Re: [Trisquel-users] Why is Ubuntu Web Browser in the repository?

2018-05-31 Thread greatgnu
>However, the JavaScript in google.com is proprietary. If a browser uses Google as its start page, then even if the browser itself is free it will install and run proprietary software when it is first launched. ^ this

Re: [Trisquel-users] A website that is being linked to in one of the wiki pages advertises for Facebook, Twitter and Google+

2018-06-10 Thread greatgnu
>I don't know what is Facebook, Twitter of Google. God bless you, son.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Unable to mount blank CD/DVD - Disk is already mounted - but there's more

2018-06-10 Thread greatgnu
eweewewew Braserouu :( try xfburn \o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8

2018-06-11 Thread greatgnu
Install systemD, d only system there is, it will make your computer cumm faster \o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why Trisquel website isn't translated into Russian?

2018-06-11 Thread greatgnu
Just chiming in to confirm I wholeheartedly support this, I second it, and I third it, comrade Knight. +1 actually +2

Re: [Trisquel-users] Want to play some games, best way to install (Trisquel 8)

2018-06-12 Thread greatgnu
That surely correct, mr, Magique Bannanna, but it's also true that a binary is not free software, unless you can prove it is (this is meant for Gnuser)

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Sound After Trisquel Mini Install T60

2018-06-12 Thread greatgnu
Well, I don't know if this will help your case, but I remember an issue related to pulseaudio on the old Debian Stable (Jessie), in that the audio would randomly mute and whatever I tried it would not come back.. The pseudo-fix was to install pavucontrol and then unmute it within its GUI. Th

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with OS after upgrade

2018-06-12 Thread greatgnu
As far as your no sound issue goes try: sudo apt purge pulseaudio o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why Trisquel website isn't translated into Russian?

2018-06-12 Thread greatgnu
Great stuff, senor lodier. Contributing back my tiny fraction -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgOVQeXY0pA

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why Trisquel website isn't translated into Russian?

2018-06-12 Thread greatgnu
> This video can not be downloaded because of YouTube's DRM though. middlefinger it via ytdl or avideo ->

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why Trisquel website isn't translated into Russian?

2018-06-12 Thread greatgnu
Have an addendum -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTbMlBDCgng

Re: [Trisquel-users] No Sound After Trisquel Mini Install T60

2018-06-13 Thread greatgnu
> purge can remove too much and break your system. Absolutely not true. It will purge only the intended pulseaudio, resulting in a functioning OS with working audio.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedom Decrypted Show Zero: Plus interview with Ruben on Trisquel 8

2018-06-13 Thread greatgnu
Long time no see, Chris. It's nice to read from you and knowing you are doing fine. Don't let the porky bring you down and keep up the good fight. o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8

2018-06-13 Thread greatgnu
Startup finished in 18.434s (kernel) + 21.112s (userspace) = 39.546s This is an 11 yr old laptop btw.. Send me bitcoins

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with OS after upgrade

2018-06-13 Thread greatgnu
>To test this, I ran 'sudo apt remove pulseaudio', looked at the packages that would have been removed, cancelled, and then ran 'sudo apt purge pulseaudio' and compared. It's the same packages, none of which are system breaking when removed. yep..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with OS after upgrade

2018-06-13 Thread greatgnu
>you are probably joking, but i strongly advice against this, for one "purge" can remove too much and break the system Absolutely not true. It will purge only pulseaudio. >but also PulseAudio is required for sound on things like firefox, I don't know if Abrowser requires it but removing puls

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with OS after upgrade

2018-06-14 Thread greatgnu
>lose the sound applet in their panel They can install several different ones and try and see which one suits them better. I recommend 'volti' >and volume buttons might not work unless they are specifically mapped to amixer commands or something. This was not the case on my system. They c

Re: [Trisquel-users] Whats your favourite video editor?

