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Anything that holds your hand more than VS Code will just make you more retarded, you should absolutely understand the basics of compilation and debugging if you're going to use C. Don't use your lack knowledge as an excuse user
Julian Kelly
i am thinking about going full VIM, but i have to finish assignment till 30. So i have little to no spare time.
Justin Hernandez
Yes.
Connor Gomez
How? Encoding with ffmpeg make the CPU temps reach +90 C, I don't care about how long it will take, as long as it doesn't set my house on fire.
Jason Miller
help
Josiah Clark
I'm using Mint. I find the experience mostly satisfactory actually, I think I'm very close to saying goodbye to fucking Windows forever. Most of my computer usage is lurking though, and I have two major annoyances:
1. Is there any way to post a picture from google image directly without saving? In windows I can "copy file location" and paste it in the open address bar when clicking "Browse..." on *chan, and I know Windows saves it to some temp directory avoiding a few clicks to save the picture. Any way to do this on Linux?
2. Again related to "Browse...", when the interface appears, it always shows "details" view, not the thumbnails or any other view, this is extremely annoying to post on chans, especially because over the years I accumulated hundreds of pictures to my main folders, and I need thumbnails to find shit.
Not being able to do these two things will be a dealbreaker and I think I'll just pirate W10 LTBS and be done with it.
>2. Again related to "Browse...", when the interface appears, it always shows "details" view, not the thumbnails or any other view, this is extremely annoying to post on chans, especially because over the years I accumulated hundreds of pictures to my main folders, and I need thumbnails to find shit.
just being a megacorp plant to ruin stuff for their competitors
Matthew Brown
>Encoding with ffmpeg make the CPU temps reach +90 C Stop being a paranoid idiot.
Ayden Russell
Why is it such a pain to set up the font for urxvt in .Xresources?
Jaxon James
How do I make the fonts on Ubuntu not look like absolute shit? Seriously this operating system is unusable because of these nasty blurry fonts, the fonts look so weird they make me literally cry after a while.
Grayson Morris
I'm not. The CPU is old, when encoding it start to throttle making everything slow. Is there a way to limit the CPU usage of a process? I don't care if the encoding finish in 5 hours.
Tyler Barnes
what's the issue? I've never seen it much as a pain when using xft
Jayden Phillips
This seriously, what the fuck is up with this shit? How is anyone here uploading epic meymeys to Jow Forums without going insane due to the lack of previews?
Tell me your secrets.
Tyler Campbell
>Is there a way to limit the CPU usage of a process? idk about limiting but you can set cpu priority with nice
Justin Barnes
90+ °C won't kill a CPU, but if you want to stop the throttling then I guess you could replace the thermal paste and dust off the heatsink.
Benjamin Brooks
I just drag and drop pics from my file manager, I preferred it that way on windows too as it's much easier to navigate as well.
I want to use Noto fonts in URxvt Xft.dpi: 141 Xft.antialias: true Xft.autohint: false Xft.hinting: true Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault Xft.rgba: rgb
URxvt*font: xft:Noto Sans Mono:pixelsize=16 URxvt*boldFont: xft:Noto Sans Mono:bold:pixelsize=16 Beside the spacing being fucked up (this seems to be a common issue in urxvt), it somehow displays another font -- e.g. the 0 is not slashed. The font displays properly on xfce terminal I'm trying dejavu fonts just to see if somehow I messed up the config
>90+ °C won't kill a CPU It will accelerate the wear rate of the thermal paste, and This is a laptop CPU. >replace the thermal paste and dust off the heatsink Already did this the last month. Will it slow it down?
>this actually works Not sure how the fuck I never heard about this, but it's still pretty inconvenient to always go through the file manager instead of just clicking "browse...".
I'm not sure if I should install KDE on top of Cinnamon though. I actually like Nemo and everything else that's stock on Mint and wouldn't really want to change it.
Ethan Edwards
There is no /hsg/ and there hasn't been one for a long time, so asking here. I'm currently running a debian vm for torrents and tor inside proxmox on my home server, but I've heard LXC containers are more efficient. Would it be a good idea to use an LXC container instead of a full blown VM?
