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Helly

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  1. I agree with this. If you want to see info you want to see what core is doing what. The only clear way to do that is to show a list. Before you try to create any of this though, think hard and long about where to get the info from. AFAIK HWInfo is NOT an option anymore, to get the info from that requires the memory sharing option thingy that has been locked behind a paywall. You don't want to create something that users will have to buy a separate program for to actually use. You can look into Rainmeter as mentioned before. That has all the capabilities you seem to want, you would just need to find a source for the info you want to display. Or decide to build something yourself. Good luck!
  2. I've recently been struggling with my TV and the use of eARC from native TV apps. My Sony a95L won't do HD audio from within native apps. Hours of searching the internet and lots of reading later it is 1 giant confusing mess. What is clear is that pretty much no tv out there does it from within native apps, but the reason is completely unclear. Some say its the manufacturers blocking it and other say its a hardware limitation. So a TQ on this to clear is all up would be real nice. Since you guys can probably get information from the manufacturers themselves. I would really like to learn why this is a thing, you'd think that after so many years the hardware limitation wouldn't exist anymore... so are they blocking it and why? Right now i see no reason for eARC to even exist, since i can't make use of it at all...
  3. The problem with a replacement battery is that they are at best only a few years younger then the laptop itself. It's so old that any battery you find is likely to have the same problem. As mentioned earlier, it is likely possible to just power it on with external power connected. If not, try removing the battery and connecting the external power. Might work. Worst case, if you can't power it on, open it up and remove the HDD and wreck it manually with a hammer or something else, just go postal on it and the data will be unrecoverable. It's not like the laptop will be sold to anyone for actual use.
  4. Could try to root the TV get something like an FTP server running on it so you can log in on it and copy the files that way. They would still be encoded with a codec your PC doesn't understand but that's a problem for later. I did this exact thing with TV recordings on my old samsung tv. How to do this with your TV i have no idea, good luck.
  5. The biggest problem causing the long development time has, is and always will be the public version everyone can play. They have to make it playable which is basically “finishing” that version. Every single alpha version they create. i have said this almost every time this bullshit comes up. No game production in history has ever been like this game. Have my thoughts on the game changed? Absolutely, i no longer follow the development at all. I dont really care about star citizen at all anymore. The only game i care about is squadron 42. Which they never really say anything about. Thats what annoys me more then anything else right now. This game has not, is not and never will be a scam. No one will ever convince me of that. Unless they come out themselves and straight up admit it.
  6. Stunts was awesome, definitely up there for me. I also spend a lot of time on Ironman (Offroad Racing) as a kid. Could never finish the damn game though, was a bug in 1 of the tracks that made it randomly not count a lap and put me in last place... since i had to win the race in order to continue and eventually forgot to check if it counted the lap i always eventually failed there :(. Still fun though, i kept trying. I also loved playing the original Death Rally. Was to short but still awesome. Spend stupid amounts of time on Need for Speed 3. Endlessly dodging the cops on the same track just never got old. Also had 4.1 audio in those days so hearing the cops disappear behind me was what it was all about. I just wish Gran Turismo would be released on PC
  7. It would help if you posted the html of the table itself. Perhaps theres a better way of creating it? Or getting whatever you want from it.
  8. So if they only charge for the first install... how do they know it's the first? What counts as a first install? If i install it on windows then switch to linux and install it there, is that 2 installs or 1? My guess is that will be 2 installs. So if people play the game on their pc and steamdeck, its paying twice. Doesn't matter what they do, people will find a way to fuck over developers and bankrupt them. Just keep creating VM's and installing the game. A little more trouble but can be completely automated. I don't see this ending well for Unity...
  9. Well you read it wrong. It's not a lie. Case closed i guess. That is literally what it says on their site.
  10. Actually the encoding is doing a whole hell of a lot. h265 is a lossy codec, so things are lost. I'm no expert so don't ask me what is lost. It also depends on the settings and what you are recording. h265 uses a very low bitrate for instance when encoding fast moving video. Because whatever is in the video at that point, you won't be able to see much of it anyway, so why use a high bitrate. Just an example. If you use the same codec and make the file 2x or more smaller you are losing quality. Doesn't matter what settings you change. You may not notice the quality drop but it is there. Otherwise the file can't be 2x smaller. In fact when you re-encode lossy video, no matter what you do you always lose quality. Even when you encode with the exact same settings. Because it has less data to work with then the original source. You might not notice it, but there is still a loss in quality. If you feel like testing this, re-encode the same video dozens of times and you will start to notice this.
