The i5-2300 is about 50% faster than the Q8300. Both are comically outclassed by anything reasonably modern. Architectural improvements mean that newer chips can do more operations per clock cycle, in addition to the obvious factors of faster clock rates and more threads.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/9vs788vs4811/Intel-Core2-Quad-Q8300-vs-Intel-i5-2300-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-5600

>>28412
For fuck sake, every time I think I'm getting a handle on this PC lark ..
Thanks for the link, atleast it's another tool to tackle my bewilderment.

>>28411
>Are these CPUs more or less comparable or does that +33% cache and +.6 GHz make a significant difference?
You can't necessarily, directly compare these things because the "architecture" can be so different between different manufacturers and generations. I don't mean to make things more complicated, I just thought I'd let you know so you don't buy a ten year old AMD processor because it's pumping out loads of GHz (the other massive nerds just chuckled at that idea).

Apologies if this is beginner stuff and I've patronised you.

>>28414
Mate it's all welcome. I was going to ask exactly how you can tell why one is better than another but thought it'd be too stupid a question.

>>28415

Modern processors are so immensely complicated that there are no real rules of thumb as to their performance. A single processor "core" is really dozens of specialised processors that are particularly good at certain kinds of tasks, all glued together in a way that looks seamless to the operating system. Because of this design philosophy, processors can get faster with each generation even if all of the headline specifications stay the same.

CPUBenchmark.net assigns an overall score based on the average performance across a suite of practical tests. While it isn't perfect, they've used the same testing methodology since 1998, which allows us to compare old and new processors on a level playing field. Other sites have more specific testing for games or creative applications, which can be more relevant to a particular person's needs. Just to complicate things further, userbenchmark.com tends to turn up in the top of Google search results, but it's run by a weird bloke who is either being paid off by Intel or is just a massive fanboy; they use bogus testing methods that are massively biased in favour of Intel.

>>28412

Not to mention that older gens of Intel chips have a massive unpatchable security flaw, which is just asking for a Russian hacker to exploit and steal all your furry porn / pictures of fat lasses in lingerie.

I'm getting "no signal" from my pc monitor. Tried two monitors on the same device, nothing. Tried one of them on another device, worked fine. Is my graphics card dead? Can I just buy a similar one and plug it in?

>>28429

Does the motherboard have a video output at all? Take the graphics card out and try that first to check if it's really the graphics card.

Sounds more than likely it will be, but with troubleshooting you always want to make sure you've actually identified the fault before you go fucking around doing things (and spending money) to try and sort it. Always winds me up when I see youtubers or rudgwick users just charging in to a course of action on little more than a hunch, and causing themselves/the person they're trying to help more unnecessary hassle.

>>28429

I assume that the fans etc are spinning up. If they aren't, check the mains cable and fuse.

Most GPUs have multiple outputs, so you could try a different output to rule out a faulty connector.

You can just buy a replacement GPU, slot it in and install the drivers. Before you do that, disconnect and reconnect your GPU from the motherboard and power supply, as they can become unseated over time.

If you don't play games, just get something cheap off eBay. A GT710 should do the job for about a tenner. If you do need games, I'll need a bit more info to make a recommendation - the kinds of games you play, your current CPU and the resolution of your monitor.

>>28430
There 2 hdmi slots, a d-sub slot and two DVI slots. I have no d-sub cable but one of my HDMI cables has DVI at one end. I can't get any combination of cable or slot to register on the monitors. Last time I had it working, it was HDMI but it only worked if the DVI cable was plugged in, although not to anything at the other end.

I'll try the other things you two suggested in the morning, there's no light in here.

What do you call a retail router that's bought seperately from your ISP? Non-comercial? Private?

What goes into setting up one of these 'private' routers, do you simply plug and play or is there more to it?

I've heard Netgear offer good security - any specific recommendations or other manufacturers?

>>28433
You just call it a router. You usually need to be able to put your internet connection into "modem mode" to support one, but that is easy and supported by all the ISPs. Turn off the local wifi, put it into modem mode, and then use a proper router. It's a little bit more than plug-and-play, but worth it.

Netgear, Ubiquiti and Draytek are good brands to start with, but there are many others.

>>28434
>but that is easy and supported by all the ISPs
Except Virgin, who for some reason ship routers that can't be put into "modem mode" on their business grade service, which a lot of landlords in shared houses use. Those routers also have a nasty habit of factory-defaulting themselves if the price of fish moves too far in the wrong direction.

I've been noticing some odd behaviour on my computer recently. Console activity that infrequently flashes up blank, unusual window dimensions, even an unsolicited program install¹.

