Re: [Trisquel-users] Re : Community guidelines question

2018-02-25 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> (By the way: anyone knows what to write to get 1) the banana staying > below the menu and 2) the presentation text always vertically centered > with the banana... even on cell phone where the width of the screen is > tiny?) I hope you forgive me for being late, but I managed to make some

[Trisquel-users] Re : Free email providers

2018-02-25 Thread lcerf
I am pretty sure strypey refers to the current #1 poster on this forum: https://trisquel.info/forum/what-i-think-about-george-anchev-heyjoe-and-his-site

[Trisquel-users] Re : Pretty new..

2018-02-25 Thread lcerf
This thread is not about "What do you Magic Banana think about person X and his site". Indeed. I have just posted a thread called like that: https://trisquel.info/fr/forum/what-i-think-about-george-anchev-heyjoe-and-his-site Thank you for the suggestion.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Libdvd-pkg Trisquel 8

2018-02-25 Thread lcerf
In Trisquel 7, one just has to execute the following command in a terminal: $ sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh If that Shell script still exist in Trisquel 8, it probably still work.

[Trisquel-users] Re : OT Good Books?, init process

2018-02-25 Thread lcerf
What exactly happens after the kernel launches the init daemon depends on... what that init daemon is. They all aim at launching the system services but do so differently. Nowadays, systemd is, by far, the most popular. https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/ lists quite a lot

[Trisquel-users] Re : Community guidelines question

2018-02-25 Thread lcerf
Thank you very much! I was not expecting anything! I will apply that patch tomorrow and see if I can understand your magic.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software foundations problems

2018-02-25 Thread ar018
> Please look up the left side picture. Can you see a smiling person's side face? This was made by a laundry. Oh! You said "side face", but I have just looked at your profile picture carefully and it is actually a human face from *two angles*. One is a profile ("side face") from left (head

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software foundations problems

2018-02-25 Thread ar018
> I don't understand what you mean the "two angles". > Would you draw that and upload the screenshot instead of language explanation? My drawing is worse than my language. So it is better to explain with words. :) With two angles, I mean one picture from across your face (portrait, 0

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pretty new..

2018-02-25 Thread calmstorm
I never said you need to be judged, but yeah, can't GA still spy on you even if javascript is disabled? Can either you or someone else answer me this? I am curious...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libdvd-pkg Trisquel 8

2018-02-25 Thread calmstorm
"Just watch us :) Disney etc. won't stop until a corporation can copyright a work permanently." This is just plain sad, that is why Captialism has become such an object of horror for me. as for disney, screw them and every other corporation that wants copyright to get more powerful.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any plans to dump systemd ?

2018-02-25 Thread calmstorm
Not everyone "Rejects systemd" as you say, some just don't want it while others are just frustrated that they have trouble escaping it. Yes there are people who are harsh on it, but the reverse is also true. Systemd people sometimes cannot stand people critcizing it. whether they support

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software foundations problems

2018-02-25 Thread msuzuqi
The story of the police's picture was understandable. But I don't still understand well. I can't still see the figure of the profile. But OK. If you got a feeling that you draw that, please let me know. Shall we continue this in the troll lounge. >,the more my perception changes. Sure.

[Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-02-25 Thread Caleb Herbert
How does one live free in a nonfree world? Most people hate free software-only, and it is very difficult to make friends once they find out you don't do things because of some philosophical reason. I don't have any friends to see face to face. I constantly feel like an outcast because everyone

[Trisquel-users] Re : Most people hate free software

2018-02-25 Thread lcerf
Any association you could join? Maybe a free software user group?

Re: [Trisquel-users] More Testing Please

2018-02-25 Thread davidpgil
As a newbie to being part of the bleeding edge of a major distro update, I hadn't imagined it could mess up my system. I ended up reinstalling again and restoring my backups. next time i test I will make a disk image first. I will come back soon with more data!

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software foundations problems

2018-02-25 Thread msuzuqi
"profile" :) useful. I don't understand what you mean the "two angles". Indeed, this picture has 7-8 figures. But I feel that your indication means some other thing. This is unintentional...Would you draw that and upload the screenshot instead of language explanation? It was very difficult

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any plans to dump systemd ?

2018-02-25 Thread calmstorm
This I agree with 100% Hyperbola is although a bit strange, the best way forward if you want to recieve updates regularly without systemd being in the way. ps, they do have systemd dummy packages but no, they are not real. its only so you can use gnome 3 and other stuff. ;)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any plans to dump systemd ?

