Tech Questions Thread #7

>>40136 reached the limit. Ask tech questions not worth its own thread here.

How hard is it to convert one distribution of Linux into another without simply reinstalling over the old? Like say a *buntu to Devuan for example. So no need to deal with changing package manager, but it does use a different init and kernel version.

>>46879 Distro's are an illusion.

>>46917 Based and despooked

How do I get Google to let me back in? Can't post on any of the big sites because I'm stuck in bot mode. On Waterfox. (Already tried a user-agent switcher, isn't working, google api.js request is giving me a 400.)

>>46831 What mastodon/pleroma/fediverse instances should I sign up too that are good?

>>46936 None of them, social media is garbage be it libre or proprietary. Make a website instead.

What's the video playback performance of nouveau drivers like? I have an NVIDIA GTX 980, would it be fine for a single display, like 1440p or maybe higher? Mostly interested in how mpv video playback is and what the graphical hitches are like, thanks for any replies.

>>46946 Thanks for the input Anon. I already have a website, I had just hoped that there would be a place to meet some interesting people. None of my IRL friends have any interest in technology/

>>46831 I have recently been interested in naming my files and directories according to the Portable Filename Character Set (https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_276) as defined by POSIX, i.e. [a-z], [A-Z], [0-9], and [._-]. This should ideally make my system and filestructure both more UNIX-like (by which I will likely begin to use lowercase only for the most part) while being compatible with other systems (e.g. if I were to share files between another operating system). However, I have been stumped on how exactly I should name different things with these restrictions, in particular media files. If I cannot find any help here, I will probably just make up something that "just works" or I'll leave everything how it is. However, I feel like it is possible that somebody here uses these restrictions, so I thought I might ask here. Some of my main issues revolve around how to handle "sort names" and which characters should be implemented for different logical separation. As for sort names, I currently use the following formats: `~/doc/book/Doe,-Jane;-Smith,-John-Jackson/Whatever-Book.epub` for books (a similar format is followed for other media that have multiple authors; the semicolon and everything after is omitted in the case that it is single authors/etc.). Of course, `,` and `;` are not part of the "Portable Filename Character Set", so I would like to avoid them. I have considered using a format more like `~/doc/book/doe.jane-smith.john_jackson/whatever.book.epub`—I think the `.` could work sort of like a file extension (e.g. ".txt") by which the names other than the last name are suffixed after, but still "attached", to the surname in question. The one issue with this is that it looks sort of weird with `interesting.book_an.epub` because it seems to put "epub" on the same level as the actual words, making it possibly translatable as "An Interesting Book Epub" instead of "An Interesting Book". The underscores (which I have been reluctant to use because they are not a delimiter that will naturally be separated in text editors, web browsers, etc.) could be used in this circumstance because the parts of the name following the surname are still "one" and can be connected more tolerably than other things. The remaining special character, `-`, which I had previously used as a space substitute, could be used as a separator. This may not be the best way—I am open for feedback. As for logical separation, I suppose it would only make sense that I stick with the above rules: use `.` in the place of spaces, use `-` for separation, and use `_` for sub-separation when there are items on separate logical levels. So, in addition to the changes to documents I've listed above, I could change a music listing from `~/aud/mus/Interesting-Music-Group,-The/1999~An-Interesting-Album/01~An-Interesting-Track.flac` to `~/aud/mus/interesting.music.group_the/1999-an.interesting.album/01-an.interesting.track.flac` (however, I do not know how I would set up `beets` to do something so specific with words moved to the end for sort names; I have been substituting special characters with `_` so maybe I could settle with `interesting.music.group_.the`, although that is a bit weird and ugly). ==I have had some uncertainty on how I should implement this and if I should commit to this new WIP naming system, so any feedback would be appreciated. Is this any good? Does anyone else do anything similar?

Does anyone know of any themes (GTK, Qt, or window manager themes) that look similar to Windows 95/98/2000 but are also a bit different, as in they don't look exactly like Windows 9x. And what desktop environment or window manager should I use since Xfce is now using GNOME's client-side decorations?

>>46961 Actually, for musical sort names it may have to be different in some cases. Sure, in the case of multiple artists, one could do `bach.johann_sebastian-gould.glenn` but in the case that an article is being pushed to the end, it wouldn't quite work: `interesting.band_the` does not make sense because "the" is attached to the entire thing and not just the last word. I could perhaps do `interesting_band.the`, which would make sense, but it would take away a large portion of the delimiting ability and it would be inconsistent since names that are not being sorted like this (e.g. an artist name "Interesting Artist" → `interesting.artist`) would be separated primarily by `.`s whereas things that do have a special "sort name" would be primarily separated by underscores. I feel like this might be too complex for a simple naming scheme. Maybe I should not do such specific modifications based on comma/semicolon separation (maybe I should just do a certain substitution for `,-` or `;-` without changing out the separator between words) but at the same time I sort of like the orderlyness of this system (but at the same time it may make scripting or navigation difficult). What are your thoughts on this? >>46978 I only know of Chicago95, which is meant to be a clone of Win95. Maybe you can modify it. Older versions of desktop environments sort of look more similar to Win95 (than newer versions of those DEs) but I'm not sure if it's quite what your looking for. If you want something more Windows-like look into LXDE/LXQt — you could also try out a window manager (you may not want a tiled windows manager, although I would recommend it: I've never used a non-tiling WM on its own but I believe openbox fits that description; for tiling WMs look into i3wm for something simple that just works, dwm for something a bit more advanced but also more customizable, and herbstluftwm for something in the middle)

>>46961 >I have recently been interested in naming my files and directories according to the Portable Filename Character Set I happen to follow this character set out of coincidence, unaware of it being a part of any standard body of definition until seeing your post. My reason for it is encountering programs that lose their soykaf when spaces or some "odd" or "special" character show up in a filename or directory. I don't usually feel like patching these tools since I'm lazy and so conform to their behavior. And just like that I've become a luser, oh no... >Some of my main issues revolve around how to handle "sort names" and which characters should be implemented for different logical separation. Maybe keep that to a minimum? The reason to follow this character set in the first place is to have a higher chance of compatibility with tools and avoid unexpected behavior across filesystems, not sorting or anything humans care about, like logical separation or aesthetics. Use an interface over filenames instead. It can be as light or heavy-handed as you want. With your books it seems that you want to have a view of them structured by authors and handle multiple if present, right? Then a simple approach to an interface could be a wrapper for ls(1) to provide alternative output, a shell script if that's your thing. Sort and list the books that way you want, could even throw xdg-open(1) into the mix and it wouldn't be a bad setup. For something more interactive there's ranger. Write a custom command or "plugin" to do some custom output and displaying: https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Custom-Commands Personally I use Emacs and make heavy use of Dired with it. Crafting an interface can be achieved through whatever program or combination of them you like. Point is to layer over the filenames to have a more pleasant way of viewing, organizing, and interacting. The benefit being nothing to disrupt current tooling and compatibility with whatever else you might use in the future. >As for sort names, I currently use the following formats: `~/doc/book/Doe,-Jane;-Smith,-John-Jackson/Whatever-Book.epub` for books Is this directory structure nesting, along with that of author names useful to you? My own approach is to keep it all as flat as reasonably possible. I have a top-level directory ~/documents/ and roughly intelligible names. See attached tree.txt Books are placed along with any other textual content that I'd read and isn't my own. Papers, guides, documentation, slides, and so on. I have a basic naming scheme I loosely impose: <title>__<author*>.<extension> Dashes are the separator for the title and for authors individual name. Underscores to distinguish the title from the rest of the filename but is also used in the case of multiple authors. Capitalization of the title follows the style from the document itself and always with author names. The naming scheming is loosely imposed though as I said, which allows for when author names are unknown, non-existent, or a pseudonym instead of a real name. I avoid creating directories as well, and nesting is evil as far I'm concerned. Little is more tedious than going through directory after directory after several directories later and being forced to cognitively parse it. You don't want directories, you want a file. File managers and efficient means of jumping to important locations can alleviate this but might as well not make the mess in the first place. An easy top-level location is decent enough with avoiding the tedium of repetitive navigation. Reliance on my own memory of titles, author names, and the structure is significantly reduced as well. I have a simple approach to imposed structure with my music directory as well, see the attached file again. Inside ~/music/ are directories named after the artists, within those artist directories are directories named after their albums, and thank god that's the end to the nesting. Filenames follow a basic scheme: <tracknumber>-<title>.<extension> But I'm thinking of using a simpler one instead: <tracknumber>.<extension> Which would be like 01.mp3. For my need of track titles when playing albums audio metadata tagging is plentiful and easy. I use mpv (via EMMS in Emacs) so that handles titles from metadata just fine.

I'm designing my site for the web ring, and want to play around with some front-end interactive. I want to avoid Javascript and php, are there any good alternatives? I'm thinking something like Clojurescript or Typescript.

>>46992 I think it's best to restrict yourself to just HTML and CSS whenever possible. CSS is actually quite powerful, and it can do many things that one may think JS would be required for. Some examples: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=qNV4SGTpBsw https://yewtu.be/watch?v=tJYtwAQp-7M >>46990 >My reason for it is encountering programs that lose their soykaf when spaces or some "odd" or "special" character show up in a filename or directory. Yes, part of the reason I want to conform to this standard is to minimize any weird errors that might come up as a result of special or unrecognized characters in filenames >Maybe keep that to a minimum? The reason to follow this character set in the first place is to have a higher chance of compatibility with tools and avoid unexpected behavior across filesystems, not sorting or anything humans care about, like logical separation or aesthetics. Use an interface over filenames instead. It can be as light or heavy-handed as you want. >With your books it seems that you want to have a view of them structured by authors and handle multiple if present, right? Then a simple approach to an interface could be a wrapper for ls(1) to provide alternative output, a shell script if that's your thing. Sort and list the books that way you want, could even throw xdg-open(1) into the mix and it wouldn't be a bad setup. Good point, perhaps the actual appearance of the filenames themselves is not that important, although using safe characters might be. I have sort of considered doing something like this in the past but haven't gotten to it. If I am going to use that, perhaps it would be easiest to list things without "sort names" and rather in their normal format, so maybe as something like `jane.doe-john.jackson.smith` instead of doing weird things with moving things around. At the same time, I like having things ordered correctly, but this could probably be accomplished with some script involving `sed`, or an `ls` wrapper like you said (I'm not exactly sure what you mean by this, maybe an external script of sorts). >For something more interactive there's ranger. Write a custom command or "plugin" to do some custom output and displaying: https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Custom-Commands >Personally I use Emacs and make heavy use of Dired with it. Crafting an interface can be achieved through whatever program or combination of them you like. Point is to layer over the filenames to have a more pleasant way of viewing, organizing, and interacting. The benefit being nothing to disrupt current tooling and compatibility with whatever else you might use in the future. I do use ranger already, quite frequently for file browsing. However, I did not know about the custom commands to display files differently; I think I'll look into this. I've never really used emacs and probably won't for now. With my music player, ncmpcpp, I normally use the option to browse through files by browsing through the actual filesystem, but there is an option to browse based on tags and metadata—perhaps I will customize that to format a bit more like I'd like and start using that instead. >Is this directory structure nesting, along with that of author names useful to you? My own approach is to keep it all as flat as reasonably possible. I have a top-level directory ~/documents/ and roughly intelligible names. See attached tree.txt >Books are placed along with any other textual content that I'd read and isn't my own. Papers, guides, documentation, slides, and so on. I have a basic naming scheme I loosely impose: ><title>__<author*>.<extension> >Dashes are the separator for the title and for authors individual name. Underscores to distinguish the title from the rest of the filename but is also used in the case of multiple authors. Capitalization of the title follows the style from the document itself and always with author names. The naming scheming is loosely imposed though as I said, which allows for when author names are unknown, non-existent, or a pseudonym instead of a real name. >I avoid creating directories as well, and nesting is evil as far I'm concerned. Little is more tedious than going through directory after directory after several directories later and being forced to cognitively parse it. You don't want directories, you want a file. File managers and efficient means of jumping to important locations can alleviate this but might as well not make the mess in the first place. An easy top-level location is decent enough with avoiding the tedium of repetitive navigation. Reliance on my own memory of titles, author names, and the structure is significantly reduced as well. >I have a simple approach to imposed structure with my music directory as well, see the attached file again. Inside ~/music/ are directories named after the artists, within those artist directories are directories named after their albums, and thank god that's the end to the nesting. Separating things into increasingly more specific directories has just been something I've always done. I can see why it would be an issue. I sort of like the way you do it—it seems pretty elegant. I may or may not adopt a similar technique. >Filenames follow a basic scheme: <tracknumber>-<title>.<extension> Yeah, that sounds pretty good and simple, similar to what I thought of for my new naming scheme. What do you use in the place of spaces in <title> if you separate it from <tracknumber> with `-`? Do you use `.`, or `_` (or maybe you just use `-` regardless—that's what you used in the place of spaces for authors and it likely wouldn't make it difficult to distinguish). >But I'm thinking of using a simpler one instead: ><tracknumber>.<extension> >Which would be like 01.mp3. For my need of track titles when playing albums audio metadata tagging is plentiful and easy. I use mpv (via EMMS in Emacs) so that handles titles from metadata just fine. This actually seems really nice and simple; maybe I'll start using this instead. Very rarely do I actually need to look at the actual title from the file itself. Side note: I have been wanting to find ways to easily access and perhaps edit the metadata of various types of content without needing an entire "program" (like viewing the information of a music file without a music player or book info without something like calibre. I think ranger does this but it is a program, not a simple command line script, and I don't know how I'd edit metadata from there). Anyway, thank you for the detailed response. It is very helpful.

