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>In the decentralised dream, every user hosts their own server. Every toddler and grandmother is required to become their own system administrator. This dream is an accessibility nightmare, for if advanced technical skills are the price to privacy, all but the technocratic elite are walled off from freedom. Good
Andrew Collins
I don't even know what a meme is at this point.
Brody Miller
Linux is not a meme, linux is not a meme is a meme
Jaxon Smith
I think this guy is right. Instead of using Twitter, people hop on the Mastadon server where most people are - welcome back at Twitter with a different name.
Luke Wright
Of course Linux is a meme. Unix philosophy is almost always a way for developers to ignore difficult problems, and lazily excuse themselves from making complete software. Getting *nix pieces to work together is literally a full time job for many people. One that requires significant coding and patches to work around the fact that nobody considers real world use cases. It's absurd that someone would consider running this junk on a desktop.
Carter Wright
What file extension should the /boot partition be on my t430? Vfat? Or ext2?3?4?
Logan Cooper
Am I a meme?
Alexander Butler
Is there a way to force rsync to do its "delete on destination" function at the start of the process instead of as it parses?
Reposting from previous thread, because I didn't get help I so desperately need: How do I change the delay that determines single- vs double-clicks? Currently my regular clicks get misinterpreted as double-clicks way too often, and it's driving me nuts. Pls help, much appreciated. On Debian, using Xorg. I assume I need to use xinput for this, but I have no idea what I need to do, specifically. And I was unable to find the answer form jewgle.
Thomas Walker
>welcome back at Twitter with a different name. No. People hopped onto thousands of servers, most of which interoperate with each other.
There is little incentive to hop only on the biggest mastodon server, and more to the point, basically no incentive to stay (only) on there if they fuck up something like the ability to post porn or higher resolution images or political expression or anything else.
> hurr durr 50% of people are on a handful of servers or less Yea, that means the rest is on other servers and can migrate if something turns to shit.
See, we also actually have choice on email. Even if a lot of people like gmail, cock.li and your ISP's mail server and your company's mail server are not actually unable to communicate. That's what's important.
Jaxon Lopez
/boot usually is ext4
The efi subpartition for possible UEFI boot has to be a specific variant of fat32
Jayden Brown
KDE plasma has this in its settings in some tab under the keyboard&mouse settings.
Luke Perez
wild guess: try xset >jewgle stop botnet surfing, also check the archwiki
Ayden Fisher
I'm using i3, no DE.
Nathan Rodriguez
>/boot usually is ext4 There are ZERO features you need from ext4 on your /boot drive. ext2 is more then sufficent anything more is bloat
Lucas Hughes
What do you double click on i3 that can't be changed in i3's configuration?
Dylan Price
There is pretty much no reason to use ext2 nowadays. Just use ext4 without a journal if you prefer it that way for some reason.
Aiden Gray
My browser? A text-editor? Literally any window I happen to have open?
Ian Walker
You use ext2 when you dont need the bloat from ext4 or other filesystems, sich as when creating a /boot
Parker Johnson
how do I change folder icons in Mint Cinnamon? there's no +add action anywhere in the settings that have you switch to other pre-installed icons
Parker Lopez
okay, so how do i make a subpartition? right now i have: 1 ext4 grub bios_grub 2 fat32 boot boot, esp 3 swap 4 ext4 rootfs
Jason Bennett
>I think this guy is right. >welcome back at Twitter with a different name. First of all, if you'd read the article till the end, you'd have seen that he praises Mastodon for being free and democratic, entirely unlike Twitter.
Secondly, his main argument is against federated services - they'll get centralised eventually, as shown by email (google, before them yahoo/hotmail etc.), Mastodon (the two servers with >40% of users) and the internet (google/facebook/amazon/netflix). However, he entirely dismisses truly decentralised, non-federated services, and that's what I was mocking in my post.
Xavier Brooks
Eh, you can still use the metadata checksums and the other features if you want, as well as the better data integrity/security on the journaled ext4 (if you fsck, you more likely have the data correct).
There is basically no point to ext2 ever since you were optionally able to turn off the ext4 journal.
