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so LUKS didn't accept my password input this morning. wrong password et c. couldn't boot the system two reboots later it actually worked. what could have caused this? it's the same password I've used for several months. (Debian 10)
Hudson Gutierrez
fglt? mor elik faglit senpai :DDD
Evan Morgan
de benia
Sebastian Williams
My laptop had a freeze and had to force shutdown it while running a game. Now it won't boot, can't boot in recovery mode. Created a live USB stick on my PC, but it shits out the same errors and won't let me boot even to the terminal, with text boot option. How fucked is my HDD? Can I fix it? Pic related, the error. Fun thing it just repeats every 120 seconds.
>Created a live USB stick on my PC, but it shits out the same errors Are you sure it's the HDD? This sounds like something worse.
Easton Nguyen
Fuck... Rip laptop then, I'm too dumb in hardware department to fix it.
Cameron Thompson
stay on topic
Nathaniel Perry
It's probably still possible that it's the HDD... maybe it's just trying to register the device and drivers shit themselves. Try taking out the HDD and booting without it.
Landon Kelly
I'm trying to get the song name and title from an online radio to learn how unix shell works. This is what I wrote so far #!/bin/sh curl -s misk.art/live > /tmp/miskradio.txt
title=$(cat /tmp/miskradio.txt | grep 'span class="pl-item-title"' | head -n 1 | sed 's/.*">//;s///g' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | sed "s/^[ \t]*//") artist=$(cat /tmp/miskradio.txt | grep 'span class="pl-item-artist"' | head -n 1 | sed 's/.*">//;s///g' | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]' | sed "s/^[ \t]*//") echo "$artist - $title"
for some reason the $artist variable doesn't show up in the output
Sound more like a job for perl/awk. curl -s misk.art/live | perl -E ' my $c=0; while() { if (/([^
Nathaniel Sanchez
Sexy anime girl might be enout to make me switch to Nix
Aiden Kelly
a temp file? really? lol holy fuck retard
Jack Thomas
Use python for that kind of shit retard
Aiden Thompson
dude I'm trying to learn as I said, you don't have to be a sad asshole I'm not a programmer by any means, If you want to help like the title of this thread implies go ahead otherwise fuck off
Chase Gomez
>python >for processing output with regex >instead of perl dumb zoomer
have sex how sad do you have to be to spend your time picking on code of people who aren't programmers and don't even want it to be as efficient as possible and are just here to learn? Fucking hell, I'd kill myself if I were you
James Sullivan
>suggests people use python for text processing >calls others retarded inb4 >I was merely pretending to be mentally deficient
I found what was wrong, I just needed to change sed to this sed 's/^.*">//;s/
Nathaniel Roberts
you can avoid this by not lurking on Jow Forums. rly user, stop wasting your time. make something out of your life. 4channels are for virgins
Isaac Howard
Actually, looking at it, something like perl -nE 'BEGIN{ my $c=0;}; if (/
Isaac Foster
not that it matters that much, but would using perl for most of the script make it faster? I'm trying to see if learning perl is worth it over just piping into simple sed and awk
Zachary Sullivan
For pure greping, gnu grep is probably a tad faster. But I really do not think it matters, unless you need to sift through GBs of data. What makes perl great is it was made for processing textual input, which is why it has such a great regex and convenient syntax shortcuts. That and the -a -n and -E switches make it great even for smaller tasks. Afaik perl was basically supposed to be "awk, but better".
Owen Foster
I'm going to install opensuse leap
Liam Taylor
To add to , of course that's assuming that sed/awk/grep does the job in one go. Be very careful with any loops in bash, if the amount of data is bigger than small.
Jacob Gonzalez
I pulled out the hdd, can run system from live USB, so I guess this means I can just change the drive and go on living?
Kevin Taylor
anyone here use cmus? Is there a way to change the display so that instead of ordering by artist/album it just shows every listed subdirectory? A few of my albums have shocking tags that throw everything off
Christian Clark
Install Fedora GNU like all productive developers do.