>>46992 >I want to avoid Javascript and php, are there any good alternatives? I'm thinking something like Clojurescript or Typescript. Clojurescript and Typescript are, to use an overused phrase, just Javascript with extra steps. They'll help you avoid writing Javascript directly but they and everything else like them (Coffeescript, Dart, etc) "compile" down to Javascript. That's really all that browsers can use for scripting. Avoiding PHP is easy. Just use hosting that's not PHP-only shared web hosting. Use a VPS and you can take your pick of any server-side language. A great choice for this is Go. The standard library packages "html/template" (for parsing HTML and CSS templates) and "net/url" (for parsing URL queries) can get you a long way towards a slick interactive site without a single line of Javascript.

>>46990 >See attached tree.txt Sorry, I didn't see that at first. Thanks, looks good—I may base my files off of this (again, still not sure about putting author after title, but that can be viewed differently with some scripting)

>>46995 >Side note: I have been wanting to find ways to easily access and perhaps edit the metadata of various types of content without needing an entire "program" For video and audio there's mediainfo(1) along with it's --Output=JSON option that'd be useful for scripting with something like jq: https://stedolan.github.io/jq/tutorial Alternative to mediainfo could be ffprobe, it has optional json output as well. I prefer the output of mediainfo but it's an option too. For pretty much everything else there's exiftool.

>>47071 >mediainfo Interesting, I didn't know about this. Is this part of coreutils/is it installed by default? I had it installed already when I tried to run the command, but it may have been installed my something else The JSON output seems like it would be quite usable, at least for music and video files. It doesn't look like this can write information (I may be wrong) but that would also be a useful functionality (maybe provided by the other programs you mentioned—I have not looked at those yet)

How do I look for the relevant parameters in configure scripts, makefiles, etc? Like, if I have a software with muktiple dependencies, some of which I want to turn off,and I look into the configure script and it's obscene, where do I look for the flags that I need to set up that and other parameters, such as the base directory (eg /usr/)? Thanks.

>>47087 Generally a project's documentation, and it's autotools templates & custom modules would contain that info.

>>46935 Use a more proper browser, or use the default user agent, no modifications. If you're trying to set your UA as tbb you're going to get blocked by everything.

>>46992 There are websites that use no js but have interactive sub/menus through css like grc.com Try www.grc.com/menudemo.htm or just inspect the elements of the site.

>>46978 Try QtCurve. The body was too short or empty.

Can you recommend me a networking resource that goes over most important things without trying to be very very very verbose about it? I tried the Top Down Approach book, but it's way too verbose, and I'm tired of digging through all the silly analogies for the actual content.

>>47172 read top down approach book

>>47173 Read my post. Carefully.

lainanons, any alternative to gmail and outlook with smtp and imap?

>>47210 You can self-host, I've set up an email server which should work, but I haven't started to use it full-time/for everything yet

>>46990 ><title>__<author*>.<extension> I think I am now going to implement something similar, but I do not think I am going to do it just the way you do it, because I still want to use the delimiters properly. Although I will be losing out on a lot of the delimited content, I might use the delimiters only to separate different items, i.e. I might do the_book_title--author_name.extension . I think this is pretty nice, but I am not sure about the double hyphen/underscore—those things look a bit odd. Regardless, I think this oddity allows it to make more sense for separation since it is much less likely for something to include a double hyphen in the title. I guess this would allow me to do somethings like the_hyphenated-story--author_name.extension if the original title was stylized like that, although I suppose I could also omit those. If I wanted to delimit every item, I guess I could do something like the.book.title--author.name.extension or the-book-title..author-name.extension but these seem kind of weird and it's as though the underscore is remaining unused in that case. I might just go with the first one I mentioned—what do you think? >Filenames follow a basic scheme: ><tracknumber>-<title>.<extension> > >But I'm thinking of using a simpler one instead: ><tracknumber>.<extension> I think for music files I will keep the title, or at least part of it (maybe capping at a length at 30 characters or so), in the filename in the case that I am navigating or scripting without access to the metadata or otherwise being in a CLI-only environment. In this case, I will likely do it in a similar style to the documents. For tracks, probably 01-the_title_with_underscores_in_the_place_of_spaces . I am still mildly bugged by the non-delimiting, but it seems pretty standard for people to use underscores like this in filenames. Even my Vim spell-check I'm using to write this now is acknowledging individual words separated by underscores as it would any other delimiter. With artist names, automatically sorted/placed by beet import , it is a bit difficult to handle in a way similar to the documents. I have several considerations: - Do not use a "sort name", simply use the original name, e.g. John Smith , [Frédéric Chopin; Artur Rubinstein] with some substitutions to make them conform to the standards (e.g. john_smith , [frederic_chopin--artur_rubinstein])—this seems quite easy to do since it involves no reordering or anything, it is fairly easy to substitute and convert characters including things like ; . The one issue with this is that you will end up with things like 50 occurrences of the-band under T instead of their respective "actual" letters. This can be handled with my music player (ncmpcpp )'s "Media Library" listing—I would have to figure out how to change that from sorting by Artist to sorting by Album Artist. Also, that isn't perfect either. An example of a flaw is that although it works with English names, it does not work with non-English names from what I can tell. For example, Der Rote Milan is listed under D while The Doors are also listed under D. This issue does not happen with sort names (as defined by MusicBrainz), where these items are listed as Rote Milan, Der and Doors, The . - Using sort names and then using wizardry to make them appear in a desirable format. MusicBrainz, which beet uses, nicely gives everything a sort name which puts it in a way that can be listed alphabetically. A nice thing about this is that it converts non-Latin names into their best-known equivalents—if an artist is best-known by a Romanized transcription of the name, it will do that, but if they are known by a translation, it will go with that. Using the actual, non-"sort name" will not do this, and beet can use ASCII equivalents, but this is less nice, may not always be what is desired, and sometimes it does an awkward/sub-par transcription. The main issue with using sort names is the fact that it is awkward and non-standard. It is difficult to convert/substitute these into a "valid" format because there are many different ways to mutate a name into a "sort name" and sometimes this cannot be distinguished from a name that is identical to its sort name—especially to an automated computer program like beet . For these reasons, I think I will use the "actual" name, not the sort name, and just do substitutions, although each method has the pros and cons I've mentioned. If you have any further feedback about formatting or what I've just said, that would be greatly appreciated.

>>47222 > You can self-host, I've set up an email server which should work, but I haven't started to use it full-time/for everything yet that is a good idea for a project anon

>>47210 self host/claws mail

I've hosted myself my own imageboard using vichan for personal purposes but i keep getting cp spammed on it by some russian IPs i wanted to know how i can rangeban russia since that seems like the easiest solution yet i am too dung brained to figure it out

Maybe you can range ban in CIDR style https://ip2cidr.com/bulk-ip-to-cidr-converter.php https://cidrfromip.com/ Or use some GeoIP to firewall rule or some ASN to firewall rule. AS numbers can be taken from https://ipinfo.io/countries/ru f.ex.

I currently have a lot of symlinks in use to manage my files. Perhaps I am overusing them, and I feel like I should do something else. For example, basically all of my non-hidden directories in ~ are symlinked to individual directories on two separate hard drives, my .config directory is symlinked to my repository which is downloaded into a directory within documents, which of course is symlinked into a hard drive. I have my gnupg and pass things symlinked to a hard drive location as well. Etc. Perhaps I can make the separate hard drives into one via LVM or something, but I do not know how to do that. I also think I need to wipe the drives first. I think I could actually do that since I do have I drive with an older backup, I can copy everything over to that, hoping rsync will update it all. I also think it might be a good idea to mount these locations rather than symlinking all of them. However, there's still a lot to mount. Maybe I could just have a separate partition/mounting mount for my entire /home, but I sort of like the ability to re-install, get all the filthy random files removed, but still have my "files". Thoughts?

which is better for privacy? expressvpn or pedophile tor network?

>>47406 Definitely TOR. Free software, distributed, etc. ExpressVPN is proprietary and VPNs alone have lots of questionability—you are wiring all your traffic through another person's computer

>>47406 Depends on how you use them and who you want privacy from.Most people recommend VPNs for privacy from your ISP or government. And Tor provides privacy from sites/servers you connect to, assuming you use it right. So if you trust Tor and your VPN provider I recommend using both.Personally I use Riseup, but if I could afford it I would be using AirVPN which has some decent people working for it. I think it is bound to EU law though. https://airvpn.org/aboutus/

>>47260 report them for abuse and use abuse lists

>>47406 >pedophile tor network fuarrrk off, nigga.

>>47509 how dare you, racist motherfucker.

I'm using openbsd now (not long time to use). And I got a problem. I want to run Temple OS through qemu, So I tried to install it. But term said "ERROR: /dev/sd0a on / is not large enough (/etc/qemu-ifdown)". I installed openbsd with auto-partitioning, and maybe that's give small amount to root partition? When I do df -h, /dev/sd0a is availabled -100580 and Capacity is 105%. Anybody can help me? I can't find good answer what really i want. Is there no way to solve this problem without re-install for re-paritioning?

what is lain's favorite browser and why is it vivaldi?

>>47547 why would "lain's favorite browser" be a proprietary and privacy violating one?

