#linux-and-android

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fallow belfry
frank steeple
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We had a box of those cables at work

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Horrible things

strong plover
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Yeahhh, cause dvi has a wide pin

fallow belfry
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Yeah, luckily only one of the pins on mine was broken when I got it so I was able to install OS over one working DVI link

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(the fact you can buy two of these things for $20 even during the shortage speaks volumes)

strong plover
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Then I clicked on eBay listing xD

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But, with those cards hardware acceleration is kinda a joke

fallow belfry
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Yeah I have my plex set to 100% cpu processing, no gpu acceleration, or else it lags so hard I have to measure it in frames per minute

strong plover
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Fpm.

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Falcie invents new measurement

dusk kernel
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dafuq is that? LOL

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Looks like DVI mated with a.... I don't even know. LOL

fallow belfry
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It splits into this

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2 DVI ports

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So you can theoretically support 4 monitors from one port

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That's also why the pin density is so high, it has to be able to support 4 monitors lol

strong plover
fallow belfry
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I lost track around 6TB, somewhere between that and 8TB is my guess

strong plover
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Oh man

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Nice

fallow belfry
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Movies and music mostly, and yes I own originals

strong plover
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Do you do, uh, things like “arr!” To get your stuff? Or all legit

fallow belfry
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No 100% legit, no jolly rogers flying in my house

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I rip my own blu rays, dvds, etc

strong plover
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Good!

fallow belfry
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I even own original cartridges for all the games I emulate like pokemon and stuff. The batteries in those are long dead, no more saves possible.

strong plover
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As a “clean” person, (which I aspire to be) have you heard of a site called bandcamp? I am trying to find a place for good quality flacs

fallow belfry
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I'm not the one to ask about FLAC audio

dusk kernel
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wow... no comment. LMAO

strong plover
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Any kind?

dusk kernel
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I'm trying to come up with "the Linux connection" to what @undone lichen posted... and failing. LOL

fallow belfry
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Ever? Yes.
Those sites are long since dead though

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It's been at least... 12 years?

strong plover
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So he ate, uh, Cat.

dusk kernel
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Well.... maybe? But... I'm a dirty ol' man so my brain went a direction that is DEFINITELY not "tech-related." LOL

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But yeah... I've never seen that "Double DVI" connector before.

strong plover
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Yeah same. But I’m probably younger than you ancient dirty old man

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How old are you anyways

dusk kernel
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You are ABSOLUTELY younger than me. LMAO

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I'm older than Linux.

strong plover
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I assumed that. Nobody near my age uses as good grammar as you

dusk kernel
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LOL

strong plover
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Idk how old Linux is

fallow belfry
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Just linux or Unix? kekw

dusk kernel
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Actually... I'm not 100% sure either.... googling now.....

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DAMMIT! I'm older than Unix. 😢

fallow belfry
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Unix celebrated its 50th anniversary 6 months ago lol

brave isle
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Finally got to the base package

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i'm praying that i partitioned my disk correctly

dusk kernel
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Your prayers won't help you now. [muah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-haaaaaaa]

fallow belfry
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Not as old as Unix at least

kind panther
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how old are u btw

dusk kernel
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ya'll trying to age shame me now, eh? 😝

kind panther
fallow belfry
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Let's just say Linus Torvalds was working on Linux at the time I was born

brave isle
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also im confused

dusk kernel
brave isle
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the instructions dont say anything about the amount of partitions you need

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the guy in the video said 3

fallow belfry
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Technically you can have as few as 1

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Or as many as you want

brave isle
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hmm

dusk kernel
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Partitioning is kinda like one of the dark arts.

brave isle
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what's the ideal amount and why would I want more?

fallow belfry
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Most people will go with 3, boot/efi, swap, and OS

brave isle
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Oh I see

fallow belfry
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More can be good for people that like to tinker and occasionally break things like me.
I can keep my user data in a separate partition from the system when I need to reinstall.

dusk kernel
brave isle
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ahhh

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so partitions are a form of redundancy within the HDD or storage device

fallow belfry
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More like slices of the pie

brave isle
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Yeah

fallow belfry
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They're physically in the same place but cut into pieces

strong plover
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I keep all data on one partition. I may change when I reinstall for 22.04

dusk kernel
fallow belfry
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fair

brave isle
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yeah I understand that much haha

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what I meant was if you somehow break a partition? You'd have another one just in case?

fallow belfry
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Well, breaking one partition could still make the system unusable depending on which one

brave isle
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Yeah

strong plover
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They don’t have the same data on them usually

brave isle
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Well you'd want to keep your boot partition safe right?

fallow belfry
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That's why it's typically separated

brave isle
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Yeah

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Danm I wonder why they didn't mention that in the installation guide

fallow belfry
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And Windows requires it to be separate, to help combat rootkit viruses

brave isle
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Oh

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Learn smth new everyday

dusk kernel
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The generic installation guide is meant for generic installations. Partitioning is very dependent on your specific situation and needs.

fallow belfry
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Yep. You don't need to know how it all works to get it running. It's good to know but there's plenty of info for the curious like you.

brave isle
brave isle
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I'm just kinda hesitant to ask since the arch community is known for not spoon feeding you stuff

dusk kernel
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And that's decent advice because you can always re-partition later as your needs (and drives) change.

brave isle
strong plover
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I like communities that spoon feed knowledge. Even if I think I already know, just having someone confirm that I’m right or wrong is so helpful

dusk kernel
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I'm not an expert in this area... or any other for that matter... but.... the most accurate answer for "how should I partition my drives?" is.... "It depends." :-D

fallow belfry
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Arch really does like to just toss you into piranha infested waters and see if you float

strong plover
fallow belfry
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That's why the running joke answer for "which distro should I start with?" is "Arch kekw"

brave isle
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Oh it's a joke?

strong plover
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I uSe ArCh BtW

brave isle
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I thought some people were legit with that answer since it forces you to learn

dusk kernel
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Wait.... is the answer "Arch.".... or... "Arch, BTW"?

strong plover
fallow belfry
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Don't get me wrong, it's a great OS for learning the ins and outs of Linux

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But it's very much tossing you into the deep end

brave isle
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I mean that's how I feel most of the time anyways 🙃

fallow belfry
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You've gotten this far though, many give up before this point

brave isle
dusk kernel
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I've been using Linux since the late 90's... and still feel like a newb on a regualr basis. LOL

brave isle
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reading the instructions for this installation is like reading a different language

kind panther
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gentoo best linux

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(:

brave isle
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I have to consult a wiki for every word I come across

strong plover
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But not anymore

dusk kernel
strong plover
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I’m basically a wiki now

fallow belfry
brave isle
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I was thinking about installing Arch onto my new PC after I build it

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Is that a bad idea?

dusk kernel
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"It depends."

strong plover
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If you’re new, please don’t start with arch

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I mean, you can, but it might scare you off

fallow belfry
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Maybe start with a VM, or dual boot

strong plover
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Dual boot for sure.

dusk kernel
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Noooo.... VM would be better than dual boot.