Wyatt Parker
>grandma gets hit by Windows update destroying thunderbird profile >set up dumb machine >unity with auto full screen >perma bar with nothing but firefox, thunderbird, word in wine, filebrowser >Filebrowser/user has only access to Documents, Pictures, Downloads, etc. >Notifications disabled, logs are send to my server >ssh for remote control Anyone got some tips/ideas what I may be missing? The goal is obviously an absolute boomer meme machine that won't change the next 5years at least.
excel? also why not just give her libre office? its better than word in every way. in fact its m$ that doesnt conform to their own standard properly. might she need a music player? what about a torrent client?
Liam Hill
>excel? Read grandma, never used that. >why not just give her libre office? Because that's what she always used and her colleagues are still using. I'm not inflicting change where it doesn't need to be. >might she need a music player? There's mvp as default. >what about a torrent client? See excel.
Hudson Turner
shit i dont know man, my grandfather uses excel all the time. *mpv wont organise stuff, perhaps yabox or whatever its called. does she use vim or emacs? dont forget to install it
Ryan Butler
I have only legacy boot debian installed, but there is leftover efi windows entry. Can I delete it without installing an EFI distribution? Is there usb bootable software for this?
Ian Watson
make a debian live usb and delete it using efibootmgr most distros nowadays support booting the live cd in efi mode it'll probably go like this: >efibootmgr >efibootmgr --bootnum 0123 --delete-bootnum if you have a leftover efi boot partition, you might have to delete windows' files from there too
Christopher King
Disable all shortcuts except those she uses, and maybe those that are nearly impossible to hit accidentally.
Anthony Sanchez
Looks like it
Jaxon Diaz
kernel is hung up while trying to fsck the filesystem could be a hardware problem, though you're likely to have gotten messages from your sata driver or whatever if that was the case it could also be unfortunate filesystem corruption i don't like taking chances with filesystem issues, back it up and reinstall it if it does the same thing with a fresh installation, then it's probably a hardware issue, try another disk to see if it's the disk or the computer
Leo Lopez
Is it foolish to make the root user's HOME directory be my own $HOME, if I'm the only one using this computer?
I just think it would be more simple if root could read my dotfiles
I don't know if this is a horrible idea and what negative repercussions it might have, please enlighten me.
don't do this if you want specific configs available to root, copy them, or symlink them anything root creates, your user won't be able to read, this will also break things like logging in as root via ssh, because there's no way to make the permissions on ~/.ssh work for more than one user
Jose Bell
If you use symlinks, you'll also probably want to use ACL, so that if/when root saves something in a config directory, your user will still have r/w access to it. setfacl -dR -m u:user:rwX foo/bar/config setfacl -R -m u:user:rwX foo/bar/config
Robert Price
What OS do you have? Do you have ALSA? Jack server runs on all Linux-like systems. >This is why you use Windows or Mac for content creation. This is why you learn more about your operating system before complaining on the internet. If your Jack server can't run, get your shit together. This is a major malfunction. >In a professional environment. Professionals configure their workstation themselves, that's why they have a "professional environment".
Evan Russell
like all Red Hat test rats do.
Dylan Cox
who cares, seriously? he's going to install a 1000th corporate "distro".
is he going to make "flakepacks" instead of flatpaks or what
Cooper Martinez
flakes are still a WIP concept he no longer decides where nix is heading but he did come up with the idea. Right now the idea is still in discussion in the RFC github page. They won't start actually developping it until community memebers meet irl in a conference and choose to commit the RFC. You can join the discussion if you wish
But yeah flakes will probably be added. It will add even more flexibility to nix
Sebastian Clark
I hope flatpak, snap, appimage etc will be no more.
Nathaniel Young
eh they're probably never going away. Nix isn't very big on being normie friendly But I don't mind flatpaks. They're the least shit of those three
Austin Brown
the word "never" sounds funny in the foss realm.
Nathaniel Phillips
Only thread that I can think of to help. I can't post on any board on firefox, keep getting pic related. Anyone know a fix?
are you blocking JS while not selecting Jow Forums X's nojs captcha option?
