>>122041
Yes I think they do. They get paid for it. Meanwhile they give out deadlines. I understand you essentially meant to go above and beyond which I agree with but I saw 100 pages in you post (yea it did catch my eye) and though "this guy's smokin dick"

>>122042

>and though

and 'thought.'

I slacked my way to an oblivious nothing in school. I am still paying for this.

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This is midterms. Right?

I can see this written all over it. Computer security class, of some sort.
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The prof (if worthy) is seriously not looking for 15 pages of irrelevant mostly unknown hackers.
Would just as well just toss an d- on any one of these. By default.

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>>122043
You're a fucking idiot. The time it starts is when you receive the prompt. If it's a midterm then you just study and you have to write the paper in the allotted time during the test (usually around 2 hours) without a computer which significantly increases the amount of time it takes to write it. Go to college and see you absolute fuckong dolt.

>>122044
If you don't think a students parents paying for their kids new expensive laptop that they could live without such an expensive one,, tuition, everything. Sending money while their kids slack off and act like asses because of that 'freedom.' Don't you think the parents expect each class, each assignment, that the moment they walk into class that that is the beginning of having time to
use every moment in the class to essentially study.

One may get an assignment, then have it suddenly change. Kinda like pop quizzes. Like "are you paying attention?" Or just what kinda barely sinks in and will worry about details later.

Know what is expected as well not expected. Some professors will change an assignment just like that. From typed to written, from written to an on the spot oral presentation, to a demonstration.

We got sudden 10 page topics due the next morning, why? because. The class that day was a teachers presentation, not just teaching, but a noticeable presentation of the subject(s.) Thise who payed attention and especially saw what was coming, went home, did their work and
others were completely lost. 10 fkn pages from just one presentation by the instructor.
Or were these ongoing assignments from day one?

>>122033
Corporations used services provided by [email protected], to name one, back when cell phones I don't think even remotely existed. Although two way radios, fm radio, uses trunks, 'to communicate from one to another.' These, [email protected], others, services allowed trunk access to make possible switching to long distance calls for corporations from local lines.

Trunkin I gues you could call it, has many applications, cell phones, whatever communication you can really think of. They differ greatly of course. I believe home networking is just as trunk access, switching, as anything else. As well, say lighting, um, concerts. It is communication from one party to anothers party.

This is from mostly memory from the past. And lots of studying stuff that may seem insignificant or boring. I am not that old but have worked for, with significant persons of technology. Me doing work for people who worked on components like zip drive, cd technology. Professors from like MIT, others who worked on .gov technology. technology that makes today's technology what it is. Although not knowing part of what these people are talking about, I guess i seemed enough to carry on hours of conversation. Which older technology seems basically boring, applying it to today's technology, it makes sense. If one cannot understand older technology,
how will they actually understand here and now technology. Sure you can do it, but knowing the background of like tor, understanding DNS basics. It is all worthwhile.
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Anyway, a hacker of significance. John Draper. AKA Captain Crunch. Why capn crunch nick. More than one reason. However, he tried to sell known technology, among other known uses of switching. Made some money but not a great venture.
What he was selling was; simple tones would make phone services do it's thing, like corporations could utilize long distance, calling for commerce, etc. By switching into trunk lines. Others learned to do this also. He furthered these but few were interested. So, after Apple, and all this.

He did make a whistle, it put out a 2600Mhz frequency. So could make long distance calls. He learned this from laying lines.
What they can and are meant to accomplish by which means. This whistle, one could go to a pay phone and whistle and
access the trunk and switch. Free phone calls.

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Cellphones are all hopelessly compromised. Off the shelf phones can't be secured against threats like this. There's a startling lack of detail to go off of, but in general you want to be using end to end encryption on devices that you have complete control over without relying on third party services for privacy. So Whatsapp on your phone is an easy target and it's surely what they have in mind, but if you use XMPP+OTR on your Linux laptop and tether it to your phone then that's well beyond the reach of an Australian government order. The flip side is that these more resilient technologies are less popular and easier for the state to block without protest.