Jack Richardson
Yeah, but the font isn't right. Somehow it's better when I use dejavu instead but I can't manage to make it work with noto fonts text file config is supposed to be easier than scrolling through menus. But for fonts and themes, I prefer GUI It's all so tiresome.
Bentley Young
URxvt.font: xft:Noto Sans Mono:style=bold:size=16
you can set style like this and remove that boldfont line, don't forget to update your settings with >xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources
Cameron Brown
Thanks. I guess my mistake was to use URxvt*font instead of URxvt.font
Christian Barnes
Serious question, which is more lightweight and will give me better performance: Gentoo or Arch? I was given an old pc with an old CPU and just 2 GBs of ram.
Adam King
Install SparkyLinux with Lumina DE.
Oliver Allen
>President of Freedom of the Press Foundation >hiding out in the one place that hates free press more than anyplace else on Earth >uses proxies and Tor and other services just to get his message out >fucking stupid people will be the death of us all
"All part of the plan..." 'cause if the U.S. Government really *really* wanted Snowden in custody it would be done in hours if not minutes.
I mean he can do interviews with celebrity interviews live face to face, it would be stupidly idiotic to think the three-letter agencies of the world don't know exactly where Snowden is 24/7 and could snatch him any given moment.
It's all part of the plan, folks...
Lucas Williams
>Gimp has had the 'segfault on font scroll' bug for six years now and it's still unfixed
Free software is a joke.
Eli Garcia
Is there a way to make pacman separate the package you wish to install and its dependencies when it askes you to confirm the operation?
Jason Johnson
Great pic OP
If you can set LXC go for it they use less system resources
Aaron Cooper
It already does that by default. When a program/package gets installed it gets split into different folders: /usr/bin for binaries, etc.
Carson Murphy
I mean when it asks you if you want to confirm an install it just puts all the packages in one big list. Its just a pet peeve but I would like it to list the packages I want and then separate the dependencies with something like , " requires these : [insert dependencies here] "
Gabriel Morris
AFAIK, you'd have to edit the PKGFILE for that.
Dominic Kelly
I'll look into that. Thanks.
Nathaniel Edwards
Speaking of sabotage to the Linux community...
Oliver Foster
Months ago I acquired a free iMac from like 07-09 around there because someone was gonna throw it out. Figured I'd go balls deep since 1. it has a real old version of osx and to get it to the last one it can use looks to be a pain in the ass cuz appstores and shit) is there any specific distro more adaptive to the hardware of this thing? I've done live discs but it didn't seem to want to work with the wifi and I think some other things.
Liam Robinson
Accidentally deleted a whole bunch of files cuz I was in the wrong directory and didn't pay attention. Sucks there is no `undo` command.
Samuel Davis
I rm -rf * 'ed my root directory once, THAT was fun.
it literally fixes if you remove the "quiet" option lmao
Jacob Price
It has a lot of other problems, though.
Posted from my macbook with "burning" retina display running "dusty keyboard" Mojave
William Rogers
Does xfce suffer from gtk-file-chooser problem? I want to upgrade my distro from 32 bit mint cinnamon to something else, but dunno if I should pick KDE or xfce.
All I want is a distro that does the following: works well with a stylus. I have a yoga 730. IT's got a stylus.
Give me a distro that works well with it and I'll try it. That's literally the only thing stopping me from moving over.
Ethan Price
Anything GNOME or KDE.
Cooper Clark
You should have said something amongst the lines of, "I finally tipped my Fedora"
Asher Nguyen
I changed the type of a lukes encrypted partition by accident, I thought it was an LVM and applied changes in Debian installer. I haven't mounted it or written in any way aside from the partition change. How can I recover the data? I don't know if the headers are completely fucked beyond repair or if I can just regenerate the data with the same password, I mean it should work as the encrypted data is intact.
Michael Lewis
probably the gnome classic session or kde. vanilla gnome wouldn't do it because it's meant to be use with the keyboard. It isn't really a mouse interface. But try by yourself
Luis Carter
Spotify Linux desktop app and web version (Firefox) are REALLY quiet and compressed on high quality, volume barely pushes past 50% in the pavucontrol visualizer. Played the same songs from CD through Clementine and the volume was much louder and the quality was much clearer (probably only because it was louder).