fallow belfry
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No VM is just safer than dual boot lol

brave isle
dusk kernel
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I've been dual booting for a long time, 'cause I'm a masochist. LOL If the objective is to learn, then a VM is much better because you can delete the VM and start over and still have a functional system. If you screw up a dual boot system... you're dual screwed.

brave isle
dusk kernel
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I humbly suggest that you get a functioning system first. Then if you want to learn more details about how Linux works, there are a variety of ways you can do that without risking your functioning system.

fallow belfry
dusk kernel
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LMAO.... yeah... that would be Baaaaaaad!

strong plover
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I have had multiple dual boot systems… for awhile…. And I do “dangerous “ things to the OSs. And I’ve only had to reinstall windows once when I resized my efi partition and broke it

fallow belfry
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Once you have a functional system it's really easy to set up a system snapshot, and regular backups to the snapshot, so if something goes wrong you can revert easily.

dusk kernel
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Right.... or you can use a "disposable" VM to do anything you want.

fallow belfry
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Because GUIs are for chumps

strong plover
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But guis are easy ://///

dusk kernel
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LOL... I wasn't gonna say that... but I thought it.

fallow belfry
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And most of the time can't do all the features I need

strong plover
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And they just work for the most part

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But for getting a dual boot up and running perfectly, they do everything you need

dusk kernel
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GUI vs. CLI ??? is yet another "it depends" issue.

fallow belfry
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TUI is king over both

strong plover
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Don’t get my wrong, I love the command line. But for installing, give me gui

brave isle
kind panther
fallow belfry
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The TUI runs within a CLI at least but they are not the same

brave isle
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oh yeah

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also a minimalist OS is smth I'm after since windows likes to install alot of bloatware for some reason

kind panther
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cli>gui>tui

dusk kernel
fallow belfry
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A well written TUI will have access to the full CLI tools while having an easy enough to use interface, best of both worlds

fallow belfry
dusk kernel
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LMAO.... you shuddup! LOL

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"a crab with weapons".... isn't that kinda redundant?

strong plover
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You shuddup! A nerd with an adult beverage

dusk kernel
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yeah... what could go wrong?

strong plover
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Kidding….

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But I did see a lot of drunk people today. Very sad, but also hilarious

dusk kernel
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What's the point of being drunk if you're not also going to be hilarious? 😆

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So.... TUI is related to stuff like ncurses, which I've heard of.

strong plover
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Actual grown men and women, crying like 4 year olds with hurt feelings

dusk kernel
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LMAO... wow.... LOL

strong plover
dusk kernel
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so yeah... I'm nowhere near THAT drunk. LOL

strong plover
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It was pretty funny. And then they started talking about things that are banned here by the chat filter

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(I was the caterer)

dusk kernel
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actually... my buzz is mostly gone thanks to the activity here. 😝 So now I need a refill.

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Seems like "top" would be a TUI??

strong plover
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Yeah, or viewing logs, or something like nano or vim or my terminal Tetris game

dusk kernel
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Oh, and that article mentioned "terminal based web browsers"... which would be "lynx."

strong plover
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For no reason but pain.

strong plover
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Alright drunk old Linux user. I’ll be back later. Gnight

dusk kernel
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LOL

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Have fun with lynx!!

strong plover
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Heheh

civic bloom
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those of u who've tried multiple android emulators on PC,
which one do u prefer ? (esp for gaming performance)

frank steeple
kind panther
frank steeple
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What's that

kind panther
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android rom development

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only gui i use is file explorer

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even then only to test changes before commiting to git

frank steeple
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There's probably a vscode extension for it

strong plover
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I understand why command line is very very good. And I use it a lot. But if a gui can do it faster, USE THE GUI

kind panther
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i see no reason to switch

mortal totem
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I think generally cli would be faster, if you know how to use it enough

brave isle
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this might sound like a dumb question but how different does linux feel to windows in terms of the options of programs that are available?

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I'm still kinda pondering as the absence of MSI afterburner, Rivatuna, the ability to choose your own desktop backgrounds, Nvidia support seem very drastic in change

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Oh yeah and programs like Adobe and MS office also aren't available

fallow belfry
# brave isle this might sound like a dumb question but how different does linux feel to windo...

There's usually alternatives to windows programs.
GreenWithEnvy instead of Afterburner for example. Office is handled by libreoffice; it can open docx.
There's a few specific programs that you have to make a few compromises on, such as Photoshop. There's plenty of alternatives available, of course, but you really have to search for one you like.
Changing backgrounds is handled by your desktop environment. It's usually under a settings app. Been a while since I used pure Arch.

brave isle
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As for Arch I've decided that I need a more controlled learning environment where I don't just destroy my entire boot partition or smth as that would cause me to fall behind on my work if I spend time fixing my OS as apposed to working

fallow belfry
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Smart. Sounds like a VM is good for you then.

brave isle
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As in running a VM on Ubuntu or windows?

fallow belfry
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Either. Both. Your choice.

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The nice thing about a VM is you can run it on any system, since they're almost all cross platform for VM software.

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The exception being the crappy one built into windows

dusk kernel
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I just remembered a random issue that I have had to deal with for a few years. My internet service is through Xfinity. Their web site does not function on Linux, either using Firefox or Chrome. So, since I already had a Win10 VM set up, I just used that for the few things I use the Xfinity site for. It's a PITA but it works.

strong plover
rotund dirge
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Today for example.

strong plover
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Cause that’s just weird

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“All Linux users are hackers”

dusk kernel
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What is weird is that Xfinity.com seems to be working now. If I recall correctly, there was an error when I tried to login.

mortal totem
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User error

dusk kernel
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That's possible, but I couldn't login via Firefox or Chrome on Linux... but could use both when running on a Win10 VM.

I haven't tried to login using Linux in possibly 2 years. So maybe the web site issue got fixed long ago and I just wasn't sent the memo.

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The movie/media section of the site still doesn't like current version of Firefox on Linux....

Please download the latest browser version.

Before upgrading to the latest browser version, ensure you're on a supported Operating System.

Supported Operating Systems
Windows 7+, iOS 11+, Android 7+
Mac OS X 10.14.4+ for Safari
Mac OS X 10.7+ for Chrome and Firefox

strong plover
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Do you have WideVine installed/enabled?

dusk kernel
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Nah, I don't need vines in my PC case, but thanks for the suggestion. EpicEgg

strong plover
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Yeah it’s required by google and a lot of stuff

frank steeple
strong plover
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Ah

frank steeple
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Also just general stupid design

strong plover
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Obviously

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Speaking of Linux. My openmediavault server is set up. And I have a docker container running jellyfin. I very much like it

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Especially for music

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It’s mapped to my domain name too

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And I have ssl certs 😎

mortal totem
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I have a bunch of things in docker rn, was experimenting to see how it would be in k8s

strong plover
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Docker is very cool

frank steeple
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Singularity is cooler 😎

strong plover
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Is that a software or only running one thing at a time

frank steeple
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Software

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It's docker but for supercomputers

strong plover
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😍

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I want a supercomputer!!!!!!!!

