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12 minutes ago, Intergalacticbits said:

If your on page two and you want to quote someone from page one by editing your post.

How do you do that with a normal quote without using the at tag?

I've been trying but I'm not able to do it.

When I try it just starts a new reply.

 

Start by doing just that (hitting normal quote which then opens the editor for a new post) and then simply cut that quote box and paste it into the post you're editing.

Either I'm missing something big here or this has been blown totally out of proportion.  If an attacker is able to run commands on your PC like this to make your PC download something they want you do have, you're already infected/compromised, so that feels like a catch 22.  Moreover, the ability to download a file with the command line doesn't seem unusual to me... have they not heard of wget?

1 minute ago, VoidX said:

That's not possible with the way modern PCs are built, you can't interpolate from frame buffers. You can shade it, but this is not possible completely in shader. Starting at about $250, you could get a fast enough FPGA to do the task, if you find code for it. I've only known one project, which is someone's thesis at my university.

Hmm ok yeah that's what I was thinking that if such a thing exists, it would have to be a stand-alone unit.  That is what I am ideally after anyway as there is some benefit to that - can use it on any display anywhere without needing a powerful PC, and should be simple as plug and play.  Based on other replies and this, it sounds like sadly it's not really a thing though commercially.

2 minutes ago, VoidX said:

Everything is doable on PC. Windows supports complete calibration profiles, SVP can interpolate frames in movies, with way better quality than any TV, and other features, like HDR to SDR are available in shaders or complete filters like madVR.

In theory yes, I'm very much of that mentality myself as well, although I've yet to find software that will do what I'm looking for.  I know it's possible for videos, either live or as a "re-render and save" sort of thing, but what about general purpose that would act on anything and everything on screen, including (for example) games?

1 hour ago, W.D. Stevens said:

As a tangential topic to this, is there any point in having the 'p' in the resolutions that refer to the vertical? Unless you're working in news/entertainment broadcast TV, you're never going to be using an interlaced signal and surely all consumer displays are progressive scan these days so the 'p', while accurate, is arguably irrelevant I'd say.

Very true, but something like "1080p" is instantly recognizable as a resolution since (at least as far as what's coming to mind at the moment) nothing else is really stated that way.  The number "1080" alone on its own like that however is far less clear.  Plus, it's not really so much effort to add it.

31 minutes ago, Anka said:

I ended up buying the Scarlett 8i6. I have just set it up and it works very well.

The audio quality is also a lot better now when I can avoid routing it through my monitors HDMI-port.

Nice, glad to hear it

The rule of thumb I often hear quoted is that emulation requires the underlying hardware to be 10 to 100x more powerful than the system it's emulating.  Of course this is a broad generalization but it is true that there is quite a significant loss of efficiency.  Couple that with the fact that the Raspberry Pi CPU is, although a quad core, probably somewhat similar in raw performance to what a lot of machines would have actually ran on back in XP's hay day, and I don't think it would be capable of providing a good experience even if such an emulator did exist.

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

i wouldnt like the idea of a whole page refresh without me prompting

might be in the middle of typing a reply

I guess I should clarify, I don't mean an old-school sledgehammer full page reload like hitting the browser button, I mean like how it dynamically adds new replies with you click "show reply", just instead of showing new ones, it would update the existing ones (but as I said, with the added convenience of it just happening rather than prompting you with a link at all).

Now if they'd just make this the normal price for everyone AMD would be back in some seriously hot water

Better yet, if it could just automatically refresh without even having to mention or ask, but I suspect that can't be done.  Well, with that said I suspect this can't be done anyway but I hope it can, it would make a lot of sense.  As for the notifications, if possible it would be good not to get them as I agree that would be excessive.  Just a note for when you're actively viewing the page.

I assume they will be eventually rolling this out to all versions, including web/desktop.  If so, that will potentially be a big deal.  I feel like it's no secret that there is a distinct lack of good video chat/conference apps.  The issues with Zoom, though a bit old news at this point, are well documented, and Skype is far from having a great reputation either.  Some of the "dedicated" apps like Google Duo and Facetime are better if you have the option (at least, as far as I can tell from reading reviews - I've never tried either myself), but obviously a communication app that can't easily be used by anyone regardless of device is about as intelligent and useful of a concept as a solar powered flashlight with no battery.  With that all in mind, imo Telegram is poised to become *the* video chat program, if they can do a good job of this.  They've done a good job with most other things so far so I'm hopeful.

