'No Stupid Questions' General -

[Gay_Frog]

If you have a Samsung I recommend not rooting or installing a custom ROM at all. Just use one of the "debloat" scripts out there to disable unwanted apps, and go through and carefully set all the privacy-related settings. VoLTE is not supported on custom ROMs on Samsungs and probably never will be.

Just to confirm VoLTE is a technology of SIM chips? If so I think I get the picture. So probability I will root anyways. Any tips about to see if TWP is good or a malware that will get bitcoins,I found this on xda forum but I can't get any confirmation.
And thanks for the heads-up to debloat scripts I will use it in a newer phone.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Just to confirm VoLTE is a technology of SIM chips?

I don't think it has anything to do with the SIM chip, it's more about the phone's hardware and firmware, and your cellular carrier.

Any tips about to see if TWP is good or a malware

TWRP is legit, but it's up to you to make sure you're getting it from a trusted source.

 

[stares at error messages]

Why does C++ and most other languages have exceptions even though they are worse the C's if statements; they're horrible?

 

[Least Concern]

Well, what are the alternatives for alerting the programmer or other lines of the program that something has gone wrong?

1. The function returns some impossible (or highly unlikely) value, like a function to get the size of a file in bytes returning -7. Okay, cool, but now the return value has to be a signed int when a legitimate value will never need to be signed, and you've got possible error states and possible legitimate values in the same place.

2. You pass in an "error code" pointer as a param which gets its corresponding value modified if something goes wrong. So you've got to set up a pointer which in normal operation will never be used, and just in general I'm not a big fan of the whole "parameters as (potential) output" thing - they should be for input only.

3. You create a custom struct with separate "value" and "error code" fields. Congrats, you just reinvented exceptions, kind of.

Am I missing something?

I personally much prefer exceptions over any alternatives that I can think of.

 

[Kosher Dill]

Am I missing something?

4. You just have one global variable for "errno" and everyone sets that anytime something goes wrong.
4a. Give every thread its own errno because you are a complete madman.

 

[Kyururu-kun]

Alright, which one of you bozos wrote this review for an Iomega Zip 250 MB USB External Drive on Amazon?

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

I've been having this semi-recurring issue that whenever I suddenly lose power, like during a power outage or something, my PC struggles to boot. It will turn on, and I can see from the lights on the motherboard that it's functional, but it just won't boot. The only real way I've been able to fix this is by repeatedly turning it on and off again until it finally boots, which feels inelegant and probably dangerous, but it's the only thing that works. I've turned off and unplugged the power supply to get the power drained and see if that helps, but that doesn't really do anything. And this only happens during blackouts; I've unplugged my PC before and it works just fine when I plug it back in.

Should I be worried? This doesn't happen often (about 3 times in the course of like 2 and a half years), but I also don't like the idea of my PC not booting period.

 

[Pope Negro Joe the XIIIth]

Ok, I finally got a charger for my little hack book, is kali still the best or is there a better pentest distro?

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

I've been having this semi-recurring issue that whenever I suddenly lose power, like during a power outage or something, my PC struggles to boot. It will turn on, and I can see from the lights on the motherboard that it's functional, but it just won't boot. The only real way I've been able to fix this is by repeatedly turning it on and off again until it finally boots, which feels inelegant and probably dangerous, but it's the only thing that works. I've turned off and unplugged the power supply to get the power drained and see if that helps, but that doesn't really do anything. And this only happens during blackouts; I've unplugged my PC before and it works just fine when I plug it back in.

Should I be worried? This doesn't happen often (about 3 times in the course of like 2 and a half years), but I also don't like the idea of my PC not booting period.

What do you have attached to it? USB HDDs and internal HDDs shouldn't matter but after a sudden power loss one might throw a smart error to the BIOS during the next start up and the BIOS will think about it for a bit. But you say you've unplugged it in the past while it's running(not while locked up due to overclocking, right?).

stupid question, I sometimes press an unknown combination of buttons and then the farms looks like this. How/why?

 

[Duncan Hills Coffee]

What do you have attached to it? USB HDDs and internal HDDs shouldn't matter but after a sudden power loss one might throw a smart error to the BIOS during the next start up and the BIOS will think about it for a bit.

Just a USB keyboard, a USB wireless mouse, and an internal SSD.

But you say you've unplugged it in the past while it's running(not while locked up due to overclocking, right?).

I should clarify; when I said I unplugged it, I meant when it was turned off. This booting situation actually happened one time when I did unplug it while it was running, meaning this happens when the PC loses power suddenly without being shut down properly. I've also never overclocked it if that means anything.