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reposting from last thread hey gnu/males i'm trying to create a script so that i can right click, execute script and have it create a folder with the ISO name, quickly mount/unmount the iso and copy the files into said folder (or not mount if i dont have to) but ive gotten stuck at the picking the file name and creating a folder with that name any help lads, online i could only find info that assumed i knew the name of the file and the location, the point being that i wont if i use the script whenever i want
They are simply dinosaurs in the world of mammals. They can roar and try to reassert their power, but they are doomed anyway.
Austin King
Not sure if this is the best place to ask, but what is the ram usage of gqrx raspberry pi version. I have an idea for a project and decided what model to get.
Julian Evans
is firefox still number one or chromium finally got better?
Lucas Gutierrez
It still is, why shouldn't it be. I would recommend to you IceCat, which is Firefox that respects your user freedoms.
It's up to you user, you're in control of the update process. It downloads the latest definitions for your package manager. If you run it 2 times in a row the 2nd time it isn't going to do shit because the maintainer hasn't pushed any updates in between the 2 times you've run it. If you run it 2 times in one day it also (most likely) isn't going to do shit the 2nd time.
Wyatt Ramirez
>memecat >bases its tracking blocking technology off of adblock plus aka the money thirsty morons who deliberately whitelisted ads from companies who paid them >recommended i recommend you sudo apt go fuck yourself
Austin Gomez
Using fedora 30 I've set up vagrant with virtual box, and I'm following this guide
on step two, I can't get Firefox to open up chef-automate.test/ I keep getting an error that it couldn't connect, Anyone know what the issue might be? I'm using the x11 to send GUI stuff to my personal computer. Not sure if that effects anything
aaa someone knows if installing lubuntu it will increase my laptop battery life?? have been using major distros like mint, debian, or fedora, but it still takes a lot of my battery
Your moralism is irrelevant as long as the programs in question are licensed under GPL, which means they can be used by anyone for any purpose. It can be developed by the devil himself and it will be fine as long as he contributes back to the digital commons of GPL and stays in the realm of free software. On the other hand, proprietary programs can be developed by saints and still be rotten because of their technical nature. Ethics here is linked directly to a simple technical question, there is no need to beget false moralistic issues.
why are you posting this false information? icacat removes blobs and spy configs from vanilla ff, what extensions you install is up to you
Daniel Hernandez
It most likely won't. Battery life & linux is really botched still. Doesn't help that 90% of the time, answers to the issue are nerds going like >2hrs is enough hurr >just keep it plugged in durr
Aaron White
battery life depends on how the user configures and uses a computer
Jace Cook
Outdated.
>We no longer include SpyBlock, which was IceCat's fork of AdBlockPlus that allowed to block all third-party requests during "Private Browsing" mode. Now, we include an extension that blocks all third party requests by default, and provides a simple interface to whitelist specific third-party resources on a per-site basis. Even though they don't state what this block is based on, therefore there's still potential to deal with backdoors I suppose.
Cooper Morris
Distros doesn't really matter. Just cut down batter draining things. Powertop is a good start for finding them.
Sebastian Hill
and?
Andrew Turner
look into TLP, if it's not installed by default on those distros
Michael Peterson
>windows linux dual boot >win10 >8hr battery life >ubuntu >2hr battery life tops yea its not like this is probably the #1 issue that keeps getting posted on several distro's forums throughout the years with no proper solution yet.
and the first one to yell "tlp" gets my penis on their lips
Cooper Cooper
Distros should die out. Especially "Linux distros".
Justin Gomez
Welcome to the GNU/Linux experience.
Samuel Thompson
GOG.com > Steam Gamers, use GOG when possible. It provides you directly with an .exe file of a game, and doesn't install a potentially harmful proprietary software client that controls your actions.
Grayson Evans
Correct. It should be "GNU distros", as they're using GNU software from the GNU project.
