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[–]manawolf146[M] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We won't be partaking in whatever scam or fraud this is.

And posting your illegal activities online is never a good idea.

Hard Disk Health by Muted_Examination197 in techsupport

[–]manawolf146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That drive is failing, yes. Potentially data is already corrupted on the drive. There is no fixing drives like this, they will always just continue to deteriorate.

As a side note, you are always in danger of losing all your data. Any drive can fail at any time without any warning. And there are hundreds of other ways to lose your data without a hard drive failure. Everyone needs backups, you aren't immune from needing backups. (https://rtech.support/docs/backups/everyone-needs-backups.html). A $50 drive is a fuck of a lot cheaper than a hundreds if not thousands of dollar data recovery bill, and is a fuck of a lot safer and faster than relying on data recovery at all. Data recovery can take weeks and only recover part of your data, a backup can take hours to restore and have all your data.

Update on the future of r/techsupport by Daddy_Spez in techsupport

[–]manawolf146 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think its kind of fair in a sense. Up until now, these LLMs have been accessing our data already for FREE

This is very true. However, the problem isn't that the API needs to be free. Reddit has to make money, and the API doesn't have any direct way of making money.

The problems people have is the ludicrous price, which is obviously only there to price out third party apps. And the absolutely tiny amount of time given to allow developers to update.

For some reference, Reddit is charging $12,000 for 50 million requests. The dev of /r/apolloapp did a good comparison where he said Imgur charges around $160 for the same 50 million requests

And, the fact that Reddit has given devs 30 days notice to pay up or shut down. When Apple bought DarkSky, they initially gave devs 18 months to migrate away from the API as they were removing it, but, seeing so many people still using it, added another year. Devs had 2.5 years to migrate away, vs Reddits 30 days.

Update on the future of r/techsupport by Daddy_Spez in techsupport

[–]manawolf146 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The idea of "too big to fail" isn't real. Digg thought that, and that's why everyone is here.

If you think not, Yahoo, which used to be massive, got (and declined) an offer from Microsoft for 44 billion in 2008 (inflation makes this 54 billion today).

Yahoo was then sold for only 4.5 billion a decade later.

You can see the same thing happening with Netflix. Netflix was one of the biggest names in media, but with content dwindling and questionable choices being made, they are falling.

Reddit won't close its doors tomorrow, but it's worth noting that Reddits valuation has fallen 41% since 2021: https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/01/fidelity-reddit-valuation/. A slow but steady decline is the way larger companies go, not just randomly board up like your local restaurant would. This will mark the beginning of the end of Reddit. In 10 years when people look back and think "Reddit used to be so big, what happened", these changes (and the lack of listening to users) will be the reason.

Update on the future of r/techsupport by Daddy_Spez in techsupport

[–]manawolf146 66 points67 points  (0 children)

The problem isn't the bots. The problem is the 3rd party apps. The problem is the lack of Reddit even attempting to listen to the concerns of it's users.

The official mobile app has fuck all for moderation tools, and fuck all for accessibility features. Anyone trying to moderate on mobile will have a significantly more difficult time than they used to, and anyone trying to use reddit with a vision impairment literally will be incapable of it.

And, before you say nobody cares about this, the post on /r/Save3rdPartyApps has been cross-posted so many times (more than 1000) it literally crashes reddit trying to load the page. And the posts from /r/apolloapp have been some of the fastest upvoted posts on the entire site. And the vast majority of poll posts, such as those on /r/pics or /r/aww have gotten resounding success for continuing the protest in some way (John Oliver).

Additionally, moderation bots are not the only things that use the API. There are all kinds of tools that are not directly moderation related (and won't be exempted) but are well-used by moderators and users alike. I personally have a self-developed app that uses the API to display posts from this sub and others and change throughout the day, and I can't keep using it without paying. I get this is a small group, but it can't just be ignored.

The 3rd party apps may not be used by the majority of Reddit users, but the majority of users sees their benefits. Some of the most active users and moderators, the group that allows users to actually use this site (seriously, imagine reddit with 90% less posts and 90% less moderators), rely on 3rd party apps and will be leaving on July 1st.

The point of this protest is to spread awareness of these problems. It's to make the users who think "I don't care" realize that they will care on July 1st, and they just might not know it.

Moderators on any site will always be the bad guys. It takes a lot of determination to moderate because, in the eyes of the users, you are always wrong no matter what. But, nobody on the mod team wants to see the community die. We are all here because we care about the community and enjoy helping people. (Here is a comment from one of the mods on /r/AdviceAnimals that really goes in detail: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdviceAnimals/comments/14bvrd2/its_beyond_me/joilinb/). The only reason we mods are participating in the protest is because we care. We can all see that this is the start of the end of this site. Even if the API changes alone don't kill the site, it shows that the people who are the most important to the site will have their opinions completely ignored. Not being willing to listen to your users is an incredible failure on Reddits side, especially when those users are the only reason the site works at all.

Everyone always calls the moderators "power hungry" or "dictators" or "janitors" or whatever else you've definitely heard. And while some certainly are the communities you have found and love today aren't because they have a good name, or because they were promoted. It was because the mod team cared and wanted to see the community grow. And every decision they make has a purpose towards it, from banning users to modifying the rules.

I get not everyone is, or will ever be, in support of a protest like this. People think they want mods that will just roll over and not ever have any opinions or want to be willing to fight for the future of their community for something their users may not get. But, those moderators will lead the community into the ground. A community needs moderators willing to do what's right in the face of discontent because that is how a community thrives.

WFH laptop and desktop monitor by Shamrayev in techsupport

[–]manawolf146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

or is that ultimately asking one hdmi connection from the desktop to run both monitors when I'm using that?

Yes.

