I either respectfully disagree with Supertramp83 or agree with him
conditionally.
I love Trisquel 6 as well, and yes, I do still use it. I just make sure to
either unplug my modem before I boot into it or double check to make sure
that there are no wireless USB adaptors or ethernet cables
I have seen the same thing happen in education that CalmStorm describes
happening to video games downthread. This happened during roughly the same
period of time.
I can agree to disagree with you. We're fine. No angry ad hominem slinging
debates from me.
I'm just so tired. I'm also so
I have seen the same thing happen in education that CalmStorm describes
happening to video games downthread. This happened during roughly the same
period of time.
I can agree to disagree with you. We're fine. No angry ad hominem slinging
debates from me.
I'm just so tired. I'm also so
Solidarity, sister or brother, solidarity. :'''(
We do live in interesting times.
Yea, but my point was that even if you didn't know anything about Ali and
were just distro hopping, you'd still love Uruk because it is just plain a
good 100% libre distro.
I was going to print that article out for my daughter but after booting into
the DVD to make sure it worked, I
Everybody is so touchy these days (including my illustrious self), lol.
By apolitical, I meant that Uruk would not be dismissed as a curiosity or be
offensive to any brand new free software user, regardless of their
nationality or political beliefs.
As far as libre politics, it is
My understanding is that systemd is so far upstream and gets its claws into
so much that posts like this are just going to depress and distract Ruben and
really should go in the troll lounge.
But what do I know.
It is also still extremely controversial and people can get stuck with the
It has Guix installed by default, for one thing, and all sorts of handy dandy
tools for newbies who have never used Gnu/Linux before but are intelligent
enough to learn with a bit of hand holding and learn more on their own once
they get a peek at what all they fuss was about and why their
Davide, your USB adapter is going to work just fine on Trisquel too very
soon. You just need to change a few lines in a couple of text files, just as
if you had been tired and typing too fast and said "their going to love
this!" instead of "they're going to love this!"
The info is in the
Are you sure you don't need to correct a typo, Mr. Alpha? This looks more
like a miracle to me.
I finally had a chance to pick up some blank DVDs and am running live off of
one of them, which I do intend to put in the envelope that says, "Nice, fresh
isos just like mama used to burn!" and
I figured it out, Davide!
Mr. Banana and I are in complete agreement that the next thing you need to do
is see what happens when you disable your wifi.
I was just too tired and stressed out to understand what he was saying.
Editing the configuration files which I posted upthread is how I
Pardon me, but so many of my heroes are toppling from their pedestals and you
are one of them, Mr. Banana.
It looks a different card than my older model thinkpads, but in the back of
my mind I keep having this niggling suspicion that I might not have been
completely off base upthread.
If
Davide, I am just going to state that I respectfully agree to disagree with
Mr. Banana, with the caveat that since you do not know the culture of the
board you have no way of knowing that I can't believe I'm actually saying
this
Davide, I have a bit more time today:
Here's the long version:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/root-partition-filled-after-upgrade-6-7
and just the facts:
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/15696
HTH
Or my own solution: Buy a bigger purse and grab a cheap, used eeePC that
runs Trisquel flawlessly, lol.
The dumb phone can stay home if I really want a portable computer and don't
need a telephone at all.
Hi Davide,
You didn't say what kind of hardware you have, but I am 99 44/100% sure that
the problem is a proprietary wireless card. I use Thinkpads and have to deal
with this poo poo all.the.time.
They're great computers once you get it sorted out. Thinkpads have kind of a
weird BIOS so
I started with Damn Small Linux, which was essentially Debian Woody.
It wasn't my first distro, but it was the first distro I loved.
It was simpler and smaller than the mainstream distros of the day. There was
no Ubuntu back then. I think some newbies might do better with narrower
choices,
I don't see why it won't, it just takes time. WTG, Uruk and Alimiracle!
Only thing I'd use it for is some twisted modern equivalent to what I did to
the $200 winshit ecch's pee CD I didn't have to keep in a safe place any more
after I successfully installed Mandrake 10.0 in 2005:
I put it in the microwave for exactly 15 seconds and looked at the pretty
Thank you. I didn't know that.
In light of new information, I'm going to attempt to gift some posteo
accounts.
UsernameV we're talking one lousy euro a month and they've been around for
seven years:
https://posteo.de/en
I like posteo.net. I haven't used it much because I do have an OpenMailbox
and I also have a grandfathered Riseup from my activist days that I use very
sparingly.