Going through my modem activity log, I've found a number of firewall related entries showing DoS port scanning, loopback, spoofing and SYN flooding attempts.
General, low effort replies to search engine query suggest such logs show that a systems firewall is working as intended and 'don't worry, there are numerous such attempts ongoing throughout the net' .. but to me it suggests those logged are merely the attacks that didn't get through.

What can I do to further monitor the activity on my system? I imagine task manager is woefully for such purposes. My ignorance of computer systems mostly renders what I read a fantasy anyway - maybe that logged IPv6 neighbour call is innocent and I'm just imagining it could have been used to scout my network.

So uh .. advice?

¹Ccleaner updated itself without admin permission, despite auto-update being turned off.

>>28437
You could run an antivirus scan, and you can log into your router and change its password. Then everything will disconnect and you will need to reconnect it, and the baddies won't be able to do anything if indeed there are any.

I've been given a laptop for working from home. Would a docking station be the best solution if I want to make it as easy as possible when switching my monitors and everything between the laptop and my base unit?

>>28439
They're ok, and I have them, but mostly just use a combination of barrier for keyboard/mouse sharing between machines, and remote desktops. Over gbit ether, it's all fast enough for me and less faff.
Also, the drivers for some of those combo beasties sometimes just shit the bed for no obvious reason.

>>28440
>Also, the drivers for some of those combo beasties sometimes just shit the bed for no obvious reason.

Agreed - I have had mixed results with them.

>>28439

I've got one of those because my budget notebook only came with one USB-A port, a micro USB port and no ethernet. The only other ports it has are HDMI and audio in/out as well as a microSD reader.

Those docking stations make sense if your laptop has limited or low quality connectivity. Some of them also have an integrated higher quality sound card, which is useful if you do a lot of voice/audio recording, because that tends to be piss poor on most modern laptops, even if you plug in a good quality external microphone. I've seen ones with built in HDMI, but what's stopping you from just plugging your HDMI cable from your desktop into your laptop.

>>28438
The virus scan shows nothing untoward but I'm not convinced. I guess for now I'll just have to restrict my own access to online payments and personal emails.

Google don't reply to their help email line, how do I get past this?

>>28452
Did you try again with another account?

>>28453
I don't want to verify another account I want to verify that one.

I bought some of this shit but it leaves a wet residue on surfaces, dampening the dust without actually blowing it away. The moisture dispates rapidly but most of the dust remains.
Is this normal or should I spend a bit extra for a functional air duster?

>>28460

"Air duster" cans are full of butane or propane rather than air. Boyle's Law means that it comes out of the can freezing cold and tends to immediately condense. There's not really anything you can do about it and all brands are basically equivalent.

You can get little electric blowers for about £40 that do a decent job, but generally I find myself reaching for an antistatic brush.

Finally I have installed my old HDD for extra, non-SSD storgage. Mostly music and image files, the thing is the disc has to spin up on loading with a noticable lag that I don't remember experiencing when it was my main HDD.
Is this just the difference between disk and solid state drives or is there anything I can do to help the HDD 'remember' where its contents are?

>>28495

It's a power saving setting - the disc automatically stops spinning after a few minutes of being idle. You can increase this time, or disable the timeout altogether.

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/prevent-hard-drive-going-sleep-windows

>>28495

Ever since I got a new case with better airflow, and upgraded to a practically silent AIO and fans, I've been constantly annoyed by the noise of my storage HDD. I never noticed it before, now it's by far the noisiest thing in a PC that you would struggle to hear at all otherwise. The reason you didn't notice this before when it was in use as a system disk is that the drive was constantly active.

Personally I have the opposite problem, though- Since it's only a storage drive, I want it active as little as possible. I have set the sleep timer as low as it will go so that the disk effectively turns off as soon as I'm not using it any more. Turned all the indexing and scheduled defrag and what have you off. The trouble is Windows still decides it needs to randomly spin the cunt up every 10-20 minutes for fuck knows what reason.

Going to just get a cheap SATA SSD instead I reckon, the prices are getting low enough it's no longer a huge leap.

Why does my PCs audio crackle and skip whenther it'd doing something? I previously thought it was CPU or RAM constaints but It's happening now while downloading a large file, with only 25% CPU and RAM usage. Task manager shows nothing is straining, yet now the download is complete my PC can suddenly manage to play music again. It doesn't even happen consistantly with every download or resource strain.

>>28503
How are you playing the music? It could be your network connection. Honestly, though, I bet this is one of those mysteries you never figure out and eventually fix by replacing your mouse or something mental like that.

>>28503

It's probably a driver issue, so I'd suggest uninstalling and reinstalling the driver.

