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Is there some headless daemon i can run on my server that i can then run some headless apk on my android that allows me to copy/paste in both directions?
Is there some offline text to voice converter that will take sentences and prodices a wav/mp3 from them?
How am I supposed to install these wireless drivers when I physically can't even connect to ethernet?
Jayden Smith
What's a minimalist program that will graph the sound spectrum of audio being played by any other program?
Eli Adams
The same way you are posting this
Lincoln Diaz
I am posting from my desktop. Need to get wifi drivers working on this laptop. The device in question is this Realtek device b822
Angel Powell
OK? SO? Download the drivers
Brayden Collins
Put the driver on a USB flash drive.
Angel White
The drivers aren't just a single .exe i can easily install. It's in a git repo and I need to install a bunch of different programs to even install them github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new
Anthony Peterson
OK SO? git clone and install them?
David Long
I don't have the required tools to compile and install >OK >SO? I don't have the required dependencies to install the program >OK >SO? I don't have the dependencies to install the dependencies See where I'm going with this? Boy it sure is a pain in the ass installing drivers in Linux when they aren't included in the kernel.
OK? SO? Get all the fucking packages your retarded ass needs for your broken prop hardware drivers and throw it on the mother fucking installation medium and do all the bullshit you need to do?
YOU are the only one holding you back > Boy it sure is a pain in the ass installing drivers in Linux when they aren't included in the kernel. We just download them and fucking install them during config
Chase Roberts
This laptop (HP Stream 14 (i got for free)) doesn't have an ethernet port
Henry Hill
>We just download them and fucking install them during config Xubuntu doesn't even detect the wifi, shit head.
>Get all the fucking packages your retarded ass needs for your broken prop hardware drivers and throw it on the mother fucking installation medium and do all the bullshit you need to do? Wew lmao, go fuck yourself you retard.
Grayson Rivera
How do you guys manage connecting to bluetooth devices? I use a script that sends the commands to bluetoothctl but it kinda sucks because I have to disconnect and connect every time, and it's even worse for my keyboard because it only works if I do this process twice for some reason. Is there anything like "the moment you see this device is available, connect to it"?
Kevin Wright
>Xubuntu doesn't even detect the wifi, shit head. Dont use ubuntu faggot
>Wew lmao, go fuck yourself you retard. Yeah cause downloading some fucking drivers and installing them is so fucking difficult
Ryder Jackson
apt-offline comes preinstalled
Brandon Clark
>Xubuntu the repo you linked says this lol >This code will build on any kernel 4.2 and newer as long as the distro has not modified any of the kernel APIs. IF YOU RUN UBUNTU, YOU CAN BE ASSURED THAT THE APIs HAVE CHANGED. NO, I WILL NOT MODIFY THE SOURCE FOR YOU. YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!!!!!
Caleb Taylor
>>This code will build on any kernel 4.2 and newer as long as the distro has not modified I don't even have make installed by default, and I need wifi to install make, or I can go down the rabbit hole of dependency shit
Sebastian Lopez
>Yeah cause downloading some fucking drivers and installing them is so fucking difficult It is when you don't have wifi in the first place >hurrr transfer to a USB Wow, what a bright idea you've had, thanks! Once again, fuck yourself.
Dylan Williams
>I don't even have make installed by default, and I need wifi to install make, or I can go down the rabbit hole of dependency shit You're a fucking retard The boot medium comes with a basic live distribution as well as the base-devel or equivilent for your distro on it Meaning you HAVE BUILD TOOLS NIGGA
Then what system do you have in your mind that validifies your posts then? Cause if you dont have wifi and you dont have a fucking cat6 to connect in to it, how the fuck else are you going to get your data on it nigga? You really went full retard didnt you?
