I wouldn't even worry about compilation times. Really, programming does not
need a powerful machine at all. It's about the least demanding thing you can
possibly do on a computer. Your Web browser will be much, much more
noticeably affected.
> Just hope I won't be expected to rely heavily on proprietary applications.
That would be an unreasonable expectation. If you can get the work done using
some other software, there is no reason your work should not be accepted. A
text file is a text file, regardless of what text editor
> or do the latest versions of the Office suite now include a export to PDF?
They do. They also support ODF.
But this doesn't sound to me like a problem with formats. It sounds more like
a problem with this particular file. Maybe the file is just so large that
it's taking a long time to
Enemy nomination has been extended:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/enemy-nomination-phase-extended
> OP is asking about vendors selling librebooted laptops.
Oh, I thought the question was about stores that sell freedom-respecting
hardware in general.
> Is an X200 laptop is a good purchase or are there better options?
It's the most powerful freedom-respecting computer you're going to get for
quite some time. So if power is what you want, then yes.
Otherwise, you may be interested in supporting EOMA68:
I know of it, but I wouldn't really call it "lightweight". It, too, is a
WebKit browser, but uses Qt rather than GTK, so I don't know if the version
found in Trisquel's repo is secure and if it isn't, that PPA I mentioned
wouldn't help.
Honestly, I think just about any browser will do
It's a text editor. There are tons of them. Emacs, Vim, Geany, and Eclipse
come to mind. That's not even including more basic text editors like gedit
and Mousepad.
> And yes I know it is the continuation of Netscape but from a practical
point of view it really is Firefox minus the bloat.
No, from a practical point of view it's an entirely different browser.
Firefox and SeaMonkey are about as similar as Midori and Qupzilla at this
point. The only
I really think that Firefox-based browsers like Abrowser will work for you
just fine if you have it configured right. Disable JavaScript (QuickJS is an
extension that can help with that) and install uBlock Origin, and you'll be
golden.
> It's firefox minus the bloat.
That's not true. SeaMonkey is the continuation of Mozilla (itself derived
from Netscape). Firefox's codebase is related, but it diverged immediately
and has never been particularly similar since then.
I also doubt that SeaMonkey performs better than Firefox.
It comes from The Simpsons.
Midori is fine, it's just that Ubuntu (and, as a result, Trisquel) fails to
properly deliver security updates for WebKit. If you want to use Midori and
other GTK WebKit browsers, I suggest using this PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~webkit-team/+archive/ubuntu/ppa
Anyway, your problem has
I'm pretty sure he just meant having it installed by default.
Voting results:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/voting-results
The nomination phase for new enemies has begun:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/nominate-new-enemies
GitLab issue is here:
https://gitlab.com/hexoshi/hexoshi/issues/5
SSDs and other flash storage devices have firmware that doesn't write data to
them in a straightforward or consistent manner. In short: it will work, but
only if you shred the entire disk at once.
Yeah, Phoronix's article title is inaccurate. Still a useful thing, though. I
wonder if Think Penguin has investigated the possibility of doing this to the
x86 computers they sell.
> Would any of you be interested in paying a small fee to increase your
upload limit?
I would. :)
By the way, if buying higher upload limits are how you're going to handle it,
you might want to add an indicator of how much stuff you have uploaded and
how much space each file is taking up.
> what programming language(s) would you recommend?
Whichever one is appropriate for the engine you're using. :) The engine
matters much more than the language. But personally, my favorite language is
Python (which is why the SGE Game Engine uses Python).
> With my old GeForce 9800 GTX+ I
Oh, I wasn't aware of that.
I guess the more appropriate statement would be that ARM Chromebooks come
with a completely libre bootloader. What that bootloader is called is really
an unimportant technicality. I guess I have a tendency to want to mention
U-Boot because some people seem to be
> I have found that most JavaScript games are completely Libre.
Of course there exist libre JavaScript games. You seem to have missed the
point of the entry: JavaScript is software, so you have to check each one on
a case-by-case basis. The trap is in not knowing that JavaScript code is
It lists multiple games that are proprietary, so don't depend on it.
Explanations for why some of the games listed there are no good can be found
here:
https://onpon4.github.io/other/gaming-trap/
> can you give me some advice as to what one should consider before creating
a libre game and what common noob mistakes are in your experience?
