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How do I make i3 play a sound whenever battery gets to 10% and below? Too often I lose progress in my game since I have it set to fullscreen, forget to plug in my laptop and it gets to 0% and dies.
Jace Edwards
best linux distro for my boomer parents? thinking about mint but is there maybe one they couldn't tell the visual difference from windows 7?
Caleb Morris
man -k expansion vs. info -k expansion It's over. Man finished and bankrupt.
Owen Perry
Use i3blocks instead of i3status. Has much more control over everything including updating different parts at different intervals and running arbitrary commands. Then just run some command to play a beep, like "altonegen".
Grayson Reyes
Thanks man, I'll go check it out.
Josiah Rodriguez
gnushit has nothing to do with kernels.
Jaxson Long
How do you check if a open source linux software is spying on you? I found a russian screenplay writing software called KIT Scenarist, and I worry its phoning everything I write home.
Rule I live by is to never download and install Russian or Chinese software cos I don't trust those, even if there is code online (which I then assume is not the actual code which runs)
Aaron Taylor
Read the source code.
Jackson Cox
ubuntu mate
Samuel Barnes
Audit the source, compile it from source instead of relying on a distributed binary. Run it in a container/VM that has no access to anything you don't want being phoned home and monitor its network traffic
Show me a single major publicly backed distro that uses hurd as its kernel. You cant "...there is no stable version." 40 years in development and not a single stable version and no distro uses it that has more then 10 cult following gnutards
stallman even says the project is dead and he dosent intend on ever making it become anything
Real hackers don't give a frick about freedom. Don't let the GNU man trick you into respecting copyright laws.
Leo King
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Caleb Rodriguez
You're probably confusing crackers and skiddies with GNU/hackers.
Jose Lee
>Update Manjaro with shitty old dying disk >Disk I/O errors >DBUS errors >Core dumped >Partition delisted from fstab, cluster accounting fucked
Mistakes were made; I'm going to replace the HDD, but should I try a different distro or stick with Manjaro for my dying porn-box laptop? Keep in mind that yes, I'm a brainlet
>Real hackers Just because you have the kali iso in your downloads folder, doesn't make you one.
Robert Young
dunno about the elephant only the top right and bottom left ones are GIMP brushes (bottom left is the new one, top right is the old one)
Robert Wilson
Can anyone explain what LLVM is in simple terms to me? I thought it was just a part of the clang compiler, but apparently it's a virtual machine and much more complicated. What is the parallel to LLVM in GCC?
Josiah Ortiz
Just got failed by all my professors for using libre office and now im being expelled Thanks, Jow Forums
Camden Campbell
Hey, I need some hep. I'm using a RHEL VM and forgot the root password, so I did these steps in GRUB and now it gets stuck in pic related when booting: maketecheasier.com/reset-root-password-linux/ What can I do to fix this? I'm not new to GNU/Linux and I've changed root passwords before but this is the first time this happens to me.
I'm having a weird issue all of a sudden on my KDE Neon. If I connect to a my wifi network for the first time, it works just fine. If I reboot or detach\reattach the wifi dongle, it discovers the networks except if I connected before, the network shows up as NetworkName (wlx00MACADDRESS), and it doesn't autoconnect because the name is different. Is this some fucking bug or am I overlooking something?
Taking literal quotes from your linked website dosent make sense?
Landon Clark
Yes, just did it. What should I try now?
Evan Barnes
Can you chroot in it with your new password?
Grayson Hill
>wifi dongle Why not onboard or ethernet?
Connor Barnes
Linking a post about Linux-libre to a post about Hurd makes no sense.
Leo King
is there an easy way to change the login splash on KDE Plasma? as far as I can tell you have to jump through hoops and create a custom splash theme, but it seems really convoluted running Manjaro btw
no i want to have a custom image as the splash, and i'm just wondering if making an entire custom theme is the only way to do it instead of just slapping an image on like you would do for the desktop apologies if that wasn't clear
Well it appeared mounted in the CentOS VM file manager but when I tried to access it it actually gave a "wrong fs type" error saying it has an invalid superblock. I tried using fsck with all alternate superblocks that appeared with mke2fs -n and shit's fucked.
I'll just import an old .ova I have around. I'm sure Red Hat has some data integrity checks I messed with.
Hunter Parker
You seem to know what you are saying, might have to do just that. Maybe editing one you installed would be easier or something.
Depending on your VM disk type, you should be able to "unzip" it. I think QEMU disks can be used like normal directories
Carson Murphy
what isn't malware then
Jace Gonzalez
Why can i download the direct source from firefox for a milestone release, then compile it, and it throws out thousands of errors? Why is the release not 100% complete and will compile with no errors?
Liam Jackson
Get out.
Christian Sullivan
USB wifi using a USB cable is superior because you can position your antenna optimally with no signal degradation. This is not possible with onboard or pcie wifi cards, as optimal antenna placement requires the use of long coax cables, where the signal degrades
John Carter
we just need a better distro
Grayson Allen
What's your mozconfig? Have you run ./mach bootstrap before compiling?
