>>28907
A password manager.

>>28907

eSIM makes a big difference - on most new phones, you don't need a physical SIM card any more, your network can just e-mail you a QR code that instantly transfers your number to a new device.

If you can, try to avoid using SMS for 2 factor authentication. It's not particularly secure and there aren't good backup options. I use a Yubikey wherever possible, but TOTP tools like Google Authenticator are also very useful.

>>28906

Modern anti-cheat is necessarily very intrusive, otherwise it'd be too easy for cheats to hide. A lot of anti-cheat systems install a device driver to get kernel-level access to your system and persistent background processes are the norm. If you're paranoid, you might want to dual-boot a separate operating system that you use exclusively for games.

>>28909
I was going to suggest the OTP manager I use, but then realised that it appears to have been abandoned for a couple of years and is no longer advertised on the Play Store. Which is annoying, because it supports things like exporting your keys so you can migrate to a new device or use a new app, which AIUI neither Google nor Microsoft's apps do.

I'm trying to choose between two pre builds.

One has a Ryzen 7 5700X3D 8 Core with 16 Threads, 4.10GHz. 4070 Super 12GB. 32GB 3200 DDR4 RAM.

Other Intel i5-14400F 10/16 Cores / Threads, 3.40GHz Clock Speed, 2.5 GHz Single Core Max Turbo. 4070. 32GB 5200 DDR5.

The CPU comparison thing online says the Intel is better, but then the footage I've seen comparing games across both CPUs favours the Ryzen.

I basically want to buy a system and not need to upgrade it for as long as possible, and between the two I'm struggling to see a clear frontrunner. 1440p gaming, not arsed about ray tracing. Anyone know which is the better offer? They're the same price.

>>28912

For gaming that Ryzen one is definitely better. Better graphics card too. Pretty easy decision there if they're the same price to be honest.

The 3D v-cache thing is some complete technological wizardry that makes the X3D models gaming beasts that absolutely floor Intel's stuff, which is still relying on the brute force of clock speed/cores and end up running a lot hotter and consuming a lot more power to match the performance. Technically they still lag behind their Intel equivalent for boring productivity tasks, but for gaming they are definitely the superior option. The 5800X3D is still near the top of most charts even though it's two generations old by now, and that one is only one step down, so it should last you a good while.

The only issue you'll probably rub up against is that Nvidia are being very stingy with the VRAM on their cards lately. The 4070 is a very powerful card hobbled by only having 12gb, which means although it'll do you nicely for now, you'll probably find yourself wanting to upgrade it sooner than you should really have to.

>>28913

Seconded. First one is clearly a better gaming build, assuming they're a similar price.

>>28913
>>28914
Thanks lads. The Ryzen one is actually 5% cheaper due to a discount I have.

I was unsure about how important the RAM was, because 5200 DDR5 seems a lot more than 3200 DDR4, but realistically I have no idea how significant that difference is coming from 2600 DDR4.

>>28915

Memory will be fine. There are hardly any games that even see a benefit for having more than 16gb yet, and the speed is neither here nor there because the Ryzen will still outperform the Intel despite being on DDR4 rather than DDR5.

>>28805
I tweaked my extender a couple of months ago, so I have three Wi-Fi channels - normal, extender 2.4, and extender 5. With all connected to the normal channel, my PS5 now gets around 250-300 Mbps, my phone gets about 160 Mbps, my PC gets around 90. I assumed there was an issue with my PC, but I just got a new one and have the same issue.

I don't know why my PC is still getting low speeds. The 160 Mbps for my phone was when I placed it right next to my PC antennae. My wireless card is 1200 Mbps. Is there something I'm missing here that's nearly halfing my PC's speeds compared to my phone's?

>>28936

Is your PC using the extender by any chance?

Despite YouTube History being turned off so I should only be seeing thumbnails for Related videos, I'm routinely being shown thumbnails of right wing rabbithole content mixed into my suggestions. I'm just listening to Spanish hiphop, related videos would be more Spanish hiphop, not Jordan Peterson discussing the Tommy Robinson cover-up. I block the channel and it's replaced by another, otherwise unrelated, right-wing rabbithole content thumbnail. The WOKE LEFT DESTROYED to Rogan interviewing Mel Gibson to more Mel Gibson. What the fuck is this?

>>28938

YouTube's recommendation algorithm is driven by time-on-site - the algorithm is trying to maximise the total amount of time that users spend on YouTube. YouTube doesn't know anything about you if you've turned your privacy settings to maximum, so it has to make guesses about what would make a completely random person spend more time on the site.

It turns out that right-wing propaganda is consistently one of the best bets. A lot of people will ignore it, but those people who do watch one video will tend to watch more and more. On aggregate, that compares favourably on their core metric against more mainstream content like Mr Beast that will get a lot of clicks, but won't drive a lot of deeper engagement. If you find this scary, I don't disagree.

>>28939

That makes sense. It's not a new thing today, but I'm sure it's been more persistent with these the past few weeks than it used to be.

How would you make a thing that plays TV, Youtube or online streams automatically at a set time on a routine basis? Something like a radio alarmclock but it's programmable to channel, time, date, etc.
Could it tell itself to turn on and off, too?