The most common mistake is planning too much, or putting too much emphasis on
things like the story or the ideas you have. It wastes time that could
Libreboot isn't even necessary. It comes with U-Boot, which is libre. The
same goes for the other ARM Chromebooks.
hing significant (e.g. graphics) would be very helpful if you
want to take this route.
[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi
I hope you're not being serious about smashing laptops and phones with a
hammer, but just in case you aren't: don't do that. Ever. These devices
contain lithium-ion or lithium-ion polymer batteries. Smashing these
batteries, especially lithium-ion polymer batteries, could cause a lithium
As for gaming, I would like to suggest you help fund or contribute to libre
game development. What kinds of games do you like?
Recent GPUs don't work with libre kernels because they require proprietary
firmware blobs. Also, hardware that doesn't require proprietary software to
work typically requires a kernel update to work fully, so in general getting
a more recent kernel from jxself's Linux-libre repository is
By the way, if you can't help make the ecosystem better, one place you can
upload to in the meantime is the Internet Archive. This is what I'm currently
doing.
Yeah, essentially this. Unfortunately, there aren't any other public ones
running right now, so please, if you can host a public MediaGoblin instance,
do so!
One problem is that video streaming is particularly expensive. I think
MediaGoblin should address this by having an easy to use
The first thing I would try is updating the kernel:
https://jxself.org/linux-libre/
Lots of stuff, including the first vote:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/the-fun-begins
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/first-vote
Think Penguin doesn't sell dot matrix printers. I don't know why the OP wants
one, but it's a very particular (old style) type of printer and not really
similar to any of Think Penguin's offerings.
I think I've seen this happen before, but that it was resolved after a while.
I haven't found a single example of a GNU/Linux system crashing, ever, except
for cases where the hardware itself was at fault (e.g. overheating which
caused the CPU to shut itself down, or hardware that the kernel just doesn't
support properly, such as my current laptop which freezes up if
Unfortunately, any WebKit browser is currently insecure on just about any
distro that isn't rolling-release. A user who is interested in using Midori
on Trisquel can fix that by installing the WebKit PPA. Maybe Trisquel could
merge that PPA in with its repository as well, but I don't know if
That wasn't a response to you. It was a response to the remark that the
Trisquel 8 alpha is "stable". It also wasn't in "anger"; I don't know why you
interpreted it that way.
> if it could do irreversible damage, TO my hardware
Unless "damage" just refers to normal wear and tear from using
It should be safe to install (the worst that could happen is the installation
not working), but you probably don't want to install it on a real machine
right now. Better to go with a VM.
This is a nonsensical thing to say and I grow tired of people saying it.
"Stable" means one of two things: either that it doesn't crash normally, or
that it isn't going to change. It's obvious that you mean the former. But
Trisquel was never unstable in this sense, regardless of what kind of
No clue, but obviously it's just down for maintenance. This is normal.
> But I have tried quite a lot to find ways to make vlc work with Matruska
and it annoys me that I couldn't find the solution.
Like I said, Matroska files can contain just about any kind of data, so you
can't tell just by the fact that it's a Matroska file whether or not your
system can
DRM-free? That's super common, literally any other portable media player that
isn't an iPod will fit the bill. But if you actually mean something powered
by libre software, that's much harder and the closest thing to that I can
think of is the OpenPandora (although it wouldn't surprise me if
Nah, more like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the NES, Castlevania III, or
Mega Man ZX Advent. Where you only have one position, but can switch out
between different characters that have different abilities at will. But
again, it's probably not what I'm going to do, mainly because that
The campaign is almost over!
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/finish-line
I found a package called "libavcodec-extra". Try installing that.
Of course it does. Matroska is just a container format and can be used with
several different codecs, though, so it could easily be that some Matroska
files are unplayable due to the codecs they use. You're going to need to find
out this information to solve the problem, but ultimately it's
> So I went in /etc/hosts and picked the name of my computer.
I don't think that's right. If I understand correctly, what you want is
"localhost" or maybe "localhost.localdomain". Then again, the only servers
I've configured before have been games.
"Fraud" isn't how I would describe it at all. Pidgin has to be developed
constantly to keep up with changes to the proprietary protocols used by
Yahoo, Facebook, MSN, etc. Jitsi got its most recent stable release last
year, and many of them have gone through drastic changes since then, so of
I read somewhere that Facebook's XMPP-based chat is deprecated. Perhaps it's
been dropped since then.
