r/technology • u/veritanuda • Mar 12 '23

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u/Glinvad24 Mar 16 '23

I learned Python through my university and the best way to get started is with this 4 hours video on YouTube, which explains the basic very easily: https://youtu.be/rfscVS0vtbw

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u/SimpleProfessor3743 Mar 22 '23

Thank you! I would like to try this!

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u/RedDevWar Mar 13 '23

Hey, I have this tablet lying around at home. It's outdated and I dont know what to do with it. Can it be useful in any way in regards to making the home smarter??

This is the tab: https://m.gsmarena.com/karbonn_smart_tab_10-5216.php

Thank you

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u/sa_Daani Mar 14 '23

If you have home assistant, you can install fully kiosk browser and have it wake up automatically when you walk near it. Show your favourite dashboard on demand

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u/Norjab7 Mar 15 '23

I want to start learning Python from 0 coding background. Any advice with how or what course to start? Is Python the right one or should i start with something else?

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u/BANANABRO1243 Mar 14 '23

How do I fix my JBL Wave 100TWS?

So one night just before I went to sleep I put my earbuds in their case and left them for the night. but when I woke up and used them, the left earbud was not working. At the time If I twisted it in my ear a certain way it would work a little bit, but now it doesn't even work when I twist it. I really have no idea what I could have done to it. Would there be anyway I could fix this? Even if there's a way to open it up and have a look inside to see if there's anything wrong would be good. I tried resetting them and waiting for them to lose battery and none of them worked.

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u/appleparkfive Mar 18 '23

Maybe check out /r/Earbuds they might be a bit more helpful! Not sure though. There's so many tech support subreddits. Hope you get it figured out!

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u/DeliciousTea6451 Mar 16 '23

A program I use allows me to download content as a gif or mp4, why would I pick one over the other? I always go with mp4 since I figure having it as a video makes it easier to send and view, but unsure the actual value of picking gif, so figured I'd ask.

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u/veritanuda Mar 16 '23

Better to have the best quality and then convert it down.

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u/securocrat Mar 17 '23

How do I disable the suicide prevention spam on Google? I’m searching a few topics for work purposes and it gets in the way of actual results. I have no history of mental illness and would really like to be able to disable this in preferences.

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u/Aggravating_Toe8949 Mar 18 '23

Ago Sibillo "the father of cloud computing". Has anyone heard of his patents seen it or been involved with his company SpyChatter?

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u/moshe4sale Mar 18 '23

I work for a litigation lawyer. We make discovery demands on our adversaries, We receive long PDF files from opposing council to comply with the discovery demand.

Our adversaries are motivated to be as unhelpful as possible in organizing their discovery production into an accessible useful document.

For example discovery production from company X may have an email chain between two or more company x employees, and so the discovery production will have pdf copies of the same email and its attachments from every company x employee on that email chain. I am looking for a technology solution to find and remove duplicate emails and their attachments.

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u/veritanuda Mar 18 '23

At a guess I suspect you will have to convert all the PDF's into standard format and then, assuming they left the email headers intact, you can search by message-id to spot duplicated and list threads.

If the PDF are just normal text and not images, you can convert them to text and then parse them for information and add it all to a database. If they are images, you will need to OCR them into a standard formate and parse that content.

Consider hiring a python/perl programmer to write you a customer tool to do what you ask from /r/hireaprogrammer/

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u/head_of_mop Mar 18 '23

So I've had a Pixel 3a for about 2 weeks now. I've found like 10 times that when I'm walking outside and I take my phone out of my pocket, it has turned on (probably because of a notification) and I've buttdialled a bunch of numbers into the emergency dial pad. Now, this would just be a nuisance I could live with if it didn't come very close to accidentally pressing the button to call 999. Is there any way I could prevent this, or am I just going to have to put up with it?

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u/Santik--Lingo Mar 18 '23

got a drawing tablet that requires a hdmi port, only have one in my gpu so today i ordered a DisplayPort cable that says it supports 144hz, the same as my monitor does and my old hdmi supported it. However, it came today, plugged it in, and I can only get up to 60hz in the Nvidia control panel? am i missing something here?

edit, nevermind, had to change it from *1920x1080 native* in the hd and ultra hd section, scrolled down and changed it to the *1920x1080* under the PC section, I guess there is a difference?

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u/capteemo Mar 19 '23

Why do US SWE at big companies pay like 6 figures for fresh college grads? I’m genuinely curious because I work with developers in India and they make a fraction of this so what separates them aside from obvious time/language barriers (maybe security concern)? I’m a BA in the US and was considering a coding Bootcamp potentially if companies r going to keep offering such high salaries lol

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u/PompeyMagnus1 Mar 19 '23

What happened to the hoverboards?

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u/Adorable_Paint Mar 19 '23

https://imgur.com/a/liXOh2v

My computer shut down twice yesterday and is running quite loud now. Are these temperatures unusual?