>>47548 Vivaldi is open source and privacy respecting. Don't listen to spyware.neocities.org. They are really alarmist. https://vivaldi.com/source

>>47549 >Vivaldi is open source and privacy respecting. Vivaldi's own license explanation page (https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-browser-open-source/) says otherwise. The only parts of Vivaldi that are open source are the parts they've scavenged elsewhere and are legally required to make open, for example the Chromium backend. The UI stuff is all closed. Vivaldi is exactly as open source as Microsoft Edge is, because they're the same frigging thing: proprietary UIs bolted on top of Chromium and some other BSD/MIT/etc glue they've grabbed from elsewhere.

>>47547 For me, it's qutebrowser Vim-like keybinds very nice (not hacky like chrome/ff plugins), it isn't Chrome/FF, Python config makes it easy to customize and script Vivaldi is proprietary garbage >>47549 Almost all proprietary software is built with lots of open source software these days. Even if it was fully open source, it isn't Free Software

>>46831 What linux OS should I use for a laptop?

>>47700 Usually the question goes the other way: which laptop is well supported under Linux? If your laptop has poor support, none of them. If it has good support, any of the desktop-oriented distros should be fine. Mint if you don't know what you're doing.

>>47705 Would a Acer Swift 3 with Ryzen 5 3500U have good or bad support?

>>47700 Don't listen to >>47705, basically everything has "support" (especially if using non-free drivers), except for Nvidia I guess. I would say to use Debian, but if you want something similar to Windows, check out Linux Mint—which is based on Debian indirectly. There's also Pop!_OS. Those two should be pretty beginner-friendly. Of course, you did not specify any use case beyond "laptop", which is pretty broad. You can use basically any distribution.

Do any of your browsers not support WebP? I ask because my website will likely have some privacy-minded users with lesser-used browsers. I know Firefox only added it in v65 (2019) so I'm wondering if all the main privacy forks support it too. Wikipedia example image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Johnrogershousemay2020.webp

>>47732 I think IOS/Safari doesn't support webp or other modern formats yet. Also, webp and its other counterparts are quite a security concern, avoid if possible.

>>47736 Safari added support in September 2020. >Also, webp and its other counterparts are quite a security concern, avoid if possible. This is news to me, any examples I can check out?

>>47725 >basically everything has "support" There were laptops before with similar form factor as pic related that had issues with the keyboard dock that linux or any rolling distro haven't supported yet. They wiped their entire drive including windows recovery and driver files so they had to wait until it was fixed because their keyboard and track pad refused to work and reinstalling windows requires to manually add a proprietary driver upon installation and use the mouse while USB is blocked for security reasons. It's like installing linux on a chinese windows tablet with only one usb port. >>47700 The problem is more about how new or old the laptop is, too old or too new is usually where you get problems while there may also be issues with having a bugged EFI that rejects USB, USB keyboards, the POST being way too fast when fast startup, hiberboot, hybridboot, is enabled on windows and skipping the bootable linux drive. There's also wifi cards that linux blacklisted.

>>47737 There were at least a handful of vulnerabilities that you may find on CVE databases. I found a webm that produces sound even when the device is completely muted, and another one causing undesired behavior like panning. It's generally not "safe" but the same can be said with any other file formats but web* are abusable and at this point I'd assume there's zero days circulating around.

>>47732 Why do you wish to use webp at all? It's a video format trying to be an image format and consequently soykafs the bed at things dedicated image formats do well.

>>47746 >There were at least a handful of vulnerabilities that you may find on CVE databases. Alright, I'm now checking them out. Thanks. >>47775 >Why do you wish to use webp at all? Thumbnailing hundreds of images on the web. <considerably better lossy compression than JPEG in most all cases (therefore lower filesize) <supports transparency <superior formats like AVIF and JPEG XL aren't widely supported yet What does it sh­it the bed at? I've found no problems so far.

From what I've heard and know, Lenovo Thinkpads are the go-to option when it comes to purchasing cheap, durable, and compatible laptops. What other brands provide(d) high quality laptops like Lenovo (used) to?

>>47796 Panasonic Toughbooks Maybe old Apple computers

hey, I'm really liking how tmux lets you have multiple viewports open on multiple machines updated in real-time. It's totally changed how I organize my workspace. However, the "tabbed" window abstraction that tmux uses gets difficult to navigate when ~20 or more windows are open at once (as a matter of fact, web browsers have the same issue...) and I've been thinking about alternative schemes (besides tree-based tabbing, which I also dislike). Something that crossed my mind was using a single, discrete coordinate space (units being character cells, of course) and having all windows geometrically allocated across this space. Windows, as well as viewports, could be shifted/transposed. That way, spatial 2d organization could help to group things, much more intuitively than with 1d tabbing (imo). pic related is a mock-up. and here's a pastebin: https://pastebin.com/raw/2U09U41N so anyone know of something like this? a tmux plugin maybe?

>>46534 do man find you can search for text using '/'. type in something (like sym for symbolic links) and press enter to search it. press 'n' to move through matches.

when using the ms macros in groff, if you add a table of contents with .TC it automatically adds the "table of contents" title, in english. this isn't good when writing in another language. the ms manual says you can redifine the TOC string, but doesn't show how; how do you do it?

I'm venting rather than asking a question, but literally last week. I go to a University (yes,yes, I know...) Professor tells us that a transformer converts AC to DC, and then continues to say that an Inverter is just a transformer with the poles reversed. I think I'm gonna need to teach myself this semester...

>>47898 I think /hum/ is a nice place to vent about these forms of soykaf. sorry to hear your frustrations. cherish the times when their ineptitude is merely disgraceful rather than actively dangerous

>>47224 Okay, I think I am nearing a good naming scheme. For book/document files I basically just did what the other lainon mentioned and I had started to write a thing with awk and sed and etc. but didn't reach a point of success. I might try further later. As for music files, I am getting there. So far, it is just the ordinary artist name (I am considering using the sort name just because the romanizations of names can be weird/unpreferrable sometimes, but I might just stick with it since I will be interfacing via ncmpcpp most of the time and just file navigation will "work") which is then converted to all ASCII characters and then to lowercase, and then there are some substitutions which I am trying to work out and perfect. So far: >Space in general (as well as Japanese "space" character ・ and maybe other things like that if I find any others) replaced with underscores >Comma with or without spaces following it ,\s\? is replaced with a hyphen - (although I am considering doing a period, which looks closer to comma) >Semicolon with or without spaces following it ;\s\? is replaced with a double hyphen -- but maybe I will opt to a single hyphen or something with periods. >Special characters in general are replaced with hyphen. Maybe I should do period though. >Aphostrophes ' are omitted. Something like "dont" seems more natural than "don-t" but it seems a bit odd to selectively omit some characters. This still needs to be worked out some. Does anyone have any suggestions for what to change about substitutions or if I should use sort names? I am also thinking of working out video files. I think for shows it will just be vid/whatever/show_name/s01/s01e01.mkv (basically just lowercase, de-verbosified, and underscore-spaced version of what I currently have). For YouTube/Peertube-style things I may leave capitalization as-is for authenticity, mainly since I have not worked out anything regarding tags or metadata yet.

>>47918 Maybe all "punctuation" that serves a similar purpose to a period grammatically should be replaced with a period. So ?!, could all maybe be replaced with . .

>>47918 >>47924 And maybe if there are several authors, e.g. if there are more than 2 semicolons (or even commas) I'd just replace the entire e.g. ;.*;.* with et al. This is just a consideration, though—I may not do this.

>>47926 >>47924 >>47918 Or maybe all special characters can be omitted/replaced with underscore since hyphen is used to separate from track name and . is for the file extension. I do not think this will necessarily be required though, since it is only the first - and last .

>>47744 >bugged EFI that rejects USB, USB keyboards Many laptops have that problem, usually there is that one and only USB port that lets you use peripheral devices while every other port is blocked by EFI or secureboot (sometimes turning it on would make a device refuse to detect the keyboard). With nu-laptops,that work like tablets, that might be a problem. There's usually only two usb ports, a full type-A and a type-C and usually one of them is block by EFI BIOS or even the fact that secureboot makes it impossible to boot EFI ISO unless that distro comes with Canonical's UEFI signing keys and rarely there's even no option to turn off secureboot for some device. >>47898 Are you sure that's a professor and not an "instructor" ? Either way, you really have to teach yourself even after you graduate and work in some company.

I'm looking for an open source linux program that can view connections like wireshark, but it has the ability to selectively block connections. Does anyone have something like this?

Do thinkpad docks seriously use the same USB controller as the rest of the machine and effectively act as little more than a custom hub with some pre-attached IO ports? The connection obviously allows for more since DVI/VGA over USB basically doesn't exist in supported hardware on Linux, so why reuse the same USB controller instead of adding another and connecting it via PCI?

Is there a way to find every file in a given website? More specifically in a static one, and in a directory.

>>48119 Every public file? A wget recursive/spider crawl might be what you're looking for. It checks every link for links and keeps going until none are left or it reaches the maximum depth if you defined one. Just make sure to restrict it to the domain you want.

>>48119 This, generally: >>48130. Also consider dirbuster or gobuster . Note that finding every file isn't exactly feasible. 1. Consider the case of a file that isn't referenced by any other (that you're aware of): if said file has a sufficiently long/random name, you probably won't be able to locate it without brute forcing all possible file names. 2. Further, consider a file referenced by a fluctuating name. Say its name is determined by f(time) (or even f(secret, time) ): without knowing the definition for f , you can't feasibly guess the file's name. Outside of these special cases, the aforementioned solutions are probably what you're looking for.

>>48155 Also, in the case of #2, the fluctuation aspect doesn't have to be implemented by the web server. The file could be moved to f(time) by a daemon, cron job, or by the site administrator. In all of these cases, the site is still served statically.

>>48052 Not really going to get the level of depth that you do with WireShark, but OpenSnitch might work well for blocking: https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

I have an extremely cheap chromebook running GalliumOS. Every week or so it freezes up, becomes unresponsive, replaying the last half second of audio it had just played on a loop until I do a hard reset with the power button. Any idea what causes this? Doing graphically intensive things like watching videos seems to make it crash a few days sooner, but that could just be my perception. Not a big deal, though, since it only takes a minute to restore everything after it reboots (just need to reconnect to a few remote tmux sessions). Curious why it does this though.

I want to set nvlc as the default mp3 file opener. However I want it to open as a new tab in an already existing terminal. Currently it opens a new window no matter what I do. How do I do this?

What's a decent graphical music player for Linux that display lyrics? I'm a little tryhard with my music and have everything properly tagged, even the lyrics, but no player I find has the capacity to show them while on Windows I had Winyl Player or Dopamine.

>>48209 Memory leak maybe? Sounds like one

>>48239 Step one would be figuring out how to open anything in a new tab in an existing terminal window. I think you can do this with xdotool and a shell script. >>48287 If it were a memory leak then tabs would fail to load and performance would tank hard. Also OOM killer is supposed to save the rest of the system. It's probably flakey hardware.

>>48289 >It's probably flakey hardware. yeah, probably... thanks anon.

How do I trick a PIR sensor, or a passive infrared sensor? They detect infrared light radiating from objects. If it were just a motion sensor I could put a moving fan or something simpler. This seems to need heat though. Would a very small space heater set it off? Space heaters are fire hazards so I would need some very small one and in a non-flammable area. What would work? I basically want this to think there is a person present constantly, all day for many days.

any firefox extension like proxy privacy ruler for pale moon that restricts the proxy to private windows so i can use tor on certain websites?

