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I landed a nice Python job today: -Project lead and sole dev -Remote work -Slightly above market average salary
I'm worried fellas, what if i mess up?
Jack Hughes
No...the Russians are smart enough to realize that those things are double edged swords and it's not worth it, the same cannot be said about the control freaks of Western Liberal Democracy (tm).
RU gov does all their surveillance at the infrastructure level and they are very honest about it.
Zachary Richardson
shit happens bruh just do your best
Brayden Gutierrez
>-Remote work Hire me.
Bentley Smith
thanks friend I wish, i want a senior dev to hold my hand ;-;
I guess my journey ends here. LE seems to have the spdif set up correctly but the asound.conf (.asoundrc) doesn't take well. So until I can dig up more info, I'll have to be content with background noise for stereo to keep the receiver responsive.
However, in my travels I saw someone mention an external AC3 encoder. And then it dawned on me. Steam Link supports surround sound just fine, and there's an application for it on Rasbian. With Rasbian not being a bitch to set up a52, pulling in surround sound over steam link (with added noise) and encoding it on the fly to AC3 works just fine. It's a super hack and almost defeats the purpose of the pi, but I only need this setup for 5.1.
If there's anything to learn from my blog posts, it's fuck me and fuck digital surround sound. My current solution ended up being a giant workaround which while it replaced my steam link basically became a steam link with the added benefit of discrete surround sound that doesn't have dropouts from silence.
LibreElec wants to be as minimal as possible and it feels like they take a lot of things to benefit power users such as arecord and alsaloop, as well as abstracting Kodi's usage of ALSA. Kodi on Rasbian isn't recent enough (17.6!) to be useful and runs slow as shit, but Steam Link ended up running just fine.
why is audio such a pain on any OS I feel like there's 12 different ways to control volume between the thing that's making a sound and the speakers/headphones
Adam Taylor
the BSD's don't have this problem. OSS is unironically better than alsa and pulse
Benjamin Gutierrez
And to think audio on GNU/Linux used to be so simple you could literally "echo" data into the audio device.
Aaron Collins
>tfw you finally realize the potential of basic tools like find or GNU parallel
I'm pretty sure I installed some packages from a different release with apt-get on debian. I'm on stretch, and I installed from then unstable so buster I guess? Any way to list the packages I have installed and from what release they came from?
Hunter James
I'll have a look at it, I've been trying to set up a decent working audio setup without a DE. I'm considering just using some mediocre default pulseaudio config so I don't have to mess around with anything but I don't think I'd exactly feel good about that. what went wrong?? how did we end up with pic related?
How does someone with no experience with CAD learn FreeCAD, I just want to draw some floor plans and turn them into simple 3D shapes
I played around with the program earlier and uninstalled out of pure frustration because of how low IQ I am Just looking for some simple guidance, a book for retards of a well put together guide
Carson Wright
Nothing. It's not a mess.
Bentley Lewis
Snap or Flatpak? How I know what is the better alternative for a specific program?
Yes, the later two can be used as secondary package managers, they won't touch your main system apart from symlinks.
Kevin Rivera
Pulseaudio has a lot of options, but it's rather easy to diagnose.
pactl list and you know how it is configured. You also can actively test what is working how.
Camden Murphy
Just installed Gentoo, it's easy af and comfy af. Just followed the handbook and it fucking werks on the first try including a custom kernel. Compiling xorg-server right now and going to install some meme WM when it's done.
Robert Gomez
It worked fine as long as you were dealing with the tty. You only ever had one thing outputting audio. As soo as you want voncurrent audio output from multiple sources you need to add some bullshit.
Andrew Johnson
This diagram is nonsense anyhow, you can connect basically everything to PA and that to your devices, and that's even typically the setup you want.
> Inb4 but you can also create a really complex setup Yea, so you can with networking, what's the point?
I'm kind of confused about booting using EFI. Do you need to set up a boot partition for GNU/Linux like you usually would or do you just mount the ESP to /boot?
Jackson Howard
yup create a fat partition with EFI System Boot type and then you mount your /boot to it
Lucas Ward
Guix is better
Connor Sullivan
Question!
I used to fuck with Ubuntu & Linux Mint about 2-3 years ago. My old computer got fried during a lightning storm & I decided to completely upgrade. I found out today that the 500GB SSD on my old computer survived and is working just fine. I was thinking about installing it into my new computer and dual booting Windows 10 & Linux on two separate SSDs. When I went to go check distro watch I found out that MX Linux & Manjaro are the two most downloaded Linux distros now. Which one should I get?
tl;dr Which one is better in the current year +3? Linux Mint, MX Linux, Manjaro or Ubuntu?