Calmstorm, do you know something negative about them that I don't?
They do cost money, but it's negligible. The problem is more
It's rock solid. In retrospect, I wish I'd waited a bit longer to upgrade
from Toutatis, but Belenos is mature and hassle-free for us now, which is
exactly what me and Heather Jr. need for this stage of life.
T3g, I think Parabola would probably be more up your alley for this stage of
your
This is great news! Congratulations to all of us and well done, Tiberiu!
I'm no help. This: http://calcurse.org/ does everything I need it to do.
We also print out paper calendars on LibreOffice which actually get a lot
more use.
There was a GUI calendar I used in the Damn Small Linux days, but I think it
was Mozilla Sunbird, which would just be a '00s version
Also on topic: it is possible for a layman who has spent enough time on the
Trisquel boards to run a "more free" version of Ubuntu by adding Jxself's
linux-libre kernel and disabling the restricted and multiverse repositories.
It's a bit more work than clicking on the defaults in Debian and
Another extreme and retro idea that wouldn't work for me but might work for
others is a pager.
Can you still get those? Does anyone know if they are enough of an
improvement over flip phones to be worth the trouble?
There were designed for a world that still had pay phones, so they might
I believe that you are correct. I just use it for voice calls and sms
messaging and it is a "least of the evils" solution for my own unique
circumstances.
The kiddos would give me the latest iPhone if I asked them, but Replicant is
out of the question.
I'm enjoying listening to you guys
FYI, sysvinit is an option in Devuan even though it may not be the best
option.
I'm not up for debating so I shall leave that to you. You have already shown
yourself to be far more effective in that area, Calmstorm. Much respect. You
be you.
I won't debate here.
I just don't like systemd because I don't like systemd.
I was sorely mistaken when I thought that Devuan would be beyond my technical
ability, so come on in, the water's fine if that's how you roll.
The Devuan community does have interest in developing a fully free OS
Yup, that's it.
My DAC isn't much bigger than the USB wireless dongles I won't need any more
once I find a bit of quality time to spend with Mr. Screwdriver. :)
It was under $5. You probably have better sources for such things than I do,
but they aren't hard to find and Neil Young would be
At this point, I'm just enjoying Belenos. Devuan wasn't as difficult as I
thought when I needed modern Ruby for a quick task and I'm sure my 9 year old
and I would be just fine on it if we absolutely had to have new shiny.
I've virtualized Flidas and am looking forward to trying it on a
Nope.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
It's actually a bug in the English language. Some people use the terms
"libre" and "gratis" to distinguish between the two meanings of the English
word "free".
Stallman uses the phrase "free as in speech, not just free as in beer" which
Thanks, GNUbahn, that was very helpful. The last thing in the world I need
right now is another computer, but I was obviously mistaken about the whole
"S" series and certainly am open to a T400S if one of them comes into my
life. My computers tend to find me instead of the other way around,
Pardon me, but I believe that is normal, a tradeoff for freedom, and nothing
to be concerned about. There is non-free firmware that has been disabled.
I have a small usb dongle for my librebooted X60 tablets that I use when I
want to play music. It is called a digital-to-analog converter and
Replicant doesn't seem to be in the cards for me. I carry the most minimal
flip phone possible and leave it at home often enough that my adult kids
would throw a fit if they ever found out.
They don't like it and are constantly offering to buy me smartphones and
reminding me that I don't
H.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/trisquel-50-lts-alpha-images-ready-testing#comment-11737
I can give it a try with the RC on one of my X60 Tablet convertibles if that
would help. I have a spare hard drive on its way that isn't too precious if I
mess up.
I still need to get those patches to you about the X60T with the weird video
card. I haven't forgotten, I just have the
The thread got trolled. Ugh. Tiberiu, my snit was shortlived but I might have
deleted your reply to my original inquiry about my X200T in a
mass-delete-everything tantrum so why don't I just get back to you when/if I
have the darned funds and we'll figure it out from there. I'll have better
I don't feel comfortable accepting money even though I need money and they
need a computer dude to fix their computers.
I'm getting better about communicating that I need them to pay for any
necessary parts or it is food out of my baby's mouth and then letting them
donate to the FSF
I'm going with Belenos again because it was such a success the last time I
was asked.
