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I got this dell laptop for 10 dollars at a thrift store and it powers on but i beeps 5 times at me before reaping the beeps. I oped up the laptop to give it a light clean but to notice this model has the storage and ram embedded into he board. I took a gamble with this laptop, im thinking the cmos batters need replacing but im unsure. What would you advise? This is a dell inspiration 11 3000 series from 2010.

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Coworker is building one of the fancier surround sound setups, and mentioned we wished he could find the THX Deepnote in full surround sound. Seemed like a simple enough request, so I did some searching myself, and am only seeing YouTube videos like this one, or .mp3 files, both of which (afaik) only support two audio channels.

Even THX's own website just links to more YouTube videos.

I don't actually know jack about surround sound or audio formats - taking his word and the web articles I've stumbled across all at face value... am I just being stupid about this? Is there somewhere to download the full-quality thing?

My use case: I have an M3 MacBook, but a much more flexible and powerful gaming PC that I'd like to hook up to my MacBook to act as a display receiver with zero/low latency. I make use of the MacOS virtual desktops and would ideally want to be able to fullscreen an app that just sits there and will display the input when I turn on my PC.

Same thing under Linux: I'd like to connect a console to the gaming PC which then displays on MacOS. I don't play any competitive console games, so I'm not necessarily worried about a small amount of latency (<50ms).

Currently, I have both my Linux gaming PC and MacBook connected to the same monitor, but have to switch between the inputs on the monitor itself. I want to be able to be within MacOS/Linux and just flip on a display input and connect my peripherals to the other PC and use it seamlessly, for example, I'd connect my controller and boot into Steam Big-Screen and game. If I need to web search something, I can just use my trackpad to change virtual desktops, do something, then swap back.

Is there something like a lightweight OBS that will ONLY display the input once it's all set up? I want the app window to be literally the Menu Bar with Close/Maximize and nothing else so I can just fullscreen the app and never see anything but the input itself.

This morning I picked up my old smartphone with a notification saying not to remove SD card without ejecting.

Turns out it just died overnight.

I tried putting it into some other devices, and they also don't see anything. It did incorrectly show up as "127MB disk" on 2 different SD card readers when I sprayed it with liquid butane from air duster can, but that's just something like -1°C as far as I can find, so pretty lame.

Anyway, I can't find the backup anywhere, aside from a partial one from 2020. It's not worth spending money on, but perhaps some effort it would.

I seem to have all but 1 apks backed up on a DVD, a few photos from 2020, root/unroot zips and CWM recovery, and modified cacerts.bks with newer root certificates, so what's missing is Monte Gallery apk, and few unknown photos, and perhaps some app data.

Ideas?

Are CAT6 RJ45s supposed to be physically different from their CAT5 counterparts? I've bought some CAT6 RJ45s to match my cables and feel like I'm hallucinating because they don't fit into the Ethernet port. I've looked around in local tech stores, bought online and see all the CAT6 RJ45s are the same everywhere else, but when I use a CAT5 RJ45 it actually fits into the Ethernet port in literally anywhere. Crimping is suddenly exponentially harder with CAT6 RJ45s too for some reason too and after years of practicing crimping I feel like it's a skill issue at this point. I even searched up just to be sure but while answers say they're the same my eyes and fingers are feeling the difference. What's going on? What am I doing wrong? I'm now doubting whether CAT6 RJ45s are even supposed to fit in my Ethernet ports at home.

Update: The answer really was the crimper all along... until I get a CAT6 crimper I guess I'll just crimp harder for now - now everything fits, 1 year and 2000 jacks later, how embarrassing...

Thanks very much, everyone!

Post-update: So the cable worked at 3am... only to crap out at 10am - apparently both my test cables are bad in the same wires (3-6) because as the ISP service guy says, "it could've broken on the inside since the shielding's so soft". They rewired everything and now everything's fine, I guess...

Note the at least 3 literal errors on the pass screen...

Edit: Votes don't matter to me, but if you missed the three obvious errors on screen, you shouldn't be a technician. The problem was failed integrated GPU capacitors.