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But I no haz one :(

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So I use docker 😌

frank steeple
strong plover
frank steeple
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Get a bunch of cheap NUC type computers and a gigabit switch

strong plover
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I know people use raspberry pis sometimes

frank steeple
# strong plover Like a cluster of computers?

Yup, that's all a supercomputer is at the end of the day. There's only so fast that a single core can go, and there are only so many cores that you can get in a single system. What a supercomputer does is take a bunch of systems and adds some software packages that lets you do a sort of multithreading over ethernet

strong plover
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When I get to college, I know there’s a whole class dedicated to that topic

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(In my major)

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Do you know if the computers have to be identical? Because I have many laptops….

dusk kernel
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A Beowulf cluster is a computer cluster of what are normally identical, commodity-grade computers networked into a small local area network with libraries and programs installed which allow processing to be shared among them. The result is a high-performance parallel computing cluster from inexpensive personal computer hardware.
The name Beowulf...

mortal totem
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Would importing docker containers into singularity be easier than trying to convert it to a k8s manifest

frank steeple
frank steeple
strong plover
frank steeple
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Linux and then the clustering software on top of it

mortal totem
strong plover
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Because this actually might be possible

frank steeple
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You can get up to 16 free rhel systems for personal use btw

strong plover
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If I make money does it count as personal?

frank steeple
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I'd have to check, I think it'd be fine

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Says you can use it for a production environment

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The only things they explicitly say that you can't do is use it on more than 16 systems or resell the binaries

strong plover
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Nice! Yes that does look like I could even make money.

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I just hope docker runs on rhel if I ever tried that

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Who am I kidding I’m sure it does

mortal totem
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lol

frank steeple
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It does, that's what docker is for

strong plover
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😑

dusk kernel
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One of these days I need to read a bit about Docker so I can hopefully stop thinking about pants when I see the word "Docker."

strong plover
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I made a very nice bash script.

dusk kernel
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oh yeah? whut it do?

strong plover
# dusk kernel oh yeah? whut it do?

There is a cool thing called spot-dl (ahoy matey) that uses Spotify metadata and YouTubeDL to get music. I don’t like to use it a lot, I prefer buying music. But when I do, I now use the script to add my format and file organization arguments.

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So I just run the script from anywhere and paste the link and it puts it in the right folder in the right format

dusk kernel
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Aaahh... interesting. Good job!

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The only scripts I recall cobbling together were for conversion of media files. E.g., FLV to MP4, etc. using ffmpeg. Seems like I had one for individual files and one for everything in the folder. I also had one for pitch-shifting folders full of files, usually up or down 1 half step. They're nothing special as far as scripts go, but were very useful at the time.

strong plover
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Pitch shifting? Like musically speaking?

dusk kernel
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Correct.

strong plover
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Noice

ripe knotBOT
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Dude#7479 has been warned

Reason: Duplicated text

dusk kernel
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Mee6 is on drugs. LOL

fallow belfry
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I can repost it for you lol

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For example.....

This shifts the pitch of every MP3 in a directory to 1/2 step down. I'm 100% sure it could be better, but it worked fine for creating files to listen to in the key that the band would be playing them.

`

Dump audio from .MP3 to .WAV

echo ""
echo "[DUMPING AUDIO via ffmpeg]";
echo ""
for i in *.mp3;
#do ffmpeg -i "$i" -acodec pcm_s16le -ac 2 -ab 128 -vn -y "${i%flv}wav";
do lame --decode "$i" "${i%mp3}wav"
done

Pitch-shift WAV down 1/2 step

echo ""
echo "[SHIFTING PITCH via sox]"
echo ""
for i in *.wav;
do sox "$i" "${i%.wav}-HSD.wav" pitch -q -100;
done`

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`# Encode WAV to MP3 @ 192:
echo ""
echo "[ENCODING WAV to MP3 via lame"
echo ""
for i in *-HSD.wav;
do lame -h -b 192 "$i" "${i%wav}mp3";
done

echo ""
echo "[DELETING WAV FILES]"
echo ""
rm -v *.wav`

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And I'm guessing it was a reply to @strong plover

dusk kernel
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Thanks.... I was making a pastebin to avoid Mee6. heh heh

fallow belfry
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Too many echoes I think lol

dusk kernel
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Yeah, there are a lot, so that's possible.

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OK, sleep time here. Wheeee!!

strong plover
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Yo that’s a cool one

finite cargo
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Is it possible to override a color from a GTK theme?

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The link color in Adapta-Nokto is way too dark to read :/

dusk kernel
finite cargo
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hmm... If this allowed me to change the link color, it would be perfect:

fiery dirge
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Hmm interesting

finite cargo
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I think I got it working! The solution was to switch from the Qt theme gtk2 to qt5ct and then setting the Kvantum Adapta theme from the app.

strong plover
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Is there a compatibility difference when running Linux on Radeon integrated graphics vs intel integrated graphics?

fallow belfry
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Not really

strong plover
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Good.

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II have come into possession of a nice laptop with a ryzen 5 5500U and I wanted to make sure it would work nicely with Linux

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Although i guess i was thinking backwards, it’s AMD that generally has very good Linux support

finite cargo
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eyyy congrats

strong plover
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👏

finite cargo
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I just bought a "AMD Advantage" laptop just so I could avoid Nvidia.

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The Nvidia experience on my desktop has been very very subpar. One of my monitors still rarely turns on due to the Nvidia drivers.

strong plover
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Congratulations

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What cpu?

strong plover
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my ventoy is full :(

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only 32gb....

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I need a 128 gb ventoy to be happy

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because I kind of want to keep the older versions of distros on there. a history thing

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although, I could copy them to my server until I want them. then I could download more isos

fiery dirge
strong plover
fiery dirge
strong plover
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What did you mean by “for my browser”? I am a little confused

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@fiery dirge are you talking about like this?

strong plover
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I’ve never used that, and it seems a little dumb, but if it works, good for you

strong plover
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Feel like I should post this in the Linux chat too

fiery dirge
strong plover
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Anyone hear of/use Crossover?

mortal totem
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Ye ive messed around with it in the past

strong plover
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Ever tried MS office in it?

kind panther
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new ones dont

strong plover
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They say the o365 work….

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Idk there’s a free trial, I’ll try them

fiery dirge
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Ok

kind panther
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you dont get any exp from a message in every channel

kind panther
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u just irritate people by saying useless unecessary stuff in every channel

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thats all u get from what ur doing

tender ivy
kind panther
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Yeh exp is time based not channel based

tender ivy
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Huh, I wonder why I'm not higher level then. I'm in here everyday lol

abstract wigeon
tender ivy
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Ah ok.

tender ivy
tender ivy
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Oh, I had that whole sections minimized. Didn't realize that was there ha.

strong plover
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Lol

fiery dirge
civic bloom
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someone posted this, in case anyone got any ideas 🙏
(OS is Ubuntu)

Do you know anything about dead battery and wifi adapters?