As for Yahoo, that chat service doesn't exist any more. It was shut down
months ago.
I suggest downloading the generic JAR file since that's much easier. That's
this one:
https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi/generic/jitsi-2.8.5426.jar
But if you want a package, it's one of these (depending on architecture):
https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi/debian/jitsi_2.8.5426-1_i386.deb
> Jitsi only looks like a piece of malware designed to get
hold of your instant messaging accounts and their passwords.
It isn't. The version of Jitsi found in Trisquel's repository is just way out
of date.
> this is why i pointed out on HTML5,since it is the code itself rather than
an port with compiled code that can not be seen.
The JavaScript code is not source code. It's minified. It's no different in
this aspect from a compiled binary. The source code is what you actually
worked with in
It's still in alpha, so the installer probably just isn't quite ready yet.
The important thing is that you can test it, and you only need the live
system to do that.
If a VPN doesn't charge you anything, you shouldn't trust it. If Bitcoin
isn't an option, various VPNs offer other options. Some will let you send in
cash, and I'm aware of one that lets you pay with various kinds of gift
cards:
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/buy-vpn/
You can make a live USB stick. Unetbootin is one easy way to do that.
I want to note that the game you linked to is not libre. No source code is
available.
Regarding what computer to use, the X200 and T400 will be the most powerful
computers available with RYF certification for quite some time, I think. But
I prefer to test games with the least capable
New update, or rather, lack of updates:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/busy-week
> to get a significant improvement, i would have to change the init to a
faster one
You're already using Upstart. I haven't seen any benchmarks, but Upstart and
systemd seem to be about the same in this regard, and I'm not aware of any
init system that's faster than these two.
The actual
A distro cannot have GNU FSDG status if its name makes it easy to confuse it
with a non-FSDG distro.
That doesn't follow. Ubuntu has supported ARM for quite some time, but some
more work is needed to also make Trisquel support it.
I just want to point out that following Debian Testing would be largely
pointless, and it's not what Ubuntu does. Testing freezes non-security
updates at some point so that it can become Stable, then that release becomes
stable and a new Testing release is made, so it's not a smooth rolling
New update: Special characters
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/special-chars
The only games that should ever be on the default install of any system are
simple ones like Minesweeper and Klondike. Different people like different
games and can install them on their own later.
What problem are you trying to solve by not showing anything on the screen?
Surely you can't possibly think that the insanely tiny amount of CPU usage
caused by playing an animation or printing text is slowing down your boot
time significantly. It's problably something like a millisecond.
Trisquel uses whatever Ubuntu uses.
I guess you probably can still use Upstart if you really want to, but why
would you? It's pretty much abandoned at this point; Ubuntu isn't using it
anymore.
Oh, also, regarding schematics, my understanding is all the schematics are
available. I'm not familiar with this stuff, but I think this would be the
schematics for the A20 card (it's an upgraded version of the A10 card):
You're not going to find anything that's new, freedom-respecting, and has a
modern speed. The EOMA68-A20 card is really the best you can do right now.
For using it as a desktop computer, it will only set you back $120, so it's
perfectly affordable, and it's upgradeable (there are already
You should talk to PyPI's developers about implementing this as a warning
(not as a refusal to download packages). You might also want to check for
different classes of licenses.
But there are some parts of your script that don't make sense:
1. "version = info.keys()[0]": What
As far as I understand, Skype's proprietary protocol has not been
reverse-engineered, so it is not possible to chat through that network
without Skype. You'll have to use an alternative network (e.g. XMPP).
Just flash drives. Actually, any flash media (also including SD cards, for
example, and even to a lesser extent most SSDs). What Magic Banana refers to
is that any given bit on flash media can only be changed so much before it
becomes useless, so writing to flash media effectively brings it
I've added an "Ideas" page to the Hexoshi website:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/update7
https://hexoshi.gitlab.io/ideas.html
I would definitely recommend supporting EOMA. You can still pre-order from
the second batch on the CrowdSupply page:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop
It's not perfect, but I think these standards are the future of our
computing.
> Onpon are you referring to Ring?
No, XMPP is an IM protocol that Pidgin, Jitsi, and several others support,
but not Ring. Ring is another perfectly valid option, though (I haven't tried
it).
Right, when you reach that limit, the device can't be used anymore, or at
least can't be written to anymore. That's what I was referring to.
