Re: [Trisquel-users] text-based browsers versus Icecat/Abrowser

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Librewolf browser looks promising to me. Thanks Caleb and Masonhock.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there a build of Trisquel Mini 8 that is under 700 MB and can fit on a CD?

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

How about detaching the hard disk drive off it and install Trisquel on
other computer and finally attach the hard disk back again?

Re: [Trisquel-users] 2FA

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

I would love to know this too it's really important. Thanks for making
this topic.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Remove BOM from UTF8 files

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Amazing. Glad to know that worked! Thanks to lcerf and enduzzer for
explaining my command I learned new thing.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Remove BOM from UTF8 files

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Can't we just use looping for that? For example, I use this command to
process multiple files. It removes lines with hashtag sign in every
TXT file of all TXT files in current directory. What do you think?

for filename in file*.txt; do sed -i '/#/d' $filename; done

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel 9 Etiona

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

On 6/12/20, lc...@dcc.ufmg.br  wrote:

> I am currently typing from the latest live ISO.  It apparently works
> perfectly.  Beside the new wallpaper, I noticed:
>
> the Synaptic Package Manager (it was not in the previous ISO I tested, if I
>
> remember well), in System/Administration;
> PDF-Shuffler, a nice addition in my humble opinion;
> Back in Time will apparently replace Déjà Dup (in Trisquel 8) as the
> default backup system (it was already in previous ISOs of Etiona).

Thank you, lcerf! I didn't test it yet so this is valuable to me.

Re: [Trisquel-users] SSD drives and Trisquel

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

I use Trisquel 8 on SSD and it works very well for years.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Etiona

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Thanks for sharing. I can't wait to test Trisquel 9.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I CANNOT ACCES TO INTERNET

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Hello cesq, I am Telegram user and I noticed that Telegram seems to
use own dns system to connect to the internet separated to the
GNU/Linux system dns. This is why I also often experienced same
experience as yours. The good thing there is that you are certainly
connected to the internet (thanks to telegram's proof) (so I think
your router is okay) but somehow other applications cannot. I have
weak networking knowledge so this is only my guess.

My suggestion:
1) make sure your /etc/resolv.conf points to correct dns address
2) make sure your system dns resolver is working and not disabled
3) make sure no two network connections connected at a same time

Cheers!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why are we based on Ubuntu and not Debian?

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Hello, glad to see you in Trisquel Forum! As far as I know, this issue
is often discussed already. Personally, I don't think changing base
would accelerate or enhance Trisquel development especially for now.
And let's suppose it happens, next time somebody could come and could
say similar thing "why are we based on Debian and not painly
GNU+Linux?". All in all, I really like you showing your commitment to
software freedom.

Cheers,

Ade

Re: [Trisquel-users] Newest Desktop GPU That Works With Trisquel ?

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Yes, go with Intel VGAs to be safe. I do not have any NVIDIA/ATI but
only Intel so I never find any problem with VGA on Trisquel.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Communicating to computer illiterates who use proprietary software

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

I am facing similar things also here in my country Indonesia and the
approach I use is to ask or help the person to install LibreOffice on
their respective operating system. I am trying to make everybody
installs LibreOffice on their Windows computers. This way I believe we
do not lose our Open Document Format and do not lose our effort in
promoting free software.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Password Management on Trisquel

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

I use KeePassX.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How to color the background of the margins in LibreOffice Writer?

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Hello Greven. I tested what you said in my Writer and it went exactly
what you said. How about this one?
https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/153119/change-page-colour-margin-remains-white.

Regards,

Ade

Re: [Trisquel-users] Using Folding for COVID using Trisquel

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Thank you, I am glad to see scientific stuffs related to Trisquel. And
your Reddit thread is great!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre software for video calls

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Thanks Zelphir. I know Wire client is free software as it was
mentioned by the FSF twice[1][2]. But I am curious how do you use
Wire. How about video calls? How about voice call? How many people you
talk with?

