Re: [Trisquel-users] Systemd kde-config from synaptic

2020-08-14 Thread greatgnu
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-systemctl-to-manage-systemd-services-and-units

Re: [Trisquel-users] audio does not work

2020-08-14 Thread greatgnu
You have master and speaker muted. Select each and press 'm'. Slide speaker up. Crank it all up, son =/= Should that not work> sudo apt purge pulseaudio && sudo apt autoremove --purge I am not joking >< o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pinephone Community Edition

2020-08-12 Thread greatgnu
I always have a secret microjet. Those are necessities for ruing stupid slow people or something others.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Anyone know what happened to boba?

2020-08-12 Thread greatgnu
In Mahamudra all sins are burned In Mahamudra one is released from the prison of this world http://buddhism.redzambala.com/buddhism/sutras/tilopa-mahamudra-song.html

Re: [Trisquel-users] Anyone know what happened to boba?

2020-08-10 Thread greatgnu
> > Kind of a shame that all of our response posts disappeared as well. Yes, cannot anyone retrieve them? There were some of my elaborated gags. > The disappearance of them elaborated gags is truly a shame. How will this website be able to function, and indeed myself, without them. I am

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem installing free graphics card help here guys

2019-11-18 Thread greatgnu
>The radeon driver is free software. It's in the Trisquel repository. You should be able to use the graphics card you have if you install the correct free driver. The driver is free, the firmware is not, and you still need that one loaded in your kernel in order to have video

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem installing free graphics card help here guys

2019-11-12 Thread greatgnu
You are out of luck. Unfortunately to my knowledge ATI gpus require proprietary firmware in order to work properly (yes, even to display the correct video resolution). Consider (if you are able to do so) selling your hardware and buying some freedom compatible one. This website can help

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problem installing free graphics card help here guys

2019-11-11 Thread greatgnu
Give us the output of the following: lspci -nnk | grep VGA

Re: [Trisquel-users] GAPCOIN Math Crypto-Currency for TRISQUEL Users

2019-11-11 Thread greatgnu
Hmm, I guess gov does not like TBB much as after switching circuits ten times I simply gave up viewing their "ACCESS DENIED".. I will have to use my imagination :/ *still no gaps, brother walker. I am very disappointed. And sad.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Getting an old version of trisquel for archiving purposes

2019-10-28 Thread greatgnu
>Hi, i'm victor and for the last two years i've been doing a operating system iso's collection. I remember a gentlemen requesting links for old trisquek distros, the older the better, on the IRC freenode, and that the was circa 2 yrs ago. You must be the same distronecrofilo. That's a nice

Re: [Trisquel-users] GAPCOIN Math Crypto-Currency for TRISQUEL Users

2019-10-28 Thread greatgnu
I want sum gaps, I am no developer, but am verrry sexy. Gimme dem gaps brother walker \o/ *How much is gap btw?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Qubes OS VS Libreboot

2019-04-10 Thread greatgnu
>Have you tried firejail? I second firejail. It's as easy to set as it is powerful. o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel custom wallpaper

2019-04-10 Thread greatgnu
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/VanackSabbadium/TrisquelStuff/master/Trisquel%20Nebula.jpg

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why does installing Trisquel 7 updates cancel my sound system?

2019-04-06 Thread greatgnu
or install another plugin.. There are others besides teh pulseaudio plugin..

Re: [Trisquel-users] Best way to watch Youtube videos?

2019-03-31 Thread greatgnu
youtube-dl, mpv, mps-youtube is my youtube arsenal.

Re: [Trisquel-users] extract rar file freely?

2019-03-25 Thread greatgnu
>Unless of course you can prove that the developers of these BIOSes inserted rogue code your claim seems devoid of merit. The problem is we do not know anything about the proprietary firmware. It could have been as well programmed to perform malicious tasks. Or, which is give or less the

Re: [Trisquel-users] extract rar file freely?

2019-03-17 Thread greatgnu
A decent GUI unarchiver is peazip -> http://www.peazip.org/ cheers o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hello all

2019-03-11 Thread greatgnu
I've this package on Debian: https://packages.debian.org/stretch-backports/spectre-meltdown-checker

Re: [Trisquel-users] Has apt security issue been resolved in the latest iso image?

2019-03-09 Thread greatgnu
Since the vulnerability is present in the package manager itself, it is recommended to disable redirects in order to prevent exploitation during this upgrade only, using: apt -o Acquire::http::AllowRedirect=false update apt -o Acquire::http::AllowRedirect=false upgrade

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel continuously crashing, the state of the FOSS community

2019-03-01 Thread greatgnu
>In my opinion, the biggest obstacles to adoption of free operating systems are social ones. I would have agreed with you say a year ago but my late experience made me change my mind: the reason is they already know Windows and they do not want to spend time and energy on learning something

Re: [Trisquel-users] Freedom issues regarding Abrowser.

2019-03-01 Thread greatgnu
> Since Abrowser is configured to execute all JavaScript by default, Ebay, Amazon, and even DuckDuckGo execute proprietary JavaScript when used in Abrowser. By suggesting these search engines, Abrowser guides the user toward proprietary JavaScript. I think that if Abrowser is not going to block

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libre.fm and Rhythmbox

2019-02-18 Thread greatgnu
>I have the same issues. and didnt found any solution or good client for libre.fm... I don't use any and I also do not have an account on libre.fm but a quick search turned out: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/zomg https://packages.debian.org/buster/mpdas It would appear, and I just

Re: [Trisquel-users] What's wrong with Unity?

2019-02-11 Thread greatgnu
>What's wrong with Unity? Well son.. if you need to ask, I'm afraid you won't like teh answer..

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

2019-02-11 Thread greatgnu
>Do you have a phone? Yes, and old old and very dumb nokia (I am aware about the triangulation of my nice ass since the 1997..) >Do you use web services like Gmail, youtube, google etc? I'd rather eat at the McDonald while sipping a Coca Cola (that's my idea of disgusting..) >Do you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8: exporting and importing Pidgin configuration files

2019-01-13 Thread greatgnu
Try also copying the pidgin folders in (I have no idea of the actual name of the path..but you will find it..) -> ~/.config/pidgin , ~/.config/purple , ~/local/share/pidgin , ~/local/share/purple cheers o/

Re: [Trisquel-users] What do you do to keep your browser from consuming too much memory

2019-01-13 Thread greatgnu
>What do you do to keep your browser from consuming too much memory I do not allow javashit in my browser. That's exactly the reason why it is always smooth, low mem usage and relatively secure. o/

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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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

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] 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] Close open ports

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

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] Which chromium build you recommend?

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

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] 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] 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] solved a problem with lxde

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

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] 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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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] 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

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] Trisquel 9 Development and Contribution

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

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 8 - How Do I Change The Trisquel Logo On The UI Panel?

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

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] 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] 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] 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] 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

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] 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] Abrowser: MIME type not found

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

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] UNetbootin Installation

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

Re: [Trisquel-users] UNetbootin Installation

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

Re: [Trisquel-users] Why MATE?

2018-08-04 Thread greatgnu
o/

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?

2018-08-02 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] 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] 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?

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

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

2018-07-25 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] Why Trisquel website isn't translated into Russian?

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

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?

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

Re: [Trisquel-users] Cannot install GNOME Software

2018-07-14 Thread greatgnu
Joseph Ducreux is yawning

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] 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] 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 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

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

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] 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

2018-07-06 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

2018-07-05 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.

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] 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] 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 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

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

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] 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] 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

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

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] 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] 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.

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