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how the f* can i redirect blocked websites from a list on squid? its working fine, bloking what i want, but i need it to instead of going to the "ERROR YOU HAVE NO ACESS" it should be going to something like www.google.com
Since FFmpeg 4.x, I'm missing encoders. I've tried to encode with >theora for ogg >lame for mp3 >vp8 and vp9 for webm >h264 and hevc for mp4 the only one that worked was h264 + hevc
I've tried the package in the main repository, but also ffmpeg-full and ffmpeg-full-git from AUR. None work.
Should I try downgrading to FFmpeg 3.4 or am I doing wrong something else?
Is that some debian / ubuntu installer? Buggy pieces of crap in my experience. Try another version of the distro, maybe it works then... or another distro.
Or set wlan up later [if it's not some netinstall] - after the installation is done it can work better than the actual installer..
Alexander Ortiz
It's netinstall. Fugg.
Austin Myers
BTW there is one more possible issue, maybe your NIC requires proprietary firmware - an unofficial nonfree variant of the installer medium might solve that.
Or again, another distro that doesn't have an open sauce only policy.
Carson Scott
get a better font
Thomas Sanchez
No. Alpine is just Linux.
David Foster
any reccs?
Grayson Flores
anonymous pro
Justin Walker
Linux is just the kernel.
Christian Ortiz
Terminus
Tyler Gutierrez
I just tried it with a FFmpeg 4 static build, which works, but I'd much rather know why it doesn't work with the builds from repo or AUR
ffmpeg -encoders doesnt even list libvorbis libtheora libvpx and whatnot It worked with ffmpeg 3.4 but not since 4.0
Connor Fisher
marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=137392506516022&w=2 >Because if you want me to "act professional", I can tell you that I'm not interested. I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm *also* not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Because THAT is what "acting professionally" results in: people resort to all kinds of really nasty things because they are forced to act out their normal urges in unnatural ways. Why is Linus so based?
Carter Howard
non-ironically would be an improvement
Wyatt Taylor
Menlo, but any monospace font should do the trick. search for mono in font names or monospace/fixed width in font websites.
Gabriel Martin
oooooo i like it thanks user!
Ryan Foster
If I use Debian can I use the Ubuntu snap store? Can I download any Ubuntu program?
Christopher Campbell
Someone had tearing in a rotated monitor with compton and fixed it? Google'd a while but couldn't find anything more than "compton works weird on multimonitor setups".
Carson Fisher
also on the arch/manjaro repos so thats a neat plus
Luis Ramirez
I don't know what's the snap store but I'm guessing it's like a package manager with graphic interface? You should really try apt, it's in my opinion the best package manager but if you aren't into terminal stuff I don't see the need to move from ubuntu. And yes you can use any program that runs on any distro on another if you have it's requisites. Try doing ldd /your/binary to see what libraries it needs.
Christian Lopez
Does it tear without compton running? Can u post your compton config inside ~/.config?
James Perry
Flatpak m8. Just ise flatpak
Jeremiah Hernandez
Born and raised in Europe. The majority isn't into the burger political correctness nonsense, even if there are other [diverse] forms of etiquette.
Also, he's just overall pretty sane and goal-oriented.
Joseph Jackson
He isn't
Jose Ross
I have the standard compton configuration, I think have none (not un Linux right now but I can post it later). Without compton it has a light tearing on both screens but with it the portrait monitor has and the landscape (primary) doesn't. I run it like compton --backend glx --vsync opengl & It shouldn't make a difference if I run it from i3's config or from .xinitrc, right? Also if it serves, I'm using amd-pro drivers for r9 390.
David Young
That's a pretty great example of how not to manage a software project.
Jacob Garcia
dumb frogposter
John Young
AppImage, Flatpack or Snaps? What is the true master race?
Juan Harris
So you agree with political correctness taking over everything? Why aren't you using FreeBSD?
Mason Martinez
Flatpak seems better designed, and has better support outside Ubuntu.
Ethan Sanchez
Just go back to Windows at this point.
Christopher Young
I agree that Torvalds is a dick.
Christian Ortiz
Go get offended somewhere else, cupcake.
James Diaz
try running it with --paint-on-overlay and change the vsync parameter to opengl-swc so it's: compton --backend glx --paint-on-overlay --vsync opengl-swc & on my computer that slows it a bit tho.
Nicholas Anderson
This isn't the thread for your garbage. Fuck off.
Xavier Jackson
font hinting can be the cause of this, try play around with hintstyle and lcdfilter in your font config
Charles Adams
It's the ideal way. Else you get swamped with autistic burgers that like retarded codes of conduct and patronizing adults over correct language and bullshit.
Rather than programming and getting shit done and occasionally having arguments like adults. Which, by the way, do swear at each other.
You are a dick, too. And that's exactly how it should work, yep.
Jaxson Adams
I will try, thank you user. If you don't mind, let me ask something more:
I've tried to search about what's the main difference among differents opengl modes, like drm, opengl, opengl-oml, opengl-swc and opengl-mswc but I couldn't find anything substantial. May you explain a little it to me?
Also >It shouldn't make a difference if I run it from i3's config or from .xinitrc, right?
Henry Hall
m8 what gpu do you have and what drivers
Caleb Morales
>Also if it serves, I'm using amd-pro drivers for r9 390.
Justin Roberts
No differences if you run it from one site or another, however I would put everything X related in the same file to keep it cleaner if you want to edit it later. The modes is just a way to specify which method you wanna use from the linux kernel or from opengl, for example drm is from the linux kernel and is located in include/uapi/drm/drm.h, I really don't know what are the differences in the opengl methods but you should try all and use the one that works best with your hardware, on my computer opengl-swc is the one that works best but I'm using a nvidia so it should diff with yours.
