, Colleges and Universities both State and Independent.
Approx records – UK 31,900 England 25,600 Wales 1,800 Scotland 3,000 Northern Ireland 1,200
Sold on a one year licence
Supplied in excel format
Data to include establishment type, full address details, telephone and fax number, generic email and web address and the head name of each establishment, school number, boarding, nursery, funding, denomination, diocese, special needs, population, gender and age range.

Rahul2001

> That would seem absurd in any other context. But keep in mind that we voters believe we can assess foreign policy ideas by listening to biased liars talk on television. So the entire situation is ridiculous, but we play along.

Ben N

@Burgi If you put together a list of tags that should go, you can query data.stackexchange.com for pending first post review items where the post has one or more of those tags

Here's a starting point: select * from reviewtasks where reviewtaskstateid = 1 and reviewtasktypeid = 4

Burgi

@DavidPostill your google fu is better than mine...

that said, we'd have to host the DB

and it is expensive

DavidPostill

14:47

@Burgi Hmmph. I don't think UKP 895 is expensive :)

Burgi

you don't have our client... :-|

DavidPostill

@Burgi Typing "database schools in uk" into google doesn't take much fu at all ...

Burgi

uk school API

is what i went with

DavidPostill

@Burgi I see what you mean. That is very low fu.

4-K

Hello! I have some questions.

My laptop is not powerful enough to play HEVC 1080p videos. It plays 1080p fine, but not the HEVC.

DavidPostill

14:51

@4-K Hello.

@4-K Buy a new laptop :)

4-K

But my friend says that if I get a good quality monitor, I can play the 1080p HEVC file completely fine. Is that true?

@DavidPostill If that were the case, I wouldn't be here

Dog

!!caaaaat

ChatBot John Cavil

Dog

@4-K No, you need a faster laptop

Ben N

I would be surprised if the monitor changed anything

Dog

14:53

Monitor has nothing to do with decoding HEVC

Ben N

I'm pretty sure the problem is that decoding that format is the straw that breaks the camel's back - you need a better CPU/GPU (depending on whether it's hardware accelerated)

Dog

You need Kaby Lake

4-K

Another question, last one. Are gaming Laptops better than Gaming Desktop(if the specs are same, like 100%)?

Dog

No

And you cannot get the same specs, like 100%

Ben N

If the specs are exactly the same, then it's all personal preference :)

4-K

14:54

thanks @Dog @BenN

Dog

@BenN Even if the *specs" are the same the components won't be, plus cooling...

Ben N

Ah yes, cooling would be a challenge

Burgi

@DavidPostill data.gov.uk/data-request/all-uk-school-data-api-or-web-service

4-K

Ok, that wasn't the last one

DavidPostill

@4-K Regardless. It's the correct answer to your question.

Ben N

14:56

You could conceivably work around it by transcoding such video files before attempting to view them

4-K

@DavidPostill Hmm

@BenN Again, CPU not powerful enough to re-encode

My DVD drive's light is always on. It opens randomly. What's the case?

Rahul2001

@DavidPostill lol

Ben N

Not on the fly, but you could wait for the entire process to be completed before viewing it

DavidPostill

@Burgi Nice, but if it is not implemented (yet) ...

4-K

My DVD drive's light is always on. It opens randomly. What's the case?

Rahul2001

14:58

@4-K we saw your message the first time...

Oldskool

@4-K LOL sounds like 1990s trojan horses/malware that were used to just mess with you :p

4-K

@Oldskool yeah, it's a mess. Reads DVD sometimes, opens randomly, light always on. Makes weird noises sometimes, whatnot

Rahul2001

And it's likely that some software is messing with your drive, or the eject button is stuck...

4-K

@Rahul2001 sorry

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