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[wierd]

Most USB VGA chips are crippled. No 3d support, at all.  Basic 2D blitting tops.

See for example, Displaylink's offerings.

https://www.displaylink.com/products/usb-adapters
https://displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=362

Now you can FAKE it with something like SwiftShader... But for anything advanced, it will melt your CPU.

[da_nang]

Well I'm only looking for something that enables web browsing, LibreOffice, and Paint.net, on Windows 7.

I don't expect to do any gaming on this PC for the moment.

[wierd]

Assuming your motherboard lets you do headless mode operation (Its BIOS will not find a vga device, and will think it is headless), then USB VGA would give you a display adapter for doing those tasks.

Just be apprised that 3d accel is used for more than just games.  Youtube and pals will suffer.

[Reelya]

Tiny7, a unofficial distro (might be legal if you own a key). Some people have that one running in 128MB RAM. That's pushing it, but it is a viable install on even 256MB.

[wierd]

Well, if you are gonna count specialist distros, Damn Small Linux uses some tiny amount of RAM.

http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

[feelotraveller]

Yeah, I thought the original question was about default installs.

By the way I'm pretty sure Damn Small Linux has been defunct for some time but there is always Tiny Core Linux

http://tinycorelinux.net/

[MCreeper]

More of simple and probably googlable questions!
So i have a laptop (DELL whateverish) with Windows 10, and by default (?) contrast is off quite a bit to the darker side. Normally that's not a problem, but it got rather ridicolous in first Dark Souls, where even at maxed ingame brightness areas that are a bit darker than outside turn into "see nothing beyound inbuilt lantern range" areas. And i can't find contrast settings. "High contrast mode" just colorswaps window borders, calibration shows me that it is indeed borked, then helpfully tells me to use non-existant contrast settings buttons on my display. Surely there must be an option somewhere?

[wierd]

Look on the number keys for icons that looks like a sun, written in blue.  Use the Fn key and whatever key that is, to adjust the backlight intensity.

[methylatedspirit]

When I got my phone, there was this warning label on the box stating "SOUTHEAST ASIAN SIM CARD ONLY". Something like that, anyway. The reverse side of the label explained that I'd need to accumulate at least 5 minutes of cumulative talk time in any Southeast Asian country for the phone to work on international networks.

How does any of this work? How does it restrict itself to Southeast Asian networks? How does it know that 5 minutes have elapsed? Why does this restriction exist in the first place?

[wierd]

The baseband is a software defined radio.  As such, it is actually a small computer in and of itself.  Naturally, it and its behaviors, are programmable.

Carriers keep deep, dark, dirty secrets about how they program their baseband radios so that they can do shit like this and get away with it.

Often times, there are "Secret menus" baked into the phone's operating system to reprogram the phone once it has been in service for awhile. That information often leaks to the public, and then people unlock their phones themselves.

[methylatedspirit]

Where I come from, though, almost every phone is sold unlocked— not tied to any carrier. I definitely did not get this phone on any particular carrier. Who is doing this, if it's not a carrier?

[MCreeper]

Look on the number keys for icons that looks like a sun, written in blue.  Use the Fn key and whatever key that is, to adjust the backlight intensity.

That will be for brightness, raising which just turns pitch black areas in dark gray areas. There are none for contrast, looks like. Any way to raise contrast that is within system?

[wierd]

what gpu?

[MCreeper]

what gpu?

Thanks, got it. It was in Intel settings. I did set contrast a bit higher, then i did set it back to base and then DS worked just fine. I don't even.

[Parsely]

I have a Windows 10 desktop PC with two displays, something has been up with my primary monitor and I'm really getting sick of it.

In Event 1 it will turn black but only for a second, then it comes back, this happens 5 or 10 times then it chills out and stops, then usually it won't happen again for the rest of the day. It could happen at any time, fiddling with the display and power cables during it doesn't help, and I can never get it to occur by fiddling with the cables aggressively, so I suspect my GPU.

Sometimes Event 1 is followed immediately by Event 2 (but sometimes this happens randomly), where my primary display turns solid green. I can still move windows back and forth (mouse isn't visible though) so it's not a connection problem which again makes me think GPU and not my cables. If I unplug either of my monitors' display cables and plug it back in it instantly fixes it and it's like nothing happened.

Just yesterday the primary display went to white noise which kind of freaked me out because that's the first time that ever happened, I fixed it the same way I fixed Event 2 though. Drivers are up to date. What should I do?