Brandon Parker
yes, you can install the snap shitware on any gnu+linux system which has systemd. It even has official instructions for debian.
Sebastian Murphy
Thank you user. I will try the things you all recommended me.
Owen Kelly
perhaps I will, I've - seriously - never heard of it and I've used GNU/Linux since Windows 98 was popular. I've always used kolourpaint and GIMP and krita. Odd that I somehow missed the existence of this Pinta.
Joshua Nguyen
snap is comfy
Aaron Parker
You can use guix, nix, snap, flatpak or the much more capable & widely used docker (/rkt) and the like.
I'm going to guess the Ubuntu snap store can be installed and used too, but I never tried it.
Dominic Diaz
>Odd that I somehow missed the existence of this Pinta. You probably missed it because it's more like kolourpaint or mypaint or tuxpaint and less like gimp, krita or inkscape or blender in terms of features.
I don't think you'll stop using GIMP and krita.
Cooper Powell
Why is audio on Linux so fucking complicated? >shit loads of programs depend on pulseaudio nowadays >but all serious audio programs don't work with pulse and need JACK I've literally wasted 3 hours trying to get the retarded JACK sink for pulse to work and I'm still getting errors.
Seriously, I've had no problems using Linux for everyday shit so far but this is ridiculous. I don't want to install a poorly maintained audio distro just for a working JACK config.
Nolan Cruz
>nowadays I only suffer this because I use an external card. You should go fine with the minimal software general guide for audio.
Jonathan Turner
I have been trying to fix my microphone for over 3 years now since I bought it. I feel you.
Carson Lee
>minimal software general guide for audio What? I just told you I need both this piece of shit pulseaudio and JACK to work together somehow. There's no other way to have sound from your browser and from something like PureData at the same time.
Robert Thomas
yeah this area does need to improve. my motherboard has dual acl1220 audio which means it shows up in alsa as two analog inputs and two analog outputs and a digital out. pulseaudio will only autodetect one analog input and one output meaning no front case microphone/headphone unless I set that shit up manually, which I've done. But this requires turning off pulseaudio auto-detection and so no not-plugging USB audio devices. There seems to be no way to make pulseaudio exclude the dual-acl1220 from autodetection while still allowing it to autodetect other things. That pothead who wrote pulse probably doesn't it would be "user-friendly".
In Gentoo, do you think it's better have more or fewer global USE flags defined in make.conf? Like I want to be specific about what I want but I don't want to accidentally break something and then have to recompile my whole system.
Jeremiah Young
Then how do I get Jack implemented with this?
Juan Wilson
Can someone explain to my how the programs work across DE's? Like a program made for gnome barely works on KDE. How do I know which programs to choose? I like qbittorent but don't know if I can use it in XFCE/Gnome/KDE.
Lincoln Rodriguez
AlsaMixer should do the trick, with having sound from mulitple sources together. Try the paste bin and check the links inside, everything worked for me BUT the volume. But my issue came because I'm using a sound card which Void can't work with.
Lincoln Williams
I don't think the amount matters. In a more specialize system there are tend to be more global USE flags, in a generic system there are much less. Also, when you eselect a profile you are enabling or disabling a shitload of USE flags too. The KDE system profile of course has a gorillion of global USE flags while the default profile barely has any.
Oliver Murphy
How trustworthy are ppas? I have used launchpad to install the proprietary Nvidia driver, but it got me thinking, wouldn't infiltrating a popular ppa be the ideal method for the NSA to compromise Linux?
I have also been thinking that compiling everything from source isn't all that safer either as no one person has the time to audit every piece of source code prior to installing.
I'm getting paranoid. :(
Jonathan Long
I'm having install trouble with Linux Mint.
Hardware: R5 1600 Gigabyte A320M mobo GTX 1050
Upon booting Mint from a liveUSB, I get an error: "DRM: failed to create kernel channel. -22"
I am led to understand that it's a problem with the graphics card.
Any tips? How do I modify a kernel boot option? Am I just busted?
Owen Torres
What if I'm using an external USB DAC?
Robert Cox
Trust the big ones like gnuzilla or icecat ppas, for small things just manually install it securely in a sandbox from their source code.
Henry Lewis
check your iso the iso could be damaged
Ryder Hall
Dependencies should give you a rough idea on which program is DE-centric, if it pulls a shit ton of dependencies then it's probably not gonna integrate well on a DE it's not designed for.
Landon Lee
Trust: official ppas made by the developer(s) of a program Don't trust: unofficial ppas, yourself
add the "nomodeset" option to your kernel command line. You can edit menu options in every bootloader, usually with the 'e' key. You will have to death with 800x600 or a similar low res during the installation. After you managed to install the OS, install the binary drivers.
William Jackson
Thanks, man.
Hudson Barnes
Can't answear you because I don't use it. I use external PCI card. Sorry user.
Nathaniel Morris
Which kernel?
Wyatt Bell
what is the best gaming distro in 2018?
Colton Mitchell
gentoo >optimized specifically for your cpu >can tweak literally anything to improve performance
Using ffmpeg from git on gentoo ( tho not update for several weeks ) . I am currently transcoding old avi files with it to vp9. Check the PKGBUILD file to see if the encoders are disabled before compilation.
Juan King
So? What I posted is correct.
David Bennett
I followed the gentoo guide on condiguring ALSA to be able to use more than one sound source at once ( the dmix part ). I am not able to make MOC ( 2.6 alpha 3 ) play nicely, it only starts when configure it to use a specific device ( in which case it disables other programs sound output ). Other stuff like notifications, mpv, wine, etc. work well. Any advice?