2018-06-14 Thread greatgnu
>All I am planning on doing is cutting clips out of videos. https://trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/Seeking

Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8

2018-06-14 Thread greatgnu
/me sends MagiqueB all his bitcoins :) *which is not much..I'm an europoor :'(

Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8

2018-06-14 Thread greatgnu
>my hard drive is a 7200rpm one. Could it be because I have full disk encryption? FDE here too and a 7200rpm HD..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8

2018-06-14 Thread greatgnu
I assume the question is directed to me - I'm running and been running for over 3 yrs now Debian Stable.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Needs A Name

2018-06-14 Thread greatgnu
Trixself :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel-Mini Desktop Environment

2018-06-14 Thread greatgnu
>benchmarking Well, take a very old laptop and then install all the DEs you want to bench in whatever order and just use them briefly. Then the last one you install is LXDE, you stop and you exclaim, quite shocked: geee, this LXDE runs like hell! LXDE FTW, no doubt. But try it on very old

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel-Mini Desktop Environment

2018-06-15 Thread greatgnu
>LXDE is a dead project It's everything but dead on my supersmooth laptop. My laptop flies, just like superman, but better.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8

2018-06-15 Thread greatgnu
>But you almost make me want to change for Debian again, lol, that is a great boot time. Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, it's called install, set and forget. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Needs A Name

2018-06-16 Thread greatgnu
Bella Lena

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel-Mini Desktop Environment

2018-06-17 Thread greatgnu
Absolutely.. Love Xfce. It has been my exclusive choice for loong time, then at some point I found myself mixing it with LXDE that I just finally switched to it and I can say, on old hardware, the difference is visible and significant, really.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Speed up boot process of Trisquel 8

2018-06-18 Thread greatgnu
>Trisquel as Ubuntu clone is user-friendly but is not good optimized. Please, any info you'll get will be quite useful. netinstall and manually install only the DE.. LXDE?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Update and app install Problem from Iran.

2018-06-20 Thread greatgnu
You can also install apt-transport-tor and add onions in sources as described here. o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Editing Trisquel Source

2018-06-22 Thread greatgnu
That's true, you are not applying any change to your system by downloading the source code.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Editing Trisquel Source

2018-06-23 Thread greatgnu
But you don't make changes to packages or the repos, without sudo. How can just updating the repo be of any harm? The users can not upgrade or install without sudo, so just updating the repo would be ok? Or am I missing something?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Editing Trisquel Source

2018-06-24 Thread greatgnu
I see. Although, if you have a malicious user with physical access to a machine..it's always bad, that's why I let only my dog use my computer, and no one else. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] getting USB headset to work

2018-06-24 Thread greatgnu
> and I don't see an option to enable it First try: alsamixer then try: pavucontrol The first is a terminal command the second is a GUI program so try and see if you can 'unmute' it from there.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser recommended privacy/security extension

2018-07-02 Thread greatgnu
ghosterible is proprietary softverito :/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why are Unity shell and UbuntuWeb still broken?

2018-07-04 Thread greatgnu
>Unity is no longer being developed. The world is a better place :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser recommended privacy/security extension

2018-07-04 Thread greatgnu
I would like to grab the opportunity by the ballz and recommend umatrix -> https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix/wiki

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why qre Minifree's Libreboot X200 laptop threads all locked?

2018-07-04 Thread greatgnu
Once someone replies to your post it gets automatically locked, and for a good reason. Imagine what would this place be without this feature.. an terrible hell.. You can go on their IRC channel on freenode. I believe it was #libreboot

Re: [Trisquel-users] Mining cryptocurrencies with Trisquel 8, possible? Anyone does it?

2018-07-04 Thread greatgnu
Mining bitcoins using a laptop? Hmmm.. It's like mining gold using chopsticks. Good luck on your adventure of time and (electric) energy waste. I'm in by the way, let me know if you need a partner, I can contribute a 386DX laptop, very powerful and eco-friendly.. :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser recommended privacy/security extension

2018-07-05 Thread greatgnu
I wouldn't know what would you need but I can tell I only use these addons (I really think this is more than enough when set properly): noscript umatrix httpseverywhere I also use this user.js -> https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/ I also firejail and apparmor my browser. https://firejail.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser recommended privacy/security extension

2018-07-06 Thread greatgnu
>user.js and firejail I think they are too much for my taste I'm not sure what you mean by taste, but they are both 'set and forget'. It would take you half an hour to set it, even less to forget it. On the other hand the benefits last indefinitely. cheers and push da limit o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser recommended privacy/security extension

2018-07-08 Thread greatgnu
>I am curious how you apply user.js in firefox esr 52 Copy the file in the relevant folder..?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser recommended privacy/security extension

2018-07-08 Thread greatgnu
>I won't say that I don't trust them, its just that I like to understand what I apply. each line is commented, so you just need to read it once to know what it does.