Normal sound cards use a buffer of audio data. They store a fraction of a second of audio before playing it back, which gives the operating system a lot of leeway when it comes to multitasking - it doesn't have to be absolutely consistent in generating new audio as long as that buffer never runs out.

Crackles can be caused by all sorts of things - most commonly electrical interference - but if the audio is dropping out completely then there's probably a driver issue, because the playback buffer should hide the effects of any system stutters.

What's the best way to set up a home CCTV system? I need coverage of three directions although there's one single vantage point which can cover all three. I'd like to do it without having battery changes or uploading anything to the cloud.

>>28506
With cameras, I reckon.

>>28506
Don't take this personally, but I hate people like you.

>>28508

>>28506

>I'd like to do it without having battery changes or uploading anything to the cloud.

In that case, you'll want a wired system with a DVR. You can still access the recordings on your computer or phone, but everything is stored locally with no cloud services required. Expect to pay £250 to £300 for a basic package with four 1080p cameras and a hard drive recorder. £500 ish will get you something more sophisticated with 4K recording and night vision. They aren't rocket science to install if you're a reasonably competent DIYer and (as always) there are loads of tutorials on YouTube.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/yale-sv-4c-4abfx-2-1tb-4-channel-1080p-full-hd-cctv-dvr-kit-4-outdoor-cameras/359kr

>>28510

Cheers.

I've had a subscription to Nord VPN which I've just lazily been allowing to roll over for about the last three years. However I'm looking to get rid of all those little subscriptions that add up.

I only really use it for:

a) accessing all the torrent sites so I don't have to pay for aforementioned Prime, Netflix, etc

b) coming here on my phone because it's blocked on my mobile network

c) double bagging when I go on Tor to do anything dodgy

Am I wasting my money or is it worth keeping on? Is there a decent free alternative?

>>/101/34601
If you'll let me bore you with such a trivial request, once again, why the fuck is this happening?! My routine is fucking itself with this one channel listening, it's driving me insane.
Replugging the jack usually fixes the problem for up to 90 seconds, after which the audio shifts heavily into the right speaker. Left is still working, only the ballance is way off.
Gently twisting and arranging the wire a little seems to help, but it only extends the 'working period' before it fails again.

I'm wondering if a small section of the internal wire is broken (twisting, did you say?) but that doesn't explain why the issue is re-awoken by inserting headphones, neither was it effected when I've pulled the tower out for maintainence multiple times recently.
Even changing which port the thing is plugged into doesn't resolve the problem.

The audio has been working for a record 3 minutes this re-plug, thank god. Hopefully it'll stick.

Update realtek audio driver, check.

Edit - it didn't stick. Now it's crackling. The speakers are fucked. £50 2 years max. Cunts.

>>28516

I assume you're talking about some powered speakers plugged in to your PC. If they're normally designed to mute the speaker output when headphones are plugged in, then the headphone socket is also acting as a switch for the speakers. There's probably some gunk or corrosion in the headphone jack, which is only affecting one channel. Give it a blast with some contact cleaner and jiggle the headphone plug in and out a few times. If you don't have contact cleaner, just jiggling might do the trick.

>>28517
Thanks for the response. I'll give that a try next time it happens - for now it seems to be working okay, god knows what I did but fiddle with it enough times.

This is a bit /uni/, a bit /g/, but /g/ seems more active.

I start a Games Design degree in September. It will mostly be Unreal Engine, Blender, 2D engine programming. My current (aging) PC can handle a lot of that still, and I believe there are rooms in the departmental building with computers that have the required software on.

I don't know if it's worth buying a gaming laptop, so I could in theory work on stuff when out and about instead of being tied to home. But 1) the warranties are shit compared to desktops, and 2) the price to power ratio is significantly better on a desktop. If any of you lads have done any courses with this sort of software before, is it expected you use it in lectures or am I okay just using a desktop at home? For the price of a not totally shit laptop, I could get a mid-high range desktop that'll last me much longer and will be upgradeable.

I have tried to ask uni staff about this but you can't get hold of them directly and the admin/customer service/receptionist staff are shit at responding to my enquiries.

>>28711
Any courses you take you'll always get significantly more from it if you're engaging with the material outside of the classroom too and not just in the minimal allotted access you get from the facilities provided. You could still get the qualification without, so it depends how badly a gaming laptop will set your balance back.

>>28711
>This is a bit /uni/, a bit /g/, but /g/ seems more active.
I think most people use /*/ at this point - recent posts 'board'.

>>28713
I use /sfw/ to avoid surprise fat nudity.