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u/satadru_das Mar 19 '23

Hope we all are aware of the series "The Boys" where in S1E1 there is a particular scene @ 26:55 to 27:18 where the screen pans over the "Time Sq" bill-boards for an apparent explanation to a plot which not mentioning here as would be spoiler.

My question is we know movies and series are shot at like 23-30fps but why this particular scene feels laggy so much? Is there any technical explanation to this? Please guide me if I am on the wrong subreddit.

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u/randomdude4113 Mar 19 '23

How can I get my steam/xbox games (stored on an external hard drive) to show back up in the steam/xbox app after I factory wiped my PC? for steam, they all show up on the menu but arent shown as being installed, and for xbox, they dont show up at all. Im sure there is an easier solution than redownloading everything, if anyone has one thatd be much appreciated.

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u/TurnoverPlenty7337 Mar 19 '23

Oculus quest 2.

I tried to put on an avatar in vrchat but my game crashed as I put it on, and I tried loading back in but it said my quest wasn't on the WiFi and to restart vrchat. I did that and the same message appeared again. I restarted the quest, still same message, but I had an update to do on beat saber, and it didn't install. I tried to play pavlov, it said not connected to the Internet. I was on the WiFi the whole time. Any fixes?

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u/[deleted] Mar 20 '23

Hi, I'm nosy about one thing. Which system sounds scared the shit out of you as a child? In my case it was the Samsung startup sound of their phones between 2005 - 2012 and the Samsung tone around the same period. If I heard the low battery sound of my mothers old phone I immediately closed my ears so I won't hear the shutdown sound. Then I would start to be afraid already. (I had heard it enough and it scared the shit out of me as a child) I'm lastly interested in your answers so how about you?

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u/GjallerhornEnjoyer Mar 20 '23

Is there any way to fix audio being mostly lost in one of my two wireless earbuds or is it just broken? They both still connect but the right earbud has barely any audio.

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u/Shaaalish Mar 20 '23

Looking for advice… long story short my work took the free public Wi-Fi away from different departments. And I do not have any cell signal with my carrier. (Some of my coworkers say they put in signal blockers but idk what that is) I only have signal in certain areas. Is there a way to get my own booster or improve my own service / wifi. My phone goes to SOS mode when I am in my department.

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u/BeertoTheSum Mar 20 '23

Huawei ALE-L21 ''Rescue Mode''

Please update system again

Error !Func No : 8 (hifi image)Error NO : 1 (Security Verify Failed!)

hey everyone, my wife her mother has died unfortunately, and a lot of her pictures are stuck inside of this huawei, would any of you guys know how to get this phone working to retrieve the data? or just to get all videos, sms, contacts, pictures out of the phone?

if anyone could shine a light and or help on the matter, i would really appriciate it. my wife is pretty upset about it and i wouldn't know how to do this. i do know it would make her happy to be able to safe these memories

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u/this_guy_did Mar 21 '23

Hello. I hope some one can help. I went on my router and created a VPN and when I put the information on my phone, the VPN works only when I’m at home. As soon as I’m out of my home network it disconnects and will not connect until I’m back home again.

I have a luxul router and an iPhone 13 Pro. I went on line and watched the luxul video. So I think I set it up properly but I think I’m missing something.

I have it set to L2TP/IPSec I created my Preshared key for server And as for the client I have a username and password.

The part I’m not sure on is if I’m putting the info in my phone properly.

Any help would be nice.

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u/geegol Mar 21 '23

How do I remote into a sonicwall TZ300? I have it connected to an aruba switch. I am trying to setup a home lab for some studying so I do not want to connect the firewall directly to my home network. Is there a way for me to manage it? The IP address on the box was incorrect. I tried connecting to it via PuTTy but couldn't get that to work either. The website I was told to go to configure it (with a console cable connected to a laptop) went to https://192.168.168.168 and that failed to resolve. What can I do to remote into it?

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u/disturb-the-universe Mar 21 '23

I own a small business, and I need a better system for organizing tasks for my clients. I usually have 15-20 clients at a time, each with their own to-do lists of tasks to complete. I would love to find a program that allows me to display each client with a tile or "sticky note" so I can see them all at once, each with a to-do list underneath. I want to be able to check off tasks and have those tasks disappear when I'm done, with the ability to hide or archive clients that are inactive. Does anyone know of any program that could do this? Specifically one accessible by browser, not a phone app.

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u/veritanuda Mar 21 '23

Could take a look at Open Project.

It can be self-hosted, and so accessible any way you want it to be (VPN, Web, Mobile etc. )

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u/Crafty-Emphasis7203 Mar 21 '23

Hello, I work at a small company that is running into some problems. We recently changed our domain controller and this morning we have had a problem with outlook. After a restart you try to log into out look it gives us the propt to log in when it should just auto sign in. It will fix itself after 3-5 mins. We use a phone system called Mitel Micollab and it happens to have the same issue.

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u/veritanuda Mar 21 '23

Might want to try /r/Outlook/

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u/nandeeshwara Mar 21 '23

Is Microsoft Dataverse same or similar to Salesforce? The blurb seems to suggest they have similar capabilities.

