Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedoom is awesome

2015-02-06 Thread mail
I know. 'AAA' implies quality, and I said We got Freedoom, bitches! implying that Freedoom was of higher quality than an AAA game in a half-jest half-not-jest manner.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedoom is awesome

2015-02-06 Thread mail
Yea, it's pretty awesome. :) I've played Odamex with some great WADs- it's perfect.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adding Ubuntu Repositories to Trisquel Temporarily

2015-02-05 Thread mail
I'd recommend installing the software from source or DEB files instead. If it's possible, you could also use Tor/Proxychains/VPN.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Creepy Google

2015-02-04 Thread mail
I'm pretty sure Jodie's post was in jest. ... Right?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Question about thinkpenguin:

2015-02-03 Thread mail
I'm using a Snares myself, and it's fantastic. Excellent build quality, great support. Support has all the answers and commonly responds quickly.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Using proprietary softwares through wine

2015-02-03 Thread mail
Some Free Software alternatives: JACK / qjackctl (the GUI for JACK), the tool for interconnecting audio, MIDI, and sync between applications Hydrogen Drum Machine Ardour, the terrific, all-free DAW Rakarrack, a free guitar effects tool set for Linux (one new to me, in fact!) ZynAddSubFX,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Question about thinkpenguin:

2015-02-03 Thread mail
Licensing? Well, it's all libre, except for the BIOS, and it works with Trisquel out of the box. I'm not sure if that's what you meant, though. And I use it for home use and such- it's my primary computer.

Re: [Trisquel-users] New FSF-sponsored disto: GuixSD

2015-02-03 Thread mail
I've tried it- setting up my wifi was utter hell, as it kept complaining my wireless was Not Ready- when that passed, Parted said it formatted my hard-drive, but it did not. I'll try again next version...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Microsoft invests in Cyanogen to take Android away from Google

2015-02-01 Thread mail
Hm. It'd be nice if MSFT would replace or rid of the non-free Google libraries in Cyanognemod. They probably would replace them with new non-free libraries, though...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-01-31 Thread mail
For the Trisquel laptop, install Popcorn Time. It'll allow her to ditch Netflix. Note that Popcorn Time is pirating, and as such has a better selection and interface than Netflix. You should use a VPN+Popcorn TIme.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-30 Thread mail
Sorry, forgot to mention that.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-01-30 Thread mail
I'd be interested to see your configs. There isn't anything much better than spending a weekend getting the perfect setup, right? :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Kernel

2015-01-30 Thread mail
A good book I started about a week ago was Linux from Scratch (Ahem, publisher, don't you mean GNU/Linux from Scratch? :p)- it goes into detail about how the kernel works, how GNU/Linux boots, and the basics of using it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] My family has smart TVs and I am scared.

2015-01-29 Thread mail
I literately haven't seen a single productive enterprise use of a Smart TV.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-01-29 Thread mail
True minmalism is xmonad, and xmonad is beautiful. =w=

Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedom versus competence: why I left Trisquel

2015-01-28 Thread mail
Don't get me wrong. I still see free software as a good thing. But know that you are not entitled to it. It is a bonus, and not a right. Nor are we entitled to freedom of speech. Move to Russia.

Re: [Trisquel-users] all-in-one computer options

2015-01-28 Thread mail
If by All-In-One you mean a laptop, tablet, and (if you plug it into a monitor) desktop, then I have one I use all the time. I have two Fujitsu Lifebook P6300's- one I use as a desktop, and the other as a tablet/laptop. It works 100% out of the box with Trisquel. By default, they come with 1GB

Re: [Trisquel-users] Tweaks to optimize user friendliness

2015-01-28 Thread mail
Wow. Um. I don't know what to say. Quite literately, my grandmother operates Trisquel perfectly, but I digress- what about Sugar?

Re: [Trisquel-users] What free software entusiastas think about piracy of digital media?

2015-01-25 Thread mail
Jodiendo said: In general Laws are made to serve people, but not to abuse people. There is ways to amend laws. Laws do dictate what is right or wrong. There is a purpose for laws. Again your statement is deceiving and wrong No. Laws DO NOT decide what is moral and immoral. By that logic,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Here's the WebM for Ruben's interview on LAS

2015-01-25 Thread mail
Same here. It was working an hour or so ago, what happened?

Re: [Trisquel-users] On hiding the down-voted posts... and everything below

2015-01-25 Thread mail
The colouring is great, and helps excellent posts shine, etc. The voting also helps show what people agree with, but the hiding is, in my opinion, bad, and kind of annoying.