I did that but how do I use the ESP instead of a boot manager?
Camden Morgan
linux noob here, installed Lubuntu onto my old laptop. Upon startup, the fan is not running and the CPU climbs in temperature until it reaches 80 C. The fan then runs at full speed until the CPU cools down to a temperature between 45 and 50 C. However, the fan remains running at max temperature and never stops. It is very loud an annoying.
This did not happen when the laptop had previously run winblows, does anyone have a solution for this? I also tried Linux mint before and the same problem happened.
Andrew Bennett
Gentu is the best Ubuntu
Kevin Lewis
I think Xubuntu is the best for beginners. Linux Mint, Manjaro, and Ubuntu are all decent choices since they have a good amount of documentation. Debian is good too. Never heard of MX Linux. I'd suggest choosing a DE first then considering your options from there.
Jordan Moore
Anything Ubuntu. It's the most sane choice if you just want a machine to do actual stuff on instead of tinkering and building and breaking and fixing stuff.
Jack Garcia
Try Pop OS, I heard it encrypts your data by default thus respecting user's privacy.
Grayson Rodriguez
If I had backed up a home partition, can I recover it even if I use another distro?
Elijah Torres
Boot up any live cd and mount desired partition.
Camden Morris
I'm glad I'm happy with stereo and mixing to a sub and tweeter. Why you use fb2k though? Wouldn't sox or speaker-test be lighter?
Jose Sullivan
test
Michael Kelly
Try using ps aux --sort=-pcpu right after you boot to see what progarm(s) are that CPU intensive. Yes, the config files and stuff in your home directory should be universal so you can just copy them over. I think he's saying that he already backed it up.
Dominic Lewis
program(s)*
Julian Myers
I just installed Xubuntu instead and the same problem persists. CPU temp climbs to 80 C wherein switches in to max speed, the CPU cools to 45 ish and the fan keeps running at max speed.
Nathaniel Lopez
used the command and nothing is out of the ordinary. Says lubuntu is about 15 ish % right off the boot but then it goes to none.
Actually, upon opening the task manager at startup, the CPU hovers around 5% the entire time while the CPU just gets hotter and hotter.
Oliver Bailey
The host machine is running Windows, and when the Steam Link connection starts it then runs Kodi.
This is doing the mixing process on that machine and sending it raw to the Pi, which then encodes the entire thing to 5.1 AC3. I had some issues with doing the mixing on Rasbian, but I just need more time with it. This was just the quickest solution.
Alexander Reyes
Can a linux host act as escrow/transparent proxy for two hosts?
Say I want 123.123.123.123 to host a civ iv game. 222.222.222.222 wants to play. Can 5.6.7.8 be the host that 222.222.222.222 connects to, and 5.6.7.8 just forward everything sent back to it from 123.123.123.123? What's the best way to do this?
Mason Murphy
What happens if I set up full disk encryption and I eventually get bad sectors? The whole disk is written to if it is full disk. Will luks get confused and corrupt everything?
Benjamin Barnes
Cool, a Pango update removed support for PCF fonts and the devs are wontfixing it and suggesting people should just buy high DPI monitors or use some insane, broken FontForge script to attempt to convert to TrueType (10% chance for the result to render even ASCII correctly). Version number goes up, software quality goes down.
Kayden Gomez
Yes, turning old machines into routers and firewalls is one popular use for GNU/Linux. I believe there's even distros specifically for this purpose. I've never done it though. Probably you can do it with iptables.
David Sanchez
another addition because I've booted lubuntu up so many times. About ten percent of the time, lubuntu boots up and the network drivers do not work, as in, there is no option to connect to wireless or ethernet. In these instances, the CPU does not overheat. However, all I have to do is restart and most of the time, the network drivers will work but the CPU will overheat. This same thing has happened with Xubuntu, Lubuntu, and Linux Mint.
I being a techtard, have no idea how to fix this. been googling around but no solutions.
Noah Fisher
Arch?
Luis Lee
Anyone know what happened to the wiki and when it'll be back up? Been trying to check it since yesterday
I just tried installed FreetubeApp from it's .deb package on Github on MX Linux, and the install went fine. However when I launch it, absolutely nothing happens. No errors, no visual indicators that anything went wrong. I tried installling the Windows version under WINE, but no-go ether. Anyone have any idea how might go about fixing this? The 'SMTube' app that comes with MX is garbage. Thanks in advance!