Phones have some locked up chain of trust on their SoC that you can't in any way modify without destroying the phone completely and irreversibly. That chain of trust eventually leads to firmware and google stallionery that boots linux and then android, which is just more google stallionery. Some phones probably have built in hardware that has its own little processor or so, so they can do basic stuff even when the phone is off and android (or whatever OS you use) isn't even running. Even using custom stuff like cyanogen, lineage etc aren't safe from the SoC that runs them, so you can never be sure.

The same problem with desktop and laptop computers, all the ones with intel CPUs have IME, and AMD ones have some equivalent things. It's been trendy to add separate processors to processors that do stuff like signing and checking firmware and CPU microcode and manages stuff, and these have network access too - you don't even need to boot your OS they can do stuff anyway.

Trying to circumvent these is like trying to think about the pink elephant without using your brain or body. You are fucked. Of course governments don't have infinite resources so with certain levels of preparedness, you can get lucky, probably.

Get an old computer that is fully libr compatible.
X200 supports libreboot
Be okay with having dated hardware if your serious. Which is okay as long as you don't want to play games.

>>122028
The cable is male on both sides. So yeah, I can definitely output it to my computer.

But again the problem is the completely unreachable input coming from the headset end.

Like, none of my jack cables fit through that hole.

>>122029
If you can output to your computer, you can work out whether both audio channels are coming through the cable.

>>122030
Only one is.

I thought M50xs came with 3 cables.

>>122032
I have a m40x and it has 2 cables. The thibg i don't like about it are the movibg earpads. Seems fragile.

set fan speed on the graphics card
auto update

>My Logitech G500 keeps connecting & disconnecting, so it's time for an upgrade.

Or a cable replacement.

>>122024
Yeah upon opening up the G500, it doesn't seem like an easy task. It's not like a modular power supply, it's all soldered in there and shit.

But I may try again...

I think the cool kids use IPS monitors or some shit. I'm an OLED person if I can manage it. Just look up different monitor types and figure out what kind is best for your use case. You'll end up getting an ASUS monitor in the end anyways.

VG278Q and AOC G2460PG are in similar price ranges and I used both. I liked the colors on them compared to Benq which I always thought were extremely washed out, if you end up going with the ASUS there is a color profile you can find on google which makes it shine. The switch is worth it for any FPS, if you need a monitor for color work you are still better off with an IPS though

There's nothing wrong with refurbished so long as you're getting what you pay for.

>>122005
Manufacturer refurbished means a return that was either remanufactured or more likely inspected quickly and repackaged. Third party refurbished means whatever the refurbisher says it means. You should treat these items as used, but good refurbishers sell consistently good used equipment. How do you know it's a good refurbisher? Good reviews and some detail about their process/standards.

>>122004
well what about this rather than getting a refurb ?

If you don't mind looking like an accountant, have a look on eBay for refurbished ThinkPads. You should be able to find a decent one for under £200, easily. Seeing as you mentioned wanting to get into music, try to find one with the highest amount of RAM that you can find, you'll thank me later when your DAW isn't hanging like a bitch.

As for sound cards, the ones built into laptops are almost invariably shite across the board. Have a look at the FocusRite Scarlett range of USB audio interfaces, I've owned one in the past and they're nice pieces of kit. Stay away from old Tascam stuff like the US-122; cheap as shit these days but the drivers are ancient and mine would BSOD my computer all the damn time.

Don't buy from Currys, they're a bunch of rip-off merchants who rely on the public's ignorance of tech specs to flog nasty plasticky rubbish. Their godawful adverts boil my piss, too.

>>122003
If you can buy locally, like in hte US there is craigslist. refurbished from non-manufacturers stores, sites, ebay as well could be simply an opened box.

Maybe used for a while maybe and people realize it was not enough for what they needed it for. Or incompatable for their needs. Third party from people,
coule get a beyond excellent deal. Here is one, my room mate moved and left
a laptop, I don't know what to do with it. $20. Reality, worth $1,2000?