Re: [Trisquel-users] why do some prefer to build software from source code?

2015-01-25 Thread mail
The source tends to be a little more up-to-date than the packages, so that's a little incentive to do so.

Re: [Trisquel-users] online-shopping with tor? torify everything?

2015-01-24 Thread mail
I think using a reputable VPN is fair enough- if anyone got into any trouble via the VPN connection, or any evidence at all was gained that the VPN was snooping, it'd go out of buisness pretty much overnight. I think the risk would be too great for the VPN host, so they probably wouldn't

Re: [Trisquel-users] I freed my phone!!!

2015-01-24 Thread mail
It can do computational tasks, you can program it to do just about anything lightweight... I don't really understand how the Freerunner isn't a smartphone.

Re: [Trisquel-users] online-shopping with tor? torify everything?

2015-01-24 Thread mail
Replicant works with a few 'smart' phones to make fully free computers with phones. Wifi and videos don't work, though, but it's good enough. And yea, don't trust any VPN operator with your life. Whistle-blowers and such should gravitate towards Tor, and people that need every-day anominity

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free games with copyrighted characters

2015-01-24 Thread mail
Well, it'd still be Free Software, regardless of the graphical assets and such- but the free culture aspect could be shakey. There are some that care greatly about keeping their system 100% free culture and free software, so that's something to keep in mind. The usage of the characters- the

Re: [Trisquel-users] online-shopping with tor? torify everything?

2015-01-24 Thread mail
This sounds like the type of thing a VPN is for. Tor is for fairly light web-browsing, not anominity for every task you can think of. In this case I'd recommend getting a reputable VPN.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless won't work :-(

2015-01-23 Thread mail
You could instead just get a Wifi USB dongle at ThinkPenguin- that way you won't need any proprietary firmware.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical?

2015-01-23 Thread mail
Rainteller just got unfriend-zoned. :c

Re: [Trisquel-users] I freed my phone!!!

2015-01-22 Thread mail
Congratz! :) I think it's kind of fair to consider the lack of features a good thing- too often do I see people that take out their phones every couple of seconds, even during conversations. PS: You could get some manga to supplement the lack of anime, either by actual print copies or by

[Trisquel-users] ChromiumOS

2015-01-22 Thread mail
What exactly is non-free about ChromiumOS? I presume the kernel is, but I can't find anything else.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Basic security questions

2015-01-22 Thread mail
Whenever you're tempted by a proprietary application, look for alternatives. For example, you could've installed Chromium, the Free Software version of Chrome. (Although it recommends proprietary plugins. Beware.)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical?

2015-01-21 Thread mail
Agreed- if it weren't for Ubuntu, I would've never learnt about the Free Software movement if I never used Ubuntu. But hush, for we cannot publicly support Ubuntu in the slightest, lest we be portrayed as hypocritical!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical?

2015-01-21 Thread mail
SuperTramp just got friend-zoned. :c

Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical?

2015-01-21 Thread mail
Yea, that's the one. :p

Re: [Trisquel-users] Easy libre animation app

2015-01-21 Thread mail
Pencil is an easy Free Software animation program.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am giving myself a non-proprietary challenge

2015-01-20 Thread mail
I had to go through some scary things to get Trisquel set up on a friend's laptop, much like you do. The BIOS settings threw some scary Warning messages, but when I disabled the option that's cryptically named, the USB worked. Clear Secure Boot Keys is the option you want. It'll let you use

Re: [Trisquel-users] My family has smart TVs and I am scared.

2015-01-20 Thread mail
Same thing over here. There's no way to convince them or any such thing. It's their freedom and privacy they're ridding of. I tried telling my family about these things, but they all don't care about privacy. At all. They have this I have nothing to hide, privacy doesn't exist mentality, and

Re: [Trisquel-users] My family has smart TVs and I am scared.

2015-01-20 Thread mail
Oh. That's bad. Perhaps explain to them why privacy is important, and maybe they'll start to care. Maybe.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical?

2015-01-20 Thread mail
They want phones, tablets, TVs, and PCs to all be Ubuntu devices. I find it kind of humorous about how toward the beginning of Ubuntu Canonical touted the proprietary software as temporary compromise, and how Canonical was actually striving for a Free Software world... but now Canonical just

Re: [Trisquel-users] Canonical?