41 minutes ago, Likwid said:

Can't you use TV control board to power monitor? As much as I know monitor connectors are standart, there are afew types but other than that shouldn't be a problem

In theory, that might be possible.  I'm hoping for a more consumer friendly option though that can be easily plugged into and removed from any display without having the DIY together a controller board and one particular panel.

Just now, JoostinOnline said:

A GPU. Frame interpolation is done through software, as is color correction and upscaling. As I understand it, it's proprietary software owned by the manufacturers, so you can't get the exact results.

 

Frame interpolation has become somewhat popular (if controversial) for anime in recent years with DAIN. The other things can be done through your GPU control panel.

I had considered a software solution, and I may end up resorting to that in the end, but I was hoping for something more stand-alone since from what I've seen, these kinds of things can be tricky to setup.  I know there have been projects around for running it on video for a while but I'm not sure I've ever seen a general purpose one that works on anything on screen (games, etc.)

They can also be 5900 RPM.  Traditionally this was never a speed that you'd see but over the last many years it has become common

PC monitors are very simple displays, they just show what you feed in with basically no processing and as little delay as possible.  TVs are different.  They have much more of a "brain" and do all sorts of colour adjustment and other processing, including (for better or worse) frame interpolation.  Sometimes on a TV you want to turn this stuff off, and although the input lag never seems to go down to quite as low as it would without having that stuff, at least it helps and you do have the option.  The reverse isn't true though.  If you want that processing on a regular desktop display, oh well.

To that end, does anyone know of a device that is basically just the "guts" of a TV that will add this processing to any display?  Specifically, frame interpolation is the main feature I'm looking for, everything else would just be a bonus.  I know there are upscalers out there for increasing resolution but that isn't what I'm looking for.  I would imagine such a device would simply have an HDMI in, HDMI out, and power supply.  Maybe even USB or an IR receiver or just buttons or some other kind of input device for configuration, but that's theoretically optional.

57 minutes ago, dangerproned said:

Is there a way to restore the image to my 8tb drive without having to wipe the data I have on it already?

You should be able to mount the image and retrieve individual files from it.  How exactly that process looks depends again on how much data and free space we're dealing with.

Part of me feels bad for linking this same status update for the third time in a short space of time, but I feel genuinely that it is relevant once again.

https://linustechtips.com/main/profile/265114-ryan_vickers/?status=257368&type=status

4 minutes ago, Skipple said:

I genuinely think the developers would be interested in knowing how you did that. If it can be replicated that could lead to some serious problems for those folks who "compete" for the highest scores.

I've seen this kind of thing at least once before.  I think it comes down to a timing bug/glitch where it thinks you completed the task in much less time than was actually taken, but I could be wrong.

While as far as I know, instances of this bug are always incredibly obvious such as this, I agree that it raises the question of whether it could happen to a more subtle degree and possibly cast doubt over scores.  I remember there being a bug with AMD systems a few years ago that consistently resulted in a minor measurement error of this nature, but tha twas hardware related and not a cinebench issue specifically iirc.

If the data is important to you, your best chance is to contact a professional.  Following any of this advice could result in failure and no one here is going to take responsibility if that happens.

With that out of the way, you've basically got two options: just copy and paste all the files normally, or take a full disk image.  I don't know how full the 8 TB drive is in this case, or the 3 TB drive either for that matter.  If you have the space to do a complete disk image, that might be the better way to go (emphasis on might).  I've heard that doing that can potentially put much less stress on the drive than doing a file level copy and paste since it will just read the entire thing as one contiguous piece rather than jumping all over the place to read all the little pieces.

17 hours ago, squallypo said:

interesting reply thank you so much now to clarify some things:

 

i have disabled hibernation/sleep mode

1-its on a desktop pc.

2-the only time ive "moved" the ssd without disconnecting it is when im cleaing the case since the ssd is not on a enclosure device.

3-as far im aware ivent got any BSOD so far so thats why im wondering why it shows the "unnexpected power loss"

4- i have on the power options the HDD to never turn off (0 minutes)

 

its running under performance mode all the time.

idk about the page file situation that you mentioned.

 

Very interesting, thanks for the details.  You can check your pagefile settings by opening This PC > Properties > Advanced System Settings > Advanced (tab) > Performance (section) > "Settings..." > Advanced (tab) > Virtual Memory (section) > "Change..." (my god I just realized how many levels deep this is buried lol).  Having it on the SSD is optimal for performance but will eventually lead to higher wear levels, particularly if you operate with your RAM nearly full most of the time.