Refurbished from mnufacturers, usually somebody got a computer that could be fixed, was fixed, but should have worked correctly for years n the first place, soo.

>>122008
Avoid Behringer interfaces too. They're shit and their preamps suck and the USB mixers never work.

I'd also highly recommend the Presonus Audiobox. I've had it actually work on AV Linux the literal second I plugged it in. It took probably 20 minutes on Windows 7 to get working but Linux worked instantly with Mixbus and Ardour. Speaking of which, Ardour is my favorite DAW. It is set up more for people who don't have an engineer sitting at a desk while they perform or whatever. If you got to track shit and play at the same time, Ardour is the best imo. AV Linux also supports lots of cool freeware stuff that isn't shit like Hydrogen, Ardour, Musescore, and a CD burning thing that I can't remember the name to but it pretty simple decent. It also rarely crashes. And when it does, it is only program crashes. When Reaper crashes on Windows, it takes out everything and bluescreens with various errors. I had maybe 3-4 crash to desktop with AV Linux in 2 years of use. It also ships with a fucking mountain of plugins already built in and working for Ardour which is very nice. Reaper comes with like nothing comparatively.

I'd go back to AV Linux if it wasn't for my video editing on Windows and my gaymes.

Also, don't use the default 3.5mm jacks for anything. USB, Thunderbolt, or Firewire for audio. Don't use anything else for audio. Seriously, soundcards are more for surround sound and people just wasting money. I've done super high quality audio production for a few years now and never once needed a soundcard. Save that money and buy yourself a nice microphone. SM58 is a good start for vocals. SM57 for a jack of all trades mic. And a large diaphragm condenser mic for when you need one. Use samples for drums unless you are really prepared to spend lots of money. I spent well over 1k to get "studio quality" drums tracked into a DAW. And that is just mics, cables, and stands. EZ Drummer is like 140 dollars. You won't even get a good pair of overheads and their stands/cables for that. Also, an 8 channel interface or more is best. I'm using 15 out of 18 available channels atm to track drums.

>>122010
By a cheap thinkpad for under 200>libre boot>TAILS Only connect it when you need it and with the proper precautions.

>>122010
The most bullet proof advice is to write the image either on a non-Mac PC or a Virtualbox/VMWare/Parallels VM. Try recent Youtube videos if old or undated guides are letting you down. If you press option when you boot and don't see an option for Tails/Windows, the Tails image has not been written correctly.

>>122011
In addition to just working, having a dedicated Tails machine(s) is a best practice.

Wouldn't it just be easier to buy a laptop or old desktop at a pawnshop, run off usb drive and drive to a city and use wifi either free or stolen then destroy the usb?

Isn't tor completely compromised now?

>>122017

>Wouldn't it just be easier to buy a laptop or old desktop at a pawnshop, run off usb drive and drive to a city and use wifi either free or stolen then destroy the usb?

Not in general, no. That's the direction Apple is going though.

>Isn't tor completely compromised now?

That's what random nobodies keep saying. If there were credible reasons to believe it though, the loudest voices would offer evidence and reasoned argument which you probably haven't seen.

Good riddance.
Install jdownloader and be done with it. Works pretty much everywhere, including mega.

As Martin said you don't quite need this power for the games you mentioned, so you could go cheaper

thank you so much, guys!

You helped me a lot!

>>121983
You'll get a better PC at a fraction of the cost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxWJSRNUuxY

There is never a good reason to settle for a laptop
if you are not living in a wasp-cell or need this thing to carry to work.

No need to settle for worse heat-management and worse performance-price-ratio!

>>121983
Lenovo / IBM Thinkpad R52 / R54.

It’s rudementary. Designed for XP. But it works solid. Less than $50.

>>121997
He said Laptop, LAP FUCKING TOP. Jesus, you PC fags are always trying to recommend something they dont want.