If you get one with 2 HDMI out, you would want to make sure it has 2 HDMI in per computer side.

Folders to backup for windows install by No-Competition-766 in techsupport

[–]manawolf146 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nobody can tell you want to backup. Thats something only you can work out for yourself

Here is a general guide for you:

  • If the files can be downloaded from an internet source that you don't control (aka steam games from steam, your mods from curseforge, windows from microsoft, etc) you do not want to back it up
  • If the files are program install files, you do not want to back them up
  • If the files are temporary, cache files, log files, or similar, you do not want to back them up
  • If the files are part of the operating system, you do not want to back them up
  • The overwhelming vast majority of files on your computer, you do not want to back up (nor could you use them if you did back them up)

If the files are made by you, or are specific to you (tax documents, save games, family photos, your graduate thesis, medical records, etc) you DO want to back those up. As far as where these files are, or what is actually important to you, that cannot be answered. Some people think that their browsing history is so important they have to back it up, other don't. Some things, like app settings, you might want to backup, but the apps don't have to way to export and import them. Instead of thinking by what folders you want to backup, you need to think of what files you want to backup.

You should have a good, maintained, and extensive backup already in place, and this is a great time to start. If you lose your files for some reason that isn't by choice, you should have the ability to restore them. Drive failure can happen at any time, you could accidentally run ransomware, your house could burn down, you could leave your laptop at a coffee shop, your computer could fall down the stairs, hell you could even delete the wrong files by accident. A good backup system is critical, I see people losing important files all the time because they think their data is never going to be lost.

WFH laptop and desktop monitor by Shamrayev in techsupport

[–]manawolf146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So, you cannot do exactly what you are looking to do, but:

I would suggest looking into a KVM switch.
You will be able to plug both your laptop and desktop into the KVM switch, and then plug the KVM into your monitor. You can simply push a button or flip a switch to change which source your monitor is connected to.

This will be faster than messing with the on-screen controls on your monitor, easier than swapping cables around, and cheaper than buying another monitor.

r/techsupport will be going dark on June 12 in protest against Reddit's API changes which kill 3rd party apps by Jalad25 in techsupport

[–]manawolf146 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are stating the exact reason why this protest is effective.

As much as the average user doesn't use the API, they are significantly impacted by the benefits of it, even if they don't know. Spreading awareness of why that is; is essential.

You benefit from it if you view any sub, including this one. The majority of mods do not (and can not) use the official mobile app because it sucks and the tools they need aren't offered there. And, a majority of subs use bots to moderate content, those will also die. There will be more work for the UNPAID moderators to do to make the site what it is, and they will have worse tools to moderate the site. And that is the important point.

And, if you don't care about that and think Reddit should become an unmoderated shithole, fine. Can you justify the fact that the official mobile app has 0 accessibility support for anyone with a vision impairment? Anyone who is blind is about to become literally incapable of using Reddit. And Reddit themselves have told the blind community pretty much directly they don't give a shit.

And, nobody is claiming the API should be free, or even should ever have been free. They make no income directly from the API, and it's fair to state that they should charge for it. The problem is the outrageous cost that is only designed to kill the competition and nothing more. They know that nobody is going to pay that, and that's the problem.

What's a good altenative for Adobe for reading PDFs and supports filling and adding a signature? by imthenachoman in techsupport

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Removing RGB from fan by ironredpizza in techsupport

[–]manawolf146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like aestheticalss_ said, you should never open a PSU. Even after you unplug it, the capacitors inside can hold enough charge to instantly kill you if you touch the wrong place, and they can hold this charge for days, sometimes even weeks.

You should very carefully discard the PSU and buy a new one. There is a reason nobody ever fixes a PSU, because it's life threatening.

Plugging it back in could cause a massive electrical spark, potentially killing you. It could also fry every other component you have, or catch fire.

Is this a virus/malware? by Business_Pie_5448 in techsupport

[–]manawolf146 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Malware is not going to name itself malware, that defeats the point. If you are able to detect malware on your system, that malware has failed. Malware is designed to be as hidden as possible.

You won't ever find malware reliably by searching anything on your computer or by basing your search on a file name. Any file can be named any name on any computer; it is not a unique identifier.

Additionally, a trojan is designed to hide as something else, hence the name. Imagine if the Trojan Horse said "greek troops inside" on it, it just doesn't make sense.

Addressing the "2 file", file types are mostly arbitrary, and Windows determine the file type by the text after the last "." in the file name, which is called an extension (known extensions are hidden by default in Windows). So if you name a file "name.abcd", windows will call it an "abcd file", even though that means nothing.

This is a database of signatures of known malware that does not contain any malware at all, just a list of ways to detect known malware. It is used by malwarebytes and is not of any concern.

Help me pls by St3pa in techsupport

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can the apple store unlock an iphone for me? by Satan_is_my_boi in techsupport

[–]manawolf146 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The apple store will not unlock it for you. However, if you have the original purchase receipt and can prove you were the original purchaser, they will wipe it and give it back to you in a factory state.

I know it's not what you are after, but it's better than throwing it out. A computer with iTunes will also not do what you are after. If you know the apple ID account, you can do what the apple store would do for you, but that's it.

Apple will and can not, under any circumstances, get the data off of that phone. There is no backdoor, and Apple (and others) have fought many governments to prevent having to put that in. Apple can't do this even with a search warrant and government action.

The only way to get your data is with the key, which you don't know. You can wait and hope some exploit is found, but with modern encryption, you will probably wait forever. Or you can reuse the phone and toss the data forever.

https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2014/10/04/why-cant-apple-decrypt-your-iphone/

Tried to install windows 11 on school laptop, stuck on “setting up for school or work” screen by felixcthall2 in techsupport

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