New newbie is his girlfriend. I asked her if she had a laptop in the context
of a different thing we were doing together and it turns out she's very
excited because someone is giving her a nice HP but "it
Thanks, CalmStorm!
I thought it was hard and was going to mention someone who used to hang out
here and seems to spend more time on Replicant these days.
Tonlee, what helped me with libreboot was to have someone on IRC sit with me
while I did it. Mostly they just listened while I figured
Is that a T400s? I thought that was a Lemote Yeelong. I don't want to buy a
T400s because the regular T series and the little X series work better for me
but other people might be THRILLED to find out that this is available so it's
kind of mean to make them sort through irrelevant
OH
There are lots of things to learn but we probably aren't your target
audience.
Which would be more helpful to you and make you more inclined to write more
programs like this, a beta tester with an above-average understanding of free
software (for a nine year old) now or $5-$20 in the
Let me know how it goes, GNUbahn. I've always shied away from the T*S
Thinkpads because of the soldered in RAM (and Tiberiu has educated me that at
least the T400S has a soldered in CPU as well) but part of that may just be
where I am right now in self-educating about laptop hardware. I like
Maybe. I do better with text myself, but am in the same boat you are with
useds, many of whom are family members who won't answer my paper letters. I'd
rather do my socializing on IRC and/or inside an envelope but I'd probably be
up for, "I can hear you, can you hear me?"
Thank you! This looks awesome. I'll let you know what my young 'un thinks.
stallman_was_right is right. All you have to do is add the PPA and you should
be good to go.
Leah, this is incredible news. My newly librebooted X60 will do me for now
but I will spread the word.
Supertramp, go get one or we're going to have to take up a collection and
embarrass the living excrement out of you!
They're niiice.
Fast and modern enough, but still a lot
Hi Lynn,
that would be mediagoblin:
https://mediagoblin.org/
https://goblinrefuge.com/mediagoblin/
Definitely good news! I like the T420 a lot, but hardly use it because of the
Intel ME, which I honestly didn't know about when I acquired it.
My newly librebooted X60T is the first, but not the last to shed proprietary
BIOS. I'm still sitting here with a big grin on my face asking myself,
GNUser said: One question, have you tried full-disk-encryption? I am
currently using it in my laptop, and if I decide to change for a LibreBooted
machine I would also want to use it (I can't feel at peace walking around
with my hard drive unencrypted).
Heather says: You can use full
You have encouraged me so much that I may have the machine I'm typing this on
librebooted by the afternoon. ;)
Or not.
When I do either kill or free these 32 bit machines I use instead of
eReaders, will I need to have the full Gnome desktop installed or can I "make
it work" with Flux? If
Thank you.
That may or may not work out better depending on my time and educational
limitations and how things play out with the recent exploit.
I know that I don't have enough money/time/skills to do everything I want in
life (I'm in my fifties) but this has been on my back burner for a
I will take you up on that when it is a convenient time for both of us. Email
and forums are easier for me, sometimes too easy.
I go by no ord inarys pider on IRC, without the spaces.
Besides the T420, I actually have project computers: two X60T plural and an
X200T that I bought with the
A...Leah I admire you so much, especially the way you just threw away a
sale and encouraged me to use my brain instead of my credit card but I'm
having the same problem getting this lousy twenty dollars to you. It isn't
worth but so much trouble but I'm sad.
Oh well, mentally insert
The ME is my concern, so I'm going to wait but I should probably check out
the Libreboot site before just giving up and throwing money my kid needs for
food, heat, school etc. at this.
My problem is getting too attached to the eBay specials I buy for the purpose
of being sacrificial
:) Thanks, Leah.
I like my T420 and will probably just waste way too much money on shipping to
have you fix her on up for me when we're both ready then.
If you feel like linking me to a donation page, I'll toss something in when I
see it but it won't be much and I can find the link myself
Leah, that is fantastic! You've got it down to almost my own price range if I
was ready to save up for and actually needed a new lappy.
I will spread the word. That's seriously doable for many folks I socialize
with.
I will probably wind up with a freed X220 some one of these years but I
Thanks, Adfeno, that's all it was unless you believe in a higher power. :)
Anyway, it was a fortuitous mistake. I was oversharing and it worked itself
out perfectly. Check your inbox, GNUbahn and other parents of children and
children of parents.