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Are there options? Since the official Signal app cut support for SMS fallback it lost its one killer onboarding feature and now I have to balance who I'm messaging between Signal and Google messages. It was better when it was all in one app. Since it's open source I want to know if there are any forks available on Android.

I want to switch from my current gmail address so I thought it might be worth it to finally get a custom address for portability reasons

However I have no idea which service to choose Most of all, I really want to find a solution from EU, in particular that doesn’t involve any kind of USA companies

I get asked to check the box to prove I'm human multiple times a day, from opening an article on here, to going to cloudflare.com to see if they had advice on not getting hit with it all the time.

If I have a VPN active and/or I am using a secure browser I always tend to get it. Currently using PIA and Cromite. Is there anything short of just giving up privacy that can be used to verify and maybe hold like a token lease so I can maybe only do it once a day or once per VPN connection?

I'm planning to buy a new phone, and would like advice. I will probably get one of the following:

• Pixel 8a running GrapheneOS
• Pixel 8a running CalyxOS
• Fairphone 5 running CalyxOS

Either one of these phones will effectively be without warranty from the start. I can't file a warranty claim for a Fairphone 5, because they offer no warranty in my country. I can't file a warranty claim on a Pixel 8a, because I can't create a Google account.

Free open source software is important to me, and these are the free-est phone OSs I could find.

I'm planning to install Magisk to root the phone. I need adb root at a minimum. Will this prevent automatic updates?

Why do the GrapheneOS people say that rooting breaks the whole security model of Android? I can't understand this, because only a few specific apps are granted root access, or possibly only adb.

Reasons I need root access:

• I need a comprehensive backup system. Non-root backup systems skip files.
• I want to block connections using the hosts file.
• I want to study the filesystem to learn more about Android.
• I want to mess with apps' internal states.

Hi there, I've got these really odd issue where certain windows will cause random lines like the one in the screenshot appear on my screen. They will often flicker a bit and will dissapear if I hover my mouse over them. The lines will display what is beneath the window itself. These occour quite frequently and are frankly getting quite annoying to deal with.

Is this a known issue with KDE right now? It does not happen while using Gnome on the same machine + screen. If it matters I am running CachyOS.

If there is anythign I can do to fix this then I'd greatly appriciate some pointers!

Hi tech support! Please don't laugh at me for this, I'm old enough to be your mother and awful with tech.

When I search on insta it's started showing only one result at a time instead of a load of them but smaller. I get loads of lemmy memes from insta so it's making it far harder.

I googled and looked in settings and I can't see how to change it. Any ideas?

Whenever I press or hold the shift key the fans stop spinning properly and make a slight grinding sound.
It only happens with the one on the right side of my keyboard. The hashtag key does the same, but the grinding sound is louder. The laptop is a thinkpad e15, and it is (unfortunately) running windows.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.abnormalbeings.space/post/5580780

Just sat down to do my finances and some budget planning, and the settings are suddenly missing the aqBanking item:

Old view from a guide screenshot:

I checked the changelog and did a quick online search, which did not yield a clear result to me why that could be the case. (I did a text search on the changelog for "aq" and "online b", none of which gave me results. Online search results yielded tutorials for configuring aqBanking from how I was used to utilising it.)

aqbanking is installed, as per my package manager (I'm on Garuda Linux, so, Arch based), and everything worked before the update. Nothing that looks right appears in the plugin list of KMyMoney, and there does not seem to be a way to add more plugins from within that menu:

My accounts are still shown as mapped to something - as I get the option to "unmap account", but I cannot, as before the update, use the "update account" function to get a statement from my bank automatically, as before:

It's not critical at this point, but I really enjoyed using KMyMoney and was very well used to the workflow I had established with it - so any help would be appreciated (including, perhaps pointing something obvious out to me I may have missed).

Technically it is the same hardware as the international version.
Thanks in advance!

I'm not sure if this is an actual problem or just me misunderstanding how screens/resolutions work.