Matthew Peterson
YOU LITERALLY USE /BOOT FOR 1 PICOSECOND TO BOOT YOUR KERNEL IMAGE IN TO FUCKING RAM you DO NOT NEED ANY FEATURES
OH NO /BOOT CORRUPTED reinstall your bootloader reinstall your "linux" package OH SHIT IT WORKS NONSENSE
Yea, it's actually good to know if your metadata is corrupt or have a more reliable fsck.
> OH NO /BOOT CORRUPTED > reinstall your bootloader > reinstall your "linux" package > OH SHIT IT WORKS You can do this dumb ass procedure on filesystems of any size, but why would you just because you wanted some absolutely irrelevant to anything "minimalism"?
You aren't giving jack shit up by using ext4, it's just the better filesystem.
Cameron Rodriguez
I'm about to go balls-deep in Linux for personal use
Does it work well with military websites and DoD certs? There's a ton of old shit that still asks for fucking Internet Explorer and Flash.
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Xavier Rivera
It does not take literaly 2 commands and 10 seconds of your time to fix your / if anything fucks up /boot is disposable and fully dynamic from tools in the system
You're tryingt o sell me a v12 diesel engine for my bicycle that i ride less then a mile away to go to work
Leo Sanchez
>Does it work well with military websites and DoD certs? I have no clue what these DoD certs do.
But you can probably virtualize old ass Windows (in qemu or virtualbox or vmware) if anything requires old ass Windows.
Luke Edwards
install windows
Benjamin Perez
>There's a ton of old shit that still asks for fucking Internet Explorer and Flash. No. If you want to use linux anyways, I recommend setting up a virtual machine for IE.
Flash theoretically works in Firefox/Chromium, but both browsers are stripping support sooner rather than later, and neither are IE so you'd need the VM anyways.
Levi Flores
I updated my BIOS and it removed my option to boot from grub bootloader to linux (I have windows/linux dualboot).
Also I'm unsure if it also completely uninstalled linux too. Diskpart, disk management and storage all shows different things. My linux partition (37,26 GB) doesn't show up in diskpart, it shows up empty in disk management and as a part of windows in storage.
>It does not take literaly 2 commands and 10 seconds of your time to fix your / if anything fucks up Diagnosing a more subtle fsck fuckup or corruption on ext2 will take you longer than that.
And sure I could make / restore very quickly. Even under 10 seconds, LVM snapshots and other tricks are a thing after all.
This is irrelevant though, it's simply sane to just use ext4 rather than trying to do some half-assed minimalism roleplay for no god damn reason with ext2.
> You're tryingt o sell me a v12 diesel engine No, you're some idiot yelling at people to use meme vintage wooden bikes because things were simpler in the past.
And I'm telling user to just use a damn normal bike because normal bikes are more rugged and absolutely no effort to get and might have advantages in rough terrain or other situations which may happen. If they don't happen, no damn thing was lost either.
Adam Russell
Uninstall Windows.
Hunter Sanders
GRUB INSTALL PACKAGE MANAGER INSTALL LINUX /boot is now fixed No need for any other bullshit justifications
Zachary Baker
It starts with you having an error and ned to boot and mount and chroot whereas ext4 might have recovered or told you better that a grub file or whatever was corrupted in more situations.
More importantly, you didn't give up *anything* worth mentioning for using ext4.
No need for bullshit extra diagnostics and reinstall just to use vintage filesystems.
Daniel Cooper
Is there a good resource for figuring out how gpus, drivers and kernels all mesh together? Recently I bought a rx 580 for my ubuntu 18.04 system. The performance with default drivers seemed worse than my previous card (a gtx 960) so I tried installing drivers from AMD. But they failed to install. So I downgraded my kernel from 4.18 to 4.15. At that point they installed but then I'd only get a black screen after booting ubuntu. I ended up panicking and returned my gpu to amazon, citing that the drivers didn't work with my machine. Earlier today I tried re-upgrading my kernel using ukuu, with versions 5.0, 4.20.13 and 4.18.20, all of which seemed to have problems with the driver or performed worse than the kernel I have now (4.15.0-45.47)
tldr: How I do figure out which drivers and kernel I should be using?