Yes, that was very helpful and the language problem is my own, not yours, and
something that I need to work on and you can help by pointing out to me so
that I can see it.
I was not a normal child either. I learned how to read at 3 and the grownups
did everything they could to prevent me
Point taken and it's a good one.
They aren't here and Heather Jr. is.
Not the forums, of course, because he isn't thirteen yet and he would still
be thrilled if I gave him back his Nintendo 3DS even after reading the same
things I read and discussing everything calmly and rationally.
It's
Heather Jr. is my 9 year old son's pseudonym. Poor kids! Now I don't have to
say "ds9, ds25, and dd28" any more anyway. ;)
Our family is about half and half Devuan (Debian with my personal preference
for init)for new and shiny and Trisquel Belenos for stability, which is why I
envisioned a dual boot for you, UsernameV.
I just flat out need to virtualize because of my innate tendency towards
distro promiscuity;
That would also give UsernameV a quick and easy way to contribute to the
community in addition to (not instead of) video editing, since s/he could
help with the bug reports and finetuning and get Flidas ready that much
sooner for those of us who need LTS releases.
It sounds like a win-win
Onpon, IIRC, Mint isn't very secure either, is it? I don't remember the
details because they weren't important to me at the time. I've never liked
Mint so I wouldn't suggest it to anyone or agree to provide free or low cost
tech support for it.
UserV, I'm drooling over that Mint partition
Jason, I was wondering if he could install just the software he needs from a
PPA; do you know? That would be the easiest possible solution but I'm no
expert.
UsernameV, I apologize in advance if I am talking down to you or over your
head because I am also an "Average Joe" who aspires to be
If you get a chance, I'd love to hear a kid's and a digital native's
perspective on how early you think it might work as a casual read aloud
instead of family movie night kind of thing.
Heather Jr. isn't some supergenius who can do high school level work, just a
normal nine year old. I've
That is against the rulez of the mommywebz and you shall pay. ;)
https://veillifted.wordpress.com/tag/trolls-with-wooden-spoons/
You know I don't have enough imagination to make this poo-poo up!
Another thing I did WRONG was letting my ex pay for the kids' phones and
phone bills.
By being the "cool mom" who gave her daughter piercings and tattoos for
birthday presents, I maintained enough power to make sure they were done in
sanitary conditions by trained professionals---and of
I typed my kids' names into a search engine every week or so during the
MySpace era, talked loudly and obnoxiously about what I found, and made sure
that my horrified then-teenagers knew that anyone else who knew even that
much about them could find the same information.
It worked better
I think it's just temporary downtime; I got "Teaching in a Digital Age" by
Tony Bates just fine last night. It looks good, but I haven't started reading
it yet.
TFS, Alij.
Here's another link for your teens, GnuBahn:
http://www.boredpanda.com/face-recognition-photography-your-face-is-big-data-egor-tsvetkov/
or if they are not receptive, I hope it will give you the courage to continue
protecting your four year old as long as you can.
Minetest and hedge wars
I'm dealing with this too and am all ears.
My olders are 29, 28, and 25 and cannot be trusted with pictures of my 9 year
old. I send them artistically arranged snapshots of his handwriting, artwork,
academic accomplishments etc. and descriptive paragraphs that would make Pa
Ingalls proud
Where I got stuck while learning dd is that the USB stick needs to be
UNMOUNTED.
Thank you so much for taking the time to post, David. I've wasted so much
time doing exactly what you described. There's a shell script that can
automate migrating from vanilla Ubuntu to Trisquel that might well be more
his speed after a bit of education.
Other opinions? Not worth a
This is a spinoff from my "thinking aloud" troll lounge post because I need
more opinions.
Do those of you who are currently using Flidas think that it is mature enough
for a technically disinterested family member of mine or would you recommend
Belenos or Lubuntu 16.04 without non-free,
Yes, that is all you need to do with alpha images. As long as you continue to
get updates every week or so, you will automatically upgrade to the Beta and
LTS releases.
It looks right up my alley too.
It won't work to spring my friend from google docs, which was why I clicked,
but it might well spring me from lots and lots of weekly sneakernetting,
checking and unchecking boxes on Lucky Backup, and fixing inevitable mistakes
when my mind wanders because
I read my electronic books on laptop/tablet convertibles. If you can handle a
slower processor, my X60T has a cute little page turn button like a
bottom-of-the-line swindle that is more elegant than leaving my X200T partly
open so I can reach the space bar to turn pages.