Re: [Trisquel-users] GNOME Videos: Apple Movie Trailers

2018-07-10 Thread greatgnu
>Is it OK that GNOME Videos displays Apple movie trailers when I first launch it? No.

Re: [Trisquel-users] GNOME Shell on Trisquel 8

2018-07-10 Thread greatgnu
Please open a new thread and name it soemthing relevant so that other users can find it in the future. thanks in advance, cheers

Re: [Trisquel-users] GNOME Videos: Apple Movie Trailers

2018-07-11 Thread greatgnu
>you could argue that Apple movie trailers is something very specific the word you are searching for is 'advertisement'. And the answer to your initial question is without fail a big NO. :/

Re: [Trisquel-users] GNOME Videos: Apple Movie Trailers

2018-07-11 Thread greatgnu
>I think there is a difference between banning and not promoting. Not including a channel by default is not a ban, since the user is still free to add that channel. Including it by default promotes it. Apple is a nasty company, and I don't see why they deserve the privilage of being promoted

Re: [Trisquel-users] Right click secure delete in Trisquel 8

2018-07-11 Thread greatgnu
> Yes, I know I can create many right-click-shortcuts in caja, but I don't want to go through the trouble of doing that for every single thing that I want an option for. >it takes a couple of minutes, easy >takes the time to create the post and waits answers >still wants an extension for it

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot install GNOME Software

2018-07-14 Thread greatgnu
Joseph Ducreux is yawning

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why Trisquel website isn't translated into Russian?

2018-07-17 Thread greatgnu
Send mail to David.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why Trisquel website isn't translated into Russian?

2018-07-18 Thread greatgnu
persist, my friend, persist o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why Trisquel website isn't translated into Russian?

2018-07-23 Thread greatgnu
excellent, comrades, excellent \o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] What's with the out-of-date version of LibreOffice?

2018-07-25 Thread greatgnu
>But is there some reason that we are not using the current 6.0.5, Of course there is: no one backported it. I'm using 6.0.6 on Stretch.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What's with the out-of-date version of LibreOffice?

2018-07-26 Thread greatgnu
It is 6.1.0 now.. :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] What's with the out-of-date version of LibreOffice?

2018-07-27 Thread greatgnu
Well.. it just upgraded to that version from the backports when I did an upd && upg.. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] What's with the out-of-date version of LibreOffice?

2018-07-29 Thread greatgnu
>only libre software on it Only main, of course :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why MATE?

2018-08-02 Thread greatgnu
>XFCE is also a bit slower than MATE, in my experience. Absolutely untrue and quite the contrary in my experience.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why MATE?

2018-08-03 Thread greatgnu
hi jules o/ I sold out for LXDE, been using it exclusively for half a year now.. LXDE is love :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why MATE?

2018-08-04 Thread greatgnu
o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] UNetbootin Installation

2018-08-06 Thread greatgnu
dd is amazing and no one should ever need more.

Re: [Trisquel-users] UNetbootin Installation

2018-08-10 Thread greatgnu
>alway works this..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why is Trisquel 8 so much bigger than Trisquel 7?

2018-08-20 Thread greatgnu
>Why? Is there anything that I can do to make 8 smaller? and by having 1 or 2 Gb more of space on your hard drive you are trying to achieve.. what exactly..? :P

Re: [Trisquel-users] Abrowser: MIME type not found

2018-08-27 Thread greatgnu
noscript, umatrix, httpseverywhere

Re: [Trisquel-users] My T400 laptop restarts each 5 seconds

2018-08-27 Thread greatgnu
dangit, I always first browse the Spanish foro **before** viewing the English one.. Ignore my dumb abbreviated translation, just wanted to spread your request so to enlarge the chances of a useful answer.. cheers