Hudson Smith
You will have a fileystem error before you get any metadata or BITROT errors on /boot of all places. Nothing that ext4 checks would prevent the system its self from fucking up You O The world 100
Hey Jow Forums I would like to find a tool to take screenshots like Windows 10's one. I want to be able to select instantly which part of my screen to share. wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Screen_capture#Screenshot_software which one has this feature? I'm on Debian btw
YES, it's only certain classes of errors repair or detect better on ext4 than ext2. This can save time, but it doesn't have to.
You still haven't given up *anything of any noteworthy value* to use ext4 over ext2 for your /boot, so you just simply use ext4 if you're not trying to live a retarded pretend minimalism meme.
That being said, grub works with fucking anything, if you relocate your boot to ntfs/reiser4/ufs2 while drunk on a Saturday night chances that your computer will boot just fine on Monday.
Tyler Jenkins
How is your system updating the kernel package and midway through your power shuttig off or your retard ass has a FIT and punches your case and it turns off? This wont solve anything for the MORE COMMON ISSUES.
Josiah Cruz
If you want your gnu+linux back: use EasyBCD to add grub2 to windows bootloader menu If you don't: get the fuck out
Joshua Gutierrez
Installed arch everything is fine restart by computer a few times everything still fine next day go to turn on computer boots into grub then black screen
what happened?
Gabriel Kelly
Read boot logs
Leo Taylor
in grub select your arch line, press e to edit it, find the line starting with "linux" then remove the keywords "silent splash" and add "verbose nosplash"
Now you will get a lot of text to read, see what's the hold up.
One thing i forgot to mention is that as i get the black screen my monitor also says "no hdmi signal"
Matthew Moore
*nix dumbshit here, i have a very weak laptop and I'm considering a linux distro to get used to it since I mainly plan on using it for web-based stuff and basic work tasks.
Question: Mint or Lubuntu?
I dual-booted Ubuntu on a laptop waaaay back but didn't end up using it much because I was swept up in college. It appears there's now some amazon integration and built-in botnet bullshit I'm not interested in.
Having a windows-like interface may be nice but being forced not to may also be nice. Don't really know what else to care about except that the distro is minimal and can run on a laptop.
Jack Mitchell
Did you install binary display drivers? (amdgpu-pro or nvidia-driver)
Evan Clark
Lubuntu is pretty nice, especially if you swap to i3 as the window manager. I ran it that way for several years before moving to Ubuntu proper with i3.
Austin Moore
>shit breaks or no reason every couple of days That's arch for you.
Bentley Powell
KDE. How can I make windows not move by left mouse button drag-move action? I have titlebars disabled, but I'm still able to move most of the windows. Accidentally moving something bothers me a lot, for moving and resizing I use those two instead: -keyboard shortcuts -meta + right mouse button
>*nix reminder: *nix' is a way to say 'unix' without getting sued; neither gnu nor linux is unix
Christopher Barnes
Solved it. Just booted my manjaro installer from USB which detected my old install. From there I used sudo install-grub to fix it (if anyone gets the same problem).
Dylan Morgan
why did you switch to ubuntu proper?
i just assumed it was a boolean wildcard this whole time, fuck me
Samuel Reyes
The patch made by that weeb ricer does nothing besides making firefox take 40+ seconds to start.
What are some must-have programs? Like: >mpv >ffmpeg >youtube-dl >imagemagick ?
Austin Flores
You patch it or install it for your distro and when you go to the filechooser it has a new "Icon view". I'm using it right now with firefox Did you install "gtk3-mushrooms"? thats the broken ass shit not the filechooser patches
Nathan Robinson
Oh right, it's gtk3. I patched the gtk2 deb package for some retarded reason.
Adam Johnson
Its gtk2 and gtk3.
Jaxon Brown
mc geany hexchat filezilla ssh server and client (some nigger distros don't have it by default)
>relatively gigantic hurd commits on the git git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/ Definitely not happening, but glad to see 2 madman are still doing the thing.
I found no working solution on this so far online.
How can I increase the "scrolling distance" in Linux? I'm currently running Manjaro, but it was the same in Kubuntu before. I would like each scroll to advance a few more lines inside the web browser.