[1] https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:High_Priority_Projects
[2] https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:Privacy_pack

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre software for video calls

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

For my online course, aside from using Telegram as voice call (one on
one), I use Jitsi Meet for screen sharing as I teach GNU/Linux via
that. Jitsi has a gratis server everybody could create at anytime to
use with multiple users at https://meet.jit.si which I use to do voice
conference with my students. I'm sorry I don't know about video call
as I do not use that feature.

Re: [Trisquel-users] mobile broadband setup

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

It is magical how a single service can make a mobile broadband works
out of the box.Thanks for all contributors, I learned so much by just
this thread alone. And congrats treehugger!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Search function for Trisquel Users forum?

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Hello Ian, glad to hear that!

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice Alternative

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Wow, Caleb, this link is awesome. I find it's truly hard to find such
guidance from any other party other than FSF. Thanks.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 not booting once installed

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

For reinstalling GRUB bootloader, there is my favorite article from
HTG here 
https://www.howtogeek.com/114884/how-to-repair-grub2-when-ubuntu-wont-boot.
Simply follow the command line section there so you do not need to
install anything. I always give this to everybody asking about their
bootloader needs to be repaired.

The one lcerf pointed out above is great (thank you!) but the HTG's is
far more simpler.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 not booting once installed

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

If that is only a bootloader issue, then you just need to reinstall
GRUB bootloader from Triskel LiveCD you already have.

Re: [Trisquel-users] New Trisquel group on the fediverse using Guppe

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Wow, so you were actually posted here first and then at Mastodon.
Nice, now I understand your discussion about Gup.pe few hours ago. I
already joined and thank you strypey!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Jami and Jitsi unreliable for video calls

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Ah you mentioned Wire. I remember, Wire is free software recommended
by the FSF[1] aside from Signal and is capable of doing video
conference[2]. I knew Wire before GNU Ring (now Jami) but never tried
it with another person. Thanks bobandrew. How about it, anatom?

Personally, I use Telegram for my online course since 2017 and
everything goes well with text & pictures. With Telegram I can run
more than 80 public courses with 1000 more audience (all Indonesians)
up to today. It cannot do video conference at the moment but it can do
voice call (one on one) and for my case the voice quality is good and
it's already real to do relaxed chat.

[1] https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Collection:High_Priority_Projects
[2] https://wire.com

Re: [Trisquel-users] PDF compressor

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

To compress dozens of PDF files as long as the source document is
available (ODT) I compress images within it by hand one by one with
LibreOffice. To do so, I do right-click a picture > Compress > a new
dialog appears > I set out compression > I click Calculate so I know
resulting size > click OK > picture compressed. I teach online course
and this manual way is the way I do to make transcripts. From a 20MB
raw document, I can make it smaller to 3MB or so as PDF. I share this
to you and I hope this could be useful. Thanks.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Search function for Trisquel Users forum?

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Hello Ian. You can use the search box on top of this page. Welcome to
Trisquel community!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Jami and Jitsi unreliable for video calls

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Just recently I encountered Mumble VoIP because I saw the last feature
"[...]Mumble will use 10-40 kbit/s outgoing, and the same incoming for
each user. So if there are 10 other users on the server with you, your
incoming bandwidth requirement will be 100-400 kbit/s if they all talk
at the same time[...]" you can read here
https://github.com/mumble-voip/mumble. I suggest you to test Mumble
VoIP.

Re: [Trisquel-users] How can we find the reason for blocking Ubuntu packages?

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

I'm sorry I don't know precisely Trisquel development, but you can
refer to Parabola Blacklist
https://git.parabola.nu/blacklist.git/tree/blacklist.txt if you want
to know the freedom-related reason a package being blacklisted.
Because Trisquel and Parabola share the same ethical guidelines (GNU
FSDG), the blacklist should be identical too.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Linphone doesn't work

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Yes, I too am currently teaching online with Jitsi Meet. It is the
best at the moment after I was trying Nextcloud Talk, then GNU Jami,
then Riot.im (with Jitsi embedded). Jitsi Meet works pretty well.