Can someone recommend some good beginner Analog or simple digital electronics projects? I tried to build a macro pad earlier but I confused the capacitors for the diodes and soldered all the components into the wrong places and they're all tiny SMD's that are mostly unmarked so I can't tell where the unsoldered and now disorganised components go, looking for something similar to start with

>>48299 *Simpler I can't even type properly lain help me I'm a mess

I use a laptop with an SSD and backup my data weekly to a flash drive. Every month I also back it up to another SSD. I use Grsync. Should I worry about bit rot damaging the data on my laptop? If so, how can I counteract it?

>>48305 i think that comparing the MD5 hash of the original files with the copies on your backup media should be enought. check S.M.A.R.T tests once in a while for the 3 devices.

>>48052 There was one but it was commercial and sponsored by youtubers, I don't remember what it was but it's probably not a good idea to use since they shove their private services to you. >>48062 As far as I know the docks have a specific port underneath the laptop that directly connects to the board, otherwise you're using a independent dock that is not official, USB-C docks are fine though if you have a modern thinkpad but not sure if linux support is possible, maybe ubuntu werks. >>48119 >wait until webadmin decides to update/modify the server >browse the index directory while it's unprotected It may be possible. Other way is to just hack the site.

>>48297 Depending on the sensitivity, a simple IR remote control may be sufficient.

Anyone got recommendations for a good, cheap compact keyboard? I've had mechanical keyboards in the past and honestly they're a giant meme, but they did have the advantage of a lots of layout options. All I want is a compact keyboard that doesn't have a numpad or full size home cluster that does have both the number row, the function row and a full size backspace.

I don't use wine yet. But I wonder how to check required drivers or dependency programs which must need to run applications what I want? Is there any error log which can confirm what driver is needed or anything else?

>>48286 Sayonara Filler filler filler filler

Not sure if this is the correct thread but why i cannot connect on irc? I have tried both lainchan and rizon but they are throwing timeout.

>>48383 For me the thing that trips me up sometimes on Hexchat is its confusing port syntax. You need to have that plus sign (+) when designating the port or it won't work.

>>48385 i am using weechat. The first time i got the lainchan port wrong, but now it is giving me this.

Hey, what's a good starting point to learn about exploits, hacking and that stuff? Mostly just computer security and how to secure yourself. Any book or course you can recommend?

>>48397 It looks like i have to use tor.

My main computer is a laptop that I plug into a USB hub and external monitor, I have it stuffed into a shelf on the side of my desk where its connected to a bunch of soykaf and the whole spaghetti gangbang mess of a laptop with cables coming out of both sides of it is hidden behind a small cabinet, giving me a very clean setup. If temps aren't bad in use, should I be worried about the cramped conditions of the laptop at all? Its about 1 1/2 feet/45cm of the ground and the vent and fan are pointed outwards into free air but there's a cabinet right in front of it and an enclosed shelf around it, only one edge of the laptop is pointing into the air, should I be worried about dust accumulation?

I waited 108 minutes to connect to i2p just to discover that ipv4 is firewalled and i cannot access eepsites. What to do? I am using android if this matters.

>>48492 I2P will still work when it says it is firewalled. Try zzz.i2p that is basically always online.

>>48507 And here we go...

>>48512 I don't know what special challenges there are with running on Android.

>>48535 Neither i. In a tutorial i saw the guy waited for 4 minutes.

Does anyone know what socket this is?

>>48577 Never mind. The serial number on the cpu was just really hard to spot in this light. It's LGA13366.

Is there a way to run php on nginx on android? The most possible method is this https://www.liquidweb.com/kb/configure-nginx-read-php-ubuntu-16-04/ but i could not find usr/etc/nginx/sites-available/default.

I want to retrieve items cached by Firefox (images, videos). I have found no software for Linux to extract Firefox cache files. Only Windows: https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/mozilla_cache_viewer.html Offcicial Mozilla forum does not help either: https://support.mozilla.org/bm/questions/1220435

Any good resources on how to make my own VPN?

>>48757 You mean, encrypted tunnel to a foreign server. Rent VPS. Install Wireguard.

I use Linux for a long time and all I learn is cropped and disorganized. Only today I discovered that there is the "inetd" and that GNU programs use a library called "gnulib". My question is: Is there any material that teach in a systematic way how a UNIX system works in its entirety? What I want is a material that grab in my hands and take me to walk throughout the UNIX (Linux or BSD) system. I just want to see what tools there are and what I can build with them, so I can deepen what is interest to me. The most important thing is to know that that exists. The same dilemma happens in programming, I should reuse code and use libraries, but as I can know which libraries and functions there are if someone does not tell me. I'm reading this book as a starting point.

>>48795 IMO if you want to really learn that in depth, books ain't gonna cut it. I would suggest you to try some "from the scratch" distro like gentoo or LFS and follow their wiki and man pages. Once you manage to set it up, I guarantee you'll both learn it and get the feel for the system

>>48757 >>48782 I used to recommend Streisand, but it looks like that project is now archived. Somebody in their GitHub discussion forum recommended this one, although it's the first time I've ever heard of the project, so I'd say tread cautiously: https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core

>>48795 I've heard good things about this book, but haven't dived into it yet myself: UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook https://admin.com/

I wanted to setup weechat with tor as a proxy. I followed the various tutorials online, which are all exactly the same, and simply changed the address to the .onion link and the proxy settings to localhost/9050 where my tor proxy is running. But when I try to connect, it says: irc: proxy address "xxxx.onion" not found irc: error: name or service not known What is the problem here? I know that tor is running and works, the server is up and the configuration of weechat should be correct as well. What do I need to change?

Is there any way to run programs that include their own Tor, through the system-level Tor? I already tried torsocks.

I need a small server rack for home use, wall mounted. Is amazon really the best place to get the rack, or is there someone else I can get it from? I know rarely, some places just get rid of them. I also don't really want to keep giving Amazon my money, especially when there are smaller stores more deserving. RIP Frys Electronics, etc

How do I become a soldering god? Any ebook recs? It's too hard to solder small 10mm-6mm dynamic drivers and thin wires although I managed to do only one properly. I even wasted small ~1m roll of tin trying to solder pic related to a thin teflon copper wire and it just won't stick and I ended up accidentally melting the plastic instead. Also, do I need more flux to make the solder stick into pic related? Or it's just due to the fact it had oxidized and can't be tinned unless I sandpaper? (I use 2-in-1 tin with flux)

>>48984 Adjust temperature and different heating element temperature capacity for the job needed. ie see soldering irons for big metal workers and soldering iron for through hole and soldering irons for smd

>>48985 >>48984 look into this series to learn how to solder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIT4ra6Mo0s

In the last few days, my video players have started showing an audio glitch for the first few seconds of playing video or audio. Normal sound plays but with loud crackling. Reproduced with mpv, VLC, Celluloid and mpv (Flatpak), reinstalling didn't fix. Glitch doesn't reoccur if the video is closed then quickly reopened or rewinded. Glitch isn't present while recording pulse audio in Audacity, so I can't upload a sample. Potential cause is a NVIDIA update (messed with another program).

>>49109 try rolling back / reinstalling / messing with your audio drivers. It could also be a weird codec issue.

youtube-dl as a project "youtube-dl does not support sites dedicated to copyright infringement", but does anyone make such extractors for it? It should be relatively trivial to integrate patches in its extractor listing and simply provide a patchset for users. Does anyone do it?

Why people don't use nice/renice negative priorities on cpu intensive tasks like compiling the Linux kernel or cracking hashes? Using "nice -n -20 make -j4" with the linux kernel saved so much time on my crap computer and in some games I even got a fps boost using nice.

>>46831 Are there hundreds of bots on /g/? I expect a few, but I've few weeks ago heard about librefox, tried it, liked it, recommended it and now I see it pop up more and more frequently. One post even sounded like something I wrote filtered through some ML algorithm. Seeing all of these posts are simple, I think majority of low effort wage slave threads and brewing soykaf are bots.

>>49200 Reinstalled NVIDIA drivers, works perfectly. Why didn't I think of that? Thanks Lainon.

So I'm trying to set up a LUKSv2-encrypted logical volume group containing my boot, swap, root, etc. while my EFI system partition where GRUB resides remains unencrypted. I have to compile GRUB from source because there still aren't many distros that distribute v2.06 with LUKSv2 support yet. I have looked at many, many guides and it seems like no matter what I do the end result is I get grub installed but its lacking all the modules necessary to decrypt and read my logical volume group. Can anyone with a lot of experience with GRUB tell me what secret step I'm missing here? I have been fuarrrking around with this on and off for months and I am really fuarrrking tired of having a non-functional machine until I solve this.

>>49311 I don't think grub knows wtf lvm is. You need something called an initramfs. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Custom_Initramfs

>>49371 GRUB definitely has an lvm module. You're getting ahead of me with initramfs, which is found in /boot. My problem is I cannot even get GRUB to successfully decrypt and open my partitions including /boot so that I can load initramfs, dracut, the kernel, etc.

>>49375 initramfs is just a mini linux root filesystem which grub can boot into. The initramfs can then decrypt the disk, setup lvm and then hand over to the real root filesystem. If you say grub can do decryption and lvm then you don't need an initramfs. I've never used grub like that before.

Is there really some validity to the hate firefox recieves? I'm using librefox currently and I genuinely happy with it. I don't care what mozilla blogpost #432 said about politics

>>49407 Mozilla has turned their backs on everything good they ever fought for or represented at this point to become spineless lackeys of Google.

>>49409 That might be true, but I'm still feel better off using forked firefox with lot of the bullshit disabled then literally buying into google or google (but with crypto) like others are doing.

What's the best way to implement SSD on a linux system and prolong ssd heath? I honestly know nothing about the tech so I need some enlightenment before I buy one. I'm planning to use it for swap-hibernation partition and system partition. >ssd stuff to avoid/use (company or configuration)? >fstab flags to use (e.g noatime)? >best file system type for ssd? can ssd do xfs? >grub/kernel config for better ssd? I use artix btw.

>>49311 >>49375 An update: by specifying the modules I need directly with grub-install --modules="" I have managed to get the tools necessary to decrypt my LUKS2 volume from GRUB shell. In the process I managed to expose a bug dealing with parsing LUKS2 keyslots and got it patched by devs. Now I need to figure out how to automate the LUKS2 detection (another bug and patch dealing with successful probing may be necessary) so I don't need to do stuff manually from the GRUB shell. And it also turns out my initramfs still isn't setup properly to have encryption tools. This is still necessarily even though GRUB has this stuff because it needs to be able to pass what it knows about the filesystem on to the kernel. I'll have to do some further research to figure out what I'm doing wrong there. Progress, lainons!

Is it possible now to buy crypto online without providing personal info ? ( other than buying currency from person you know IRL ) Want to try, but the fact that I have to give my personal data is repulsive.

>>49468 There are peer to peer exchanges where you can bank transfer to miners.

>>49438 If you are a ramlet and use a lot of swap memory then it can damage your SSD, also I think there are some extra settings for fstab. I don't think you need to fuarrrk around with GRUB. It should 'just werk' pretty much.