>>28712
It's more a choice between gaming laptop I can use in lectures and in communal areas but I know its reliability will be questionable as will its potency in coming years; or spending the equivalent amount upgrading my desktop so I can do course stuff at home and probably to a higher level than a laptop would provide, also a longer warranty on parts and more future proof.

Ideally I'd go for the desktop but not if it would impede my study.

I found a pre-built PC in my price range. My current set up is in the attached picture.
The PC I'm looking at is:
AMD Ryzen 5 7500F
Windows 11 Home
ASUS® PRIME B650-PLUS
16GB PCS PRO DDR5 4800MHz
8GB ASUS DUAL GEFORCE RTX 4060
1TB SOLIDIGM P41+ GEN 4 M.2
CORSAIR 650W CX SERIES™ CX-650 POWER SUPPLY
PCS FROSTFLOW 100 V3 SERIES HIGH PERFORMANCE CPU COOLER

My plan is that down the line when I've got a bit more money, to upgrade to a 4070, upgrade to 32GB RAM, and I'd probably need to upgrade the power supply. I don't really have the funds to get all that at the outset, and I need this PC soon. My main concern is the SSD looks fairly middling, but I guess it's easy and cheap enough to add another one.

I've looked at probably a dozen PC build sites (can't build myself), and this is fairly typical for the <£1000 inc. VAT price range. Do you reckon it'd be a significant improvement on my current set up? I'm >>28711 btw, so the PC will be used for Unreal Engine, Blender, 2D engine programming. I tend to play AAA games on PS5, but I'd like to be able to run TWW3 on high at least on a potential new system.

The ethernet is not working on my Raspberry Pi 2 Model B, the WiFi works fine.

Moved house and now the wired internet isn't working. Changed ethernet cables and still doesn't work. Have a constant orange LED and a flashing green one on the RPi.

The cable is connected direct to the router which has one orange and one green light. The sky box which is also connected to the router successfully has two green lights. I think it's some sort of issue with the router. DHCP is on.



##############################################
# OpenELEC #
# http://openelec.tv #
##############################################

OpenELEC (official) Version: 8.0.3
OpenELEC:~ # ifconfig -all
ifconfig: -all: error fetching interface infor
mation: Device not found
OpenELEC:~ # ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr B8:27:EB
:E5:AB:03
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metri
c:1
RX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:3 over
runs:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 ove
rruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:687 (687.0 B) TX bytes:168
4 (1.6 KiB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metr
ic:1
RX packets:2989 errors:0 dropped:0 o
verruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2989 errors:0 dropped:0 o
verruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:163200 (159.3 KiB) TX byte
s:163200 (159.3 KiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr F8:1A:67
:0C:5E:09
inet addr:192.168.0.16 Bcast:192.16
8.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:
1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6443 errors:0 dropped:894
overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2777 errors:0 dropped:0 o
verruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2971480 (2.8 MiB) TX bytes
:365500 (356.9 KiB)

OpenELEC:~ # dmesg|grep eth0
[ 6.426110] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: regist
er 'smsc95xx' at usb-3f980000.usb-1.1, smsc95x
x USB 2.0 Ethernet, b8:27:eb:e5:ab:03
[ 6.592358] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardwa
re isn't capable of remote wakeup
[ 8.099645] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: link u
p, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0xC1E1
[ 14.133489] smsc95xx 1-1.1:1.0 eth0: hardwa
re isn't capable of remote wakeup
OpenELEC:~ #

>>28746
Following on from this, if I game at 1080p (with a second 1080p monitor for web/Discord), is a 4070 likely to be overkill compared to a 4060 Ti or even a 4060? I don't know if I can justify spending £400 more to get a graphics card I won't be getting the full potential out of because I don't go 1440p/4K/ultrawide. YouTube benchmarks show TWW3 runs at 1080p Ultra 80FPS avg on a 4060. That seems sufficient surely.

When I connect to servers, the server identifies my IP right? Is it generally risky for people to know your IP?
An internet aquantaince is asking me to help troubleshoot a thing by potentially connecting to their private server and I'm a little skeptical of their intentions. I just don't know them well enough, but also don't really know the risk.

>>28763
The risks are minimal. Even if they knew your IP address, most ports that they could connect to will be closed. I always scoff derisively when AVG Antivirus tells me I need to upgrade to their premium version because my IP address is visible. In theory, there’s always some way to make yourself paranoid, and if that’s the case with you then you can connect via a VPN and then they won’t see your real IP address and you will be 100% safe. But I cannot think of anything that anyone would gain from knowing your IP address that would be of any value.