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice Alternative

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

What xliang said was true. I have a long article I name it "Support
Open Document Format" presenting several the importance of ODF, why we
all should avoid OOXML, danger of software patents, and many
references & organizations that support ODF too. you can read here
https://linuxdreambox.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/support-open-document-format.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Graphical ISO available for testing

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

I tried LiveCD session of Trisquel 9.0 amd64 and it works without
problem for me. MATE desktop works as I want, internet works (from a
USB mifi), browser works, file manager works & can access disk
partitions just well, installing programs also works well from
archive.trisquel.info server. My system is Intel Pentium 967 1.3GHz
4GB RAM with the bootable SanDisk usb flash drive 32GB. Thank you all
Trisquel Developers!

However, I didn't install that T9 yet.

And I am really surprised to see Triskel, the KDE edition, is
available. I have seen the manifest file and it says Plasma version
5.12 within. This is amazing.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Hello jaisgossman, you are welcome. I am really glad to hear your opinion!

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice Alternative

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Freely as in freedom licensed office suite I know other than
LibreOffice are Calligra Suite (https://www.calligra.org) and
ONLYOFFICE (https://www.onlyoffice.com). Still, I recommend
LibreOffice for you.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel/General Computing Terminology Resource

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

> I'm looking for a catch-all terminology resource that is not necessarily 
> specific to Trisquel, but would fit well into a Trisquel auto-didact's 
> literature.

Hello jaisgossman!

There are some computer terminology resources I love and find out:
- http://foldoc.org (once recommended by The GNU Project's website)
- http://linfo.org
- https://www.computerhope.com/jargon.htm
- https://techterms.com
- http://www.osdata.com/kind/history.htm
- https://winworldpc.com/library/operating-systems
- https://www.operating-system.org

I understand your first email as I am also an auto-didact person. I
hope these links useful for you and please tell me what do you think
about them. Thank you.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Trisquel Planet Idea

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Sorry for my late reply. Thank you all for you opinions, insights, and
criticism.

On 12/18/19, lc...@dcc.ufmg.br  wrote:
> I personally like the idea.  But the problem is always the same:
> implementing
> it is not worth delaying more urgent matter, such as releasing Trisquel 9.

I understand.

> Do you propose yourself to implement the idea?

As I said, I have no server / sysadmin knowledge, but I have my
personal aggregator http://buaya.cloudaccess.host that fetches news
from multiple sources, including the FSF and GNU news, Debian, PureOS,
etc. I did that just by RSS Feeds. What is your opinion? And how to
turn a mailing list into RSS Feed? (so I can easily subscribe messages
into my aggregator).

> (I do not blog; dcc.ufmg.br/~lcerf lists my research articles, code, etc.)

Yes, I am aware about this and I like you posts. What I meant was
everything information on the net that can be subscribed (relayed) in
an aggregator website. So I said yours was "blog".

Really thank you lcerf for your reply in particular and your
dedication here in general. Sorry I am following Trisquel Forum using
email.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : install trisquel 8 32bit to USB

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

I suggest you to use EXT2 instead of EXT4 on your flash drive if you
would install a GNU/Linux into it.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Jami version in the Trisquel 8 repos is still called Ring

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Really nice move, Strypey. I support that immediately & good thing I
have a GitLab account.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel D945GCLF Libreboot + Trisquel

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Hm, sorry to hear that. Alternatively, you can find more flashing
services at Zerocat and such companies:
- http://www.zerocat.org
- https://libiquity.com
- https://www.flashedtech.com/flashing-services

I believe there are still more services but either I forgot or I do
not know them. I wish you success.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Intel D945GCLF Libreboot + Trisquel

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

I suggest you to ask https://libreboot.org directly or see technical
support at https://minifree.org.  I believe you could buy tools from
them as well.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Weird text display distortions in ABrowser on Trisquel 8

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Hi masonhock, it looks like LibreWolf is very interesting, more than
Iceweasel Icecat Waterfox Basilisk or other Firefox derivatives. It's
a news for me. Thanks!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ubuntu Studio As Base for Next Trisquel? Trisquelize for Ubuntu Studio?