Re: [Trisquel-users] cryptsetup password different from login password

2018-08-31 Thread greatgnu
>my cryptsetup password, required when I turn on my machine on, and my normal (superuser) login is different you wouldn't want it to be the same, right? Think about it..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Carl Chenet warns that free software is slowly dying

2018-09-04 Thread greatgnu
>I've made worse mistakes in Spanish, like "estoy embarrasado". :D Heh, made me remember the interview for my current job.. Interviewer: "How would you say 'unfortunately our driver is late..bla bla'? ST: 'Siento informarla que nuestro **autista** llegara' tarde bla bla..' *autista means 'auti

Re: [Trisquel-users] FSDG and pip

2018-09-07 Thread greatgnu
>Rather, there shouldn't *be* a repo with non-free things in it. So: Copy the free things into a new repo, and then all FSF-endorsed distros can change the address in their copy of pypi to access the new location instead. this.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Desktop icons and menus disapear Trisquel 8

2018-09-09 Thread greatgnu
>I'm not very familiar with firejail It's very good. man firejail o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Using Touchscreen on X200 Tablet

2018-09-11 Thread greatgnu
try the last answer given here --> https://askubuntu.com/questions/551324/thinkpad-x201-tablet-touchscreen-not-recognized

Re: [Trisquel-users] September 12: Catastrophe looms over the European Parliament

2018-09-11 Thread greatgnu
TL;DR long story short: Onpon looked at the rest from a superior position..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 - How Do I Change The Trisquel Logo On The UI Panel?

2018-09-13 Thread greatgnu
I once did that :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Development and Contribution

2018-09-19 Thread greatgnu
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/using-tinc-trisquel-9-machine It seems Jodienda knows moar about it, they are already installing stuff on T9 (nine)..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Development and Contribution

2018-09-21 Thread greatgnu
>Jodiendo isn't using Trisquel 9 ..and he ruined it..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hosting a Free and Open Source Server For Everything You Want

2018-09-22 Thread greatgnu
I pay 0. It is included in my rent. Very sucky connection though, but it is free as in beer, so I drink slowly but surely.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Emulator Packages

2018-09-26 Thread greatgnu
I remember Magic B pointing out this to me a year ago or so, it is indeed a problem, I love snes and I love a couple of emulators that are free software and work great, but the games themselves are all proprietary. It is very sad not being able to play Donkey Kong Country in clear conscience,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hosting a Free and Open Source Server For Everything You Want

2018-09-27 Thread greatgnu
>That sounds really interesting. Sure it sounds interesting, it's free beer. >It'd be very nice if you could document your work and add it to the wiki. Hmm..I don't know, I can try, k.. I will document every beer from now on! It's hard work but someone has to wiki.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Linux Kernel Vulnerability

2018-09-28 Thread greatgnu
Pardon my interjection as I do not by any measure intend to be rude but have you actually read the article? the kernel vulnerability (CVE-2018-17182) is a cache invalidation bug in the Linux memory management subsystem that leads to use-after-free vulnerability, which if exploited, could al

Re: [Trisquel-users] Google is default search engine?

2018-09-30 Thread greatgnu
>upon using the address bar in Abrowser to search, I was represented with Google. e

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does the "Deepness of the location of a file" matter when using Flidas?

2018-10-10 Thread greatgnu
16th level of deepness

Re: [Trisquel-users] Does the "Deepness of the location of a file" matter when using Flidas?

2018-10-10 Thread greatgnu
you gotta go deep

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why Trisquel website isn't translated into Russian?

2018-10-11 Thread greatgnu
A friendly reminder that we were promised a ruski forumello. I am impatient.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre Tech Shop

2018-10-26 Thread greatgnu
>bought a Replicant-supported phone for $20, and learned how to install Replicant in less than 30 minutes. Anyone comfortable copy/pasting terminal commands should be able to do the same. be quiet, you are revealing too much, goddamit!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre Tech Shop

2018-10-30 Thread greatgnu
>went back to the old style Nokias Never owned a smartphone. That being said I too am a happy owner of an old Nokia. There is boring triangulation, but that is all there is. o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Arabic/Hebrew in LibreOffice