I recently used a PDF reader called Sumatra PDF, is there a Linux alternative to it? The function I'm interested in is the one to zoom by "Fitting content" where all, but only text is visible in it's entirety (blank space get btfo) and remove the need to scroll down, allowing me to just read the whole page and skip to the next.

do you need any special toggle for usb tethering on openbsd? i read that it is supposed to work out of the box but when i plug in my phone and enable tethering dmesg says ugen0 detached and then attaches itself again as ugen0, not urndis

My computer's slowing down whenever I move my mouse cursor It makes games almost unplayable and I think I'm gonna cry Any Idea of what could be causing it? I'm at a loss here ngl

>>49699 Too little info to even troubleshot. Was it always like that or since some day? What OS and other software in general are you using? Is it all games or just some specific one?

>>49700 yeah my bad, I'm using win10, this started out of the blue a week ago, nothing changed, no updates of any kind, nothing It my whole computer even when I'm not running anything intensive, even my browser slows down, I've tried to put in a different mouse but that doesn't do it but the touchpad doesn't trigger the lag This is on a laptop that has a gtx 1070 and an i7-7700hq. All my drivers are up to date, everything I can think of is up to date and should be working so if you need some more specific info please tell me

I want to get into Linux so I can become a super user, but people keep telling me it leads to pedophilia. I cannot see how this can be, but I have learned that you must trust the wisdom of elders when they talk about what is forbidden. Should I give up on becoming a super user?

>>49707 How and why would that lead to that lol

>>49708 That's what I'm asking? >tfw can't post on nanochan because they added some code only superusers can figure out

What is the best GPL web server software?

Can I get links with graphical mode to work with pure wayland? I don't have xwayland and currently when I try to run links -g it returns: Could not initialize any graphics driver. Tried the following drivers: fb: Could not get VT mode.

How much of a backdoor is new Apple platform compared to Intel's and AMD's stuff?

>>49818 the same way as from any other device

I just realized Linux can make you into an Incel (or as I've taken to calling it, Lincel)! This is very bad because incels kill people in their school or offices. It all makes sense now why Stallman has killed over 60,000 people in his life time. https://www.reddit.com/r/justneckbeardthings/comments/6lmeiy/incels_blame_linux_for_their_situation_because/

>>49701 amateur keylogger thats the problem with windows, the WH_MOUSE/KEYBOARD hook only hooks a single program, so you only have a single pipe taking in input, if you hook it to a keylogger the input stops at your keylogger, so you either redirect it from the keylogger after being consumed like a smart person, or dont hook at all and just spam GetKeyState() which gives insane high cpu usage

>>49835 by following the RTFM principle

>>46831 Sick of lurking around wondering, is there a device with e-ink that is not android that has no restrictions and can read cbz (and has text to audio synthesis) of which is the size of a typical manga and costs a bit under or around 100 usd? >was censored on r*ddit of course >have nowhere to ask that will get attention now >perhaps should make a thread on /lit/ Well anyway, they have weird offbrand Chinese ones that show up then immediately get bought, then show up on another seller, unless on ali, so with how much of an unfortunate bum I am I figured I'd just go ahead and ask someone. About hacking, I figure would hacking brick it? Won't android's, though recommended, try to control you and also have planned obsolescence in their software design, even hardware design? I've already used calibre to make all books txt so I can read them on any shabby device and even have my pocketgo v1 reading to me (that's a gp2x sort of thing, for emulation of old consoles really but it has text reading capability and text to audio) randomly (sounds bad really but it's a cool device to me anyway and it can show the text of course though it's a bit small for even normal reading I'd figure) but honestly manga I've never had a convenient small device for as tablets look bad when cheap on their sides in portrait mode. Well, my overall point is that I know nothing about the weird offbrand ones if they often have no actual title but have a familiar hardware design. Do they have stores? They claim to have real e-ink and can read cbz, some claim it, but I just don't know. The two types I keep staring at are this one and preferably this one as they come up a lot and that second ones seems to claim cbz and the other generally does not claim to be able to do it. I take it they are both bad but still. I assume they are both terrible in some way? These two designs that have no specific title nor name? Also I don't like the idea of a touch screen. I'm thinking that the pocketbook might be my best option and lurked enough to see someone claim most can do cbz? I'm reading and pondering ereaders_101, the wiki link, right now. It mentions not cbz in it though is nice to see. I'm tempted to get an ancient barnes and noble one and forgo cbz as they can be dirt cheap and on their last legs but that'd be silly all things considered. I'd probably not.... actually probably not even if remade to be new. Cbz is kinda the whole point for me and cheap android tablets would seem best but last I tried that I needed to wear an eyepatch like a/as (a) pirate as they look bad on their sides due to cheaper lcd's, android tablets I've had. Also, again, they break easy. That and as add as I am, even if okay with being spied upon and such, really I'm not going to read if it can do anything other than reading, or manga viewing if that is not to be called reading, whatever, just as I'd not read for long on a tiny pocketgo v1 as it's going to tempt me to play games on it. I don't really care about battery life also, though I figure that's an appeal, I have battery banks and solar panels stocked up, though it indeed lasting long would make me slightly less distracted by a constant wondering of the batteries percentage. Also I know I could make it myself (the 'pi' soc route) but it'd be a terrible experience with how ham-handed I am and it'd not end up...sleek... even if it did work as a book reader. Is there a book reader OS I'm not aware of though that is not android for a pi (,or whatever name of system on a chip)? What do they do? Come with the driver for the e-ink? I'd not though, the last time I tried to make an umpc due to lack of funding I forwent trying a second (third really, but this post is too long as it is) try. It involved a cigar box that ended up quite demolished and the glue wasn't sticking on top of my having only a knife and drill to work with...I'm not in the mood to contemplate it in any case. I spent far too much on peripherals as it is to never use them for that rather failed experiment. I should buy lots of polymer clay but then that would harm the wallet when other priorities take precedence and I only get at most 400 usd per year, 200 at a time. I have another device I would like to get rather than just a book reader, hence the limit being half and half (yes it is a playgo (or perhaps an rg280v (or maybe an odroid-go-adance (or one of it's clones)))). tl;dr: see first run-on sentence.

>>49568 Almost any pdf reader does this, but to be more specific Atril has this function

>>49892 (me) Forgot to include links or images for the two generics but it's whatever.

>>49892 get a printer lmaoing at your life right noe

>>49907 >too heavy if carrying 1k books >printers would cost more at the end of the printing process

>>49909 >1k typical illiterate who cant scale quantities, you'd be dead before even getting close to finishing that unless youre a normal nigger that reads 10 pages and puts it on a shelf to masturbate your ego > ahh, another for me collection, Im big brain indubiously I might say bulk printing is for chink shops, chink shops give discounts for big orders and do free bindings thats what theyre there for

>>49910 >chink shops pretty sure any printing shop will do bulk printing

>>49911 yeah but chink shops dont complain and dont ask questions you could give them a usb full of cp and theyd print it all without any problem I had to print A1 pages once in france for an engineering drawing and everything was offscale and the fuarrrking non chinks made a problem saying the plotter didnt print that large, I went to a chink shop and they had no problem at all, it came out perfectly to scale and even guaranteed it so that any mistake was one them and they would reprint free of charge chink shops are just unironically better when it comes to printing, I dont trust anyone else to be honest, its chink or bust for me really, but thats just me

>>49910 I have more than I'll ever read so I don't have to worry about being very bored if something bad happens. Obviously. >XD lmao at ur life ur a nigger and pretending to be smart XDDDDD Please stop visiting toxic communities, they've poisoned your mind (I hope). Even if I only read 50 books in my life I will tend to read them over again, that means that I have to carry 100 lbs in books potentially while off the grid and on foot and I get plantar fasciitis pretty easily. Even if it's really more like 30 lbs at best, they will get wet and decay and will still be too cumbersome. My go-bag is another 20ish also. Carrying nothing at all gives me extreme aches in my foot to the point where I'm grounded for over a week.

>>49925 man are your retard or fuarrrking mentally disabled or something the printing press was a revolution of its own for a reason , books weigh fuarrrking nothing its literally fuarrrking paper what the fuarrrk are talking about you fuarrrking nigger the ones that you are the most passionate about arent even fuarrrking important since you would have them in memory anyway, if you dont it shows you dont give a fuarrrk about literature you fuarrrking psued, like in that book Fahrenheit 451, fuarrrking vaccine yourself you fuarrrking nigger, like seriously what the fuarrrk even are you lmaoing at your life right noe

>>49926 Libraries are stationary for a reason.

>>46831 Can I remove one of the pins from my Seasonic sata power cabel to make it work in my Corsair psu?. The seasonic has 6 pins in total but only 5 of them have wires and my PSU only takes ones with 4 wires.

>>49946 it wont lock you could just strip the wires and connect them individually to the pins, each pin has a different voltage so just make sure the colours match the configuration of a normal connector

>>49892 >was censored on reddit it's a generic advertising clickbait webshit this isn't censorship, it's just their standard policy to delete anything due to corporate robot reasons

Is Linux From Scratch still worth doing these days or should I just install Gentoo?

>>50016 LFS for learning about Linux. Literally anything else for your daily driver.

>>50018 I can't use Gentoo to do the same thing?

>>50018 >africanized americans are you serious right noe(lol stop)

Is there a project that reimburses people for lending computation? preferably decentralized and probably using a blockchain to build trust For example, i'd like to be able max out my cpu for people for a day, and in return have ~24 similar machines run a 1 hour computation. I feel like it should exist, but i haven't been able to find it. >pic somewhat related

>>46831 Are there easy to use dosbox frontends? I'm over 30 and only ever played games through stand alone emulators for gaming consoles and grew up with no pc gaming in my life and hardly any real console games I owned and are a neet to this day. As large of space newer pc games take up I generally don't even think about attempting to get them to work with cracks or whatever but dos games are small and I just realized today that elder scrolls is actually pretty old and 8mb big the first one is. I downloaded ampshell and the game and it kept crashing and I hate the idea of trying to remember code to type down, what was the point of the shell? Also my father is even dumber than I am and wanted me to set up mame before and I failed hard on that. I just could not get it to work and on a machine he bought even that crashes a lot for his mame games and dos games I've seen crash too on those chinese 'emulator boxes'. My life is bad enough with frustrating myself failing at computer technology in current years. I could learn 15 years ago on my windows 98 computer in hs that I got upon turning 18 but really I'm too burned out now days. Youtube does not help with computers as my computer is very neet tier, needs low rez to not lag so a 9 minute video becomes 20 minutes of trying to pause a lot and see what the higher rez monitor did on my lower rez of which is set to an even lower rez on youtube. Written tutorials seem to be for win3 and I've got win7, 32bits. So yeah.... Anyway, feel free to not help general. I'd probably not like pc games much anyway.

>>50187 (me) >decide to watch some jewtube woman with voice that annoys me that never gets to the point, usual experience >vid plays while using the bathroom without my permission after taking ages to let javascrip stop raping it >watching it https://en.uesp.net/wiki/General:Playing_DOS_Installments_under_DOSBox Shouldn't people lead with convoluted stuff like this, a link to it? Because it's not worth the time. It's literally as easy to program pong in lua this sort of tier is. To start up a game you need to practically put the effort into learning real live computer programming. Tell me after 30 years it's still not like this? Maybe there's a console port somewhere...probably an android as usual, gotta spy on the dummies with that easily breakable cheap trash.