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

On 10/22/19, stry...@disintermedia.net.nz  wrote:
> Also, slackermedia.info might be worth a look for anyone interested in
> multimedia production on GNU/Linux. They claim to be ...
>  > "100% Free & Open Source Software"

Thanks strypey, so slackermedia is a website by the person behind GNU
World Order podcast. It's interesting, I bookmarked it immediately.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Internet connection problem

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Thanks, Ruben. Glad to see you in this discussion.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Volunteer to write more regular blog posts for trisquel.info

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

That's great, strypey. I agree with that especially for technical tips
& tricks for daily use and school.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Ubuntu Studio As Base for Next Trisquel? Trisquelize for Ubuntu Studio?

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Thanks masonhock. You made me aware there is an awesome page
https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/backporting-av-software-trisquel-9.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Not really for users, but very interesting: deb versus snap

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

On 10/12/19, stry...@disintermedia.net.nz  wrote:
> As are AppImage files:
> https://appimage.org/

I love AppImage. Thanks for adding it here, strypey.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Recommended Music players?

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

I see Sayonara's screenshots here
https://sayonara-player.com/features.php and it's pretty interesting
for me. It's Qt-based like Amarok. Thanks for informing, fredo.

Re: [Trisquel-users] New member

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

On 9/30/19, l...@aujardin.com  wrote:
> Translation from the french users forum :
>
> Hello,
>
> I introduce myself.
>
> I am 60 years old; I am a journalist.

Welcome, and glad to know you.

> My first computer was a Macintosh SE in 1988. For 30 years, I have been an
> enthusiastic mac user. Long an ardent defender of Apple, my opinion changed,

Interesting, first time I hear a very long time Apple user to change
their opinion like this.

> A year ago, I made a radical shift. I left all social networks and switched
> to Gnu/Linux with free software.

Congratulations! And good luck.

> Thanks to Magic Banana who kindly informed me about Trisquel, my main
> computer is now a Lenovo T400 with libreboot and Trisquel.

Really nice. Love that.

> I also became a member of the FSF.
> I am probably part of a new generation of gnu/linux users, without technical
> skills but with a lot of determination in their choice.

Welcome once again!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Adobe Flash

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

On 9/20/19, xliang9...@live.cn  wrote:
> broken beyond repair.
Ah, this is the phrase I am looking for to express proprietary
software. I am not English native speaker so phrases are challenging
for me. Thank you so much xliang.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Not really for users, but very interesting: deb versus snap

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

On 9/17/19, ma...@masonhock.com  wrote:
> whereas there is only one Snap Store,
> controlled by Canonical.

Ah, yes, I forgot that point. Thanks for reminding me, Mason.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Not really for users, but very interesting: deb versus snap

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

What a good comparison. That's really in interesting for me. Thanks Ignacio!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Azure and WSL version of Trisquel

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

On 9/4/19, ja...@bluehome.net  wrote:
> Bradley Kuhn has been talking about the problem of corporate cooption for
> some years now.
>
> https://invidio.us/watch?v=aUy3uVvVsrU
>
> http://ebb.org/bkuhn/talks/OpenSym-2016/politics.html
>
> It's good to go look up his various talks and listen to them.

Mmm, really nice presentation. I like it. Thanks, Jason.

Re: [Trisquel-users] IceCat update?

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Thanks a lot quidam!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Considering change to Arch

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Hi ulises.sanchez, I can feel how hard if our hardware won't work with
GNU/Linux. What can I advise you is go to https://h-node.org and find
there information about Audio Card and WLAN Card (external is good)
that are verified perfectly working with 100% free software. For
example, for WLAN adapter USB you may read this
https://h-node.org/wifi/catalogue/en/1/1/undef/undef/yes/USB/wifi-works/undef.
Good luck!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 9 Ready For Development And Testing

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Great news! Thanks for informing.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8.0 and interactive whiteboards Epson BrightLink 595 Wi+ and 675 Wi+

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Very good news. Congratulations! And thanks for sharing.

Re: [Trisquel-users] I'm finally completely free.

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Congratulations! I'm glad to see posting like this again. Really nice to hear.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 codename "Flidas" Release Candidate is ready for testing

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

Hi david, thanks! This is what I'm waiting for.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedom Fridays, development meetings, 2018 plans

[Ade Malsasa Akbar]

I'm glad to hear this. Finally.