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Is it possible to remove systemd from an existing Arch install? Finding replacements for the init system and other things that systemd manages
Jonathan Roberts
>And the other things Such as?
Jason Bell
I don't know, which is why I'm asking instead of already doing it
Ian Morgan
Occasionally, fa/g/lords will sperg out about which distro is truly superior—usually Arch due to its "minimalism", Debian due to its "stability", Ubuntu due to its "ease of use", et cetera. All more or less incorrect, of course; Arch's kernel has an allyesconfig which is unnecessary bloat and counterarguments its self-proclaimed DIY nature, Debian's main meme is being ancient as all hell, and Ubuntu's everything generally sucks—from apt and its ways of handling dependencies to the varied degrees of bloat you get upon a fresh install. Yes, that includes Server as well for the most part. In comparison, Fedora is about as fresh as a distro can get.
Systemd starts and manages daemons. You can easily make your own if you just want to start things and forget about them. What are you trying to accomplish? Replacing the evil systemd or learning about linux?
Noah Miller
Yes, ideally I want to get rid of systemd >Systemd starts and manages daemons Is this the only thing it does on a stock Arch install? Just a daemon init system? Because I've heard of its scope creep
Joshua Ortiz
I don't understand graphical ssh. I'm running a GUI program on my server. I can use ssh -X to launch it and run it from my client. But I can't seem to use ssh to just view it when it's already remotely running. If that makes sense. I can work around it by using a full blown remote desktop program (VNC) but I'd rather not. How do I just use ssh to view the GUI of a program already running on my host computer?
How does one disable USB controller entirely? I want to use it in my VM (pci passtrough) and VM only. I tried adding it's id to vfio-pci.ids kernel parameter, I tried unbinding it's driver and doing some other things. Nothing fucking works. Come on, it can't be this hard, right? I tried disabling first and last one from this list with no success. I'd rather not pass the USB3 one, because it's nice to have it on the host. IOMMU Group 10 00:1d.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI Controller #1 [8086:8ca6] IOMMU Group 4 00:14.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Controller [8086:8cb1] IOMMU Group 6 00:1a.0 USB controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 9 Series Chipset Family USB EHCI Controller #2 [8086:8cad]
How does GNU/Linux avoid DNS spoofing and MITM like windows is prone to?
Connor Robinson
How crazy careful do I have to been if I'm self-hosting?
I really just want to host radicale for calendars + contacts to get away from Jewgle, and probably a Syncthing service to keep my Music and Documents synced across my devices.
I share house with other people though, I would have no issues getting a port forwarded on my router, I'm just afraid I'd be making my internet less secure for my roommates, or worst case scenerio I do something retarded and someone gets root access to my desktop.
Made a thread on accident meant to post here first oopsie
I don't think those are avoidable just by using gahnoo slash loonix. But you are free to run a DNS server of your own or use opennic.
Daniel Roberts
why are you running a native game with proton/wine again?
Lucas Gonzalez
absolute state of zoomers
Ethan Gonzalez
it worked fine before they introduced proton
Chase Rivera
It definitely has nothing to do with proton even if the problem surfaced after they introduced it. cs 1.6 has a native gnu/linux port, it does not use proton.
Asher Edwards
Just do the usual security you'd do on any server. Ultra basic, ultra primitive shit like changing the port to something uncommon does wonders from random chinese looking for vulnerable servers.
Tyler Martinez
Can someone explain what a start/stop script is and the importance of init.d for a brainlet please? In terms of tasks I might do
Levi Ross
init scripts are scripts that start services on your computer (network, clock sync, dbus, printing service, filesharing etc etc). They are usually located in /etc/init.d/. If your system runs systemd there are systemd .service files somewhere which do the same, in a bit different way. systemd can run init.d scripts too for the sake of compatibility.
start/stop are commands for those scrips like /etc/init.d/proftpd start starts the ftp server
Jason Perez
This should be the official gentoo logo
David Barnes
Thanks - I'm reading about it and getting confused with the mishmash of init, systemd, upstart and sys V knowledge. It's easy to get carried away.
Gavin Brooks
>install timeshift >create a snapshot >upgrade some packages >snapshot disappears The absolute state of free software
Robert Wood
Best RSS feed reader for chromium? This is just /sqt/ on Linux, isn't it?
Luke Price
How do I get girls to recognize the tastefulness of my rice?
Lincoln Peterson
Can anyone help me understand how to configure a kernel for installing Gentoo on my x201? I failed two times and people will look at me if I use genkernel.
Robert Morris
>heard of its So you know nothing about it, you are a fucking retard who can't educate himself about things and who just wants instant edgy opinions so you can feel all smart about "technology"? Fucking retard. Go post on /v/ or in the consumer electronic threads.
Ethan Anderson
No, I'll stay here instead. You can go though
Angel Bailey
Take it easy Lennart, don't you have some issues to close?