2018-02-25 Thread calmstorm
"I see systemd as solving a problem I don't have." Yes, that is also my thought. I don't really understand why debian switched to it, given that it isn't as good for older hardware. meh... what can you do I suppose...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software foundations problems

2018-02-25 Thread msuzuqi
I did't notice. This is me. I can understand who is the figure mostly. I was surprised and shaked a bit. I did not know just other principal figure. This photo was taken several years ago.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software foundations problems

2018-02-25 Thread ar018
> Shall we continue this in the troll lounge. Just one more explanation. If it is still not clear, we continue on the troll lounge. The picture changes according to your imagination. It is two pictures in one picture indeed. If you look into the picture one way, there is man facing you

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pretty new..

2018-02-25 Thread Mason Hock
> can't GA still spy on you even > if javascript is disabled? I don't think so. GA consists of JS code that the site owner adds to each web page on which they want to track you. When exectuted it can get information about you and load additional JS, but without JS enabled in your browser the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-02-25 Thread shiretoko
Software Freedom is an important thing, but to some extent, you have to think about yourself and your happiness. For me, making a decent living and not being isolated from society are more important than 100% software freedom. That's why i don't refuse to use whatsapp on my cellphone, though I

[Trisquel-users] Re : Pretty new..

2018-02-25 Thread lcerf
I gotta say, if true, it doesn't make your case look good. It is true. See by yourself: https://anchev.net/home.js

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any plans to dump systemd ?

2018-02-25 Thread onpon4
> I don't really understand why debian switched to it, given that it isn't as good for older hardware. What init system you use has nothing to do with hardware support. That is the kernel (Linux) and the kernel alone. As for not understanding why Debian switched to it, perhaps that should

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-02-25 Thread onpon4
Are you trying to make friends over the Internet? That never works. I make friends in two ways: * Talking with my coworkers. * Going to activity groups, where people do something that I am interested in. Like a board game playing group I go to every month. If you're saying that you're such

Re: [Trisquel-users] Google Play and childrens' privacy

2018-02-25 Thread onpon4
That's what I tried with my younger brothers. It didn't work. As soon as my mom got them laptops (which ran Windows), they abandoned all of it. See, the problem is that my oldest brother was pushing the proprietary games he liked, and they liked those games too, much more than they liked any

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-02-25 Thread Caleb Herbert
> * Talking with my coworkers. When I'm having a bad time because there's no food around, or I'm struggling to avoid using the computers, nobody understands me. > * Going to activity groups, where people do something that I am interested > in. Like a board game playing group I go to every

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-02-25 Thread onpon4
> When I'm having a bad time because there's no food around, or I'm > struggling to avoid using the computers, nobody understands me. Sorry, I don't understand what you mean. > I want to do this, but it's hard to do because we live far away and > don't have much gas money to spare. I don't

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-02-25 Thread jordanhardee
"Nobody understands me" That's me 100%. I can relate to this in a lot of ways. You know what really grinds my gears? Having to use a Librebooted computer from 10 years ago to be free. It isn't something for the masses, but we have to build a future in which the "newest thing" is something

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pretty new..

2018-02-25 Thread studio
> GA consists of JS code that the site owner adds to each web page on which they want to track you. I explained in another post that it is possible to be tracked by GA even if the site has no JS at all - through GA's API which can be implemented server side (i.e. inside a PHP or Python

[Trisquel-users] OT Good Books?, init process

2018-02-25 Thread Patrick
Hi Everyone This is kind of a continuation of "Any Plans to Dump systemd" I am really enjoying books on the Linux Kernel, device drivers and one on Linux system calls and libc. Once things are up and running I get the process layout and I have a great book on assembly. However I am still

Re: [Trisquel-users] OT Good Books?, init process

2018-02-25 Thread studio
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Re: [Trisquel-users] OT Good Books?, init process

2018-02-25 Thread calmstorm
That's a good question. I would like to know if such a thing exists too. But probably not because they want to keep some of those methods secret in case the systemd developers make said methods hidden. Just a thought...

Re: [Trisquel-users] Pretty new..

2018-02-25 Thread studio
In a previous post I have given quite clear answer to this. There is no "case" and nothing needs the justification or condemnation of a self-appointed judge. GA will be removed, later, when I have time - this has been considered long before some forum troll decided to spit on something for

Re: [Trisquel-users] More Testing Please

2018-02-25 Thread enduzzer
T8 comes with mate-control-center.