Idk if its OS specific but an old laptop battery is kinda dead (still works) but the os isnt able to find the wifi adapter suddenly

I did the wlan0 up and down thingies. Didnt work
My lshw -C network output shows network disabled
And The GUI button to switch on wifi in settings simply doesn’t work.

fallow belfry
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Bad batteries can absolutely cause all kinds of weird issues because of the incorrect voltage supply. More sensitive components like the WiFi adapter could be more affected.

fiery dirge
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Air

tender ivy
dusk kernel
# fallow belfry Bad batteries can absolutely cause all kinds of weird issues because of the inco...

I acquired an old-ish (i5-6440HQ) Dell laptop and bought a cheap power supply for it that met the specs I found on the Dell site. I was having a weird issue where the touchpad would randomly become unresponsive for a few seconds. My solution was to use a wireless mouse and that worked fine.

I only had the problem when it was plugged in via the power supply. It turns out that the cheap power supply isn't sufficient in some way and that causes the issue with the touchpad. I'd never heard of this sort of thing happening before. Electricity is weird. [chuckle]

strong plover
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I have an old i3 laptop that when it’s plugged into a cheap power supply the display outputs flash, both built in screen and hdmi

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That’s on windows and Linux

fiery dirge
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I have a new laptop that’s kn MacBook and linux

strong plover
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Is it a Mac or another one

kind panther
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that dude "farms" exp by sending a useless random message in every chanel

frank steeple
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On the subject of macs though, did you see that apple released Rosetta for Linux?

kind panther
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theres no closed source magic about it that makes it not work on non mac devices

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it does break tos, but so does hackintoshing and apple doesnt care too much about that one

frank steeple
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It'll work, but memory access might be wonky

kind panther
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true

strong plover
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Does Rosetta/Linux mean we’ll be able to run x86 Linux programs on an arm Linux machine, or Apple programs on Linux?

kind panther
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I require tech support

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Linux mint

fallow belfry
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It doesn't like your GPU

kind panther
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Thats what i got from google yeah

fallow belfry
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Start it in recovery mode and install the proprietary drivers

kind panther
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Display is connected to my 6750xt

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I still need nvidia drivers?

fallow belfry
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Yes. It did the same thing with my 2070.

kind panther
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Ok ubuntu is starting up fine apparantly its just mint that hates it

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And elementaryos

fallow belfry
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Yep it's a distro specific issue

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I know Pop works fine because it has the nvidia driver out of the box

kind panther
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I wanna go elementary os tbh

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I really like the ui

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apt-get install nvidia-driver

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Thats the one yeah?

fallow belfry
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That should grab the meta-package that has the latest yeah

kind panther
#

Elementary os does another wierd thing tho it might be ventoy being wierd, the advanced options button does nothing, and if i boot normally it doesnt get past bios splash

fallow belfry
#

Weird indeed.
Thanks nvidia for being so cooperative with the Linux community!
Almost makes you want to get AMD lol

kind panther
#

I have an amd card as my main, just use a damn t600 as secondary which is screwing stuff up

fallow belfry
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Pull the t600, install, remove the nouveau driver, then you can put the t600 back and install nvidia driver

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I had to do the same thing with my 2070 lol. Dusted off my old HD 5770 to fix it.

kind panther
#

Does th card need to be in to install the driver or can i just install?

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No telling if elementary os will even boot with it in

fallow belfry
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To install the nvidia driver? Yeah it'll require the card in or it will fail

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Once you remove nouveau you remove the problem though

kind panther
#

ahh

tender ivy
kind panther
#

damn falcie got my back sheeeeeee

tender ivy
kind panther
# kind panther

@fallow belfry now linux mint is doing exactly this with t600 pulled out

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Im just installing popos

kind panther
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I forgot how much i hate popos

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Wasted way too many hours trying to get a build environment set up

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But nothing ever works on popos for me

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Garbage distro

strong plover
#

Too bad

#

I wanna use garageband on my Linux computer :(

strong plover
#

Can we all agree that kubuntu/Ubuntu studio/Kde has one of the nicest installers?

#

The disk partition view is sooo clean, and it’s very easy and straightforward. Also, it gives THREE options unlike popos for the disks. Kubuntu has erase and install, install alongside, and advanced.

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PopOS is just, complete wipe and reinstall, or advanced. And you have to have a huge efi partition for popOS. I think it’s 500mb.

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If you’re dual booting, the windows default is 100. (Usually plenty)

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thx for coming to my tedtalk

fallow belfry
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I don't think pop needs 500mb so much as that's the default. You should be able to do less through manual partitioning.

strong plover
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Nope. It does not work. I tried many times.

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I only tried on one laptop, but still

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We restarted the installation (dual boot setup) and ended up having to make two efi partitions. It was a mess.

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I like just being able to click, “install” after selecting the unallocated space I made in windows. (For a dual boot). Manually partitioning things is kind of silly

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Well, it is when you just need the defaults.

strong plover
#

#justiceforrawr

tender ivy
#

#rawrforjustice

rotund dirge
#

#forrawrjustice

rotund dirge
#

#howseveryonedoing

frank steeple
#

#prettygoodandyou

rotund dirge
#

#goodtohear

kind panther
#

#nottoobad

fallow belfry
#

#ihatehashtags

strong plover
rotund dirge
#

#indeeditis

strong plover
dusk kernel
strong plover
#

#theconceptoflinuxisbest

frank steeple
dusk kernel
frank steeple
kind panther
strong plover
# kind panther Not always heh

If it’s at the cost of power efficiency, than no. But desktop Linux makes my laptop battery last more than 8 hours, and windows 11 (debloated, and intentionally closing unused programs) lasts approximately the advertised 5.5 hours

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So Linux is faster, and better for power efficiency :)

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Oh, and the fans don’t need to run when I use Linux. They’re almost always on in windows

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One more thing. The Linux side of this dual boot is constantly running a windows 10 vm in the background (very much optimized, but still). And the battery life is hours better

strong plover
#

Flew right over my head

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But I do think my unprofessional research is kinda cool

mortal totem
#

Faster is best therefore linux is best

dusk kernel
#

"Ease of use" and "familiarity" are more important than "faster" to a lot of people. What's "best for you" isn't necessarily the "best for everyone."

mortal totem
#

Ofc depends on your uses, for networking and server I use linux, for work I use mac, for gaming I use windows

strong plover
mortal totem
#

Ye I’ve decided I’ll never get an os that can do everything for me, so i use all of them

strong plover
#

I am considering running a macOS vm on my Linux laptop. (For immessage). Rawr and I tried so hard to get Mac on my other laptop, but it wasn’t going great. A vm seems more stable

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Or predictable I guess

hollow fable
#

Dead channel 💀

dusk kernel
strong plover
strong plover
frank steeple
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Just let it run for a bit, it'll eventually say everything that needs to be said

strong plover
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I know about dev urandom

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Need to google the other stuff

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Sounds like it helps scramble the stuff up? Idk

frank steeple
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Filters out everything but letters and characters

strong plover
#

Ohhh I see

strong plover
#

I am the Linux server man. And I like active Linux chats :)

dusk kernel
#

Ugh... .KDE Plasma on Fedora 36... why is my cursor showing up correctly when over application windows or the task bar, but changing to the default cursor when it's over the desktop?

strong plover
#

I’ve had that problem on Ubuntu!