Nathaniel Rivera
It's what the thread title says.
Ayden Lee
i'd try it out it if it had a different name
Brody King
I need your bash scripting powers. I'm unable to properly insert a function argument into a fragment of a command. Here's a minimum working example.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
# Save the script arguments. model_name=$1 model_surname=$2
getModelLinks() {
# These are the arguments echo site_specific_url echo $1 echo grep_filtering echo $2 echo porn_site echo $3
# Store the arguments. site_specific_url=$1 grep_filtering=$2 porn_site=$3
So you want a list of video links for a given model?
Michael Ortiz
Here is an example for the final desired command. lynx -dump pornhd.com/pornstars/sasha-grey | grep videos | grep -v saved-videos | grep -v '/category/' > playlist-raw-01.txt
Yes. I can type the command, but I don't know how to put the pieces together to build that lynx command and make it run properly.
someone asks about it once in a while then gets told to use ufw.
Charles Green
Is ufw good? What is even the point
Jordan Peterson
Why is i3bar using 11% of my RAM? Am i using too many i3block 1 second refresh scripts?
Zachary Turner
OS: Arch Program: enum4linux
So i keep receiving the following error message when enum4linux is run:
`WARNING: polenum.py is not in your path. Check that package is installed and your PATH is sane.`
The package `polenum` is definitely installed and yet I am still having this issue. HELP!
Oliver Fisher
ufw and its gui frontend gufw are the easy way to manage and configure a firewall iptables is considered to be very advanced compared to ufw which is why most people suggest ufw over iptables.
Joseph Wright
You just gotta embrace the meme.
Asher Bell
Just use firewalld and manage it from cockpit desu senpai
Caleb Brooks
Got the answer. Hats off to /dpt/. Fedora is great. You're missing out.
Lincoln Long
I don't really care that much about this but I'm curious: how come people only recently decided that yaourt is bad and insecure when it was the most used thing for years and years without anyone saying anything bad about it? seems weird nobody noticed beforehand if that was the case.
Camden Gray
What's the goto now? pakku?
Owen Ward
Read your error message, as you didnt do it the first time
Liam Turner
ufw is a frontend for iptables.
Blake Anderson
ever wonder how people like him find this board?
Jacob Rivera
'yay' seems to be the big one these days. I've used it myself in the past and it works really well.
Asher Ortiz
pffsh...hahahah... heh kiddo, alright.. you've had you fun, now SCRAM!
Jonathan Ramirez
Stop lowercase posting. This isn't Facebook.
Jason Morris
It was shit the day it was published.It introduced errors that ONLY youart had,introducing a fuck ton of garbage for program developers that wasn't relevant to their program at all since yaourt fucked it up
Nathaniel Ross
what are those programs called that can take "snapshots" of opengl/directx contexts and allow you to inspect the matrices and framebuffers and such in the vram? Is there a good one for GNU?
Cooper Allen
If device drivers are part of the kernel, how does the kernel contain the ability to potentially support thousands of different devices?
Are there any graphic designers ITT? Which software do you use?
I really wanted to like Inkscape but it doesn't have the most intuitive interface. At least when I tried it last year.
Is there a good Adobe Illustrator/Affinity Designer alternative for linux?
Brandon Moore
Drivers can be excluded from the kernel or built as modules. Modules are only loaded on demand and can be unloaded per user request. Also, one module may support hardware like the amdgpu module supports a lot of new radeon cards.
James Flores
A lot of the drivers are generic rather than specialized for a device
Henry Powell
How do you even undervolt/overclock a GPU on Linux? Just got a Vega 56 and would like to tweak that here. I could just boot into a Windows drive and try there if it's too much of a hassle.
I have another problem. The function takes two arguments (name, surname). I know how to iterate over the lines of a file*, but it doesn't seem to work. I tried cat with xargs as well, but it only gets the first line.
How can I run... ./the_script.sh aya addams ./the_script.sh bree daniels ./the_script.sh zoe voss
Given a txt file containing the names? aya addams bree daniels zoe voss
This! Someone posted this ages ago, but I had misplaced the script. Thanks a ton!
for those following the free movement as well, do you use a phone? And if so, which one? why that one? I have a xiaomi (I know...) that just broke last week and during my time having it, i kind of strated liking the whole gnu, fsf philosophy, deleted windows, started using debian at home and at the office, but what about the phone? I read about Replicant, but it has a small support of devices. Other ROMs i dont really know if they can be trusted. But the idea of buying a new phone with all-google everywhere really scares me. Im glad I convinced my closest friends to start using Signal app at least. >/spg/ i could have posted it in smartphone thread, but they usually care only about specs and consumer choices, not ideologies.
Austin Lewis
How can i make the most bloatfree and optimal fedora install.