My issue is this; whenever I watch movies, series or just YouTube, quite often it's at this really small rectangular resolution with black boxes all around. This will also occur in video players such as MPV and VLC when watching latest season Andor for example. However, it does not happen on all videos - which is why im confused regarding this.

My screen is an Alienware 34 Curved QD-OLED Monitor - AW3423DWF.

Is there a way I can scale the resolution up?

Let me know if I can supply any additional details and thanks for any help!

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31950758

Anyone else in IT, or I guess other fields since windows is so widespread, experience a bug on the Outlook app where a jpeg logo in someone's signature has been altered to a similar photo?

Today I had a client show me an email on his phone, he sent it, it displayed a logo for another real estate company, but not his. This was only visible on the app, not on his PC, and anyone else receiving the email saw the correct photo.

Solution was to uninstall the app (and delete it's data) and reinstall it.

What I think happened is some kind of AI spillage. It's the only thing that makes any sense, especially because of the similarity between the photos, both being real estate companies. Another person within this same company has the bug too, same way, but a separate photo of yet another real estate company. It's also worth noting that the link that sits under the photo was still correctly linking to the correct company although it showed another companies logo.

Anyone else have an explanation of what it could be?

This very well could be proof that they do in fact have zero control over what Copilot is referencing/doing in certain scenarios and could be problematic for people that work in law firms, hospitals, security, etc.

I'm using putty from my win local machine to connect to the server, and so far what I've done is simply selecting text from putty terminal and pasting it into a text editor on my local machine and after editing I just paste it back to nano on the server. I could do that because all the text files I was editing were pretty short, but this config that I want to edit is longer, so I would need to scroll to select all the text from the nano, but that is not possible from the putty (as far as I know), and copying within nano doesnt seem to share the clipboard from server to local machine.

So I'm looking for a better way to do it, but something simple, quick and dirty.

I hope this is the right tech support comm for general Lemmy issues; not sure if this is limited to just Lemmy.World nor do I know if my problem is instance related...

Anyway... Got a DM from a user about an hour ago, but when I try to reply I am given an error that the user does not exist. Their profile is viewable. They just messaged me. I know they are active on the site, as I see them posting pretty regularly... Not sure why I can't DM them back tho.

Hello! I just visited seven different tech subreddits to try to post this question, and laptop hardware recommendations were against the rules in all seven of them, so if this is still not the correct place, can you direct me to a better community?

With that out of the way, I am trying to purchase the Legion Pro 5i Gen 10 for first year Mechatronics, and while I am very proficient with anything software related, I don't really know much about specific cards and their performance. This model that I am looking at has the following options:

Processor

• Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 255HX Processor
• Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 275HX Processor

Graphic Card

• NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5060 Laptop GPU 8GB GDDR7
• NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 5070 Laptop GPU 8GB GDDR7

I have chosen to upgrade to 32GB of RAM for that necessary speed.

Does anyone here have any advice? Thanks.

Edit:

Found my school uses Fusion 360, not Solidworks, so I changed the title

After replacing my TV, I can't get my blu ray player to properly play. It's driving me nuts and I'd really like to avoid buying new stuff.

Here's the setup that previously worked:

• An old Samsung plasma TV to display stuff.
• A fire tv stick to stream stuff.
• A Teufel Impaq 3000 AV receiver with a 5.1 speaker system that unfortunately refuses to directly play back blu ray discs since it overheated brutally before I realised the fan was broken.
• A Sony BDP-S370 that we use to play back blu rays and DVDs.
• A Sonos connect box attached to the teufel as well, but that doesn't really matter.

I attached the blu ray disc player to one of the TV's HDMI inputs and the AV receiver's digital coax input. While the TV had an optical out, using that to get the audio channel to the receiver resulted in loss of quality (I know it's all digital, but the TV seemed to mess with the audio before sending it out), so the coax cable helped with that. That worked well. Until I replaced the TV.

Current setup is essentially the same as before, except the fire tv stick got removed and we replace the old Samsung plasma tv with a

• Sharp 55GL4260E.