2018-11-04 Thread greatgnu
> If you need more up to date software than what is offered by Trisquel you should consider using a distribution with more up to date software, such as Parabola or Hyperbola. Libreoffice can be updated via PPA. These commands will add it and then you can install the version you want via a

Re: [Trisquel-users] Disable Orca in Display Manager (LightDM)

2018-11-09 Thread greatgnu
>Agreed. It's easier for someone who doesn't need accessibility features to disable them than for someone who does need them to enable them This goes without saying.. But still no one answered the OP's question: sudo apt purge gnome-orca cheers o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] solved a problem with lxde

2018-11-13 Thread greatgnu
>I still need to find good cli clients for ... bittorrent. rtorrent

Re: [Trisquel-users] Buggy install

2018-11-16 Thread greatgnu
Whatever you do, follow my advice: before removing or installing any OS on a modern laptop, flash the latest bios firmware in it, then attempt the installation of wahtever GNUx on it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Install Flatcam on Trisquel 8.0

2018-11-17 Thread greatgnu
>Mind telling us how you solved it? https://trisquel.info/en/forum/instalar-flatcam-en-trisquel-80#comment-137281 Coming right fresh out of the Spanish section, so I link it for you..

Re: [Trisquel-users] solved a problem with lxde

2018-11-21 Thread greatgnu
Netsurf is way lighter but it is also way less functional, unfortunately. :(

Re: [Trisquel-users] Which chromium build you recommend?

2018-11-24 Thread greatgnu
>Which chromium build you recommend? none..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Close open ports

2018-11-24 Thread greatgnu
>To find those open LISTENING ports You want to focus only on the listening ones and those that are listening to the interwebz, ignore those listening to localhost. The command is: sudo ss --tulpn or if you prefer the deprecated netstat: sudo netstat -tulpn

Re: [Trisquel-users] Close open ports

2018-11-25 Thread greatgnu
yep, tx for the correction, cat :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is Popcorn Time Legal?

2018-12-02 Thread greatgnu
>Popcorn Time is not a website, it is a heavy client mainly bundling a BitTorrent client and a video player. It is the bloated version of peerflix, nothing more than a super heavy GUI added to it. And it needs no GUI at all, it could not be more straightforward. Highly recommended software

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wireless Card Drivers?

2018-12-08 Thread greatgnu
> Recently, ernesto wrote that the rather cheap TL-WN722N yeah, so I bought 1 but ain't workin' for shit.. :'((

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best method for 'outside' packages

2018-12-11 Thread greatgnu
>Compiling from source can be cumbersome Agree >and you should use it as the last resort, when everything else fails. Absolutely disagree Compiling is the first way, the first option and also the last. :) I have no idea what went wrong during the building of your source. But a stupid point:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best method for 'outside' packages

2018-12-14 Thread greatgnu
>why that? It's the safest way, you compile the source code (after you have read it, entirely, twice, of course..) >why not download the same runnable binary version It's the **un**safest way, you run a binary which you have no idea what it can do to your computer (maybe make it so that wh

Re: [Trisquel-users] GNU/Linux installation on libreboot machines

2018-12-14 Thread greatgnu
>I had screen dimming and whining on my X200 and it didn't work for me. I had to change the hex value using intel-gpu program, screen works perfectly fine now! Care to elaborate for those who might have the same issue in the future?

Re: [Trisquel-users] The volumen "boot" has only 4, 1 MB disk space remaining.

2018-12-15 Thread greatgnu
>I bet on many kernels That's also my bet. Remove all old kernels, except the currently working one and a backup one. o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] The volumen "boot" has only 4, 1 MB disk space remaining.

2018-12-22 Thread greatgnu
/ /boot /var /tmp /home That's how adults partition their hard drive.

Re: [Trisquel-users] What's your mastodon?

2018-12-22 Thread greatgnu
Tried it when it first came out. Very boring 'twas indeed. I only use diaspora. Very rarely too.

Re: [Trisquel-users] diaspora or Mastodon???

2018-12-24 Thread greatgnu
>What's good on diaspora variety both of users and content. Users post and follow #tags and they tend not to post selfies and/or food pictures. In a word: idiots seem to be a minority on the platform.. Of, course, last bu not least: a lot of cat pictures :P

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