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Did restarting fix it?

dusk kernel
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No. I've changed from "Desktop" to "Folder View" and back, logging out each time. No change.

strong plover
#

For me, it takes two complete reboots of my computer to fix it.

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Whenever I change my cursor.

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If that doesn’t work, I have read about somewhere where you edit a config files for your default cursor etc

dusk kernel
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I've tried editing the um... I think it was the "index.theme" file for the default cursor and changing the "inherits" line.

strong plover
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Yeah that was it.

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My only suggestion would be 2 full reboots.

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Because that is what worked in my experience

dusk kernel
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A random guess saves the day!

The cursors that I wanted to use were installed in:
/home/dude/.local/share/icons
so altering the index.theme file for /usr/share/icons/default was not going to work. From the above directory...
$ sudo mv 'Oxygen 01 Yellow' /usr/share/icons seems to be the magic. I'm not sure if altering the "Inherits" line in the default index.theme makes any difference but I set that to "Oxygen 01 Yellow" anyway.

strong plover
#

Nice!

dusk kernel
#

But it was a guess. 😁 And I'm still curious why all the cursors are in the "ICONS" directory.

strong plover
#

that is kind of unexpected tbh. I guess cursors might come with icons in a theme sometimes

uncut sail
#

i switched to pop

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really good

fallow belfry
#

Yeah it's designed around gamers and other normal casual computer users. It also helps to include the Nvidia driver.

strong plover
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Pop is okay for what it does, the nvidia drivers is probably best thing tho

kind panther
#

My hate for pop is infinite

tender ivy
#

I might have to try it.

frank steeple
kind panther
abstract wigeon
kind panther
#

I concur

strong plover
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Lol

strong plover
#

I am a python programming Genius. (I used streamlit because im big dummy)

strong plover
hollow fable
strong plover
#

Someone notices….

dusk kernel
#

I need to update my Fedora 35 system to Fedora 36. Updating would be simpler, but I have an issue I haven't been able to solve and I hope that reinstalling might fix it. (see below for description of the issue) Assuming I reinstall, the question is, "Is there an easy way to reinstall all the random packages I have installed now?"

There are a few applications that are installed from a .tar file rather than being part of the official package repository and they always have dependencies that need to be tracked down. So, I'd like to minimize that particular headache if possible. I could export a list of all installed packages, but I think that includes version numbers, which would surely change in the new OS version. Any thoughts on how to get all the random stuff reinstalled?

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The existing issue mentioned above is that when I use System Settings to get new stuff, e.g., themes, colors, icons, cursors, etc., that gets an error message and fails. This is on a system that's not currently turned on so I'll get the error message later and add it here. I think I've also asked about it here in the past couple of months.

fallow belfry
dusk kernel
#

I suppose I could update, and if that fixes the "existing issue" I'm done. If the existing issue remains, I could export the list of installed packages, then re-install the OS, then install apps etc. from the list.

strong plover
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That’s what I would recommend. I will be doing a similar thing when I reinstall for 22.04 Ubuntu

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But then again, I don’t know how fedora works

dusk kernel
#

I'd prefer to figure out this stupid issue and just update. LOL Which reminds me that I haven't posted the error message......

Using KDE System Settings > any of the Appearance options (colors, Icons, cursors, wallpaper, etc.) > Get New [stuff].... gives this error:
Loading of providers from file: https://autoconfig.kde.org/ocs/providers.xml failed

I think it's some sort of authentication issue but I don't know how to track it down.

dusk kernel
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Chasing the possible SSL issue....
I got these two errors when running Discover via the command line as root…

The server failed the authenticity check (odrs.gnome.org).
The issuer certificate of a locally looked up certificate could no be found.

The server failed the authenticity check (autoconfig.kde.org).
The issuer certificate of a locally looked up certificate could not be found

strong plover
mortal totem
#

mac: "sweet only have to wait a year to install the update"

strong plover
#

mac: “aw man, my MacBook is already 6 months old, it won’t even be compatible with the update”

maiden pine
#

Do MacBooks have a software longevity problem? I know the iPhone gets lots of updates but I don't know anything about the MacBook.

strong plover
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MacBooks last a long time. But you did ask in the Linux channel.

mortal totem
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Most professionals usually wait like a year or 2 to update their macs to a newer os after it is first released anyway due to software support and possible instability. But I don’t see them having huge issues with long term software support, older macs may not be able to install latest features but still get security updates

strong plover
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What he said ^

finite cargo
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Is it possible to ssh or telnet into a router?

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I'm trying to run a TURN server on my Linux box (for Matrix voip calls), but it doesn't like being behind a NAT. If I could run TURN on my router, it would solve that issue as the router is not behind a NAT (afaik).

mortal totem
#

some routers allow you to ssh youd have to check the manufacturer or settings it is often something not turned on by default

finite cargo
#

It's all in French and it's killing me.

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I see they have a "remote access" toggle, but it's just to access the web UI by typing my public IP into a browser, so no luck.

strong plover
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Is it something that port forwarding can’t fix?

brave isle
#

I have set up a website that uses html, css, js and php on a linuxserver that is hosted on azure. Now I can start the phpserver on localhost but it is not reachable outside and when I enter the publicip I get this error: [Fri Jul 1 23:20:14 2022] Failed to listen on 40.82.148.73:8000 (reason: Cannot assign requested address) Does anyone have an idea?

mortal totem
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You’re not hosting the website on default port 80 or 420?

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Im not sure how azure does things but just check that you dont have any firewall rules blocking it and that the service is active on that port

fallow belfry
#

The ports are open in firewall?

strong plover
mortal totem
#

Lol I had brain moment

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All I could think of is 420

strong plover
mortal totem
#

😦

strong plover
#

You know I’m right. Admit it mr. 420 man.

strong plover
brave isle
#
Starting XAMPP for Linux 8.1.6-0...
XAMPP: Starting Apache...fail.
XAMPP:  Another web server is already running.
XAMPP: Starting MySQL...ok.
XAMPP: Starting ProFTPD...ok.

How can i disable the already running webserver?

ripe cobalt
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you can simply open the terminal and go to /opt/lamp folder and open the lampp folder inside lampp folder you will see a running file i.e manager-linux-x64.run then you have to run the file and xampp will be displayed on screen then you can stop the webserver.

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to run that file you have to give sudo permission , so running file you have to write sudo ./manager-linux-x64.run

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dont forget to write that . symbol after sudo , hope this will work for you.

dusk kernel
#

I finally got around to working on the Fedor 35>36 upgrade today. I was prepared to update, then a fresh install if that didn't fix the odd issue I was seeing.

