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Guys. Boy, is my face red right now. I've been doing a little research and it turns out Richard Stallman is not a commie and GNU is not cancer. I guess I was thinking of Karl Marx and Hodgkin's Lymphoma. I just wanted to say I'm sorry for being such a brainless, moronic, pathetic, unsufferably annoying and persistent little pissant fucking twerp for so God damned, intolerably fucking long. Hope you can find it in your hearts to forgive me. Guess I'll leave you all in peace now. Once again, I'm terribly sorry, and couldn't have been more wrong. Peace out, bros.
Colton Watson
I made a shortcut to temporarily prevent screen power saving on KDE, use it if you dare. Credit to some old blog post
#!/bin/bash
trap 'exit 0' SIGINT SIGHUP SIGTERM
while true ; do qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver SimulateUserActivity > /dev/null ; sleep 55s & wait ; done
It didn't work until I fixed my /etc/fstab to point to the correct GUID for the efi partition
Julian Foster
Serves y'all right for sticking to a deprecated, memory fault-prone programming language.
Dominic Peterson
Programming language? And here I thought when you guys were talking about, void I thought it was a distro.
Charles Gomez
Probably the same story happened to more of us than we'd like to admit. It happened to me too. Used to think GNU was a cancer until I one day got sick of it all and decided to really look at it objectively and not take the answer to any of my questions for granted. Then I realized that even though GNU and FSF aren't perfect they are actually less "religious" and more neutral than their opponents are. They certainly don't seem like it on the surface, but they are when you really look at it all under a microscope.
But congrats on finally seeing the light too.
Justin Russell
Reposting from previous thread: Post your ls -AF ~ outputs, everyone
I don't get the hate for GPL though. Some retard will show up and complain about you using a viral license or some shit. Even though linux itself is GPL. How is it too much to ask that you use my code for free you obey some basic requirements to let the end user see and modify it.
Not that anyone respects it. Still waiting on my phone company to send me the source code for my phone and the ability to modify it.
Kayden Gutierrez
I think it's usually this idea that GNU/FSF are somehow less free and want to "force" freedom. But in actuality that's not the case. Usually what people who side against GNU want ends up sounding more like anarchy and allowing companies the "freedom" to exploit their users, which is kind of a contradiction anyway because under an anarchy system then GNU is still not doing anything wrong and are fully in their rights to make things like the GPL which exploits companies in favor of helping users.
Robert Thompson
Also one big thing that made me change my mind about the GPL is realizing that our current laws aren't fair anyway. They unfairly give an advantage to copyright holders. Because under a truly free system even if someone doesn't release their source code to me I should be able to reverse engineer the binary (which is data I may have even fucking PAID for) and as it turns out I could actually get arrested for doing that.
The laws don't play fair as it is, so why should the GPL play fair?
Anthony Wood
Best way to change my DNS servers to Cloudfare's? Antergos & KDE.
It's probably just a /dpt/ leak. It craves attention so if you just ignore it, it will eventually stop shitting up here and go back to its containment thread.
Jeremiah Cruz
Trying to install icecat with AUR, but it says invalid gpg key, what do?
Settings -> Network -> Connections -> IPv4/IPv6 -> DNS
Luke Thompson
I'm using spacemacs and I don't know how to change the line-num color.
I set the appropriate line-num var in the dotfile to 't', so they're displaying OK. Then, I went to the the customize faces menu and set the linenum color, which I assumed would actually set the color. It does not. (I've set it saved for future sessions correctly). I did some more digging in the customize menu and found that there's an additional line-num display variable of some kind that I can set (which was turned off) which will actually display a second column of line numbers (with the appropriate color).
So my question is how do I set the color of the appropriate one I enabled in the dotfile?
Currently using Arch but I've been thinking about trying FreeBSD out of curiosity. What was it like for those of you who used it but came back to Linux?
Anthony Edwards
Is there a good replacement for rxvt-unicode that offers similar set of features?
what does any of that have to do with freebsd presumably for desktop use?