2015-01-20 Thread mail
Ak! Not you, too, YoHoo! Don't leave the Church of Emacs! Don't be a heathen! :p (I jest, I jest)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Thought: delayed release

2015-01-19 Thread mail
That was the plan for LibertyBSD, wasn't it? I guess it'd work, but not without some exposure or advertising. Perhaps it'd also work in increments. Say, the program is released, but extra features are under delayed release?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello from Dragora!

2015-01-19 Thread mail
Seconded. It's not 'complete' (Hence why it's not on the FSF-approved distro list), but it's still great. Not the most user-friendly distro, so don't hand a CD out to a friend unfamiliar with GNU/Linux. (I'm in the dust, sorry- the package manager and the Guix distribution are fantastic, but

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am giving myself a non-proprietary challenge

2015-01-19 Thread mail
As stated above, your AMD graphics will probably not work perfectly, like 3D acceleration. I'd recommend replacing the AMD graphics with Intel graphics- you can do so for pretty cheap. It's AMD's fault for not supporting Linux-Libre... For wifi, if it doesn't work, you can get a USB wifi

Re: [Trisquel-users] I am giving myself a non-proprietary challenge

2015-01-19 Thread mail
The one in the PPA is 3.12, the one in the repo is 3.10. Most people won't care about the differences, but when I used GNOME the differences were glaring.

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibertyBSD - OpenBSD minus the blobs

2015-01-18 Thread mail
orthogonal here deblobbed OpenBSD, making a 100% Free Software BSD version, of which he called LibertyBSD. It has no deblobbed ports tree or deblobbed documentation, but it's OK for now. www.libertybsd.net

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibertyBSD - OpenBSD minus the blobs

2015-01-18 Thread mail
Really odd side-note: THANK YOU for using .net instead of .com! .com is for companies! .org is for organizations! .net is for everything else! All too often websites use .com when they should be using .net- thank you for selecting the right one.

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-18 Thread mail
I'm pretty sure it's purged because Chromium recommends non-free plugins.

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibertyBSD - OpenBSD minus the blobs

2015-01-18 Thread mail
I also set up a mirror at http://mirrors.jadedfs.net/libertybsd_cd_install.iso

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-16 Thread mail
Note that a fair amount of (Older, about 2007 or so) Flash games still work with Gnash, so they won't have to give up entirely on Flash games.

Re: [Trisquel-users] BLAG 200000

2015-01-16 Thread mail
Nice to see it's still active! Blag 2000 comes with GNOME 3 (non-fallback) by default, right? That's nice.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What happen to hardware?

2015-01-14 Thread mail
They're under the Discontinued filter, and they're out of stock. ThinkPenguin has great laptops or desktops- they all are made to work with the Linux-Libre kernel, and 100% Free Software.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Firefox and youtube-dl together

2015-01-14 Thread mail
I think he means that if you click a link to a YT video in Abrowser or Icecat, it automatically launches youtube-dl instead of opening the YT web-page. I don't know of any such extension, sorry.

Re: [Trisquel-users] new user to linux

2015-01-12 Thread mail
Here's the FSF's version, which is under a Free Documentation license. http://shop.fsf.org/product/Introduction_to_Command_Line/ Available for purchase or gratis download.

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-11 Thread mail
The source code is here: http://popcorn-time.se/source.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] my family want me to install non-free software

2015-01-11 Thread mail
http://popcorn-time.se/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Verifying an iso image thru windows

2015-01-10 Thread mail
I'd recommend against installing it in VirtualBox. If you intend to replace Windows with GNU/Linux, just install Trisquel on your PC. Running it in VirtualBox is a hassle and waste of time you don't have to go through. If you *REALLY* want to, use GNUPG to check the ISO, but I *highly*

Re: [Trisquel-users] Verifying an iso image thru windows

2015-01-10 Thread mail
To be honest, this is a step you can skip. The image is *probably* in tact perfectly, so can be skipped. Note, that the image *may not* be in tact perfectly. I've installed Trisquel many times perhaps unwisely without checking the images downloaded and nothing's gone wrong.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I did it! I finally have wireless networking working on my laptop!

2015-01-08 Thread mail
Wow, I love these little posts- they really make this a community. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wa can change, but not in one day

2015-01-08 Thread mail
I used Steam for a while. Not the worst DRM in the world, at the very least.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wa can change, but not in one day

2015-01-06 Thread mail
My laptop (From ThinkPenguin!) has proprietary firmware and BIOS. It's pretty much impossible to escape proprietary firmware, although a little easier to escape proprietary BIOS, as Libreboot works with a few laptops. Even if I chucked my phone out the window I'd still be using proprietary

Re: [Trisquel-users] Stallman uses Trisquel GNU/Linux for computation.