I updated...
$sudo dnf update

Exported a list of all installed packages...
$rpm -qa | sort

Saved a copy of my home directory... booted from a USB so none of the files I wanted to copy would be in use...
$cp -a dude dude_bak

Then the upgrade as detailed here:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/dnf-system-upgrade/

Results? ......

fallow belfry
#

It's always nice when things go as planned

dusk kernel
#

I'm not sure what specifically what fixed my issue, but while chasing down the few errors listed during this part of the upgrade...
$sudo dnf system-upgrade download --releasever=36
... I uninstalled a few i686 versions of some openssl packages. So maybe that was the source of the problem, I dunno, but I still had the issue after removing those packages and rebooting. I'm just happy that I can download wallpaper, cursors, themes, colors, etc. again.

dusk kernel
fallow belfry
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Plan B is still technically as planned kekw

dusk kernel
#

LOL... OK, fair point.

#

Now my problem is.... geez... what am I going to do with the rest of my evening? [chuckle]

strong plover
#

That is always nice when it goes easier than expected

finite cargo
strong plover
finite cargo
#

(second paragraph under Requirements)

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If it were possible to run behind a NAT, I have yet to get it working. Though if you have any ideas please let me know.

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I use Matrix for everything (besides a few Discord servers sadly) and everything works except for calling.

strong plover
#

Have you tried port forwarding?

finite cargo
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I have tried a lot of different things. I can show the ports currently forwarded on my router.

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That's all the TURN ports I have forwarded. In theory, this should allow it to run with TCP.

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I would like to also forward the UDP port range, but my router only provides a way to forward one port at a time...

mortal totem
#

Yikes

hazy river
#

the pain of port forwarding

ripe knotBOT
#
Dyno#1481 has been warned

Reason: Bad word usage

reef totem
#

Oh my bad

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I keep forgetting this server is pg

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Frick!! Port forwarding

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Imagine going through all the effort to find out your ISP blocks port forwarding

frank steeple
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Just go around them

fallow belfry
#

Yeah they can't block port forwarding but they can exclude the feature from your router. Simply using another router by replacing the ISP one or just connecting another router would work.

hazy river
#

i also hate it when they throttle torrents

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it's not always used for piracy smh

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but it's nothing a public dns can't fix

fallow belfry
#

Or a VPN

strong plover
#

usually torrents are piracy lol

fallow belfry
#

That's what some people use it for but there's plenty of legitimate uses

#

For example, most Linux OS download pages give the option to download by torrent because it's faster

mortal totem
#

some bigger file downloads like isos can be ridiculously slow if you don't use torrent

strong plover
#

which is why "linux iso" is sometimes a euphemism for pirated content

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loll

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although i will not deny the fact that torrenting is faster for downloads

reef totem
strong plover
#

That sounds like the routers problem

dusk kernel
#

What's the backup software that I've seen mentioned here? Now that I've asked, I'll think if it in about 30 seconds. LOL

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OK, it'll be more than 30 seconds. 🤦‍♂️

frank steeple
#

Borg?

dusk kernel
#

Hmmm.... doesn't seem familiar.

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I'm pretty sure I installed it... I'll dig around in dnfdragora.

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Hmmm.... I have timeshift installed, that might be it.

strong plover
#

Time shift

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I’ve seen it recommended here

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Deja dup is also good

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(I prefer deja dup tbh)

dusk kernel
#

cool, thanks! I was thinking "time machine" but that's for Mac. So, "timeshift" is surely what it was. So, I'll look into that option a bit.

Does anyone have any other suggestions for backup software that will be used to backup both Linux and Windows 10 to a drive attached to a router?

strong plover
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Deja dup can backup to network shares, that’s what I do

dusk kernel
#

OK, will add that to the list.

strong plover
#

I know time shift can do that too, and I think fal recommended it, but it seemed too complicated for me at the time I set up backups

dusk kernel
#

timeshift seems to be more targeted at "system snapshots" rather than "file/data backup." That might be why it didn't meet your needs.

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Looks like Deja Dup isn't available for Windows.

strong plover
#

That’s strange, I thought it was cross platform

#

Good to know I guess

glossy socket
#

I am so happy to see a linux channel in this server

strong plover
#

Are you an avid Linux user?

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Because I am happy too :)

glossy socket
#

Im about to hit one year of dropping Windows completely from my life

#

No regrets

strong plover
#

Niceeee

#

Very important milestone if you ask me

hazy river
#

cringe

#

jk

tender ivy
#

I would like to learn and only use Linux, but I mainly play games on my PC

frank steeple
#

What games

tender ivy
#

All the games

tender ivy
# frank steeple What games

I will be blowing through any game that looks interesting.. and I haven't gotten to play games in almost 5 years so.. that's a lot.

frank steeple
#

Would you be content to play some of the games?

tender ivy
#

most likely not.

#

knowing my luck.. I'd come across a game I realllly want to play and wouldn't be able to on Linux.

frank steeple
#

Native, platinum, and gold are pretty much good to go. Silver is mostly working. Bronze and borked are avoid

tender ivy
#

I take it Gold has a few issues with plat less and native none?

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And by issues.. that means?

tender ivy
#

stutters? fps drops or whatever?

frank steeple
#

Platinum works perfectly, just hasn't been officially marked as native by the devs

#

Gold is almost perfect, most of the time it's something like an audio bug or a menu button looking funny

tender ivy
#

Ah ok.

#

I'll think about it for a bit before I make the leap.

#

I can still use google chrome?

frank steeple
#

Yup, that's native

#

Pulled up the reports for no man's sky, it got a hold rating for a little bit more texture flickering than in windows

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So stuff like that, minor potential annoyances but still perfectly playable

#

Silver ratings the issues can start to affect game play

strong plover
#

If there are apps that are windows only, but aren’t graphically intensive, look at Fmstrat/WinApps on GitHub. A lot of people don’t use Linux because of Microsoft word for instance. This lets you run a vm, but VERY light on resources, and the windows apps integrate with the Linux desktop.

low scaffold
#

So I’m trying to install Cutefish OS on my secondary laptop. I downloaded the ISO file and used Rufus to make a bootable drive. Whenever I choose the bootable drive on advanced restart, I just get the error “selected boot image did not authenticate”. Why?

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This has never happened before

finite cargo
#

Sounds like secure boot being secure boot.

low scaffold
#

That makes sense

#

Now that I think of it

finite cargo
#

Have you turned it off? Most Linux distros don't support it.

low scaffold
#

When I reinstalled windows the last time I went from Linux I probably never turned it off

finite cargo
#

(I don't know Cutefish, but I had trouble with Arch when SB was on)

low scaffold
#

It’s not cutefish or anything

#

I didnt know if this issue would fit into linux because I’m trying to install linux or windows because it’s a boot issue and I’m going from windows

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So I just sent here LOL

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I’ll check and see if secure boot is on

finite cargo
#

heh yeah fair

low scaffold
#

I absolutely despise HP Bios

finite cargo
#

oh golly what'd they do now

low scaffold
#

One wrong button pre- BEEEEP

finite cargo
#

NOO

#

Pre-boot environments that play sounds are the worst.

#

I have a laptop from Asus and it plays a slash sound every single time it boots.

low scaffold
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#
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finite cargo
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You can turn it off, but then the subwoofer won't work when you boot.