Parabola is rolling release, so it's very bleeding edge. This is not
necessarily a good thing, though; it means that regressions are common, so
it's not a very beginner-friendly distro.
New update:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/update6
You're mistaking unar (command-line version of The Unarchiver) with unrar.
There is no such thing as "unar-free". unar supports all versions of RAR.
> I recall reading about its use in training for employees in some occupation
(medicine?), acting as a kind of simulator.
I see two problems with this:
1. Any simulation done this way is not the same as actually doing the job.
You don't actually feel anything, so how could it be? It's still
> flatscreens don't offer anything significantly more useful than CRTs for
desktops and TVs
This is completely untrue. There are two major reasons LCD screens became the
norm rather than CRTs: they're much more power-efficient, and they're much
more lightweight. In fact, CRT screens are
> I remember being told in the 90s that because those were "specialized
equipment that not everyone has", I was wasting my time with teaching
activists to use websites and email lists.
There's a big difference between something that is only useful for particular
kinds of games and
> You turn your head to the left and see whatever is to your left in the VR
environment without having to do it with your hands.
Yes, and this is not generally useful for game design. It's a novelty, and
it's much more complex than the more traditional alternatives, plus it
requires
File-Roller supports using unar now and has for quite some time. I don't know
about Engrampa, though.
That was a response to Magic Banana, not you.
> There's got to be an alternative to closed-source Skype and WhatsApp.
Yes... it's called Jitsi. Or you can use Pidgin. Either through any XMPP
server, or in the case of Jitsi, through meet.jit.si (I gather that the
latter is easier, but haven't tried it yet).
I don't see a graphical archive manager there. Perhaps you misunderstand what
p7zip-full is? Archive managers such as File-Roller use this to open
encrypted 7z archives.
The only thing I've seen of Peazip is that it isn't able to open the ReTux
archives because it forbids including "|" as part of an entered password. I
have nothing against Peazip, but I don't see why you would exchange a more
capable archive manager for a less capable one.
I don't know what you're talking about, KeePassX is cross-platform. Also,
KeePass2 is written in C# (i.e. needs Mono).
Possibly, possibly not. One way to hide it would be to modify the update
reminder program to pretend to download updates, or to point to a different
APT repository. It doesn't matter; they're vulnerable to whatever malicious
features have been added in the meantime.
I don't think you fully
> But for a malicious feature to actually work, I think it must be secret.
And it can be. If you have the capability to change the software on
Trisquel's servers, you can make it do something malicious and also prevent
future updates. The user who installs this malicious update would never
That's a hypothetical example based on the assumption that someone malicious
could make any change, which they can if they can implant the right malicious
feature into the right package upgrade. There are all sorts of ways they
could prevent further Trisquel upgrades from fixing the problem,
What you're proposing is a terrible idea from a security perspective. There
has to be some central control, because that's the only way the Debian
packaging system can be secure.
The solution to a lack of time to check and pull fixes isn't removing the
checking, but rather giving more
And now the goal has been reached!
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/update5
> Yeah, like that "personal computer" thing and that "internet" thing were
just passing fads. I actually laughed out loud when I read this. Thanks for
that ;) Wait, are you actually serious?
More like how light guns were a passing fad, or like how motion control was a
passing fad. These
All crowdfunding services take a portion of the funds raised; that's not
unusual.
On a side note... HOLY CRAP, someone just donated roughly $500 today! With no
perk! I don't know for sure who it was, but that sent this campaign just $10
away from its goal. That is amazing and highly
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/update4
Yesterday, while I was at work, funding for this campaign passed the 50%
mark! Of course, this is magnificent; in just one out of about four weeks, we
are halfway through our target. If we keep this up, we might be able to fund
> Anyway, what's the meaning of the name?
I was trying to mimic the way Metroid was named, combining parts of two words
to approximate what the game was about, but the most important things were
that the name is unique and that it sounds cool. I was using Japanese words,
and these were the
Yes, I want everyone to make their own assumption regarding what Anneroy is.
593ddf5ec8e18078217c81013577001945f548140abff298dad5e9796184bb71
New update:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/onpon4/hexoshi/updates/update3
From a technical standpoint, WebM is just Matroska. The only difference is
that while it is valid for a Matroska file to contain several different kinds
of video and audio, WebM is only allowed to have VP8 or VP9 for video, and
Vorbis or Opus for audio.
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