Nathaniel Bennett
I DONT EVEN HAVE MAKE INSTALLED TO BUILD THE FUCKING THING WHICH IT REQUIRES YOU TO HAVE
Grayson Jenkins
YES YOU FUCKING DO ITS ON YOUR FUCKING DISTRO IMG BASE-DEVEL
David Watson
Oh lol, whoops. I just had to disable 'Secure Boot' in the BIOS and the wifi works
Sorry for losing my temper, but it was very frustrating
Jonathan Perez
>Oh lol, whoops. So you were trolling the whole time? kys
Jonathan Davis
yes, janny/mod deleted my bread for image, weird that that one triggered them but not all the lewd loli ones, deepnudes today, bella dolphine or what was here name and all other lewd 3dps you see in Jow Forums OPs ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Thomas Parker
draaamaaaa I'll get the popcorn
Jaxson Ward
you better got some material then because that's it
Jaxon King
bummer
Logan Cook
so I'm trying to install debian with no desktop environment and no frills to just have open media vault installed over it, trying to do this this way because omv installer and updates are kinda fucked the way they behave. For some unknown reason debian installer consistently fucks up at the choose and install software step towards the end, only once so far did it manage the whole install but I don't know why it succeeded that time how do I fix it? I'm pretty new to linux
Evan Mitchell
I will after I get it working in a vm (I seem to be haveing trouble wrth that) and complete my i3 rice. I'll need to make a package definition for Lutris though.
Is this that gnome RAM hogging that I hear so much about? Or is it supposed to be worse? I get annoyed and suspicious when my fan picks up for no discernable reason.
rpm and deb files is what you download from the internet, inside them are the binaries in a directory structure mimicking your system
Nathaniel Hall
locked myself out of root access somehow and sudo su wasn't doing it
William Peterson
I have not heard it before, but I can believe those numbers.
>locked myself out of root You can reboot into Single mode to unfuck it.
Isaiah Diaz
Why post this in every thread?
Benjamin Gomez
This is the Friendly Thread.
Do you have no honour?
Julian Perry
well it's good to know for the future installs because I already wiped that one and tried reinstalling with proper settings and I'm still struggling with installer malfunctions
Jace Wright
if I install a package from the aur directly with makepkg -si from the command line, will it auto updat when I run my -Syu?
Jaxon Rogers
not with pacman -Syu, you need an aur helper for that, such as yay
Joshua Perez
On Mint, I wanted I added my Google account and I now my Google Drive shows up under the networks section in the file manager.
Is there a way to mount that as drive so I can move or pull things from it using the CLI? It works fine if I copy and paste using GUI but it can definitely be a lot faster using CLI.
Camden Morales
>impulsively download archlinux to switch from a Windows machine (already used Ubuntu in the past) >spend an entire night setting it up over and over because it fucks up >get it working >spend an entire day and night setting my arch machine up like an autist
What did I start??
Also my ethernet interface goes down when I stop my machine and i need to make it go up everytime i boot and that's annoying, any way to fix it?
gaming on linux is stills hit sure many games "work" but most if not all lack vsync or aa and run 20fps lower than windows.
Jason Cook
dont use arch
Parker Martinez
Ubuntu is dead guys, they lost Steam and now 32 bit is abandoned? Talking about shooting yourself in the foot.
Liam Foster
It's a pain in the ass to set it up but once you got everything the way you want it, it's super comfy.
Colton Sanchez
>because it fucks up yea, haha, /it/ fucks up. >Also my ethernet interface goes down when I stop my machine probably because you're running "systemctl start dhcpcd" and not "systemctl enable dhcpcd"
Zachary Brown
they lost steam /because/ they've abandoned 32bit support
Jeremiah Price
I'm not quite there yet and I need to toy with a few things but I'm getting there and I understand what I'm reading so yeah!
actually you're right, that fixed the problem. Thanks based user!
just gotta find the right buttons everything seems hard in the first 5 minutes protip: don't blindly follow instructions, if you don't know what something does, RESEARCH IT UNTIL YOU DO, otherwise you WON'T LEARN DICK
Sebastian Carter
I was about to say it makes sense but I still dont understand what the fuck they were thinking.