Asher Roberts
After years of dealing with this in several distros, using all kinds of tools, and the battery life still being shit compared to Windows, I simply gave up. I bank it under the cost of being Windows free, and its fine with me.
Angel Morris
>windows user get out
Nicholas Morris
well shilled you indian piece of shit.
Hunter Cook
Is that galaxy client for linux out yet?
seemed cool that you can use the chat for all kinds of platforms like steam and battlenet
Matthew Cox
Why yes, thank your for shilling a site that sells Windows executables. This is certainly better than Steam, which has a native Linux client, many native Linux games, and the ability to run Windows games at almost native speeds without fucking around with wine, from a company that is aggressively pushing Linux.
Juan Adams
Fuck off.
Jack Turner
I only game on my Nintendo Switch™ The only PC games I need are HoMM3&5
Mason Russell
No, distros are an extinct rudiment of corporate thinking straight from the 90's, akin to "companies" which they are not. Distro loyalty resembles corporate loyalty.
Jace Brown
notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread
Connor Price
That's not the real reasoning through. While GNU/Linux distros indeed ship with GNU software, the system they distribute is the GNU system.
Connor Taylor
Wildebeest > GNU
Bentley Gutierrez
Yes it is, it's a step in the right direction at least.
Kevin Watson
How do I make Dolphin show thumbnails for audio files? This is how it looks currently, I'd prefer if it could apply ''cover.jpg'' image to all FLAC files.
is ls bloat? some of its arguments make commands like sort obsolete
John Williams
Are you running a toaster from 1952? Why would you worry about ls being bloated? Don't come up with UNIX philosophy.
Gabriel Carter
They're never, not even in 100 years, obsolete. You should always be able to use your old floppy; the data on it may be important.
Landon Hernandez
How much of a meme is Void? How much of a meme is LibreSSL?
Josiah Harris
kys
Colton Brooks
Meanwhile actually useless shit like Microsoft virtualization support bloats Linux as always.
Anthony Thompson
Check the knowyourneme wiki.
Gavin Thompson
>fuck your anti-DRM demagoguery. game developers gotta eat You like being a slave, ok, just stay away from us. And speaking of starving developers, they shouldn't cooperate with bloodsucking corporate pricks in the first place. Fuck the developers who are too spineless and too lazy to cooperate on their own terms.
Brayden Sanchez
You are literally advocating buying PROPRIETARY PROGRAMS from a company that DOESN'T SUPPORT FREE OPERATING SYSTEMS IN THE SLIGHTEST
you were so concerned about the forest you drove right into a tree.
Elijah Walker
You can use external floppy readers hooked up with USB, which don't use the orphaned driver. Also note, Linus even says they're keeping it around for now because it's needed for certain emulation. But you can't even buy machines with an internal FDD anymore, can you?
But yes, of course it's obsolete technology.
John Cox
Suckless sucks more. Retard.
Levi Diaz
>How much of a meme is Void? Mostly it simply pandered at the right time to frustration of a part of anti-systemd crowd that's not intelligent enough to use an actual free/libre system.
Jonathan Hernandez
I'm advocating using one's brain. Try it sometime.
Angel Bailey
Systemd is free/libre, why would that be a concern? Are you talking about permissive licensing?
Josiah Scott
Just installed zsh with ohmyzsh and have been trying out the different themes
a few of them seem to use special characters in the prompt (the -> arrow in Dracula for instance) but these characters aren't showing in the tty outside of X
Is this a font limitation? Or are they just kind of not meant to work outside of a gui terminal emulator? Locale is set correctly
What's wrong with tlp? I get about four hours with tlp + gnome and closer to seven with tlp + i3 + airplane mode.
Jayden Harris
yes, the fonts use special characters only available in a patched version of the font, or in the special fonts-powerline font glyphs. generally they dont work in the ttys.
try agnoster, i like it. i remove some of the bloat:
St says that it depends on Xlib header files, I have tried installing everything that looks like these in my distro's repository, but to no avail. Where can I find these files?