Jacob Ortiz
replace open with free and you got your answer
James Morris
>replace open with free and you got your answer I think you meant to replace "free" with "cocks" , the word "open" with "suck , and the words "replace" and "with" to "I" and "many" respectively
James Stewart
I recently installed Xubuntu 18.04 and today I upgraded my machine to a rx 580. However, when I try to install the drivers I run into the problem described here: askubuntu.com/questions/1040474/warning-amdgpu-dkms-failed-for-running-kernel-on-both-16-04-18-04 The fix does not work for me, I have kernel 4.18.0-15, and my rx 580 runs noticeably worse with the default drivers than my previous card did.
Can someone give me some advice?
Landon Diaz
Downgrade your kernel, boot with a previous release, if you can't install an upgraded package.
Alexander Gonzalez
Dumb fucking question, but how do I check what the latest version of IceCat is?
how do I calibrate my screen I'm using linux mint because it's simple, but I'd change window manager if it would actually help me do this. I have a thinkpad w530, but /tpg/ isnt helping
Any puddletag users know if its possible to use the tag > dir function to move files across partitions (linux to windows)?
Juan King
xcalib
Xavier Nguyen
nvm I need to stop being a moron and read docs before asking dumb questions
Anthony Lee
UEFI standard defines a fat32 filesystem as the boot partition.
Joseph Flores
If only you and the rest of the mouthbreathers did that before posting.
Brayden Powell
yes, I'm sorry.
Caleb Watson
how to install clover OS on UEFI?
Jordan Butler
Can you even get a non-ESR version of Icecat?
Seems about right.
>screenshot is clearly an Ubuntu user >implying that the package manager is good enough for something like that to work Good luck.
Bentley Harris
is a gtx 1060 3gb really on par with an rx 580? Or is it suppose to be the gtx 1060 6gb?
Austin Russell
It's dev will have to get off his ass and add uefi support.
David Robinson
so running grub-install --efi-directory=/boot/efi doesn't do the trick?
Dylan Lewis
Not really used to apt I probably screwed up when adding stretch repository to install some driver which didn't work Is this is easy to repair, fucked, or should I just leave it this way?
using my terminal, how can I monitor my GPU usage? My GPU died and I use my old Quadro FX 580 and wonder if it is running at 100% with HD vidoes I tried the Unigine Heaven 4.0 but it fucked up and I had artifacts Ubuntu 18.10
Gabriel Brown
Nvrmnd figured it out. 'Linum' is what I was looking for
Evan Gray
sudo apt -y upgrade try that
Anthony Peterson
anyone using the transmission-remote-cli?
>install transmission >install transmission deamon >try to start it up >401: Unauthorized >Unauthorized User
>try to change the user as the wiki says, the file isnt even there and folders arent even there...
what am i missing?
Asher Ramirez
also i tried with sudo and on root shell, neither of them worked
Nicholas Rogers
/etc/resolv.conf Nice digits.
Brandon Rivera
Why nobody dares to call Linux "Linux"? Is Linux a dirty word? Why does everybody replace "Linux" with "the kernel"? I don't understand.
We do call it Linux though. I see people do it all the time. The only time I see people say "the kernel" are times when what they're trying to say can ambiguously make them sound like someone who thinks "Linux" is their whole OS so they'll choose to specify explicitly that they're talking about the kernel
Ryan Hill
"Linux" is accepted as a os using the kernel, called Linux. No other operating system and kernel pairing is refereed to this way)Due to stallmans retardation) When you say "Linux" it is understood you mean a operating system+the kernel Linux
No one says "I use Darwin+BSD" No one says " I use NT + Windows"
Jace Brooks
but windows NT was their flagship product for a while
The operating system is called GNU, it's combined with the kernel Linux. Hence GNU/Linux. There is no Linux operating system which contains Linux.
>No one says "I use Darwin+BSD" >No one says " I use NT + Windows" To follow this pattern, we should just say GNU.
Jacob Young
>To follow this pattern, we should just say GNU This. Stallman was too nice. GNU/Linux looks like some GNU tools want to steal credit from Linux. Simply GNU is a better statement.