Re: [Trisquel-users] More Testing Please

2018-02-25 Thread tomlukeywood
I have submitted an issue: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/23851

Re: [Trisquel-users] Google Play and childrens' privacy

2018-02-25 Thread fbits
>I have never tried Trisquel Sugar TOAST >https://trisquel.info/en/download >but my understanding is that its desktop environment is intended to be healthy for children >to interface with. I installed Sugar on Debian for a 5 year old once and it was a terrible experience. Terrible for me

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any plans to dump systemd ?

2018-02-25 Thread fbits
>I want to stay as pure unix as possible, or as possible as >this can be with Linux which is not pure unix either. GNU/Linux AMOF, GNU's Not Unix.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Libdvd-pkg Trisquel 8

2018-02-25 Thread enduzzer
Package libdvd-pkg does not contain any libraries. It's an installer that uses wget to download the source code, then compiles the source code. It uses Videolan's repositories. It makes the process somewhat easier as there is no need to add any third party repositories.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free software foundations problems

2018-02-25 Thread msuzuqi
OK, the downvoter. As just for make sure, I have several ESP as I wrote on other. Please look up the left side picture. Can you see a smiling person's side face? This was made by a laundry. I can see peeple's complex emotion from my works. It expresses delicate nuance of your emotinal

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free email providers

2018-02-25 Thread strypey
"Personally, I wish this forum would help people find resources that are relatively better than what one is using currently; rather than immediately jumping down some absolutist rabbit hole." Having participated in this forum for a few years now, I've noticed that the truly knowledgeable

Re: [Trisquel-users] Feature Request: WebTorrent

2018-02-25 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> Strange that BitChute are using a CDN, isn't the whole point of using > WebTorrent that your site can scale up indefinitely without needing a > CDN? Also, worth pointing out that BitChute haven't published any Strange indeed, down with CDNs! ;) > CDN? Also, worth pointing out that BitChute

Re: [Trisquel-users] Free email providers

2018-02-25 Thread msuzuqi
Hello, Mr.strypey, I am a begginer of Linux. May I ask you question? >But there are always a few PRISM-breakers who only seem to be here to show off, with posts that demonstrate only their ability to fall into the black/white fallacy. Whom do you reffer? Would you mind telling me concrete

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any plans to dump systemd ?

2018-02-25 Thread strypey
Patrick, I've read some commentary from both sides of the Systemd wars and its all seems like a storm in a teacup to me. The anti-Systemd rants often remind me of the the anti-GNU/ anti-FSF fanatics I find on sites like this: https://discuss.haiku-os.org/t/making-haiku-free-software/3084

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any plans to dump systemd ?

2018-02-25 Thread Patrick
Hi Stypey WHy did I bring up lilo? That was dumb! Heee hee, I am 42 -Patrick

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any plans to dump systemd ?

2018-02-25 Thread strypey
Linked from the second of those links (and probably also the first), rebuttals to most of the major anti-systemd talking points, written by members of the systemd team: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html I strongly recommend reading this in full, after reading a few

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any plans to dump systemd ?

2018-02-25 Thread Patrick
Hi, thanks for responding to my post. The other Trisquel member sent some good links. Just to add to the content of these, I see systemd as solving a problem I don't have. I am just a regular guy, I am open minded with most things and I don't think anyone would consider my social or

Re: [Trisquel-users] Feature Request: WebTorrent

2018-02-25 Thread strypey
Strange that BitChute are using a CDN, isn't the whole point of using WebTorrent that your site can scale up indefinitely without needing a CDN? Also, worth pointing out that BitChute haven't published any source code, although they claimed on the birdsite they plan to "open source our data

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any plans to dump systemd ?

2018-02-25 Thread studio
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#Criticism http://www.zdnet.com/article/linus-torvalds-and-others-on-linuxs-systemd/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any plans to dump systemd ?

2018-02-25 Thread strypey
There is a saying that any new technology that comes out before you turn 30 is the greatest thing ever, and any that comes out after you turn 30 is a pointless disruption and probably the end of civilization. Most of your post gives me the impression you are over 30 (as am I) ;-P >> Just to add

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any plans to dump systemd ?

2018-02-25 Thread strypey
Going by your forum picture, you don't look a day over 30 ;P