>>50188 (me) >>50187 (me) >finally found daggerfallsetup.exe and arenafallsetup.exe that 'just werk' Another day goes by that I cheated my way out of something...I'm happy I guess. I doubt many such pre-setup stuff will exist for other games I might want to download though so my gripe is still there really though at least I can try out pc gaming now. They have some cdemulator type thing that mounts cd's without having an actual cd and only an iso I read about on the piratebay so maybe I'll get some newer pc game later and hope that is just as easy. I always wanted to play Vampire The Masquerade Bloodlines after seeing people playing it when I was still an adolescent with no computer of my own. That and lots of other games I read about... I'm still sad it's so convoluted though with how inefficient I've been in the last 1.5 decades of my life as a neet. If I ever got intelligent I'd like to have my pocketgo v1 running it's dosbox playing stuff but I shudder to think about how much configuration that'd take. Honestly I've such learned helplessness that my IQ, low as it is, halves whenever feeling that something won't go well so I get flustered and panicky inside and never learn anything. That goes along with the other problems. Also about the pocketgo, the screen is so tiny that the text is almost impossible to read. Such a stressful life. Then there's the fact that the game(s) will be too hard anyway! >why did I waste my time....?

What's wrong with Manjaro? I've heard of some drama around donations and low hardening. All my (imaginary) friends advise switching to Void, but I'm afraid of hardware issues and the general immaturity of the system. And I'd also like to have LUKS from the box.

>>50190 Manjaro's dev team is very irresponsible, they have let certificates expire more than once so they announced to everyone that they have to set their system clock back (which is a horrible workaround if the system is being used as anything beyond a web browser). They have tried to hide things like that when they happen too, although I don't remember the specific examples because I don't follow distro drama much. The main issue I have with Manjaro is that it installs too much baloney that I don't need, and its repos are arguably equally unstable (equally likely to break something) as Arch's but less up-to-date. So there's really no good reason to use Manjaro. If Arch is too hard to install, EndeavourOS is essentially just Arch with a nice installer and update helper, so that's a better option.

>>50191 Thanks. It's time once again to reinstall the system.

>>50189 (me) Update, the second one runs my potato into the ground for some reason. The first one is neat though to have :)

Hi Lain, I'd like to digitize my collection of VHS tapes. I've never done this before and I need some advice on best practices and possible mistakes that I might run into. I bought pic related on ebay and I already have a working VCR at home. What are the best video formats for long-term storage? I assume an open and lossless format would be the best choice.

>>50187 (me) >>dosbox for win3 I just realized what they were and how silly my comment there is...it's to run win3 in the dosbox. Neat and all, but now that I'm feeling better I felt like giving my post a hairy eyeball and that's retarded. I wonder what one could do with that though other than geek out at it. But yeah, I've never even seen a windows computer older than 9x in my 30ish years on account of being sheltered so it being a period between dos and win9x blue screened my brain there. I had went for a walk and felt better. IT doesn't look all that complex really, I just hate trying new things. As slow as the stuff is though I don't think I'd bother with the pocketgo v1 doing things as even if it were set up right it'd be very slow on such a thing, though hilariously someone loaded up win3 on it and solitaire and minesweeper I think. But yes I'm glad that the first Elder Scrolls has that nice setupexe that they made. The second has laggy sound and a very large resolution by default as well that annoys me having to change my resolution to a higher one with an external monitor on account of having such a potato even if the sound is not that bad. First person games with a 'middle ages', or whatever, setting with a magic theme like shadowgate or Elder Scrolls really pumps my gonads in any case. And it is a small file that first one is. I wonder if it's raycasting? I wonder if Doom was sometimes and have watched people argue about it. Not that it matters to a baka like me, just neat looking for it's time. Not being able to look down means it's raycasting I'd imagine... maybe. Anyway, I should stop blogging now.

>>50200 pretty irrelevant for vhs, its already at a tiny resolution, just use any loseless format but match the resolution and bitrate otherwise youre just wasting time

>>50202 (me) >stop blogging On second thought figured I'd come back to say that the thing refuses often to recognize the keyboard and or mouse properly. Also the screen resolution gets often randomly stuck lower and I have to fix it of which is annoying a bit and the newer one would NOT do it manually at all so I'd have to bring that one up and down. Randomly it will fix it or not fix it, the first, and randomly the mouse will work or not or keyboard will or not. So annoying. Perhaps some day I will 'get good' and not use such software. Maybe my computer's drivers are off. But yeah, no idea what triggers it.

>>50233 >there is no manual for this lies

asked on /g/ as well but it's pretty obscure and people here might know a bit more: I'm trying to install lainWM (from lainOS, abandoned since 2005, although the WM was released) but I'm getting stuck at it not finding freetype-config. apparently it's been phased out in favour of pkg-config some time ago. is there anything I can do about this? can I get freetype-config from anywhere still?

>>50200 I actually do this for a living, so I can tell you we use avi to capture, then once we edit to send to clients we generally provide a significantly smaller, h.264 mp4. sometimes people request the avi as well for their own editing but honestly, theres very little difference in the image between the two; only file size. 10gb per hour on avi, compared to just shy of 1gb per hour on mp4.

>>50556 replace freetype-config with pkg-config or get some old iso, package youre looking for is libfreetype6-dev and took me approximately 30 seconds to figure out.

Where do you host your repositories (if not self-hosted gitea/gogs or something)? My options: https://notabug.org/ (with Tor, wow!) https://codeberg.org/ (rendering your static website) https://sourcehut.org ("All features work without JavaScript")

when i put my headphone, it started to play a weird audio. how to see what app is doing this?

>>50585 It's simple, you need just some app for your some system on some device.

How to play online in old LAN-only games that are run with wine on two Ubuntus?

Question on FreeBSD. Reading on its ports collection, it reminded me of the way Gentoo is handling packages. The way of doing it might be different, but conceptually they are simillar in that you download and build a package from source in an automated way with an easy way to customize the configuration beforehand (at least that's the impression I've gotten from reading a summary). Does the comparison do it justice? And is it also possible to create your own ports simillar to ebuilds on Gentoo?

Looking for a safe email provider that wouldn't send my mails to advertisers and just as private as it can be, of course you dont have to tell me "no such thing as safety", but whats my best option?

>>50745 Look at the catalog first before posting >>46831 >Safest Email provider? None.

>>46831 What are the system requirements for opengl and directx versions in regard to what gpu I should buy? I'm poor and only make 400 usd per year, 200 usd at a time, as an eternal neet with no governmental assistance. Not all gpu's even list it, they list the vram and frequency though of which won't help necessarily. The ones that list it are always overkill as I need opengl 3.3 and or directx11.1, not opengl 4 nor dx12. I plan on getting a compatible cpu with it that's over 3ghz and using that pc building website to show if it's compatible.

I'm using Debian 11 with an Nvidia graphics card and i386 CPU architecture. Keep in mind I know very little about linux. On my very recent install of this distro, I have come across two pretty annoying graphical problems: the resolution is set to 1024x768 and there is also some screen tearing. In the display settings the monitor is simply shown under the name "default" and the resolution can't be changed. When checking system information, it shows llvmpipe as GPU instead of the actual graphic card. This supposedly means that the computer is using the integrated GPU and the proper GPU at the same time to save resources. The only possible solution I have found is changing the driver from open source (nouveau as far as I could find out) to proprietary. I enabled contrib and non-free repos but then I found that I don't know which one I should install. In the end I downloaded a driver directly the Nvidia website which is probably the one that I need, but then the install showed an error that I need to stop running this "X server" thing which seems like an important program, the kind that gives you a black screen when you shut it down. I found a command that was supposed to stop the so-called "X-server", and turns out that it actually did because it gave me a black screen when I ran it. Is there an easy solution I might have missed somewhere down the line or am I on the right path in trying to fix a problem to fix a problem to fix a problem?

>>50850 Do yourself a favor and use Ubuntu until you feel more comfortablein linux land. Other then that https://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers should be of help.

what are good general purpose linux distros for gaming that don't use systemd?

>>50854 opendingux to be honest

>>50626 Create a VPN on one PC, then connect to it from the other PC.

>>50850 >>50853 Turns out I misunderstood what i386 means and my processor is not that old. I downloaded the amd64 version and instead of fuarrrking around with xfce I installed the distro with Gnome. It's actually very comfy and easy to use. I don't think I'll ever go back to Windows.

Does anyone have a userstyle sharing site that doesn't suck? I would use userstyles.org, but it's overwhelmingly suck.

I am a new user here. Is there anything that works like 4chan X?

>>50565 yes I've installed libfreetype6-dev and I still get the error. I'll give pkg-config a try

Can someone recommend a good mpv config/options for old laptop performance? Im using thinkpad x200 but there are times when a lot of frames are dropped for 1080p x265 anime, i know theres no reason for this resolution but i have a ton of gigabytes in that format so im looking for ways to make it watchable

>>50991 >old laptop >x265 You need to convert to another format like x264 >ffmpeg -c:v libx264 -i in.mkv out.mkv The file will be bigger but it won't take 9000% CPU to decode.

Seems like a good idea, except that it's gonna take 2 hours per episode

>>50996 Yes you run it overnight to convert your library. Your CPU is not fast enough to decode the high compression h265 in real time, that's why it lags. Either convert it to a less CPU intensive format or buy a faster CPU. What other answer were you expecting?

>>50991 Download 720p anime or buy a new computer. Intel Penryn chipset has support for some h.264 1080p video decoding profiles, everything above that will be offset to already wimp processor.

What kind of motherboard problem do you suppose could cause a system to lock up a) when a signal is sent from the operating system to turn off the monitor and b) when the monitor itself is simply disconnected from the GPU while the system is running? I presume it's the motherboard, because that's the only component left I haven't replaced.

>>50991 I've tried with a P8600 before using arch's libva-intel-driver-g45-h264. It can play any 1080p h264 video with no framedrops[*] and 1080p x265 with minor framedrops[*] for scenes with really too much activity which is more of a uncompression problem however playback is just fine with a non-highly compressed x265 video (however those are large like 700MB for 30mins). Here are the best things you could do on your system if you can't upgrade them yet: >use arch >upgrade to dual channel ram https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR3_SDRAM If you have two rams with the other having lower bandwidth, consider just going single-channel with the higher bandwidth which offers better video performance. I tested this myself. >set audio resampler to ffmpeg >suspend compositor during video (automatic with kde) >disable all mitigations[*] The biggest problem I only had was after spectre and meltdown got patched, I noticed my laptop could no longer play back even 1080p h264 video when it had no framedrops even when I'm only using DDR2. Now both h264/x265 video would drop lots of frames if I installed arch over that laptop. I guess the minimum requirement for htpc now is hd graphics with a high clock cpu (even pentium or celeron is fine). Newer devices are in the cheap though, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units#Gen8 celeron/atom/pentium still have near-identical graphics performance but you might want a higher clock rate.

>>50745 I guess duck is fine but safe isn't a fixed attribute. Even gmail and some popular social netowrk used to be unsafe back in the days someone could recover your password by visiting some php recovery page pre2009. Security practices are much better now so the safe part should be ignored and left in how safe the servers or if the supply chain is intact. Privacy over the service provider is more the problem now. At least duck should be okay but be sure to read everything even though the startup kinda had some dark history https://desuarchive.org/_/search/text/%22names%20database%22/ however it's probably just some phase. It's probably the 'best option' right now if you're not doing anything wrong or questionable (since servers still abide by the local laws geographically).

Is this... normal??? Body too short or empty

>>50850 you're a little in over your head. I would strongly suggest jumping from Ubuntu to Arch to then Debian to understand the basics better. You would know the answer after using the OS a bit more, not trying to be an ass here.

Hey, don't feel like making a thread about it, but can someone give me a personal rundown on freeBSD as a server OS? what are things it would do better than let's say Debian and which worse? I am wondering on what to use for a server running a NodeJS app. I think I'll go with FreeBSD either way since I would like to learn new stuff, but I still want some info from personal experience.

