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$ man %command% $ info %command% $ help %command% $ %command% -h $ %command% --help
Don't know what to look for? $ apropos %something%
then run: wpa_passphrase %essid% %password% >> /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
/etc/init.d/net.wlp3s0 start
Jason Torres
or you could use a netctl profile and not be a nigger.
wifi-menu also comes with the base package. a literal gui.
Carter Allen
:(
Gabriel Reyes
shit I forgot this was frendly thread sorry
i want a gf someone please send help
Oliver Stewart
Don't listen to the other fag, classic Arch was way better than systemd bullshit they've put now.
Jackson Reed
:)
it's ok we're all friendly here
Cameron Murphy
This explanation made me want to rescue the init scripts from old Arch, wish I knew which repository they put their old scripts.
Jace Stewart
I want to try easing into GNU/Linux by dual booting my laptop with Debian (I'm sick of how slow oracle vm gets), but I was wondering what the whole systemd issue I read on the wiki is about.
the opensuse kgpg tool won't start and I can't use it to make one the wallet keeps turning off my wifi prompting me to use a gpg key and it's extremely obnoxious wat do
I am confused. I have a directory owned by me and set to 0777 but when i mount something into it it becomes owned by root and i have to sudo and shit to use it, why? is there any way to keep the original owner and permissions after mount?
Adam Campbell
>using sudo to mount >not knowing who is the owner Maybe try using chown instead of chmod.
Landon Bennett
Is there a backport of g++-7.0-aarch64-linux-gnu or higher available anywhere? I'm trying to get something compiled on travis, and it was working fine with g++-4.8-aarch64-linux-gnu, but now I'm using some C++17 so I need a newer compiler.
Using Ubuntu 14.04. Can't compile g++ since there's a compilation time limit.
Xavier Roberts
what are you talking about son? only root can mount. if i try to mount without root i get an error
Christian Martinez
Just do a chown after you mount.
Nathaniel Bennett
If your using fstab try setting the uid and gui to your user. Not sure how to do that with plain mount
Bentley Price
Tether your phone.
Grayson Nguyen
Actually he can do "mount NAME" if he has that in the fstab and he'll get to mount like he wants.
Luke Lewis
So what happened about the coc I've been away for weeks
I find it funny how I'm constantly seeing people buying up new laptops left and right (including new ThinkPads), spending a boat load of money, all so that they can transfer music to their phones faster, play video games, and load up standard webpages on machines which will never be used to their full potential.
Meanwhile I'm still rocking my almost 8 year old i7-2640M x220 that I bought used on eBay for 120USD. Modded BIOS for 16GB RAM @ 1866MHz w/ 11-11-11-32 timing, 1TB mSATA SSD @ 3Gbps, 256GB 2.5" SATA SDD @ 6Gbps, Bluetooth 4.0 daughter card, original 6cell battery getting ~5 hours with normal use after kernel and OS optimization.
It's certainly not the baddest laptop in the ring, but I often emulate a dozen routers in GSN3 and run two virtual machines, with standard media and network programs running, all simultaneously, while staying under and 75% load and never getting anywhere close to half of RAM.
I know a lot of people buy new hardware because they want to play new games, and that's fine, but it's crazy how functional an almost 8 year old laptop still is, depending on your needs. Sure, I can't play boot up The Witcher on my x220 (without an external GPU), but I can play the hell out of the original Half-Life (fav game of all time) and most Source engine games, Daggerfall and Morrowind (second fav) and most importantly, I can do the work that I actually need get done.
Just did a spring cleaning of my files and felt like ranting. Also that keyboard... ooh man.
What are some good markup/prototype programs for app/web development? Something like Dreamweaver, Sketch, Figma, etc. but free and for GNU/Linux.
It's the only thing really keeping me from switching full time. Mac OSX offers a ton of dev tools. It seems GNU/Linux is still stuck in Vim/eMacs which is fine for elitists but not for people with jobs.
Hunter Flores
People don't expect quality so we don't get quality. That's why 90% of the laptops shipped out these days are barely optimized to run Windows 10 alone. I got shilled into buying a HP laptop from Walmart because it was a i5 with 8GB of memory for only $400. Shit barely ran Windows 10. Works fine for Arch but I don't understand why these companies ship out all of these laptops running Celerons and shit knowing damn well it'll barely function with Windows bloat.
Matthew Gomez
Brackets is similar to Atom and Sublime but dedicated to webdev, there was something similar to dreamweaver called blue something, cant remember exact name.
Nathan Watson
Aptana is the only thing I can think of that comes close to what those services offer.