>>28970

With firefox you can open pages from command line. Eg
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -new-window -foreground URL
Chrome has similar too.

You can then trigger this command to run everyday at a specific time using windows "Task Scheduler". There are settings to wake up the computer for the task too, probably wont sign you in though. And settings to only run when the computer has been idle a while.

If you want something a bit more complex, like: "play the most recent video from a youtube channel", you might need to do some programming, probably with selenium.

>>28971
That's a great start for me, thanks :)

I've been listening to an online radio stream that plays like this, pictured. I can skip back and forward at will, and the time lapse is ever increasing. It looks like I can even right-click save as an audio file.

Will this require increasing amounts of ram, disk space or whatever? I imagine leaving this playing over the course of the day might well drain my PCs performance.

>>29070
Your browser should only buffer a rolling window of either a certain number of minutes/seconds or a certain amount of bytes of a stream in memory. It may well keep as much as it can around until you start running out of memory, at which point it should clear out the older segments. Disk-wise it'll use whatever your browser is configured to use, clearing out old/less-frequently used cache objects as it goes, including other parts of that stream.
If you right click save though, that download will go on indefinitely until either your network craps out, your disk fills up, or the stream ends - which, if it's proper radio, it should never do.

So no, it shouldn't drain your PCs performance, any RAM bloat you see *should* be cleared up whenever it senses memory pressure or you close the page. And it'll have little impact on cpu usage which is more important realistically.

Had a PC. Got around 30-60 Mbps download, 40 Mbps upload.

My phone and laptop got around 100 Mbps download. Must be my PC.

Got a new PC in Jan, 30-60 Mbps download, 40 Mbps upload. Maybe it's my internet.

Got new internet today, getting 300 Mbps download 60 Mbps upload on my laptop, my wife's laptop, my phone.

PC getting 30 Mbps download, 50 Mbps upload.

The common factor between my two PCs is they use Realtek network cards. I've tried changing the wireless mode to a/n/ac but then it doesn't detect my new internet's network.

Is there anything I can do, or am I doomed to just buy a USB dongle? I think the Realtek network cards are just shit, so if I send my PC back I doubt they'll give me a better one. I don't have the expertise to replace a wireless card myself.

>>29151

I'm sure there'll be someone with better advice, but having a WiFi antenna sandwiched between a big metal pc case and a wall is a recipe for shite signal. If you don't already, perhaps you could get an antenna that sits on your desk or elsewhere.

I'm assuming running an ethernet cable to your router is out of the question?

>>29151

Run a cable to it lad. You don't move the PC. There's no need for it to be wireless.

>>29152
>>29153
PC is upstairs, router is downstairs, it's a rented house so can't fanny about running cables through the floor.

I ended up buying a £28 TP-Link USB adapter, I'm now getting 469.3 Mbps download. This is my Steam download right now. My previous peak was 12.3 MB/s. This is proper first world shit.

>>29154
You can get passable results using cable clips around skirting board. Possibly under the carpet at key points.

My mum wants to buy a laptop and has a budget of about £300. Any suggestions, lads? I don't think she'll use it for anything other than online shopping and possibly Word and Excel, so all it needs to do is run those smoothly.

>>29156

If she doesn't want a refurb, then this is probably a decent option. It's a little bit plasticky, and the screen isn't super-bright, but that's unavoidable at that price.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/ASUS-Vivobook-E1504FA-3-7320U-Windows/dp/B0DBM4RSWB

If she needs an Office license, you can get one cheaply on G2A if you don't ask any questions about where it came from.

https://www.g2a.com/search?query=microsoft%20office

I can only post here with a VPN because the server must identify be as a foreigner, and now I can't even shitpost on the other place because apparently my IP is rangebanned. This only started when I got a fibre internet line put in.

I am getting sick of having to use a VPN for everything when my old internet connection was just fine, is there anything I can do? What's causing this? Do I have to contact my ISP and ask them to stop routing my connection through Venezuela or whatever the fuck they are doing?

>>29162
>rangeban
Does resetting your router not work on range bans?
I think you can manually change IP address?

>>29162
Is your broadband provider a newish company? My parents got new broadband from Wessex Internet, in Somerset, and when I went to visit them I couldn't post here. I looked up my IP address (there are hundreds of sites to do this; try https://whatismyipaddress.com/ and make sure you note down the IPv4 one), fired up the VPN, went on /shed/ and explained my situation, and it works now, so I assume our benevolent overlords would be willing to allow your IP address range too.

>>29163
I don't think that does work, to be honest, although I suspect I only tried it once before giving up. It works in America, which is why 4chan recommends it, but I wouldn't trust an ISP that gives you a dynamic IP address because it's a terrible way to do things. And it would still be in the same range, so if the range has been banned, it wouldn't help even if it did work.

>>29164

It's a company called BeeBu, who I chose entirely because they had the cheapest price and good reviews. My old internet was BT, which was dogshit slow, but never had any trouble like this.