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OH GOD

#

OUCH

low scaffold
#

Common HP L

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Yep secure boot was on

finite cargo
#

They could've used a more gentle beep.

low scaffold
#

Now it’s off

finite cargo
#

Darn. That was the first thing to check.

#

OH

low scaffold
#

No it’s working now

finite cargo
#

I misread that.

low scaffold
#

I said off by accident LOL

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NO i editied it

finite cargo
#

I didn't misread that.

#

Well I'm glad you got it working :D

low scaffold
#

Windows had a stroke after I turned it off though. I’m glad it let me boot from another drive because it would’ve forced me to enter my recovery key

low scaffold
finite cargo
#

Bitlocker was mad?

low scaffold
#

Yep

#

It’s fine I have the recovery keys

#

I’m just lazy LOL

finite cargo
#

lolrip

#

I think you can get them from the MS website.

low scaffold
#

We are all working now

#

I haven’t used cutefish before so this will be my first time

finite cargo
#

Though I don't dual boot since I found Linux can do everything I need.

#

oo looks nice

low scaffold
#

The only other linux is I’ve used was Elementary is

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OS*

low scaffold
#

This is my secondary laptop

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Main drive has 128gb

#

It’s sad. Very sad

finite cargo
#

ouch

#

Well that's more than enough for Linux thankfully.

low scaffold
#

Yeah definitely

#

My main laptop is an Acer

#

I run windows 10

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Doesn’t support windows 11 unfortunately (which is stupid)

finite cargo
#

I have a family member that runs Arch on a 1GB hard drive with half a gig of RAM.

low scaffold
#

Lmao wow

finite cargo
#

It even sort of works.

#

2001 laptop, amazing keyboard and has amazing connectivity

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I wish they made laptops like that nowadays.

finite cargo
low scaffold
#

Nope it has TPM

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Unsupported CPU

finite cargo
#

What does Windows 11 even add?

low scaffold
#

AMD Ryzen 5 2500u

finite cargo
#

It's just a KDE reskin right?

low scaffold
#

I like the redesign though

finite cargo
#

You can get it on KDE ;)

low scaffold
#

What’s KDE?

finite cargo
#

It's a Linux desktop.

low scaffold
#

Oh it looks like windows?

finite cargo
#

Windows gets a lot of its features from it

low scaffold
#

Cutefish OS and Elementary OS both look like MacOS

finite cargo
#

By default it looks like Windows 10, but you can customize it like crazy and can download premade configurations to make it look like Windows 11.

#

Also you can run Android apps on Linux using Anbox/Waydroid.

low scaffold
#

I’ll have to check it out

#

I’m still new to Linux

finite cargo
#

That's interesting, I hadn't heard of either. I quite like the macOS aesthetic.

#

Yeah sure!\

ripe knotBOT
#
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finite cargo
#

wat

#

I sent a link.

low scaffold
#

Just DM me it

#

@finite cargo

finite cargo
#

Sent!

kind panther
#

My 2nd favourite linux distro

finite cargo
#

What does it to better than others?

kind panther
#

Look nicer

#

Lmao

finite cargo
#

Fair.

#

I keep swapping between compositors. Can't decide on one.

#

Currently messing with Hyprland, really like it so far.

#

I made a pull request to add 1:1 touchpad gestures to it and my code was so bad that the maintainer implemented it themselves yesterday.

#

I gotta mess with the bar theming but else I'm pretty happy with how it functions.

#

perfect

thorny helm
low scaffold
#

trying to install steam but I keep getting this error. Help?

#

I’m on ElementaryOS. I used a Debian installer to get the app itself but when I try to open the app I get that error

glossy socket
low scaffold
glossy socket
#

on debian that should be sudo apt install libc6-i386

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If its not installed, it will ask if you want to install it

low scaffold
glossy socket
#

👍

low scaffold
#

Now i get this error

glossy socket
#

hm, it looks like a lot of dependencies are missing from the .deb installation of steam, it might be a better idea to reinstall steam through the package manager instead. See what running sudo apt install steam does.

low scaffold
#

i got the following

package ‘steam’ has no installation candidate

low scaffold
#

at least the last time I tried

#

I’ll try again though

glossy socket
#

How did you originally install it?

low scaffold
#

steam website

#

wait it did install as a deb file

#

That’s odd

#

I’m just gonna uninstall the old file and reinstall with a new one

glossy socket
#

hold on

low scaffold
#

yeah still doesn’t work

glossy socket
#

Oh wait, i remembered ElementaryOS has its own app store, try installing Steam through that.

low scaffold
#

i always check before downloading an app, if it were there I would’ve got it from there

#

I might try it from the snap store

#

As I recently got that

#

Yeah snao store worked

glossy socket
#

run sudo apt-cache search steam and see what results you get

#

steam should already be in the elementaryOS repos

glossy socket
#

try running apt install steam again

low scaffold
strong plover
#

if youre on elementary, I seem to remember that you need to install a package from their app store to be able to install .debs

low scaffold
#

its a package extractor for .deb files

strong plover
#

yeah

low scaffold
#

i already tried installing steam through that

#

and i still get the errors

glossy socket
#

found something, try running these commands in order and then try installing steam:
sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

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its apparently an issue with steam being 32bit and requiring certain libraries.

low scaffold
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do i continue orrr?

glossy socket
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that might have been a typo by the original user, remove the add part

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apt-get instead

low scaffold
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sudo apt-get-repository multiverse

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?

glossy socket
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let me look

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at something

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apt install software-properties-common

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after that is installed you should be able to then run the add-apt-repository command

low scaffold
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then the rest should be fine?

glossy socket
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yeah

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after those 4 commands have been run, you should finally be able to install steam from apt.

strong plover
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Wow. Linux chat hasn’t been this active since emy and falcie and me had random discussions is here. Lol

strong plover
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Wonder where emy went

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@emy#6525

fallow belfry
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Not in the server any more

strong plover
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Whaaa-

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I am surprised

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The desktop environment queen

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Gone

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Interesting.

fallow belfry
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Oh looks like they were banned

strong plover
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Wait really? For doing what?

fallow belfry
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Too much genital talk it seems

strong plover
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Ah. Yeah they did seem to do that quite a bit

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Almost obsessive

fallow belfry
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The official reason listed by the mod that did the ban was trolling but it seems like compound issues

strong plover
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i dm'd with them some

strong plover
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welp i dm'd emy. they told me what made them get banned.

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i was like, uhhh

finite cargo
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How can I create a 5GHz hotspot using my AX200 wifi card?
I can't find a guide that doesn't use ifconfig which is deprecated on Arch in favor of ip.

abstract wigeon
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I'm not sure but I'd imagine pc wifi cards don't have support hotspots

fallow belfry
finite cargo
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I love Android.

fallow belfry
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Bruh it's a link lol. Silly old Droid.

finite cargo
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oh wow, that might be it

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So this card is literally a scam.

abstract wigeon
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Ahh makes sense

fallow belfry
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Well you can always check if it supports AP mode still
iw list

finite cargo
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It does.