  11. With the amount of force needed to break that i'd worry more about the rest of the card. You don't need the lock.
  12. Running a business off a wordpress site with plugins is risky. You have to update wordpress itself to plug security holes. If your plugins are no longer in development and abandoned you are f*cked if they no longer work with the updated wordpress. I have seen this happen. They had to hire a company to update the plugin for them multiple times a year to have it work again. That will cost you more then having a custom site build and maintained for you over the long run. The certainty that your site is up and fully working and secure all the time without having to worry about it is also worth a lot to companies.
  13. Been saving tv-shows and movies for over 10 years now. Tried most media center programs when i started, none did what i wanted and they never found the correct data for some of the shows. I gave up and build my own media center program. More of a hub really, it opens the files with media player classic. There's an old topic for it one the forum somewhere. This will only change when i get a new TV. My current one does not have dolby vision. PC's currently cannot output dolby vision. So as soon as i get a new TV i will have to use something else. My plan is to go to plex at that point. Although i have read posts saying dolby vision output on pc is close. So i might stick with my own program if its possible by then. My library atm is around 40TB. It keeps growing of course. i have a total of over 100TB of space atm.
  14. I'll add a few cents here, Using a tutorial is advised when starting with programming. It's not a bad thing, even professionals who have worked years and years use them to get up to speed about something new they are learning. I do it all the time as well. I also google stuff for work all the time. Because whatever you're planning to make (especially when you're just starting out) someone out there has done it before and posted it online. Make use of that. Copy/pasting someone else's work is not necessarily a bad thing. Just understand the code you're pasting and change it to your needs. You say you learned bootstrap however in none of your projects there is any correct use of bootstrap. If you want to make use of bootstrap in the correct way you start with the grid and go from there. If you don't use the grid you're not really using bootstrap. <div class="container text-center"> <div class="row"> <div class="col"> Column </div> <div class="col"> Column </div> <div class="col"> Column </div> </div> </div> Every site you know that uses bootstrap uses this in some way. It immediately makes your site look better and responsive. Bootstrap is also loaded with classes to make it easier and faster to build your site. These you won't learn overnight, it will take time, took me years to learn most of it, and i still have to look up things every now and then. Which is fine, it's why they made the documentation in the first place. The projects you posted also don't really look that bad. All they need is the correct classes for some of the components to make them better. For instance the buttons, add the classes "btn" and "btn-primary" and they will look a lot better. So my top tip for you if you want to continue with programming is this: If you're going to use a framework or toolkit like bootstrap, read the documentation on how to use it. It's there for a reason, you won't learn it if you don't read it. Or if you want it more straight to the point, RTFM. Sometimes it really is the answer to your questions. Also, if you really want to build websites, make the developer console your best friend. You're going to need it. Not just for your own sites, you can use it to check others to see how they do things.
  15. Not really an expert on WiFi but i do know that hidding the SSID does absolutely nothing to stop the people you're afraid of from finding your network. In fact, from what i understand, it will make your phone scream for your network everywhere you go to see if it can find it. So instead of your router broadcasting it, it will actually make all your devices broadcast it. Sure might be more difficult for people to find but whoever you're afraid of will be able to. I wish you all the luck and strength to overcome your fear of cookies, you seem to need it.
  16. I've had bitwarden running the way they explain it on the website, on my windows webserver within unraid because ports 80 and 443 are forwarded to that. But that uses Docker Compose and it made the VM slow AF. I don't know if it was the hardware (ran on my older Xeon E5 2620) or something else. It made the webserver a massive pain in the ass to work with. So i decided to try running it in a docker and put it on an alternate port. I don't use any special features of bitwarden, i just need to be able to store my passwords and be able to use them on any device. Vaultwarden is fine for that, plus its also a lot lighter on the hardware then bitwarden itself. It was also another massive pain in the ass to get a new SSL certificate every few months when it ran on the VM. I had to turn off IIS in order to give the ports to bitwarden so it could get the certificates. Now i just generate them on the webserver and put them in the folder where vaultwarden reads them. All i need to do is restart the docker which takes literally 5 seconds instead of the minutes it took to restart bitwarden. So for me personally vaultwarden is better in every single way possible over bitwarden itself. As for unraid, there have been ups and downs but overall i'm sticking with it as it just works for me and don't have any real problems with it anymore.
  17. The point is to make the drives show up so that you can select them in File Scavenger so it can read the files and you can copy them to another drive and recover your data. RAID-0 writes a piece of the data to each drive at the same time, giving you the speed benefit you want. But you need all drives in order to read the data, which is why if 1 drive fails your data is gone. So as i said before, in order for File Scavenger to recover your data it needs all the drives and you have to select the correct order of your array so that it can read your files in the correct order and recover your data. If you select the wrong order it will still find your files, however because the array is in the wrong order so will your files. So your files will be corrupted and unreadable. AHCI will make your drives show up as separate drives and hopefully you can select them in File Scavenger and do this. Don't do anything with the drives after booting up, just launch File Scavenger and see if you can select the drives. If you can't, you will have to decide the risk you are willing to take at this point. Initializing the drives MIGHT work, however you are selecting a partition style which has to be written somewhere.