All hate for smart devices aside, the primary use case of streaming from German public broadcast "mediathek" services, netflix and prime works well so far and we no longer have a messed up glass front, which is a big plus. However, I can't get the blu ray player to work properly. Essentially, I have tried two approaches to connect the devices.

• As previously, bdp to TV via HDMI. That doesn't work. Like, at all. The TV doesn't show anything unless I force the bdp to only output SD signals, at which point the TV at least shows something, but the image then is an artifact-ridden mess of purple weirdness. Searching for that issue leads me nowhere, except some very old forums with replies that are 90% clueless and some indicating it might be an issue with the devices being unable to perform their HDCP handshake. Unfortunately, I didn't take any pictures, but there are some websites that show similar issues (albeit usually at least at full resolution). I tried several different HDMI cables.
• Connecting the bdp via HDMI to the AV receiver (which has two HDMI inputs), which connects to the TV. Oddly enough, this works - so the receiver must do more than just pipiing the signal through (remark here: I used the same cables for this, so the pink-image-issue really can't be a cable problem). However, after I briefly thought I had solved the problem, I realised that with this setup, the audio and video signals are out of sync. I hate it. Sometimes the video will stutter briefly and the audio will lag a full second or so behind afterwards, but even without that issue, audio and video are almost always slightly out of sync, which is just annoying as hell. I use physical media primarily to have better image and audio quality and this ruins the whole experience.

I'm kind of at a loss. My next step woul be to buy a new blu ray player, but it feels like overkill for something that should still work somehow. Any ideas what I could try?

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/40624933

Several different, random seeming files across various different Syncthing folders keep failing to sync even after restart, rescan, and reconfiguration, with the below error

syncing: finishing: opening temp file: open /storage/emulated/0/Pictures/Webcam/.syncthing.2024-07-1621:42:30.jpg.tmp: operation not permitted

I don't how how to fix it, the desktop app has the required permissions, and the Android app has as many storage permissions as I can give it under Android's horrible SAF limitations.

It seemed to used to be happening only to some specific old files, but now it's happening to all the new files I add onto my laptop under Videos or Music.

In addition, when trying to sync files with a specific server, it shows as disconnected, even when both are online and connected to the LAN (my phone via WiFi, the server via Ethernet), and there is some error about encryption expectations

2025-06-20 23:33:38: Failure checking encryption consistency with device server for folder "Music" (8ipwu-ehye4): remote expects to exchange encrypted data, but is configured for plain data

The server is running Syncthing GUI on Fedora GNOME, same as the laptop (which does work besides for the first issue), so I don't know what the difference is that would be causing this, not a single file has been synced to the server.

This is honestly making me want to get a Fairphone 5 with Ubuntu touch to get rid of these issues, but I can't do that now.

If anyone could advise, I would really appreciate it!

I have an upcoming interview for a position developing iOS apps using SwiftUI, but I don't have experience programming for SwiftUI (my prior experience was in ReactNative) and don't own any Apple devices so I can't use Xcode to practice. I have tried setting up Oracle VirtualBox on my PC with Windows10 to run Mac OS v12.01 Monterey (64-bit) several times with different settings, but every time I start it up, it gets stuck on the following lines:

• ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin::start - waitForService(resourceMatching(AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement) timed out
• ApplePC::notifyPlatformASPM - registering with plugin with ASPM Support false
• AppleKeyStore: 7492:109: unexpected session: 100000 uid: -1 requested by: 109
• AppleKeyStore: 11150:109: operation failed (sel: 7 ret: e00002c2, -1, 100000)
• IOConsoleUsers: time(0) 0->0, lin 0, lik 1,
• IOConsoleUsers: gIOScreenLockState 3, hs 0, bs 0, now 0, sm 0x0

I admittedly don't have much experience with VirtualBox or MacOS, and any time I've tried to search for these specific messages I come up empty. Is there any way of getting this virtual mac running to the point where I can start using Xcode, or am I just out of luck?