Are there any UPSs that can tell linux to shut down if I lose power?
Brayden Powell
I'm just curious what specifically I'd do to forward those packets. Is this an iptables thing?
Ayden Long
Nice, I just did that the other week. Getting everything to work was a smoother process than I expected.
And however you choose to start the X server, make sure it’s not listening on an open port!
Jaxson Gonzalez
>Can't get virtualbox to work properly. Running Manjaro kde kernel 4.19 Had 1908 - rc issue first which I solved somehow, then it turned out VT-d had been turned off in my bios which I turned on again. Now I only get the option to create VMs that have 32bit.
Really lost at the moment, would like any thoughts and advice.
Adrian Cox
Could some kind user please assist me in configuring rEFInd on a new installation? I have it installed successfully, but I am having no luck in the config file, it won't find vmlinuz-linux.
Samuel Garcia
i want to set up a server with relatively high availability. raid1 [mdraid]/mirrored vdevs/btrfs equivalent seems best for me. i've only used btrfs before. UEFI/boot will be set up and boot order will be set up to try both on the mobo can i get pros/cons of mdraid/zfs/btrfs?
Angel Stewart
Try gtk-youtube-viewer.
Jaxson Sanchez
it's /boot/EFI/refind or some shit IIRC ESP should be mounted to EFI or efi or some shit normally you have bigger problems if it can't find vmlinuz though addendum to this: are all of these solutions guaranteed worse than hardware raid?
Kayden Walker
Ok, but if I don't have an alternative and need to chose? Flat or Snap?
hello, a couple days ago I pulled a retard moment and accidentally deleted my /etc/fonts folder and anything besides my browser wouldn't display characters. My friend emailed his /etc/fonts folder and I unzipped it into /etc/, now there's an /etc/fonts in my /etc with all the correct .conf files inside just like how it should be, however everything is still fucked and unreadable even after a restart. What's wrong?
In addition I also did sudo pacman -Syu fontconfig restarted and still nothing.
>I also did sudo pacman -Syu fontconfig restarted and still nothing install gentoo (unironically)
Wyatt Johnson
#!/bin/bash # Starting yakuake based on user preferences. Information based on forums.g> # Adding sessions from previous website is broken, use this: pawelkoston.pl> # This line is needed in case yakuake does not accept fcitx inputs. /usr/bin/yakuake --im /usr/bin/fcitx
How do I get R to load and (auto-)save to the same file so I can keep all my calculations in one file?
Same with vim? This is the error message I'm getting for vim
Tyler Howard
I use arch, btw. I think snap has more packages since it's ubuntu shit but since there's no systemd module for it I choose to use flatpak (mostly just for propriety apps)
btrfs still has some problems with raid 5 and 6, so maybe not that. zfs sort of works on Linux but it's better supported on bsd. Also to use the advanced features of zfs you will need ecc ram as well as a lot of it. Not sure about vdevs. I personally use mdraid cause it just works but it lacks advance features like zfs, but mdraid is easier to add drives. Software raid has improved considerably. The problem with hardware raid is you need the same raid card. So go with software If you have anymore questions /hsg/ would probably be pretty good to ask
James Sanchez
The RAID56 problems with BTRFS are largely a non-issue
Nathaniel Lee
>fc-cache -fv >sudo fc-cache -fv
Luke Jones
kde5 keeps asking me to enter password for a wallet (apparently used to store my wifi password) on every login. How can I get rid of that? I tried setting the password for the SSID in the network settings but it still disappears and I still have to provide password for the wallet.
Logan Ross
tearing is a feature
Aaron Perry
I just checked. It's not as bad as heard but the write hole is still there and I wouldn't risk it
Kevin Walker
[color=red]Hello![/color]
[size=9]SMALL[/size] test
Connor Peterson
Welcome to Jow Forums friend
Zachary Turner
how do i trust grep? what if it missed a crucial line i was searching for?
Andrew Gray
read the code and build it from source don't use the buggy gnu version, it's more than 7000 lines of obfuscated asm for the purpose of hiding backdoors
Using kde/dolphin and im trying to organize files. Every time I move a file an annoying move here/copy here/link here dialogue keeps popping up. How do i disable this?
Jacob Evans
So THIS....... Is the power of....... GNU/Linux........
Nicholas King
Going back to 10 as we speak, screen tearing should not be an issue in the $CURRENT_YEAR.