Aaron Hughes
Alt how hard is it to install gentoo on a physical machine if ive never done it
Asher Howard
What would you recommend for a simple stopwatch program that I can easily hook up to OBS for streams?
I want to get into speedrunning games on Linux, but the available options seem rather limited. There's LiveSplitOne, which is a rewrite of LiveSplit for Windows, but that one only works on the browser and thus can't be controlled through global hotkeys
I looked around, but I couldn't seem to find better options. The simpler, the better, honestly. As long as it is easy to edit time splits, have it use global hotkeys, and it's easy to hook up to OBS, I'll be sold.
Oh shit, you guys exist. I gave up and went to Windows after seeing the absolute state of the OBS package on Debian Sid. Tried building it too and even after no errors pop up during compilation, it refuses to start up.
Landon Gomez
You should be able to just replace the echo in that example with your script. I think you might get the names as a single arg with a space instead of two args. But I think you should fix your script anyway, because some people might only use a single name.
Ayden Powell
Vulkan logic dictates "it works on my system"
Ryan Butler
Weird you mention that, I'm on Debian Sid and use the obs-studio package just fine, haven't had any problems with it so far. What issues did you have?
Cooper Mitchell
I've set the ldc filter do default, but I still have color fringing. Is there anything that can be done about this? It's driving me insane.
Brayden Morgan
>Occasionally, fa/g/lords will sperg out about which distro is truly superior—usually Arch due to its "minimalism", Debian due to its "stability", Ubuntu due to its "ease of use", et cetera. All more or less incorrect, of course; Arch's kernel has an allyesconfig which is unnecessary bloat and counterarguments its self-proclaimed DIY nature, Debian's main meme is being ancient as all hell, and Ubuntu's everything generally sucks—from apt and its ways of handling dependencies to the varied degrees of bloat you get upon a fresh install. Yes, that includes Server as well for the most part. In comparison, Fedora is about as fresh as a distro can get.
I use fedora pretty much for everything other than my database server (Debian).
I have a problem with my Lenovo y510p laptop. My input audio is crap. I don't think my mic hardware is bad. I just have tons of static. I think some configuration somewhere is wrong. What do you think it is?
Also, how often do I need to reboot a fedora server? Every time there is a kernel update?
I can stream on it just fine. The problem is missing hardware encoders and basic shit like browser integration unless I'm missing something and I can incorporate the latter without building from scratch.
Sebastian Turner
Yes, I would be missing stoya, yihvi, etc. But I don't want to do it all in one sitting. There's no echo in that script. There's no script in the last post. Just me running each line one by one. Maybe I can simply concatenate every line of the file with "./the_script " and eval it? I will continue tomorrow.
Luis Brooks
Wait. I misunderstood you. No, it doesn't work simply replacing it. But anyway, I will work on it tomorrow. Feel free to reply if you already have an answer. I feel a bit silly for not figuring it out.
Ryder Adams
I have browser integration on my OBS without building it from scratch, just the normal debian sid package
Like all smart-things, smartphones are botnet by design, because of the baseband and the preinstalled spyware. The minimum you can do is limiting the spying by using a firewall (netguard or afwall), not using gapps, using fdroid, aurora store or yalp to get apps.
There's a privacy focussed phone running a real GNU/Linux system made by purism, but it isn't ready yet. It looks really promising, tho.
Christian Perez
>hardware encoders You have to install a recent version of cuda, i dont know how restricted you are on debian in regards to cuda but you need it and nvdec nvenc. If you cant use it from the main package , get on a non cucked distro that dosent limit you from doing things that you want on your own fucking computer.
while read -r slut; do myscript "$slut' done < sluts.txt
Jose Mitchell
s/'/"
Nicholas Price
Doesn't seem to offer global hotkeys or split support
Jaxson Morales
>was an Ubuntu and Mint user for the longest time >after Mint install got fucked because of missing dependencies for drivers I tried to install (???), said fuck it >I'm gonna try Debian >everything just works, sable as fuck >everything is faster, laptop is more power efficient >missing dependencies much less often >everything just works
What's the point of Ubuntu and Ububtu-based distros again?
Aaron Peterson
Nonfree software handholding.
Elijah Evans
Then you could have x264 hwaccel options in obs :)
Then I don't know what the fuck is happening here. My sources don't include a browser option.
Nolan Price
You have to use THE LATEST to get those features bro. Not some 5 year outdated piece of shit that debian pimps in their shitty repo's
Brayden Reyes
Have you been following the string of replies? We're both on Debian Sid using the obs package from the repos. That is, unless user is on some experimental shit.
Connor Hill
All i can tell you is that browser support in obs in linux is a very recent addition, and unless you have the latest version of obs, you will be lacking these features. I dont run debian so i dont have ot deal with their religious bullshit in my system repo's, but alas you do and im telling youu
Josiah Cruz
Yes and that's OK. I build things from time to time when the maintainers are slacking.