Although having said that, I was able to post on 4chan fine without a VPN until like, yesterday. I have noticed that sometimes websites detect my location very inaccurately and that's what makes me suspect it's something to do with how the ISP routes their traffic, not my particular IP as such.

Is there anything risky about posting my IP? I can't be targeted by elite super hackers or anything that way?

>>29165
>>29164

And just to add in case it illuminates anything, that IP website says I'm in London which I'm definitely not.

>>29165
According to this link I found, BeeBu what an awful name by the way launched almost exactly a year ago:
https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2024/06/new-uk-ultrafast-broadband-isp-called-beebu-launches.html
So if they're very small, you might just need someone to allow their IP addresses to post here.

It should be fine to post your IP address. If you have been dicking about with your router to allow yourself to log into it from the outside world, then hackers could theoretically do that too, but this is always disabled by default and I'm going to guess you haven't been enabling SSH access and stuff like that. So posting your IP address won't be useful for hackers, although do not also tell us the make and model of your router, in case one day someone finds a way to hack into those routers even while the access should be disabled. If BeeBu ever suffer a colossal data breach where they themselves get hacked, then theoretically that data might contain your personal information next to the IP address they gave you, and then we could all find out your name and where you live, Norman, but as long as BeeBu have good data protection and don't get hacked, you're absolutely fine.

All that being said, our moderators here probably don't whitelist individual IP addresses in cases like this, plus I looked if BeeBu have their own AS number and they don't, so it's probably a pretty small range. With this in mind, you can look up your IP address on https://www.whois.com/ and look for the "route" near the bottom, which should be the start of your IP address, a slash, then a number that will probably be 24. So if your IP address is 69.69.69.69, look for the bit that says 69.69.69.0/24, or perhaps 69.69.64.0/21, or something like that. That is the range that your IP address is in, and that's what we're probably blocking, so it would make more sense to ask for that to be allowed instead. You will not be identifiable at all that way.

>>29167

Cheers lad. I got otherplace to unblock my IP range, so if the mods here could do the same I can bin off the VPN and breathe freely again.

This is the bit you are talking about right?

NetRange: 154.56.0.0 - 154.56.255.255
CIDR: 154.56.0.0/16

>>29168
That's the one, although a /16 network is enormous so you can almost certainly shrink that down a fair bit. It appears to belong to Cogent, who are an enormous global telecoms provider that my work provides services for, and you definitely won't need to allow Cogent's entire network here. If you look up your IP address again and change the last number to just "0/24", that would be every IP address from x.x.x.0 up to x.x.x.255, which is all the possible ones in that range and still pretty anonymous, without also including many thousands of cybercriminals operating in the same range.

>>29169

154.56.236.0/24, then? The one I gave before is all whois brought up.

As long as you lot aren't going to track me down and start posting pictures of obese women through my letterbox I think I will survive, though I will probably just delete these posts afterwards on the off chance.

>>29170
I assume that will be perfect. I hope someone who actually has the power to allow IP addresses for this site is reading this.

>>29171

Jolly good. I reported your post so they'll see the thread at least, I don't know how else to get the attention of the mods here. If not then nevermind, it's a minor inconvenience.

>>29172

I don't see it, or any fragment of it, on the ban or range ban list so have to assume it's to do with the wall, beyond mere mod capabilities.

I keep getting STTPS secure site not available warnings with the option to continue to http only sites.
The thing is, in the url it clearly shows https://.

Why is this happening?

>>29203
Is the date/time/clock on your computer set correctly?

>>29204
Believe so - windows does it automatically right? It's set to BST currently. I didn't realise that was relevant ._.

I want to overlay some visual assets (with transparencies) onto a short video clip. I'd rather the output not be a 100GB file, not be forced to use a smaller resolution, not have visible image compression, not spend hours learning how to use complicated software for a one-off, not have it be watermarked and not cause my graphics card to set on fire. The assets don't need to move or change in any way, just sit where they're placed until the video is over.
What's the best way to go about this?

>>29205
There’s a small battery on your motherboard, called a CMOS battery, which could go flat and make the clocks on your computer go wrong. It’s a thing they love to teach you on every IT support training course, but I don’t think I have ever seen it happen in real life. However, I have never heard of STTPS errors either. Is your computer very old?

Anyone recommend a good desktop mouse for heavy use, with a scroll wheel that can reliably be clicked without engaging the scroll functions?

The last 3 (Three!) logitech mice I've used have had over sensitive scroll wheels rendering their click function unusable without significant frustration.

What's this called and where can I buy a longer one?

>>29224

That's an IEC C5 Cloverleaf plug. However, I am having difficulty finding a male to male one like that anywhere. You may find it easier to just get a length of standard mains flex, some chocolate blocks and electrical tape to splice it yourself.

>>29224
fuck knows, it looks like a basic power cord with strippable connectors.
Say anything on it?

>>29225
I've spliced one together from bits and pieces but don't know how much I trust my splicing skills.

>>29227

That's why I suggested chocolate blocks and tape. Hard to muck it up when you are just tightening a screw, and covering that with electrical tape will keep it reasonably safe.

>>29228

I'll go to the hardware store when it's open, cheers.