>>28764
Perhaps this is an example of a little knowledge being a bad thing.
I recall the days of 4chan (that's not a wordfilter, is it?) when all you'd need for a DDOS attack was a link to the LOIC and an IP address.

Thanks.

Windows 10 is increasingly aggressive in prompting me to upgrade to Windows 11. Should I do it, or hold on?

>>28803

The ancient prophecy carved into the stones at Göbekli Tepe remains unbroken. When one version of Windows is good, its successor will be shit.

My internet got fixed today. Now I'm getting >450Mbps downstairs in the room with the router, but in the room directly above it (the room where my PC and consoles are) gets about 90Mbps. I want faster internet in my room. I have a cheap TP-Link extender in my room, which I've had for six years, so I get good signal, it's just not the fastest. There's also a booster pod in the landing but I don't even know if that does anything.

What would I need to buy to boost speeds in my room? I don't want to buy a whole router, or spend mad stacks.

>>28805
stop fucking about with wireless, pull a cable?

>>28805

If you can't - or can't be arsed - pulling cables, then you want a mesh wifi kit.

https://www.expertreviews.com/uk/networks/1406868/best-mesh-wifi-routers

My desktop PC, which I have owned since 2010, just made a loud bang and switched off. It now smells of burning. I have unplugged it and opened it up, and I am confident the power supply has died and hopefully everything else is okay. Plus I still have my laptop, so at least I don't have to read books like a cave-dwelling Neanderthal. But: do the other parts of a computer usually survive a sparky pop like this? Can I just buy any new PSU as long as it has the same or higher number of watts? Should I be worried that I saw a flash when my PC gave its final, terminal bang?

>>28868
I believe the components of my last PC were fine when it's PCU died in a similar fashion. I'd been smelling ozone for weeks until it popped and burned.

>Should I be worried that I saw a flash
It's just arching electricity/fire- no real issue once the power is off.

>>28869
You were right! There are a couple of old PCs at my work that we're going to throw out, and I took a similar PSU from one of them, brought it home, and took my sweet time installing it because my laptop still works so fuck it. But I am now back on the OG PC, enjoying Windows 7's finest features and frantically backing up every single file that I missed. Not all of them are pornographic!

I have Windows set so that there's labels for everything on the taskbar and everything that I start works fine and displays a label, except for Firefox. It just displays a blank label until I open another window or drag the icon around a bit. It's really annoying and I don't want to switch browsers because I love Firefox. Everything else opens up fine, so I don't think it's a Windows issue. Does anyone know a fix for this? I tried googling it but the fixes I found didn't help. I'm on Windows 11.

>>28870
I wonder if this site's users skew towards Win7 more than is usual? I'm a bit surprised there are (at least) two of us.
Ah, win7 holdouts are persistent fuckers! Good.
https://gs.statcounter.com/os-version-market-share/windows/desktop/worldwide

>>28872

Running and end-of-life operating system that no longer receives security patches is really not a good idea.

>>28873

For a time after Windows 7 consumer support ended, you could buy extended support for it from Microsoft, and many corporate clients did. But I think that has run out now as well. Although I think I read somewhere that they still offer Win7 support and critical updates for military applications.

It can be a major expense for big companies to migrate their infrastructure to a new operating system. Many of them have bespoke software running on it that was designed specifically for Windows 7, where they'll have to go through expensive testing and auditing to ensure it'll run as good and behave normally on Windows 10 or 11. Even a small glitch or incompatibility can cost them millions, when production facilities suddenly shut down or important data can't be shared between offices and employees.

Most Windows 7 users now are probably home users who can't be arsed and companies with legacy infrastructure that is too old to migrate to Windows 11 and they'll wait until that infrastructure is modernised entirely.

>>28872
>>28874
If you're a home user, why not just switch to a Linux distro like Linux Mint? You wouldn't have a complete lack of updates and all of the software you could need would be up to date.

>>28875
I have a Fedora laptop on the other side of my room from my Windows 7 desktop, and I can confidently say that I wouldn't want to use it exclusively. The free software movement is all shite (everything is just a niche version of Notepad that can only be used for one thing), and Rhythmbox will only play half the radio stations I ask it to because I need "additional codecs" and nowhere, anywhere, will say what they are. These are such basic things that I dread to think what would happen if I fully relied on it.

>>28874
>legacy infrastructure that is too old to migrate to Windows 11
I think everyone has figured out now that every other Windows is crap, so as soon as Windows 11 came out, people just ignored it and started counting down to Windows 12. That's certainly what I'm doing. It was meant to be announced this year, but Microsoft clearly aren't releasing it until more people sign up for Windows 11. But when I've had this computer for 14 years, I am not willing to gamble with my next one. Even if I get a Windows 11 PC that I can then upgrade, the outrageous hardware requirements of Windows 11 make me fearful that any new computer I buy might not be able to support Windows 12.

