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retard here. i just installed devuan kde and it's comfy but the root password i put it's not working. i can't update anything. do i have to reinstall again and not use any root password so sudo gets installed?
I had that once with the flatpak version of Steam, and I fixed it by installing my distro's Steam package instead.
If that's not your problem, go into /dev/input/by-id and make sure you have read/write permissions for whatever device files the DS has associated with it. If there's a + on the end of the permission string, use getfacl to view the full permissions.
Jacob Hernandez
the xboxdrv simply disconnects the controller after a few seconds. baffling.
Christopher Sanders
Linux? Aint got gaaaames! Talkin' 'bout that ps triple.
Jaxon Lopez
Why are you using xboxdrv?
Jaxon Hernandez
it's what archwiki tells me to do
Julian Young
Does apt-get autoremove actually work well, or does it sometimes remove packages that are still being used?
It's steam being gay. Try it out with a non-steam game and it will work perfectly
Jayden Bell
#FakeNews it takes IP into account
Evan Price
Fuck I meant
Blake Lee
1 - Reboot 2 - When Grub loads press e to edit boot config 3 - Find line that starts with "linux .... " 4 - At the end of that line add init=/bin/bash 5 - Press F10 to boot that editied config 6 - In bash type passwd 7 - Type new password 8 - Retype new password 9 - Reboot 10 - Login with new password
Jeremiah Foster
Planning a complete rebuild of all my systems
Was going to use centos7 on all my raspberry pis and just make a configuration script for handling users, yumcron, clamav, hosts/hostname, new SSL certs, and copying various configs and enabling their services like ssh, postfix, rsync, postgres, etc
Someone mentioned ansible to me and it seems pretty hot, but I'm pretty close to finished with this script, it basically just modifies everything with sed then enables it - there are a few checks you actually have to verify to continue it just isn't as sleek as I would like it to be. Ansible seems nice but I don't want to have to fuck with epel.
Any recommendations? Should I just man up and configure the shit manually cuz it will only take about a day? Would like to rebuild annually, should I get my script basically working then polish it up each year?
Oliver Rogers
I fucked my system to such a degree even the Debian IRC couldn't help me, so I'm doing a reinstall. Luckily I've split my install into many partitions, so at the very least /home doesn't need to go anywhere. What am I going to lose by. formatting /, /var and /tmp though? /etc configs and installed packaged are the only thing that comes to mind.
Cameron James
Also, could I just backup those two things and then restore them on the new install, or will that cause conflicts of some kind?
Alexander Fisher
I don't see why you would be worry if you know the you use programs and their respective configs, right?
Benjamin Hill
I always fuck up my system by following instructions on Archwiki, so uh, avoid that as well.
Ryder Williams
I can reinstall and reconfigure everything myself yea but ricing a whole DE and tweaking things to my liking is a whole days work, even if I know what to do.
Dylan Ross
If you keep /home most of the configuration will still be there. You just need to reinstall some packages.
yep, but another thing... >mpv was compiled against a different version of FFmpeg/Libav than the shared library it is linked against. This is most likely a broken build and could result in misbehavior and crashes. >mpv was compiled against a different version of FFmpeg/Libav than the shared library it is linked against. This is most likely a broken build and could result in misbehavior and crashes. >mpv does not support this configuration and will not run - rebuild mpv instead. Meh I reinstall it... no it doesn't
"BDF is a bitmap format, so it can't be [trivially] converted to an outline format. What those converters probably mean is that they embed a BDF into a TT file (something I once did, when making Arasan). But many systems simply ignore those these days...
Now, if your objective is to "reproduce" a bitmap font via outlines* I have some custom software that does that, but I haven't fired it up in years... Feel free to email me: hpapazian thatsymbol gmail dot corn
What's your preferred player for tracker music (modules, not the unauthorized sharing tracker thingies)? Is there a VLC for modules that plays everything?
Aaron Allen
no bully how do you guys get those cool skins or whatever
Aaron Cox
how can i avoid to have to insert my password every time that the screen goes black, after a while of not using the computer?
Probably in the power settings of whatever DE you are using
Ian Morris
yes, thanks.
Cooper Thomas
What is this a fatter more racist version of pepe the frog?
Nicholas Wilson
>linux Linux is cuckold communist trash. BSD is not cucked and is pro white and not controlled by kikes. >gnu musl c busybox clang llvm >freedom There are freetards in this very thread using google botnet captcha to post on a closed source proprietary imageboard software.
Bentley Lopez
*5 shecklzz inna pocket*
Elijah Gray
kthxbai
Joseph Sanchez
buy a 2FA device like a yubikey and setup pam correctly or you could not have your screen lock after inactivity.