My other X60T
>Trisquel 7 Mini uses systemd
Pardon me, but I believe it is actually Upstart.
I didn't get it either. I get more of a pop-up on eBay than a banner. I hate
how addicted to it I am, but I need some fairly specialized used books
(homeschooling my 9 yo and I'm as far from mainstream in that community as I
am on LQ if not more) so I'm kind of stuck and would love to do
That's about what I do, also garage sales and thrift stores, especially for
children's books, and Library Genesis and bookzz dot org. for electronic
books.
TPB sometimes has books too.
Don't forget that authors need to eat too. They don't get any royalties from
library books or used books
Bicycling has helped me mentally during times of extreme stress, so I second
that.
Also, as hard as it is right now, sleep is of prime importance. Whatever
helps you get enough of it needs to be guarded.
I replaced my printer of 15 years with a TP just because it wasn't worth it
any more
Congratulations from me too.
Strypey said it better than I ever could. Much respect, Leah.
You need to select "burn image" from Brasero and if you use a different DVD
burning program it might be slightly different, such as "burn .iso" to make
it bootable.
It won't boot if you just burn it as data.
Thank you for the thread, albertoefg! I've gone into more detail about my
personal tmi bla bla bla everybody's got problems and why I need help
learning about gaming on IRC than I care to on the forums.
Right now hedgewars and Minetest are very big in my household. My youngest is
part of
>I read in another forum topic that typing in Ispci -v into the terminal will
give you the results of your wifi card but that command isn't working for me.
Just to clarify, the lspci command starts with L as in lovely, not I as in
iceberg.
Some fonts are annoying that way.
I'm glad things
Chronic Thinkpad user here; I use these for now:
https://h-node.org/wifi/view/en/637/D-Link-System-DWA-140-RangeBooster-N-Adapter--rev-B1---Ralink-RT2870-/1/1/undef/undef/undef/undef/wifi-works/D-Link
(PCMCI card; not sure if the X200 has a port for that because they're old
fashioned and so
Can you even do dd in Windows?
In retrospect, my reluctance to use that command was an irrational fear and
life is going to be so much easier now that I've confronted and conquered it.
"if for input, of for output" isn't harder to remember than "lefty loosey,
righty tighty" but you don't
I'll give it a try, anyway. I haven't used Windows since XP was the newest
hottest thing, but let's start with the basics:
It looks from your post as if you are trying to install Trisquel from a
folder on your windows installation, is this correct?
It isn't impossible to do it that way, if
I was checking out eBay today and found an inexpensive librebooted X200, but
the fine print in the description set off some red flags. Flashing the BIOS
is beyond my expertise but not so far beyond my intellectual capacity to be
complete gobblydegook when I read the instructions.
Even
I thought I was a die hard flux/JWM user not too long ago: it's fast, clean,
and no distracting graphics that don't work well with my vision issues.
Of course it didn't work well for sharing a computer with a young child who
was still learning to read, so we had to switch DEs when we
I was able to open an account at safe-mail without a phone number, but I
cannot get IMAP to work, either on evolution or sylpheed.
VFE requires javascript to sign up. Even after I enabled it, I got a message
saying "disable your ad blocker and reload the page".
Um...no thanks.
I'm not
FYI, IRC is Internet Relay Chat.
tomlukeywood is helping someone over the internet and not in any danger. I
am watching my 9 year old engage in safe internet behaviour on a gaming IRC
channel channel as I type this and feeling rather overprotective for doing so
instead of making dinner
I have been using some form of GNU/Linux since 2004/2005ish and this is new.
I don't like it. I was in the habit of casually mentioning what OS I use, my
philosophical reasons for doing so, and offering brief tech advice to those
in need on various hobby and special interest forums.
People
I don't buy my 9 year old devices, but other family members do. It's hard to
find a balance and I am a very, very imperfect parent and an imperfect person
as well.
He needs more interaction with free software users who are closer to his age
if you're into gaming and are up for a bit of
No, vrms only shows software that you installed from a non-free Debian
repository.
CalmStorm is much calmer than the mad mommy stuff I typed out and thought
better of actually posting. ;)
You should absolutely educate yourself about the Google corporation:
https://stallman.org/google.html
There was a post on this English language forum not too long ago about
finding
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