>>28877
I've been using windows 11 for a while now and it's alright. Took a bit of getting used to, mostly the way settings are applied. Not that I know anything about it mind, had heard bad things.
Atleast now they've stopped running MS Edge in the background, collecting various datas - or at least it's less obviously running - i don't actually trust the effect of it is gone.
Oh and there's that co-pilot thing that apparently screenshots your active windows every few seconds, but I've yet to actually notice it on my machine.

>>28877
I'm really not comfortable with the privacy of Win10 onwards. It's my PC, not Microsoft's. My files, not theirs. My porn stash, not theirs. My private stuff, not theirs. I don't want it rummaged through, 'checked', uploaded to the cloud, backed up or otherwise sprayed across the fucking internet at large.
I can't do without Windows, I use some specialist software I paid a lot for and can't easily decamp from, although I'm starting, so Win7 (on VMs mostly) is here for a few more years.
As for security updates, over the years OS updates have done me far more damage than miscreants ever have, so sandboxed win7 doesn't trouble me. I probably should get out of the habit of browsing from win7, but I'm sanguine.

My email has been used to sign up to Tiktok and Facebook without my concent after I stupidly entered it into a free-mobile-number generator website. After the Tiktok account discovery I changed my password and saw nothing unusual for many months. Now I've found a recent Facebook account activation and confirmation. I assume this means my email is on a list somewhere and will be periodicly accessed.

I have since deleted everything from the account and intend to close it entirely (if possible), also to create a brand new email alongside new accounts for everything else.

There were a few personal, conversational emails in there plus a number of delivery confirmations and digital contracts. My physical address and name has been compromised - could this potentially result in ID theft?.

What's more, the friend with whom I shared personal emails is also recieving scam emails (Pegasus) and is claiming to have recieved a Facebook friend request from 'Anonymous'. I've so far reassured them that they're generic phishing attempts and not to worry about it, but consider changing passwords and that.

I think they've got to my friend through my initial mistake.

Any helpful advice?

>>28880
>My email has been used to sign up to Tiktok and Facebook without my concent after I stupidly entered it into a free-mobile-number generator website.
How would they get your password from that?
>Now I've found a recent Facebook account activation and confirmation.
Changing your password hasn't helped so they have some other way of accessing your information. At a guess, you have some sort of spyware installed on a device you use to access your email, so changing your account won't help if you access the new account from the same device. If you can remove the spyware and change your password (preferably with 2FA enabled) you should be able to keep using your original account - and hopefully use it to shut down the accounts it was used to set up.

>>28880
>My physical address and name has been compromised - could this potentially result in ID theft?
Potentially, yes, but these fuckers are pretty lazy and it might even just be some automated bot doing all this, so there's no guarantee anything bad will happen. I get the occasional worrying email, so I'm pretty sure my details are compromised too, but bad events are r*re I'm not jinxing it and I h*ven't l*st any money yet.

The email has been schedueled for deletion. I did unfortunately neglect to close the facebook account.

I should probably start using password managers, 2FA and all these modern gizmos, huh.

>>28881
>How would they get your password from that?
I'm assuming they brute forced the password or something - perhaps they have some way to access or simulate Gmail servers?
>At a guess, you have some sort of spyware installed on a device
I'm unconvinced regarding spyware as I rarely venture beyond regular secure sites and don't download unknown files (unless LibraryGenesis counts, I've heard PDFs are potential vectors) and windows 11 regularly runs its own checks. In the possibility that spyware is involved, how would you suggest detecting and removing that? I don't know which anti-virus softwares are legit or worthwhile, plus I don't really want to pay for one. I haven't noticed any unusual activity or changes in my PCs operation. Although saying that once or twice a webpage has loaded incorrectly in a way I've not seen before :S

All that being said, if my computer had spyware then my bank details would surely have been gathered by now? I haven't noticed any missing funds and there's been a reasonable amount available. The only possible reason they'd have missed my bank details is that I remove cards from accounts directly after I've used them. But if we're accounting for spyware we might aswell include key loggers .. right?

>>28882
>Potentially, yes, but..
I'm inclined to think it'll all be fine as this began maybe 6 to 8 months ago and I've seen no real consequence, but I'm intent on tidying up after myself regardless.