Nolan Hill
they should have done what arch did, drop 32bit isos/applications/most things, but keep relevant libraries and the few things which are only 32bit (like the 32bit version of wine, or pcsx2) basically, keep the parts of 32bit people use on 64bit machines, but drop support for 32bit-only machines
Chase Watson
You don't have the application on your machine at all. When you "install" it from your package manager it also downloads it first, then installs. What the package manager gets is just a set of instructions so it knows where to get everything from and what to do with it.
i mean more "Linux 5.1.15", this won't change while running, and i don't see why it needs to be in an area where you want to keep common data which changes often
Luis Gray
synthesis of functionality and aesthetics
Kevin Barnes
>cos i want to fair enough, otherwise yea, looks alright unique colours, but nothing outright terrible
Jonathan Sullivan
Let it go you fucking sperg
Ayden Kelly
are there any advantage of using spacevim over spacemacs? the fags over /geg/ wont give me the answer
Ryder Mitchell
Go fuck yourself
Julian Moore
Not that I know of but is better to use vanilla Emacs and build from there, you develop the understanding and make things smoother.
Logan Nguyen
how is cinimon as a de on a laptops battery im running gnome atm. but on a cinimon live usb thing it says that i only have 2hrs left at 100% but under my gnome install it says 4hrish, is it just the live usb or what?
Andrew Davis
Hi Jow Forums. I resuscitated an old netbook and installed mint on it, now I'm looking for privacy tweaks to be made. I've already done all the about:config stuff on Firefox and used the terminal to disable ipv6, download macchanger and spoof my mac address every time I connect to a network. What additional things should I do and/or research? I'm not at all familiar with Linux, all I've done so far is stuff I'm accustomed to doing in windows as far as privacy is concerned
Ryder Roberts
>old netbook What model?
Carter Jackson
A Philco PHN10303. It somehow ran windows 10 before I wiped it and switched to mint
Lucas Powell
You seem to have covered most of your bases. It's not like Mint is sending telemetry data like win10, so there is less to worry about.
Gavin Myers
Speaking of Guix and the AUR, how do you do install git-cloned packages in GuixSD? Is it supposed to be done through Emacs Guix somehow, or do the results of makepkg integrate with the package manager automatically?
Jordan Ross
I've been trying out syslinux on my gentoo install and I like it a lot more than grub. everything is much more straightforward and easy to configure unlike grub's massive config. should I fully switch to syslinux or stay with grub?
Adrian Bennett
Youtube-dl and mpv. Tentative recommendation for mps-youtube. Tor, torsocks, and phantomjs (the latter two work for using youtube-dl over tor.) You might also want to look into Icecat, which has a learning curve of about a day.
amiunique.org panopticlick.eff.org Most of that data can be denied with Icecat's disable javascript option.
Not sure if you use macchanger manually or not, but you can set up a systemd service to do it automatically. The arch wiki explains how. (It's actually very informative about most linux-related subjects.)
Landon Lee
JFYI: The keyserver used by Arch is currently spammed with malicous shit. Do not do a "pacman --refresh-keys" right now.
Asher Murphy
Linux doesn't install software. Linux is software installed in GNU/Linux.
I'll have a look, but why would I have to edit files/scripts in the build? sounds like a recipe for disaster
Jayden Moore
hey how resource heavy is cinnamon ? i like it i'm just concerned about my battery life under it
Adam Turner
2 IQ retard
Jose Long
linux is in fact a package you can install and remove through
Benjamin White
I'm trying to tune my gpu-passtrough vm a bit. Can anyone take a look if I did the cpu-pinning correctly? I followed the examples on redhat website and arch wiki, but it's not like they have any real explanations what's what. I had to take a few guesses here and there. Also, what does
do and why virsh edit gives me an error when I change host-model to host-passtrough? CPU is Intel i7-4790k btw.