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And I can make 2.4GHz hotspots fine.

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It says 5GHz is supported, but fails to create one.

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Wait I got something!

fallow belfry
finite cargo
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This succeeds: sudo create_ap wlan0 lo 'alvr' '' --freq-band 5 -c 157 --ieee80211ac

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But ALVR still has really bad performance on my headset :/

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Maybe it's not a network issue and I'm just being dumb.

tender ivy
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@fallow belfry was it you and I talking about card readers?

kind panther
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Yes it was

tender ivy
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The OS on the card reader is MX200001/RFS3025100 . So.. whatever that is lol

strong plover
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Lol that’s great

tender ivy
strong plover
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I didn’t google it but I’m assuming it’s mx Linux

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Unless it’s something totally random

strong plover
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I gave my 4-H speech yesterday. It was "How to install Linux." Because of how much homework and classes I have, I wasn't able to practice it, ever. But I won champion.

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(I have talked so much about Linux before, that it wasnt hard)

dusk kernel
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Practical Experience > Practice 😁 Congratulations!

strong plover
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Lol f’real

undone lichen
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nerd

strong plover
strong plover
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I am nerd

dusk kernel
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I wish I were qualified to be called a nerd.

frank steeple
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🥳

strong plover
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honestly we're all nerds here

dusk kernel
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Here's a kinda nerdy question... has anyone used any of the "privacy-focused" distro's like the ones on this list? I'm trying to choose a distro to suggest to friends if they have a temporary need for privacy. I like the idea of running from a USB drive that can be quickly and easily destroyed if necessary. I have Tails and Kodachi installed and will be tinkering with them.

https://www.techradar.com/news/best-linux-distro-privacy-security

TechRadar

Fortify your Linux install with the best Linux distros for privacy and security

fallow belfry
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Tails has always been my go to for privacy

frank steeple
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Isn't kodachi designed to be livebooted?

mortal totem
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Ive used tails before, worked for its purpose, not for daily though since it does wipe everything on reboot, qubes I was thinking of trying but never got to it

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Maybe once I get a new drive

dusk kernel
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yeah, Qubes is interesting... but I'm trying to decide what would be the simplest option that I could suggest to folks who aren't necessarily tech savvy.

strong plover
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I have never tried a strictly security focused distro before. I understand the concept though. I would wonder what the difference between a live boot of one of those (qubesos, etc) and a simple vanilla Ubuntu live usb stick. I know that networking can be a question, as would be the tor browser. But installing tor on a live install isn’t hard lol. (Been there, done that)

fallow belfry
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Mostly tracking data and telemetry is the difference. A privacy OS will disable as much of those as it can, and what it can't it will clear often.

strong plover
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Here’s a question- when I use a live usb stick of say, plain Ubuntu, when I unplug it, do any traces remain on the stick itself?

fallow belfry
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That depends if you're using a persistence file

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Normally no if you don't have persistence

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But a user can still be tracked by hardware specs, IP, and such by data stored elsewhere

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A privacy OS might automatically block requests for that data or else give false info when it asks for things like screen resolution

strong plover
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Interesting. Yeah, I’ve never needed a persistence file.

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But network is definitely the easy way to track I guess.

strong plover
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I’m still confused as to how that could be used against you though….

fallow belfry
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Yup.
Let's say you've got it maximized on your laptop with a 1920x1200 screen. They'll be able to tell based on that resolution alone that it's VERY likely you're using a laptop.

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So when they go to raid you for doing questionable things over tor they know what to look for.

strong plover
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Ohh I see

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I don’t think I’m doing anything that could get me raided….

fallow belfry
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It's typically cp and markets they go for the most

strong plover
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Markets as in black markets or… the first thing you said

fallow belfry
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Dark net markets

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Mostly black markets for drugs, stolen credit cards, and "services"

strong plover
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👀 the nasty side of people

fallow belfry
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The dirtiest of the filth yes

strong plover
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People automatically think that Linux=hacker it seems. I’ve been (jokingly) called a hacker by my friends, and people I just meet. Because they have a messed up perception of Linux

fallow belfry
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Just say you use Kali instead of saying Linux and you'll get one of two reactions, weird looks from people that know, and blank stares while nodding from the uninitiated.

strong plover
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It was so funny, a year or two ago my younger brother was doing this 4h workshop where they had all these people from different professions come talk to the group over Zoom (Covid, y’know). The only one I listened to was the cybersecurity/pentesting guy. I asked in chat “do you use kali often”. The 4h extension educator read it so uncertainly, but the guy answered right away and explained how he used it and stuff. It was so funny when everyone was asking what kali and Linux was

fallow belfry
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I've used Kali a bit myself, both at home and on the job. I had a router get bricked from a failed dd-wrt flash (totally my fault, don't skip steps lol) and I had to use it to break into the ssh to restore it to factory.

strong plover
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I’ve cracked wifi passwords with kali

fallow belfry
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That's a common use too, but it's gotten a lot harder lately. There's a lot more security and wps attacks don't really work now so brute force attack is all you can do.

strong plover
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I’m pretty sure the way I did was four way handshake

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I copied the commands from a tutorial somewhere lol

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So I didn’t completely understand the whole process

fallow belfry
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Yeah you capture the handshake and then brute force the hash from a rainbow table or dictionary

strong plover
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I need to learn how to do that

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Like, without the commands from a tutorial lol

fallow belfry
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I have a dictionary you can't use. It's about 150gb uncompressed kekw

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I'd have no way to send it to you, not without giving you FTP access to my server and that's not happening

strong plover
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Where’d you get it

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Because I have my server with 4tb zfs pool

fallow belfry
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It's custom

strong plover
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I could store one there

fallow belfry
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You'd use a tool to create a table based on a dictionary and added masks that automatically deletes invalid WPA passwords

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It gets MASSIVE

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The largest I've seen is 20tb uncompressed

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It would take months for a single 3090 to go through

strong plover
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I was gonna say, are the days of carrying your laptop over to your friends house and hacking their wifi, gone now?

fallow belfry
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Yeah not happening. Even the default ISP passwords are a lot more secure. Comcast uses 2-3 words with special characters and numbers.

strong plover
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Aw man

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Well I’m going to bed.

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I might be generating my own dictionary though lol

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Later tho

fallow belfry
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G' night

strong plover
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Gnight

fallow belfry
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That would work... If my motherboard wasn't in RMA right now and I could use my computer

strong plover
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@humble kindle

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Any mod

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Ban this guy

frank steeple
abstract wigeon
abstract wigeon
kind panther
frank steeple
fallow belfry
abstract wigeon
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I rest my case

fallow belfry
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Oh there was a scammer that posted in all the channels, that's what he was talking about

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I know, I'm boring today

fallow belfry
abstract wigeon
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Smh now i agree with chip x)

kind panther
fallow belfry
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My inner dad is as exhausted as my outer dad though

kind panther
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fair enough

strong plover
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I was gone

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Yeah I meant the scammer

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And if you’re gonna ban fal, ban him all he way up to admin

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With frank