Carter Rogers
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Liam Garcia
This was the problem, thanks.
Had JS
Thanks for the help lads, appreciate it.
Bentley Butler
Thinking of converting my old T400 into a plex server, what distro is good?
Zachary Jackson
JEEZ-LOUISE, TAKE A BREAK FROM YOUR PETRIFIED DINOSAUR TURD DISTRO, SUPPORT THE TRUE NEXT GENERATION OF FREE OPERATING SYSTEMS, INSTALL NIX AND GUIX FOR A CHANGE
Looking for a basic no thrills mpd gui client I've used sonata for a decade but its not longer supported and currently broken, so if anything looks like that, that would be ideal.
Carson Roberts
how long should it take for mpv to start playing youtube videos? for me its ~20 seconds, but on luke smith videos they start within 3 or 4 seconds how could that be?
Xavier Young
mine used to take like 10 seconds, then i got a faster internet connection, now it takes about 5 seconds
Christian Phillips
for me, it's Arch
Nolan Bailey
depends on internet speed and video quality luke smith uploads in pretty low resolutions for me its never above 5 seconds usually
Oliver Foster
Anyone here using an rss client that theyd recommend?
John Hall
i use newsboat, does the job disclaimer: it's the only rss reader i've used
Alexander Kelly
Could someone remind me how these two lines of sed would work? sed -e '1,/START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG/d' sed -e '/End of Project Gutenberg/,$d'
it's not mine it's some other guy on reddit that posted it on reddit for all to use. At least 5000 people use that same token
James Green
ah.
Hunter Roberts
"Distros" are fetish objects and mean absolutely nothing, to tell the truth.
Justin Rodriguez
except source based ones of course
Justin Russell
well, I agree, but there's hardly a dozen of source-based distros, versus literally a thousand of generic distros
Brody Cooper
Anyone made a Flatpak before? I'm working on my first one, but running into something dumb when trying to add a local directory as a source. I have the directory in my manifest with "type": "dir" and the path, but the build fails because that apparently doesn't actually provide access to the contents of the directory. Is there seriously not a way of including every file in a directory other than listing them all individually in the manifest?
Kevin Myers
does nonjs captcha in 4chanx still work? it gives me an error when i have scripts enabled in umatrix and does not load at all when i have them disabled
Gabriel Sanchez
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Jaxon Turner
typing it incorrectly.
Aiden Butler
This RHEL VM I imported on VirtualBox gets stuck in this step during startup. Sometimes the message doesn't appear completely but it says something about finishing up certificates. I was wondering if you guys knew how to fix it, what should I do? ;_;
It works fine in my main computer with 16GB RAM but on my laptop with 8GB this happens.
can one successfully use non-linux disc burning software in WINE?
Josiah Russell
i would try qemu there's probably a way to make it use your cd burner at least usb devices can be passed through pretty easily
Ryan Roberts
Why would you do that when plenty of linux-based alternatives exist? Or are you just a babby duck who needs Nero Burning Rom 2009 edition?
>mfw these cuties were probably drawn on windows using proprietary software just like the debian logo
probably something to do with the video drivers, it's trying to show gdm but fails. What versions of VirtualBox are you using on your desktop and laptop? What's wrong with QEMU?
Aaron Watson
>these cuties were probably drawn on windows using proprietary software who gives a fuck? Foss software is not a sect, it's an option.
Noah Mitchell
>What versions of VirtualBox are you using on your desktop and laptop? Had 5.2 in my laptop and 6 in my desktop. Installed the new one and it worked.
Carter Jenkins
running gentoo, my wifi worked until i updated. my card (qualcomm atheros QCA9377) shows up in lspci but it does not show in /sys/class/net
Dylan Gray
Eyo, any pointers on how to get tap to click working on my touchpad? Two finger scrolling does work It's an elantech touchpad and I'm running Debian 10 with XFCE
Evan Williams
post interactive bash usability tweaks # ~/.bashrc set -o noclobber shopt -s globstar