GNU/Linux was never really designed for web applications development. Nor is it really an environment for programming per say. It's primary function is for running servers and network/database security. What dev environments we do have aren't going to be what you can get on other platforms. We mostly run scripts and automation/maintenance functioning tasks. At least until the huge influx of people like here on Jow Forums coming to GNU/Linux making distributions for regular desktop use.
PyCharm is pretty popular for Python. Brackets and Atom are good but bloat and extremely optimized. Sublime Text offers good file/project management but I don't believe it offers any tools for design.
Anthony Fisher
>was never really designed for web applications development Devops want a word with you. >Nor is it really an environment for programming per say. Dennis Ritchie wants a word with you.
Devops are Macbook cucks. C these days is mostly used in OS development and embedded systems. Dennis is dead. He didn't develop Unix to be a programmers tool.
Isaac Reyes
Just to be clear, mac users do use many of the same cli tools we use, as for gui we do have stuff like brackets and works fine, is just than your average Linux user prefers the cli but that doesnt mean we dont have fancy tools, just means we are not afraid of going straight to barebones applications. Also, poor Ritchie, C and Unix were hand in hand creations, so to this day many programmers prefer Linux even for programming Windows applications.
Jack Walker
Not many companies are willing to go through the hassle of cross compiling and developing their product in a OS they aren't developing for. I've worked for a Windows only project for a company in Texas and they were Windows only.
I've always worked for Windows based software companies. I wouldn't volunteer to go through the added process of cross-piling.
Jonathan Myers
If you do native I get why you say it but these days most people work with interpreted languages, at least the small jobs like webdev. There is a reason you hear mac users have actual jobs and is not because they are working with objective-c.
Install it, don't listen to anti-systemd people for now. Once you get a hold of it, install Devuan and compare for yourself. I like systemd and have no problems with it as a regular user, but the crowd here disagrees with me.
but for some reason despite the timestamps in my history file are showing up as epoch time how do I make it display as human time?
Nicholas Morales
would it be wise to switch from Fedora KDE to OpenSUSE KDE
Leo Howard
I have an SSH private key created using the 'new' format (using the -o option in ssh-keygen). Using ssh-keygen, can I convert this private key to the old format? If so, how?
Nathan Johnson
Most people don't know shit about computers. They use it for 2-3years, gets loaded with malware, disk only has 5%capacity, dust gathers on the insides, etc etc,... so after 2 years they go : "it's probably too old, i need a new one." And they buy a fucking new one because maybe, just maybe, we are too rich for our own good. Idk if i make a lot of sense.
I checked last year, it seemed to be progression toward the new version of Xfce and there's still nothing. Almost everything seems done tho wiki.xfce.org/releng/4.14/roadmap
Austin Gonzalez
>"linux is FOSS, user" >can't be distributed commercially because of patents
Any i3 fags on? Is there anyway I can have a dwm-like auto layout thing where it automatically gives me a big master window on the left and 3 or more slaves on the right of the screen without me having to manually v and h split? I'm currently using for_window [class=".*"] split toggle
which works ok with 3 windows (one master and 2 slaves) but it ends up giving you more of a fibonacci thing than what dwm has.
wow bro you're so cool and unique how many years of technological training did you undergo to master your laptop like that? mind if I post that reddit? I REALLY need the karma *nods respectfully towards you*
Jayden Jones
you need to start the fucking monitor dingus type in man xrandr and read it if you're too dumb just install lxrandr and use that
Henry Edwards
*drowns in pussy*
Connor Torres
I have a newer thinkpad with only displayport out, so I bought pic related to adapt to my TV. Unfortunately, I can't get my sound to come through the TV. Should I expect sound at all through such a cable? I'm on NixOS btw.
use xrandr for the display and then pavucontrol to change the output device that's just fucking common sense dude
Joseph Sanchez
Yeah the display works correctly, but no matter what sink I set with pavucontrol, there's no sound.
Wyatt Gonzalez
post the last tab from pavucontrol
Blake Gutierrez
From what i understand, zram gives you more ram by using your cpu right? will that affect performance on the cpu and does it decrease battery life on a laptop?
Nathan Jackson
sound over displayport?
Jonathan Miller
Also all the HDMI options for sound sinks say (Unplugged)
sounds like, if zram is used for swap, you can fit more data into swap, so that's like having more RAM, i guess. it's enabled on lubuntu 13.10 and forward, apparently, if you want to try it easily.
i'm assuming it would affect CPU and thus battery, but i don't know by how much.
Josiah Flores
what profiling tool do i get to verify that my changes to a program actually make it more efficient?
Ethan Bennett
JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, please tell me that pic is fake
Would it be worth it to use zram on a laptop with a modern atom processor and 2gb ram that would be mainly used to web browsing or would it affect battery performance too much?