Does anyone know why? Is there anything I can do about it?
Colton Reyes
should I go with realtime TRIM (discard option in fstab) or a weekly cron fstrim
David Jenkins
I can't get linux/gentoo/alsa to recognize that my USB audio interface has an input too. The interface is a behringer UMC22.
Audio output works (although only one application can play audio at a given time, that's another issue.) Alsamixer only shows one output, no input. However, readng /proc/asound/pcm shouws "playback 1" and "capture 1", so it's detecting... something. How do I get this shit to work? I have the applicable kernel modules enabled, too
Do you mean you have a umc22 too? I chose it because it was cheaper than the focusrite scarletts and people online said it worked well on linux. I guess it works well, just not on gentoo apparently.
Christian Clark
i was just shitpostig
Caleb Russell
Sorry friend, but even with the same password the headers would be different.
weekly: trimming too often wears out the drive.
Brody Foster
Just name your images retard
Blake Kelly
There are a lot of things you can try. Play around with the font settings, try changing the sub pixel order, try installing and using wind*ws fonts if you are too used to them. In most cases it is this that's actually the problem.
Jackson Wright
I have to enable fstrim.timer right? not fstrim.service?
Chase Thompson
nvm
Gabriel Hill
you have to increase the niceness. when you use your favorite top program (like htop) there's a way to increase and decrease "niceness", increasing niceness does what you want.
Noah Williams
I-It was just 200GB of music, porn, some books and anime, heh n-nothing important. I thought it was like the Anaconda or Ubuntu installer from red hat that lets you see how to partition and doesn't do it until you hit install. I read the first sectors of the partition with dd but there wasn't anything from luks. >T-thanks Debian
really? I want to do that to Nautilus and apt/dpkg by default, it consumes a fucking lot of CPU usage. So much that the screen stutters and other processes may stutter a bit.
Landon Wood
yeah. niceness is from back in the day when multiple people had to share the same computer. if your queued program/simulation wasn't very important you could voluntarily increase the niceness and give priority to other people's work. to do this on htop you would press F8 which is labeled "Nice +".
Alexander Watson
I suggest you backup the luks header in the future. Sorry fren.
Ian Smith
Dont use shitty quality compressed streaming bullshit
Nathaniel Clark
Shit, I'm gonna backup mine later today.
Juan Adams
Install ananicy. It is a set of preconfigured config files that change the nicenes levels of programs dynamically as they are spawned. You mention your package manager taking over your system, it will change the niceness to that of a background service,effectivly, allowing your desktop to be more responsive and interactive. If you want to take it to another level, you can install a real time kernel such as the zen or ck patchset of linux which increases interactivty even further vs the mainline kernel
Henry Edwards
How do I add a bunch of sub tracks to an mkv? I tried using mkvmerge -o * in the directory with just an mkv and a bunch of srt files and it muxed them all into a single container, ffprobe shows all the tracks, yet when I play the file with only the English subtitle track appears
Robert Hill
Okay so I saw you people arguing about the GTK file picker and as it happens I need help wrestling with that particular retarded pig.
How the fuck do I get it to sort in the correct order?
By this I do NOT mean directories-first, that's easy (and is also all that comes up when I try to search the web for solutions to this.) I mean that in Firefox the file chooser insists on sorting in ASCIIbetical order, as if it were set to the default C locale. That is, it sorts capitals-first instead of in natural-language. (A, N, Z, a, n, z when I want A, a, N, n, Z, z)
LANG is set to en_US.UTF-8 as are all the LC_* variables. LANGUAGE wasn't set, but setting it and rebooting has made no difference, nor did starting Firefox from a terminal with LC_ALL set. Nothing I can see on my system is using the C locale except the GTK3 file picker. If I fire up Pale Moon (which is GTK2) everything sorts correctly.
it's a flag you can now use with the latest FF. but i found it was letting me see the memes but was messing up the upload and it wouldn't save the filename as by default, so might need some tweaks before people should use it.