>>28883
>I'm assuming they brute forced the password or something - perhaps they have some way to access or simulate Gmail servers?
These are things that are technically possible but vanishingly unlikely and also why would they need your email address from some random site if they could do that?
>how would you suggest detecting and removing that?
Try running Malwarebytes. Have you ever logged into your email on your phone, or used the same password for your email as something else that could have been compromised?
>if my computer had spyware then my bank details would surely have been gathered by now?
I can't do any internet banking without generating numbers from an authenticator as 2FA, do you not have the same? Unless they have access to that then there's not a huge amount they can do.

>>28884
Malwarebytes has returned multiple clear scans, though it has suggested a number of my previously assumed safe sites are less than so.
As for 2FA, I have never used it either for email or banking, relying instead on unique passwords for each of my accounts. I can imagine no way my passwords have been compromised besides brute force, spyware or physical access to my desk.

Considering the little that's happened over a fairly long time, I think I'm mostly safe in deleting and recreating accounts across my services. It's still a mystery how my email has been accessed, with the only known compromise being my address input to a dodgey site.
From here I'll have to get myself a smartphone, start using 2FA and all that modern stuff. I'll keep an eye open for unusual activity while setting that up.

Thanks for taking the time to reply, m8.

>>28885

Do you re-use passwords? The most common means of password theft is through hacking the login database of an insecure site, then trying the email/password combos on loads of other sites.

>>28886
As far as I know my password methodology is reasonably secure, for a standard user.
Clearly without knowing what I'm talking about, I'm wondering if supplying my email to this dodgey site also allowed some bad certificate into my browser that could have been used to access something. I don't know, I'm grasping at poorly comprehended straws.

The only other possibilities I'm aware of are that;
• I'm a high value target (lol)
• a specific someone I met online has taken it upon themselves to access my computer, after over a year of no contact
• someone has been physically entering my home

All seem a stretch and stink of paranoia, so there must be something I'm unaware of.

Anyway, I'm in the process of closing and migrating my accounts. If any significant damage was possible it's likely to have already happened - it looks like all that's needed is a hard reset.

>>28887
It's possible the things you've described are unrelated to each other and you're drawing false conclusions about the cause. You don't seem highly technically savvy (I don't say this as an insult, everyone varies and clearly you have some understanding) so trying to figure out what the issue is when it could have been anything you've done over the past year or more is probably beyond what we can do.

I agree with otherlad though, in the majority of cases when email accounts are compromised they're used for large scale, generally automated mischief. The effort-risk-reward ratio of using bots to create thousands of social media accounts that can be sold for spam or astroturfing is a lot better than combing through the contents of those same email addresses looking for enough personally identifying information to do identity fraud.

I don't know what you mean by suggesting you're a high value target but if Gmail had been breached in the ways you were theorising, you would be an extremely low value target. I don't know how long it would take Gmail to admit they'd been breached but I guarantee there are a lot of juicier accounts to steal on their servers than yours.

>>28888
I've since found this article about 'pre-hacking accounts before they're registered' targetting literally any discovered email address - https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-can-hack-your-online-accounts-before-you-even-register-them/.
It's very interesting and fits my story closer than any other options. It's possible that the account activation message previously mentioned was fake, as it was titled unusually.
I suppose the whole point of me posting here was to develop some reasonable, if abstract, concept about what probably happened to the best of my knowledge.

>You don't seem highly technically savvy (I don't say this as an insult
Not al all, mate. It's a bit of a double edged sword, to be honest. Talking in a semi-passable way to discuss ideas while not actually knowing what I'm talking about. I wouldn't quite call it bullshit merchant as it's all sinscere. I'm keen to point out I don't know what I'm taking about.

>I don't know what you mean by suggesting you're a high value target
It was a joke. I'm absolutely not, haha.

I don't know which one of you needs this,, but probably at least one of you needs this. You're welcome.

https://geekhack.org/index.php?topic=41881.0

This little utility has made the expensive mechanical keyboard I really like but reluctantly had to shelve because of the constant repeat keystrokes usable again. Thoroughly chuffed.

How does Youtube remember that I've watched a video up to a certain time, even though I've disallowed cookies, use UBlock, run CCleaner and don't use a YT account? It was a good 3 weeks ago I watched this particular video I refound by chance, yet the little red 'continue watching' progress bar is there plain as day.

How do I safely sell my gaming rig? Bapcs.co.uk is the only site that looks open to taking the whole thing and they're only offering maybe a quarter of what I paid for it, I'd really hope to get something like twice that. Putting it on an open marketplace like facebook or gumtree seems like a great way to get robbed.

>>28892
You'd make more moolah splitting it into its individual parts and selling them on ebay. You could also try being less paranoid.