  18. imaging the disks is pointless. Individually they contain no readable data. File Scavenger also won't rebuild the data. It is a data recovery program which normally tries to read data that has been deleted. You also can't write anything what so ever to the disks. Anything you write to them will overwrite the data you want to recover. So if you want your data back you will have to use 1 or more drives which can contain everything you want to recover. switching to AHCI might work so you can try that.
  19. well it might be a little safer, but in the end it doesn't matter. Are you sure the drive doesn't show up in disk management though? If filescavenger also cannot find the drives then you will have to break the array. You should see the serial numbers from the photo you took earlier in filescavenger. Put them in the right order and it should work. It is very strange though that the drives don't show up. My array came up as failed and showed all the drives. Make sure you never initialize/partition/format any of the drives. The more you do the worse your chances become. Also, after breaking the array, don't recreate it, it will wipe the data from all drives making recovery more difficult
  20. thread carefully here, my first advice is to NOT use RAID reconstructor. I have tried to use it to recover a RAID-0 in the past and it actually destroyed my data and made the array completely unrecoverable. I have posted what i used to recover all my data in a post here a few years ago, ill try to find it. There's a better program that i actually used to recover all my data without losing a single file. However at the time all my discs were fine, yours does show a SMART error, so your situation might be different. Ill edit this post when i've found my post from a few years ago Edit: So i found the post. RAID reconstructor didn't give me any useful data. I used filescavenger to recover all my data. Not sure anymore what you have to do to make it work but the program needs to have the drives in the right order. So it's probably best to just connect them to a different PC and run filescavenger. Then just try different orders for the drives and try to recover a small file and see if it's readable. An image or text file would probably be easiest. When its readable you have the correct order. Good luck
  21. Felt like posting an update. Because a whole lot has changed in my setup. Hardware CASE: Cooler Master HAF Stacker 935. PSU: Corsair HX1200 MB: Asus ROG Zenith Extreme Alpha CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950x HS: Noctua NH-U14S TR4-SP3 RAM: 128GB Kingston Fury Beast 3200Mhz RAID CARD 1: Areca 1883ix16 Boot Drive: USB 32Gb Drive Raid Array 1: 8x 6TB WD Red Raid Array 2: 6x 8TB WD Red Raid Array 3: 12x 6TB WD Red (mostly SMR unfortunately) UnRAID array drives: 2x Kingston KC2500 1TB UnRAID pool drives: 1x Samsung 950pro 512GB PCPartpicker link (haven't edited the system yet maybe later) Software and Configuration: Running UnRAID with several dockers and VM's. A webserver (windows server 2022), ubuntu for a pi-hole (yes can do this is docker, don't feel like it) and a windows server 2019 for work. Dockers include NZBget, Redis and Vaultwarden as well as a few game servers. Array's 1 and 2 are connected to the Areca card, both running in RAID-6. Array 3 is a Promise 1830i SAN connected through iSCSI with 3 1Gbit connections. Also in RAID-6. It has trouble reaching high speeds though and took almost 2 weeks to initialize the array . Tiny configuration error though, it should be able to do it faster. Usage: Storing my media files (movies and tv shows). currently almost 24TB in size. Files are usually copied over from my main PC over a 10Gbit connection to the server, which is a separate network between a few of my PC's. Connected through a 8 port 10Gbit switch Backup: LOL? Maybe on a few old drives but in no way ever up-to-date.
  22. Found this pretty funny actually. I used to play around with it, wasn't very good at it. Think its also pretty funny that in 2 days there's already 144 forks. Never really got into c/c++ or i would have taken a look at it myself. Gonna keep an eye on this to see where it goes.
  23. I have my servers (with HW RAID) set to do a volume check every month where it checks all the data. It takes anywhere from 10 to 20 hours. It has shown an error only a few times, which was always corrected. Been years since the last one. I scheduled them just for peace of mind really, the whole bitrot thing always felt like a myth to me to be honest. Good to know the volume check helps to prevent it though, more peace of mind hehe. i did have to set up the checks myself, so you better check it i guess
  24. I feel your pain man, every single time i have to take out my gpu im shouting at those f*ckin things. The greatest thing to ever happen to me is the lock clip coming out of the pc. Love it when that happens. I throw em in a bin and never worry about it again. IMO the person who thought of those things should be hanged. My hatred for em is that big. Even though i've never ruined a board trying to press em down i hate em with every fiber of my being. All i can say is, if you feel lucky, use a bit more force trying to pull it out hoping to take the lock out with it. Or keep trying with some tool to press it down. good luck with it anyway
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