2015-01-06 Thread mail
I meant outdated, such as when Ubuntu 14.04 replaced 12.04, and software began to not have binaries for 12.04, and therefore Trisquel 6.

Re: [Trisquel-users] is the openmoko freerunner phone libre???

2015-01-06 Thread mail
I'm pretty sure it is. The FSF offered it as an alternative to the iPhone 3 in their statement on it- they recommended Freerunner with Replicant.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technical advantages of Trisquel over Debian?

2015-01-05 Thread mail
I use Trisquel rather than Debian because: -Some projects don't have binaries for Debian, but have ones for ubuntu derivatives,, so you save time you would otherwise be spending compiling. -PPAs work with Trisquel by default, no tweaking required. -It doesn't have non-free repositories. -My

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wa can change, but not in one day

2015-01-05 Thread mail
If the server that your ISP uses, that doesn't really effect your freedom. It may harm the ISP's freedom, and perhaps your privacy, but it doesn't really effect you. It's their choice what they run on their servers, it doesn't really effect the user's freedom. (Although privacy can come into

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wa can change, but not in one day

2015-01-05 Thread mail
I use a Samsung GS2 with Replicant on it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wa can change, but not in one day

2015-01-05 Thread mail
You can't say one thing and then do the other. If you take the stance of the Open-Source fence-sitters, who say It's great if it's 'open-source', but it's alright if it's proprietary- in an ideal world, though, all software would be open. If you take that position, nothing will change, and

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wa can change, but not in one day

2015-01-05 Thread mail
Some great Free Software games for you: -Red Eclipse (Like 'Halo') -0AD (Like 'Civ5') -Urban Terror (Like 'CS') Modern game consoles are just computers that hook up to televisions. If it has software updates, it's a computer. That's what separates a toaster and a desktop. I actually use my

Re: [Trisquel-users] stallman's speech

2015-01-04 Thread mail
I think this host is a little worse than her: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFMMXRoSxnA

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre alternative to skype

2015-01-03 Thread mail
I myself use Linphone and Firefox Hello- they're both fantastic and Free Software. (I'm pretty sure Firefox Hello is Free Software- it comes with Abrowser and LibreJS doesn't complain.)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Happy fucking new year!!!!!!

2014-12-31 Thread mail
Yup! Have a great one, everyone!

Re: [Trisquel-users] non-free sw on websites

2014-12-30 Thread mail
Thanks for the great essay- I'm now convinced that I should keep LibreJS enabled.

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibertyBSD - OpenBSD minus the blobs

2014-12-30 Thread mail
orthogonal released the cd56.iso- I did a quick comparison of OpenBSD's ISO and LibertyBSD's ISO: LibertyBSD: 8.0 MB in size OpenBSD: 8.8 MB in size That's all the comparison that's possible without the source code.

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibertyBSD - OpenBSD minus the blobs

2014-12-29 Thread mail
I've been curious about BSD myself, and just a couple weeks ago though something akin to If only there was a BSD variant that respected freedom and wouldn't recommend proprietary software- well, now there is, I hope. The fact that they are demanding three BitCoins is rather fishy- I'm

Re: [Trisquel-users] non-free sw on websites

2014-12-29 Thread mail
A great amount of websites. From the top of my head, pretty much everything Google.

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibertyBSD - OpenBSD minus the blobs

2014-12-29 Thread mail
Why not simply sell the CDs...? Why fork OpenBSD, recreating the efforts of the (Already released) NuBSD project?

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibertyBSD - OpenBSD minus the blobs

2014-12-29 Thread mail
I meant selling CDs of LibertyBSD, rather than asking for 3BTC for the release to happen...

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibertyBSD - OpenBSD minus the blobs

2014-12-29 Thread mail
I sent you an email, but it seems that the delivery failed, OpenMailBox demanding authentication to make sure I'm not a robot. I filled in the captcha, and it said that they may accept the email within 15 minutes- if you don't get the email, please tell me. OpenMailBox probably did that

[Trisquel-users] Wine on Trisquel 6.0

2013-12-25 Thread dmp . mail
I'm attempting to install Wine from Synaptic. It seems 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 are all there. 1.4 proclaims to be a broken package when you select it, and 1.2 and 1.3 tell me this: Depends: wine1.4 but it is not going to be installed. I've attempted to manually install Wine as well, but I

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