>>28891
YouTube probably classes that cookie as an essential cookie that cannot be blocked. If you manually delete all cookies for YouTube, it will forget. If you still see it, check very carefully that it isn’t one of those videos that puts the “you have watched two thirds of this already” bar into the thumbnail, to deceive people into clicking it.

>>28891

Probably browser fingerprinting.

https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/

>>28894
>>28895
Strangely enough it'd reverted to normal moments after making that post.

>>28895
I'd bet a lot of money it isn't.

Google just forced everyone who uses (at this point, has opted into) location history to migrate their data off Google servers and onto their own devices because they're facing an increasingly hostile regulatory environment over both privacy and monopolistic practices.

To think they'd use fingerprinting to overtly show user data to people who've gone out of their way to delete session data (presumably a very small percentage of users), is just "Google constantly listens to your microphone for keywords" level of tinfoil hattery.

What does "disallow cookies" mean? You're aware there are more modern web storage APIs?

Windows 10 is trying to get me to upgrade to 11 with threats of discontinuing updates for 10 next year.

I'm not really arsed about the update, other than that it is forcing me to enable TPM 2.0.

A quick google gives me the usual forum opinions of a perfectly even split between "awful security risk fuck microsoft" to "it's fine don't be a fanny"

As always, I'd rather .gs tell me what to do, so what should I do?

>>28898
My opinion is that it's fine if your computer runs it, don't be a fanny. It's more important to have regular updates, nowadays.

>>28898
I bit the bullet and upgraded from windows 7 a few years ago, numerous years after its decomission. From 7 to 11 was quite a jump but my concerns about privacy were merely autisitic rather than legitimately justified from a general consumers perspective.
You can disable many annoying things but there's that screengrabbing AI thing I believe is compulsary, and MS Edge is difficult to erradicate (it'll regularly run, presumably reccording internet use).

>TPM stands for Trusted Platform Module. It’s a piece of hardware – a tiny little chip either attached to or built into the motherboard of a PC. Despite many people only recently learning about TPM and TPM 2.0, this tech has been around since the early 2000s.
>https://www.technipages.com/what-is-tpm-2-0-and-how-to-enable-it-on-your-windows-pc/
What's your concern about it?

>>28898

I've got the opposite problem. I've got an older Windows 10 desktop computer which I bought in 2021 just days before Microsoft revealed the minimum system requirements for Windows 11. It mainly says that my CPU isn't supported. And of course TPM 2.0 is also missing on the motherboard.

So now I've got a computer in perfect working condition but which will be e-waste soon. I guess there are still ways to bypass the restrictions and install Windows 11 on an unsupported computer, but you will be excluded from future updates other than essential security fixes. Which is no real improvement at all, so I'll grudgingly keep using my computer with Windows 10 as long as is feasible.

>>28900

>What's your concern about it?

Admittedly I'd only just googled "TPM issues" to see if there was any real reason to avoid it, because whenever a corporation insists I must enable something to get a free upgrade I just assume someone will have found a reason why that's A Bad Thing Actually.

All I've really found in terms of major vulnerabilities is a buffer overflow exploit from 2023, which wouldn't really affect me as I've no intention of actually using the encryption facilities that TPM offers.

>>28901

>I guess there are still ways to bypass the restrictions and install Windows 11 on an unsupported computer, but you will be excluded from future updates

There seems to be an easy way to bypass it that's fully supported by MS, by editing the registry options in the installer, but that means you have to do a fresh install. Not the end of the world but I do miss the days when even windows had "let me try to install this anyway" options. I had windows 8 running on a computer that took about 30 seconds to animate the start menu opening, but they let me do it.

>>28901

>I guess there are still ways to bypass the restrictions and install Windows 11 on an unsupported computer, but you will be excluded from future updates other than essential security fixes

Is that supposed to be a downside?

One of the games I play has this so-called anti-cheat system where it runs a seperate program said to scans your drives for erroneous programs, processes or whatever.
Only the other day I found this 'anti-cheat' running after at least 4 weeks, possibly longer, of not running the assosiated game or its launcher.
The game has had a recent, significant, update but I don't see that it should be communicating with my computer without expressed intetion to actually run the game. It's a seperate launcher from Steam, so 'autoupdate' shouldn't really be a thing until I actually run it, right?

This isn't normal, is it?

My phone broke earlier in the year which caused no end of hassle when it came to trying to access accounts and half remembered passwords.

>Confirm this new device by clicking accept on your current device
Fat fucking chance of that when it won't boot. I at least could swap out the SIM card to get a verification text.

Considering how many phones are lost or stolen on any given day, how does one sensibly navigate this without it being a massive arse ache?

>>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.