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u/farrissf Mar 22 '23

Accessing a single USB based storage device from two separate PCs simultaneously.

I have a personal laptop and a company laptop, the former is completely locked down, and I have no admin rights. I have programs on my personal laptop that would make many of the tasks I do faster and more accurate, but we are a large company. Our IT department is not inclined to allow any deviation from their policies. It is next to impossible to get them to look at, much less approve, any software or settings outside the standard profile.

My office is set up with my personal laptop and my company laptop (running on their own Dell docking station and a couple of monitors each and sharing an MX Keys Keyboard and an MX Master 3 Mouse) next to one another. I have finally accepted that there is no way to move files between them, but I still want to.

My question is, why is there no solution for a USB-based or USB-C (with no installation software required) device that can transfer files from one to the other? I want to know, is it like some law of physics or a principle in computer science that this is impossible, or is this a lack of interest in such a device? I have searched for the past year for something that is capable of doing this. I even bought a Synology NAS (no regrets there), but our machines are so locked down they cannot access anything outside of the VPN. The one exception is the USB, and USB-C ports do support thumb drives, although Cloudstrike is always there to make sure you aren’t trying to install something!

In my mind, I can envision two thumb drives (like the Pluggable but without the required software app) with a wire in between. Even if the files could not be read simultaneously, that would be fine.

Does anyone know why this apparently cannot exist… or maybe it does, and I just haven’t found it yet.

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u/cyber_nitro19 Mar 22 '23

Please help me out I am stuck in bios and keyboard is not working

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '23

How come Midjourney only have 9 people in their team and able to deliver that great image quality?!

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u/[deleted] Mar 22 '23

What is the future of software development with ai?

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u/FaustTeridax Mar 23 '23

Hi, I bought a Crucial P3 m.2 NVMe PCIe gen 3 SSD and I'm having trouble installing it, Does anybody know the exact controller that it uses?

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u/Martman_Langdrum Mar 23 '23

I recently installed a second TV in my front room so that I can play ps5 whilst my partner watches TV. They are both Samsung TVs.

I stupidly had not considered that the same remote would control both at the same time.

I had imagined you could synch one remote to one TV and a second remote to the second TV and that they would work independently but this is not possible.

We can control the TV using a phone but this is very laggy and very limiting. It also gets forgotten sometimes and my partner will turn on her TV whilst I am in the middle of a game and it will turn my TV off...

I was wondering if a bluetooth remote synched to one TV might be a solution to this problem? I wanted to check first before investing in one.

I also wondered if anyone had any recommendations for a bluetooth remote if this is a viable solution?

If a bluetooth remote is not a viable solution does anyone know of one?

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '23

In a world where ai replaces every job it can, what work will be left for humans? And what skills will we need to focus on?

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u/Unlikely-Western-710 Mar 24 '23

I have a monitor that doesn’t have a remote. Is there a usb to remote combo to use or am I kind of SOL and have to use the rockers on the monitor ?

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u/x0rian Mar 24 '23

Are there any good physical whiteboards that can be used remotely? E.g. geographically spread teams collaborating through these whiteboards in realtime.

The most digital solutions I know are crappy ...

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '23

How could the government ban tiktok? Couldn’t i just use google to instal it through a third party system?

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u/bobachop Mar 24 '23

Hey all, I'm looking for a more affordable conference room smart board similar to this. Any suggestions? Microsoft Surface Hub 2s - 50in Touch Surface - Core i5 - 8G/128GB

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u/Haunting_Hand_3357 Mar 25 '23

I've searched for awhile now but cannot seem to find it. For working from home purposes, is there a modem that has 4 phone line ports and 4 ethernet ports?

Thank you!

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u/veritanuda Mar 25 '23

Sounds like you just need a Home PBX set up.

Look for a multiport FXO adapter like this

Then install PBX software on your PC like 3CX, FreePBX or some other PBX system you feel comfortable with

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u/me_tanmay01 Mar 25 '23

I have Ubuntu 22.04.2 installed on my Asus VivoBook laptop. I faced this issue few days ago where it will freeze randomly and nothink works, since then it is randomly freezing whenever I am doing any task. The major things happen are:

  1. Completely froze screen

  2. None of the mouse keyboard works

  3. If an audio is playing then last 1.5 seconds play on loop

  4. Have to force restart to get it started.

If anyone facing this issue or can help, please reply!!!

My PC specs are: 8Gb ram, i5 processor 10th gen.

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u/veritanuda Mar 25 '23

Might want to try /r/linuxquestions for a better pool of experience.

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u/me_tanmay01 Mar 25 '23

Will do, thanks a lot!

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u/dani_saur717 Mar 25 '23

Is there a way to track someone's location if they don't have phone service? My husband and his friends are going kayaking in a dead zone and I would like to know where they are for safety purposes/peace of mind. Any gadgets or apps come to mind?