Thoughts on session? Why should one use it? Why not? Seems like the best option for normal people

So I started using audio DAC on linux. It's quite good but there's a problem closely related to the kernel itself. >>https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/sound/soc/pops-clicks.html It's documented above but there's not much info, there's even something about ZC (Zero Cross) and I don't even know what that ZC's all about, search engines yield no result. >>Playback pops in portable audio subsystems cannot be completely eliminated currently, however future audio codec hardware will have better pop and click suppression. When will they implement this suppression :/ So this means linux is not ideal for audio production? I'm already getting issues when microphone starts during audio playback, whenever microphone (over USB dac) powers up, the audio gets choppy clicks and even the recording will be able to record that choppiness a few milliseconds in the file recordings. What actually happens is my dac has an issue with linux exclusively I haven't tested with other OS aside from android and a linux distribution which makes it reproduce clicks whenever the music/signal dips. I think the USB goes to powersave mode the same as how mouse goes idle/power-save when it's not moving (polling rate's also low during slow movement). I knew a fix before to force polling rates to stay at 125Hz which made mouse movements smoother. On USB dac I don't know how to implement the same thing. One way to reproduce this is to play "Ticks" test signal from pulseeffects or easyeffects over a USB audio DAC. The DAC would produce unnecessary clicks/pops from powersaving during dips. Even a track that goes mute mid-way will trigger the powersaving thing. Adding another layer of test signal like a really low volume "Pink Noise" behind the "Ticks" or that "track that goes almost mute mid-way" stops the clicks/pops from happening so I'm pretty sure it's just USB going powersave and starting up (designed to save power for portable device?). >>Pops and clicks are unwanted audio artifacts caused by the powering up and down of components within the audio subsystem.

>>51306 I've also tried making the audio signal mono yet it still clicks. The clicks are leaning more on the right side the same clicks that happen when music stops playing. >Red Noise test tone with easyeffects (0.01 volume) + 40% system audio + test track = no clicks >test tone turned off + 40% system audio + test track = clicks I made sure it's not a sample clock desync, I set to 48/44Khz and used different music players and nothing has changed.

are some NFT's just money laundering?

I look for free as in beer catalogs of boardviews | schematics | block diagrams | service manuals | dashers for various electronic devices, specifically smartphones, and not just 10 + year notebooks. There are subscription-based Russian (https://devicedb.xyz/ or https://remont-aud.net/) and Chinese (XinzhiZao) catalogs, but I'm not willing to pay them a dime out of principle. Sure there are torrent trackers for any kind of thing imaginable, there must be one for sharing device schematics, right? If there are other ways to pirate this soykaf without giving money to corporations or greedy repairman fraternities, I'm all ears. I'd rather seed than sneed. For laptop schematics I know this vietnamese site without bullshit download redirects: http://kythuatphancung.vn/download/danh-muc/laptop-schematics.html

Any tips on installing Window Maker on AntiX Linux?

>>51647 The answer to this is sort of complicated, but I've condensed it down the best I could: stop using antiX Linux.

I'm looking to giving my DE a bit of retro touch but other than Chicago95 I can't find any themes that would fit the bill and I don't want a full on Windows look. I'm looking for anything boxy and gray and vintage icons, something like in the pic. Can I get some directions?

>>51682 Install serenityOS

What's a good Sata to USB3 enclosure? I'm thinking of recasing my small HDD since its Sata to USB3 controller only reports (logical/physical) 512/512 sector with smartctl (however hdparm reports 512/4096 sector) clearly the original enclosure emulates 512, any ideas which enclosures can support 4K and doesn't do emulation? I'm using the other drive as internal drive and it runs at 512/4096 - it's also AF format drive as seen with the HDD sticker so it benefits much more with having a filesystem formatted with 4096B sectors which it cannot do with the original enclosure. Is Orico good? I also plan on going SSDs in future but I doubt my motherboard or even Sata enclosures would handle very modern 4K formats (like or 4224B or other substandard ones). I guess it's wiser to pick something like 128GB instead of 120GB SSDs right?

Do codeberg and neocities allow changing my accounts' email address? Since I'm planning on switching from gmail to self-hosted email. (not sure when) But I need to use the two recently.

how to download m3u8 video blobs?

>>51821 https://duckduckgo.com/html?q=how to download m3u8

What are some good and cozy XMPP channels to join? I've been looking at the jabber private directories and there seems to be nothing but support channels for various software.

>>51838 xmpp:openhardware@conference.magicbroccoli.de xmpp:privacyandsecurity@muc.nixnet.services xmpp:floss@rooms.dismail.de xmpp:hbsc@muc.lurk.org xmpp:lobby@conference.oritalfox.eu cheers

Despite the name, would you use this if it was really good?

>>51857 It depends. Honestly, if this was a Linux distro I would probably use it.>>51857

How do I config the ytdl_hook so that it works with yt-dlp in Windows? I already tried adding it to: script-opts=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path= in mpv.conf pointing to the path but it doesnt work. I installed both using scoop if that matters. Thanks.

>>51936 nvm, fix is to simply use mpv-git seems like it didnt have proper support for yt-dlp in stable.

How do you tell when an uninterruptible power supply has a failing battery vs damaged surge protection? I can't figure out why my computer has been rebooting recently during minor power fluctuations. Is a surge somehow traveling through the UPS to hit the computer, or is it the battery itself getting too old and starting to go bad? I've had this UPS around 5 years now. When I simply unplug the UPS from the wall the battery seems to be powering my device just fine like it should.

is it still worth using epik as a doman registrar?

>>51999 It was never worth using Epik as a domain registrar. Njalla if you actually think you have to worry about that kind of stuff, otherwise just use Porkbun or Gandi or something.

>>51951 Depending on your UPS, there may be built-in testing you can use, whether via software control from the computer, or using an LCD on the UPS itself. Is it line-interactive? Simulated sine-wave? These are all relevant details we'd need to come up with any real answer.

>>52014 Mine is a simulated sine wave UPS. It doesn't have an LCD panel and I don't have the cables necessary to hook it up to a machine and do software stuff, unfortunately.

Could anyone please share riseup invitation code? It tells me to ask friend but I don't have any.

>>51999 Where there's smoke there's fire. I think you should avoid companies that had serious breach. Same happened with diginotar long time ago until it got its second breach which was much worse.

>>51951 Easily just plug the computer directly into the AC and see if power fluctuations actually do things or it could be the UPS was just the problem itself but most of the time it is your computer's power supply inside that fails first.

>>46831 Are these cheap fingerprint readers a security risk? like can this soykaf be a botnet when it lacks its own radio? >inb4 "buy this rebadged overpriced soykaf" I'm broke, why you think I'm even considering one of these? its for an 8yo laptop Also hows linux support for these?

>>52168 Fingerprint readers are just a convenience thing more than a security measure. They aren't very difficult to defeat so it's a vulnerability to anyone who has enough time and desire to copy your print. A removable one is probably better in that it wont be tied directly to your device and can be removed but depending how it'ssset up if you lose it you could be totally screwed. Personally Id be concerned about getting locked out from a fibger injury.

In OpenBSD, what is the tcl/tk package actually called? The only query result is the python tkinter package, though on the release highlights page there's two versions of Tcl/Tk listed, and grabbing the latest tkinter installs the older one (while still not listing it when queried) Have run into issues with package names before, like how gargoyle lives in the garglk package, which I only figured out later by chance while looking at the github project page. Is there some method I'm not aware of to find the name of a package when it's not the straightforward immediately apparent name, or baked into another package?

Is there an up to date listing of free js-free file hosts like pomf used to be somewhere? long-live-pomf is very much outdated.

>>50019 >I can't use Gentoo to do the same thing? No, LFS is a book that teaches how to build a distro from source (manually), Gentoo offers well-maintained software repositories and the building process is automated (just edit your USE flags and emerge the package). The only way to make LFS feasible is to use Guix or Pkgsrc, and even then it's a hassle and not worth when Gentoo exists. The purpose of LFS is that it teaches you how to build a Linux system from scratch.

>>52277 You're saying I can't construct a quality working Linux "distribution" by doing a LFS project? I was hoping to use it as a full replacement on the machine I'm going to be tinkering with.

>>52168 If you use them to replace other means of authentication, yes. If you use them as a means of implementing 2 factor authentication, no.

Is there a good reason to be using fedora over debian sid? I haven't daily driven both but I think I need rolling that has wide range of package availability although both these are reliant on systemd but should provide at least "trustable" packages. I'm thinking of using a fork like devuan but is there an equivalent to fedora?

>>51683 Not that Lain but >three year old mystery meat OS Installing puppy Linux v3 would make about as much sense. The wikipedia even brings up templeOS in that same article. I doubt it has much use. Or DSL (da3n small linux) is another random bullshit answer. >image not related to post but related to thread topic >do not send help, burn all bad non-updated guides, delete all software with no help/wizards on it, dismantle all overly cryptic applications

Sid breaks, fedora don't. To be fair though Fedora and Debian are the 2 best SystemD distros so it's all right to use them anyways.

>>52283 >You're saying I can't construct a quality working Linux "distribution" by doing a LFS project? The LFS (aka your own distro) is hard to maintain. Sure it runs but it takes perhaps surprising amount of effort to maintain it. >>52301 >Is there a good reason to be using fedora over debian sid? No. > haven't daily driven both I have in the past. >I need rolling that has wide range of package availability Install Debian testing (it doesn't break, sid can break sometimes.) Or Artix (bonus: no systemd)

Specs are as follows: Pentium 3 600MHz ATI Rage lt pro 320MB RAM 1024x768 Screen

>>52402 maybe debian/devuan without a DE, instead opt for a wm like jwm or another wm that you like

>>52402 >Pentium 3 NetBSD + only cli.

>>52402 If you want to use more than just a cli, you may have some minor success using Void with musl and a lightweight window manager like dwm or bspwm

>>52410 This. Only cli with netbsd or openbsd

>>52375 Maintain? I was thinking of simply installing some package manage and a particular distro's repositories once my system is fully built. In effect, making a Gentoo From Scratch, for instance.

Does geforce 210 can hold xfce4 or other DE/WMs? I'm using rx5700 currently. But i quit from gaming so I'll sell rx5700 to my friend, and I'll use my old 210. But I'm little bit afraid to sell it, cuz I'm worried my 210 can hold common usage; just browsing webs, some programming, rarely watching invidious.

>>46831 are Battlestation Threads permittet here?

>>52402 It's time for you to buy a new laptop. Look for one with at least 8 GB of RAM, a new processor, and Windows 11.

>>52460 It should be fine for anything 2d so yeah your wm and web browsing will be ok. Higher resolution video and especially high refresh rate video might be iffy though, your integrated graphics may be better depending on the age of your cpu, if you don't have any integrated graphics give the 210 a go and upgrade to a slightly newer media card

>>52460 should be fine, they say it supports h264, and most of the time h265 videos require cpu more than the gpu

>>52168 well that depends, if you're getting a tampered one maybe a big fat yes. don't think linux supports a lot of fingerprint tech, but if you're using it as windows log in screen alternative for password it's going to be 100% useless since you and anyone can bypass windows log in screen.