I just had a look at my own drive out of curiosity and it reports 0 as the unexpected power loss count, which I find very interesting because I know for a fact that I've had many crashes and improper reboots, so if that isn't what triggers it (evidently), now I'm really wondering what does.  I did some looking and it appears to be similar to what I said above, but with some added caveats.  It sounds to me like it only counts an event if it was in the middle of trying to write something when power was lost.  If it's able to handle the situation, either through internal power backup, not actually losing power at all even given a reboot, or simply by not being busy in that moment, it wouldn't record an event.

Given that new insight, I can't imagine why your drive would be reporting 9 events.  If my system with all the crashes it's been through hasn't triggered one, yours, with what sounds like has been a more stable life, definitely shouldn't have.  With that said, simply having that number isn't inherently bad as far as I know.  I would recommend keeping an eye on it, maybe just check it once a month or something.  If it continues going up, then something is likely wrong and deserves further investigation, but if it hold steady, I wouldn't concern myself with it.  While it does seemingly indicate a problem, I can't imagine why or how it happened, and if you aren't experiencing any issues (system instability, data loss, etc.) then there isn't much reason to look into it in my opinion.

1 hour ago, j.son19 said:

Does anyone know if in windows 10 Microsoft killed hibernate or is it hidden somewhere as it is not in the power options

It is usually enabled by default, but not always.  In case it isn't for you, you can run the command I mentioned in the guide (except with "on" instead of "off") to enable it.  I believe you may have to reboot after this for it to take effect.  If this still does not work, open Power Options and "Choose what the power buttons do", then use the admin link to unlock the screen and enable it in the list below.

1 hour ago, Anka said:

Correct.

It would be great if it had an extra pair of inputs as well in case I would like to plug in my phone or some other device. But that would just be a bonus.

Yeah I would generally advise going one "level" above the bare minimum you currently need for the flexibility and growth that offers.

With all that in mind, something like the Scarlett 8i6 should fit the situation nicely.  I have no particular affiliation with Focusrite though and if you or anyone else knows of another unit with similar or better features/quality for less money, by all means go that way.  I'm mentioning them specifically just because I have some personal experience using the hardware and software.

12 minutes ago, Anka said:

The two sources marked PC are connected to the same machine. The image might not explain that well enough. That is why I am using the HDMI audio source as well as the 3.5mm output to get two independent physical volume dials for VoIP and music/games.

 

I almost never use the EQ (and if I would like to, I could probably find a software solution), so an audio interface will probably be better.

 

Does the audio interface present several audio devices in Windows so I can send different audio to different sources or how do they work?

It will show up as one device with many channels.  Each unit is different and some may not offer as much flexibility as others, but the Scarlett 18i20 for example has a companion application that lets you configure all the routing.  All inputs can be independently accessed by your application(s) of choice, and you can send any combination of system audio and input to any combination of outputs.  For example, you could record the mic, have it also pass-through to the headphones so you can hear yourself, and mix the system audio into the headphones as well.  There are much simpler units that would handle that scenario though.  A more complex example (not based on your situation) would be you have 4 mics, studio monitors, and 2 separate headphones.  All mics get recorded separately in software, Mic 1 + 2, plus system audio goes to headphone 1, Mic 4 goes to headphone 2, and just the system audio goes to the speakers.

While it would certainly do the job, I think you could get away with less IO.  If I'm counting right, you need 3 inputs (1 mono mic + 1 stereo for the switch), 2 outputs (stereo to speakers), and a headphone jack (which of course is an output but not in the way that matters for counting since it's separate), correct?  Because it connects to the PC with USB, you don't need additional analog inputs and outputs to create that link.

Sometimes mixing different memory can cause issues, but assuming these work together (which they probably will), they will run at the same speed.  By default, this will be the speed of the current (slower) stick, but depending on how well it handles being overclocked, you could bump that up.  I doubt you'll be able to get them both to run at the speed of the faster one though.  If you can't, you'll have to decide if you are ok taking the speed hit and not using the new one to its full potential, or whether it's worth replacing the slower one as well so you can have faster memory.

It sounds like what you need is an interface, not a mixer.  The wrench in the works with that option though is the second PC, if I'm understanding your setup right.  If that could be worked in though, it would simplify the setup and solve the DAC issue all at once.

Yes.  If/when it asks for a key, just use the Win 7 key you already have.  It should accept it and perform the free upgrade seamlessly in the background.