>bootstrap.py I dont need bootstrap because i downloaded the archived source. I dont need to update it to the latest mercurial/git repo.
>mozconfig I am not adding any custom ac or mk options or exports or anything. I am not adding patches or altering the source code beyond what is 100% in the tarball that mozilla has on their website. I am not using any environmental variables to add cflags/ldflags/etc. It is 100% what mozilla is giving me
Sebastian Howard
Sounds like you're missing dependencies.
Jaxson Turner
Why would you want to do this?
Michael Smith
It dosent throw faults as if it was looking for a library and it cannot find it.
I want a baseline to compare to a pgo build that i also want to do of firefox
Cooper Scott
>I dont need bootstrap because i downloaded the archived source. I dont need to update it to the latest mercurial/git repo. It also handles build dependencies.
Anyway, I downloaded everything and now see what you mean. Make a mozconfig and add the following line mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=@TOPSRCDIR@/obj-firefox I tried it with src instead of obj-firefox, but that gave me errors as well. Also, just to be sure, is your system's default Python 2 or 3? If it's 3 then add this line as well mk_add_options PYTHON=
Thomas Gray
I want a secure distro that just works. Should I install OpenSUSE or Fedora? I'm coming from gentoo, where my laptop hits 100C and shuts down when compiling packages, and there's no way to fix it.
>40 years 30 years actually, if the Hurd and the GNU Project had been started in 1980, Linux wouldn't exist now. >Show me a single major publicly backed distro that uses hurd as its kernel. It's not an argument. Hurd isn't great just because it is a kernel made by GNU, but it is great because of it's architecture. Linux is monolithic shit - if a driver crashes, the entire system crashes, you can't develop a driver outside of the main source tree of the kernel. With the Hurd on the other hand, if a subserver (a driver for example) crashes, it's not a big deal, other servers can resurrect it. It is a project really worth finishing. Also there are some distributions using Hurd: Arch Hurd (the project was reopened this year), Debian GNU/Hurd (the 2019 version was released recently) and Guix will have the port to the Hurd too. There are also crucial features under development, for example support for SMP in GNU Mach or rump kernel (the Hurd will be able to run Linux drivers)
>stallman even says the project is dead and he dosent intend on ever making it become anything It is developing really slowly, but it's not entirely dead.
Colton Jones
Isn't it a bit insincere to promote a microkernel in the 21 century that isn't L4 based?
Im hoping that at least one smart guy at Boeing sees the mess they've ridden themselves into and funds the creation of a GNU open source microkernel with proven correctness and fast ipc
>Isn't it a bit insincere to promote a microkernel in the 21 century that isn't L4 based? The Hurd isn't just a microkernel, it's a set of servers and protocols on top of a microkernel. There were even a plan to port the Hurd to L4 instead of GNU Mach, but it failed, because no one maintained it. And what's so great about L4, is there any usable and working system using L4? Google uses Zircon inside their new OS - fuchsia, OSX uses Darwin/XNU, but I've never saw a system using L4. And microkernels aren't that important actually - the point of object oriented architecture of microkernel based design is that you can easily replace objects, for example you can change the microkernel, you can add or remove parts of system, without breaking things.
Dominic Peterson
>Should I install OpenSUSE or Fedora? no you should install Debian stable
What's the difference between using gdebi over just doing dpkg -i and apt install -f?
Brody Sanders
NT is a micro hybrid
Luke Myers
What is the bestest terminal command everyone should have run at least once?
Logan Jackson
man touch
Mason Rodriguez
What are some good, easy-to-use, easy-to-configure, keyboard-based WMs (tiling or otherwise)? I'm already using i3-gaps and I tried dwm but wasn't a fan. What are my other options? I'm not necessarily looking to switch around, I just want to try some stuff in a VM and see if I like it better to know what I'm missing.
Anthony Ortiz
I use openbox with a shitton of keybinding. Config is done in xml.
Chase Thompson
>a small ubuntu question Greetings wizards, i was wondering how i increase the window of time i have when shift+tabbing to a different application.
Jordan Walker
Who are you quoting?
Asher Wilson
anyone else with an amd card having this issue? it's about hdmi monitors waking from sleep. bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109246 any workarounds that actually work? amdgpu.dc=0 kills my sound so that's a no go.
Jack Watson
>NT is a micro hybrid NT had a good microkernel design, but Microsoft have fucked it up by putting GUI inside the kernel. Linux is bad, but at least it doesn't have GNOME or KDE on X inside. reactos.org/wiki/ReactOS_FAQ >Why is the graphics subsystem not in Ring 3 but in Ring 0? >The short answer is that because Microsoft has done it this way, and we aim for driver compatibility, we have to do it the same way. So if the GUI crashes, the entire system does "OOPSIE WOOPSIE :(".
Wyatt Kelly
I probably have this one too, my computer behaves strangely when hibernating, I had to unplug it entirely and turn on again, because the monitor was black. But I'm not sure.