I know that this question is considered rather silly, but still, how to choose the right VPN? I got interested in this question, because most sites describing different services just advertise one of them, and many VPN services have no privacy policy at all, or it says that logs will be kept and transferred to third parties "to improve our services". Even those who "don't keep any logs" (like protonmail) suddenly find ip-addresses at the request of Switzerland or other authorities, and then make excuses. I need good speed, so that I could safely do everyday things on the Internet, read articles, sometimes watch YouTube or other videos, without waiting for pages to load for 30 seconds. How can I find the right VPN? Or are there any alternatives where you don't have to trust your internet connection to a third party?

>>52627 either use Tor or build your own

>>52627 If you can't seed CP torrents with this VPN without feds giving you a visit, it's not a private VPN. Simple as. They all keep logs (that's how computers work, for debug purposes), protonmail branded VPN is run by datamining company in Lithuania, it's not like protonmail mail is any better, they handle your ass to any village cop on this globe for attending protests. >read articles, sometimes watch YouTube or other videos, without waiting for pages to load for 30 seconds. Tor handles that just fine. FHD video loads without buffering. Most exits today are faster than average home broadband connection in Unsharted States.

>>52634 I use Nordvpn, Tor and Palemoon. I've found spyware.neocities to be useful. I know I could be more cautious online still. If I had a blank slate and could start over again for the first time, I wouldn't touch certain websites like youtube. Anybody else ever get lazy with security because they think 'they know everything about me anyway'?

>>52709 >Nordvpn wasn't it considered to be a botnet?

why does arguing with wiggoids about tech feel like arguing with a gopnik?

>>46961 >I have recently been interested in naming my files and directories according to the Portable Filename Character Set (https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/basedefs/xbd_chap03.html#tag_03_276) as defined by POSIX OHWOHOHOHOHO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO

>>52709 You might as well use that same money you'd spend over VPN to just acquire a separate throwaway internet service where you can get your copyrighted material. In my place it costs about $10 to get a throwaway 3G/4G/5G that hovers around 40mbps/month with 4G and about 20mbps with 3G so maybe that's just as good as buying "premium vpn which can still be tied back to you" since you're using home internet and the fact that they can reassociate your traffic back to you through timestamps and I got no time explaining the methods but it's very possible to track something and there's also the possibility of your packets manipulated with client (proprietary router) and isp side DPI data. VPN companies may also block you or close ports when you generate too much vpn traffic or it could be in some block list already and they can use that as anchor to break your internet privacy (lets say you had downloaded copyrighted material or you didn't some vpn user from another country did, and you got absurd local laws, this would mean they will now be actively logging your internet as much as they like because of such reason and you don't want that right? VPN isn't about anonymity fyi, it only adds security over encapsulation of transparent ports/requests). >Palemoon Pale moon had a huge history of malware they don't want to talk about. At some point their archive servers got compromised (maybe officially?) and had a clipboard logging malware that targeted cryptocurrencies. The binaries they provide is also questionable and if you're serious about privacy and security you should instead build palemoon from source.

Hi lainons any advice on how to install Office 2016 on Linux MInt. i know there's Libre Office but for work stuff i want office. Thanks. Also, am new to the whole Linux scene so go easy on me.

>>52768 You say that like cellular operators are not the first to throttle, block ports and generally disrespect any kind of traffic that's not headed towards facebook servers. Using cell modem for torrenting is the dumbest idea ever just for that fact. A VPN server in country that slacks off DMCA letters is still a better choice. Governments don't look for torrents usually, copyright trolls do, then they send a request to company and start legal prosecution in country of origin. Your %countryname% copyright trolls will never scan foreign IPs, there's plenty of idiots pirating Photoshop in corporate environments, something where actual court cases can be won and sweet copyright money extracted.

>>52803 trolls mostly exist in germany and US. >cellular operators are not the first to throttle, block ports and generally disrespect any kind of traffic then why not use a free private network? >Using cell modem for torrenting is the dumbest idea ever just for that fact. that's dumb, in fact I was able to just simply use internet years ago without having to pay a dime over modems. a lot of people where I live do the same but do worse, I didn't do copyrighted torrents though as I wasn't really into mainstream capesoykaf or movies but it just werks as I've torrented few linux distros at fast speeds. >block ports you're not thinking outside the box, it's blocked to begin with. you need to find a way. even the possibility that you can authenticate 3G/4G means you're connected to the cloud so you're only left with tunneling your entire connection over a certain port they forgot to block or weren't meant to be blocked at all. I think it got even worse now due to DPI but I think I can still pull it off if I tried. backdoor access > VPN

>>46978 Redmond 97 does even better job than Chicago95, it even has no-CSD version and some prebuilt color schemes, MS Plus and custom ones. To style Qt apps, set Qt theme engine to "gtk2". About getting Xfce rid of CSD, there was ArchWiki's guide in Xfce article. Replace xfwm with Marco for gradients in title bars. (i recommend this) Now i will ask a question: any best apps for Android to de-duplicate my pics? Proprietary ones will be fine too.

>>52784 Did you try Wine? >>52803 In Russia, it's just enough to run your torrent traffic through Tor (only for BT trackers) to pull an Uncaught Joe. Fine even for ©'d content.

i just noticed i need the multiple adresses feature from cock.li. so, pretty please?

>>52987 if you want to give me a challange, give me a medium maths one, but without calculus and such. i am dumb.

>>46831 I updated to OpenBSD 7.0 today and the kernel isn't compiling. After running syspatch and sha256 -h /var/db/kernel.SHA256 /bsd ,this is what my relink.log looks like: (SHA256) /bsd: OK LD="ld" sh makegap.sh 0xcccccccc gapdummy.o ld -T ld.script -X --warn-common -nopie -o newbsd ${SYSTEM_HEAD} vers.o ${OBJS} LLVM ERROR: out of memory PLEASE submit a bug report to https://bugs.llvm.org/ and include the crash backtrace. Stack dump: ... Abort trap (core dumped) *** Error 134 in /usr/share/relink/kernel/GENERIC.MP (Makefile:1788 'newbsd': @echo ld -T ld.script -X --warn-common -nopie -o newbsd '${SYS...) I tried checking some forums and mailing lists, but this seems to be unique. I couldn't find much information on LLVM either. Any help is appreciated.

So what do you guys think of the blockchain tech. Stuff like ethereum,cardano,chainlink,etc. All hype and no suptence?pyramid scheme? actually useful? >>49488 fuarrrk wish I known about that before I signed up.

>>53075 it's pretty gay. I'll stick to my networking and operating systems development soykaf while all the fad chasers can make their tokens and NFTs and whatnots

>>53077 yeah but if I can make a decent amount of money by doing next to nothing than that's a win for me. Are you saying that it's mostly hype? Not trying to put words in your mouth just want a little bit more clarity.

>>53079 ofc it's hype. It has it's use cases but the soykaf they're trying to pull now is far beyond what it's good for.

>>53081 thanks for your input. I wasn't buying the "revolutionizing the world" take either but it's is funny to watch. All the financial people are going crazy and most tech literate people seem mostly indifferent.

>>46831 how hard would it be to rip ms paint, snip tool, and wordpad from an iso and port it over to openbsd?

My Bluetooth headphones disconnect from Bluez when there isn't audio playing over them. So far I’ve just been opening Firefox and putting a “gentle wind” video on 10% volume, but that kinda is like kicking dead whales down the beach and also sometimes I hear the wind and forget I have wind open and get freaked out. Is there any way to fix this, or at least work around it in a slightly less “makeshift” way?

>>53101 >how hard would it be to rip ms paint, snip tool, and wordpad from an iso and port it over to openbsd? For Windows executables you need something like Wine and that's not a real port. You either need to find alternatives (ms paint => Gimp, Krita or Pinta. Snip tool => Scrot. wordpad => libreoffice, abiword or a simple Mark Down/org-mode file) OR you need to create clones of those programs.

>>53103 coudlnt I grab the source from the iso and compile it on openbsd?

>>53103 Not OP but these are all non-answers. Nothing was asked about using a Windows executable, finding alternatives, or writing the clone yourself.

>>53107 >source What source? Botnet 10 is not open-source. Also. Windows programs likely use different headers and libraries (that are non-free). >>53108 Learn to read >>53101 used the word "rip". That means to extract the .exe files and get them working on OpenBSD. Of course you can just extract/mount the .iso file, but don't expect to get the full source code. Even if you had the full source code for MS paint, you couldn't just compile it because as I said, they depend on windows-only stuff. You probably can use Wine to get the MS paint.exe working but that's not a port.

I have come to a problem with displaying java application window correctly whether it's run from Eclipse or Intellij using Cinnamon. When I run the built app it shows nothing but a small glitch of a window. I'm running this under Hidpi display scaling enabled (2x scaled) on 14" qhd laptop. When I turn additional hidpi scaling off the application window is shown correctly. Here is a short video demonstrating mentioned problem: https://ufile.io/b76dreyt thus far I'm forced to use Gnome and therefore am in a need to rise upon a horizone again

>>46831 Hello. I am looking for a labtop/labdock like device that has a screen + keyboard + trackpad all together. I travel a bit and need to take my tower with me but I do not want to bring a monitor+keyboard+mouse everywhere. I looked at KVM consoles but I do not think they will work for me.

How good is the longevity/reliability on character LCD's? Are they all built the same or does reliability differ based on size since most projects that use them wouldn't need more than a 2x16. They look like the part people would have a few spares of so I'm queasy about them more than I normally am about parts. If they're not good or there's something better what would Lainons recommend?

How bad of an idea is it to buy a cheap projector, for, say, 100€ to kind of do a popup cinema with friends? I recently saw that they go really cheap on aliexpress and similar shops, now I am fascinated by the idea of going somewhere (for example unused room in university) and have some fun watching a movie together. I could also use it at home if it is good, because I have a white wall. Are those projectors any good or should I not do this? I don't have the money for a proper one, but compared to a laptop screen this should be better right? What should I watch out for when choosing one, what are the specs to look at? Any advice would be great, thank you!

I tried to off and on for years get a pi to be my daily driver but it never dual boots with composite out, things like noobs don't work. I tried lakka and it won't work at all on the pi 3 I just got via composite so with how when I had a zero I never fixed that without nightly i just gave up on it and then later using pinn to combine it to another OS for book reading. Instead i installed raspbian and then tried to install libretro and it's frontend retroarch. Then: "Error creating SDL window! Could not initialize OpenGL / GLES library Renderer failed to initialize! Window failed to initialize!" That is as far as I've gotten trying to install on top of Raspbian. There's too much stress in my life to continue trying to get this to work. Is there an sd splitter that can work that won't need to be unplugged to switch between OS's? I think retropie on it's own can work and raspbian but I can't get this done without help.

>>53263 (me) told the gui to fuarrrk off in it's settings and now it can load without gui. People should make guides that include that step along with startx to get back to the gui. Wish I had a usb splitter for it so I could (easily) do something with it now.... then again a new battery too. It's current isn't enough volts/amps despite the seller claiming that it was a 3amp 5v output and the battery claming it as well. Constant power warnings with just one thing plugged into it. Despicable. Part of what had me too stressed to think, the parents complaining, the food on fire, dreading 'needing' to use ssh to transfer files when putty didn't work with a pi zero I had last time I tried 3 years ago, etc. I'm going to try to enable usb transfer once I get the splitter. If the splitter does not work I'm forgoing retroarch and using just mednafen though mednafen has dick psx file disc switching I've heard where you have to make a file to switch discs. This is why windows is better. i can't wait until I have a beta build of ReactOS to install on some small computer 20 years from now. Or 50. However long it takes.

>>53102 Is it based on amplitude or something else? For instance, would playing silence in Audacity work?