I do not use gnu on my system. My kernel is not compiled with gnu gcc. Inferring every OS that uses Linux has to be gnu based is toxic oppression More and more companies are moving away from gnu and gcc specifically(Including Linux( due to the religious and political connotations related to using gnu, as well as increasing performance gains not using gnu or gcc. >Mozilla No longer uses gcc >Chromium No longer uses gcc >Android(5 billion devices) No longer uses gcc >Linux No longer needs gcc plugins to build.
>just say gnu You could say GNU when hurd breaks 1.0 milestone in 500 years Bye stallman, you wont be missed :)
Leo Harris
You're right, you don't use GNU, but how is this relevant to the topic? Android isn't a GNU system either, but uses Linux. What's your point?
>:) You don't belong here. Do you glow in the dark?
Connor Torres
My point is you automatically infer that if you use the kernel, Linux, you MUST use gnu and therefore you MUST by default call your system gnu. When that is far from the true reality. No stallman, I and many others do not use your shit in our OS's. STOP being cunts and inferring everyone uses it and has to follow your religion and call it gnu
Owen Sullivan
Nobody ever requested such a thing.
Elijah Flores
playing with strawmen is childish
Blake Edwards
moebuntu mangaka
Anything could world just rice it to be kawaii.
Nicholas Brooks
discrete Intel graphic cards will save graphic acceleration and 3D on Linux (and other free systems).
Samuel Sanchez
thanks a lot. Any good source for profiles, or a gui?
Ryan King
>Is this is easy to repair, fucked, or should I just leave it this way? When you see held back packages you need to "dist-upgrade" not just upgrade. Don't let the name scare you, you aren't jumping from one release to another, its just a "major upgrade".
Chase Hughes
that's because both GNU and Linux work with other things GNU works with Linux, Hurd, BSDs' kernels and even Darwin. Linux works with GNU, Android and those uclibc/musl busybox abominations.
And because of this if you are not a retarded monkey or corporate dick sucking cuckboy you should call the OS made by Linux and GNU tools GNU+Linux to tell it apart from GNU/Hurd, Android and the others'.
Except your won't because you are retard.
Ian Hall
>No other operating system and kernel pairing is refereed to this way Yes they are. You are just confused by 2 pieces of information which can be misleading: 1) Nobody tries to call other OSes by the name of arbitrary software that is a PART of that OS 2) Stallman's generosity in preferring to call it GNU/Linux instead of just GNU
#2 misleads you into thinking this issue has anything at all to do with who made what or how big the contribution is. Which is why you make the argument >No one says " I use NT + Windows"
Which as you know, is not the right way to do it. We don't call it GNU/Linux because it's logical or because we think this is how OSes should be named. We do it because it SHOULD be "GNU" only and Stallman prefers to call it GNU/Linux for some reason.
#1 is all that matters. So IGNORING who contributed what, you tell me: Which of the following 2 items is an actual OS project? A) Linux B) GNU
Luis Adams
No idea, I just use it by starting with the default profiles and modifying them example: xcalib -red 0.9 1.0 95.0 -green 0.89 1.0 95.0 -blue 0.85 1.0 95.0 /path/to/gamma_1_0.icc gamma_1_0.icc should come installed with xcalib
Logan Reyes
You have to make sure your boot partition is mounted to /boot before running "make install" or "genkernel". If your fstab is set correctly, you can just type "mount /boot", and it should mount it for you.
Christian Campbell
Also, the linux mount type is "vfat", not "fat32".
Ian Garcia
From my experience, it tends to be Arch, Gentoo and Debian.
Luis Garcia
I'm getting "unsupported ramp size 0"
Ethan Johnson
You rant like Linus Torvalds.
Shouldn't you be maintaining the GNU/Linux kernel Mr Torvalds?
Jeremiah Gutierrez
how do I update the drivers for hardware on my laptop in Debian? something went fucky during the install so certain buttons (mute which is also f5) don't work, and the touchpad works but It doesn't click - like I can use two fingers to scroll but I can't click with the touchpad.
what magic terminal command can I run to fix it?
also does it really not need to use apt-get instead of just apt? Or is there still use cases for apt-get?
Angel Phillips
I need a good looking music player for Ubuntu something like musicbee or itunes flac support is a must. Any kind sould who would like to help?
Owen Walker
I'm siding with GNU though.. Was that not clear in my post?
