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You could at least have posted one of his real quotes about legalizing incest/pedophilia/beastiality/etc
Isaac Perez
literally Shakespeare
Blake Jenkins
But user it's a real quote.
Chase Wood
Pic related, but also a reminder that this is still Sup Forums.
Owen Sanders
Obviously fake.
Gavin Stewart
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing. " - RMS
"A parrot once had sex with me. I did not recognize the act as sex until it was explained to me afterward, but being stroked on the hand by his soft belly feathers was so pleasurable that I yearn for another chance. I have a photo of that act; should I go to prison for it?" - RMS
"There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children. Granted, children may not dare say no to an older relative, or may not realize they could say no; in that case, even if they do not overtly object, the relationship may still feel imposed to them. That's not willing participation, it's imposed participation, a different issue. " - RMS
"For necrophilia, it might be necessary to ask the next of kin for permission if the decedent's will did not authorize it. Necrophilia would be my second choice for what should be done with my corpse, the first being scientific or medical use. Once my dead body is no longer of any use to me, it may as well be of some use to someone. Besides, I often enjoy rhinophytonecrophilia (nasal sex with dead plants). " - RMS
RMS has a really annoying voice. I was disappointed first time I heard it.
Logan Gonzalez
Okay, I had OpenSUSE/Linux just shut off on me automatically three times, even though my laptop is plugged in and charging. Why does this happen and what should I do? This has not been an issue for most of the time I've had the distro.
Robert Thomas
psychfag here, he is not wrong. he states the problem that imposed participation=!willing participation. the problem is that there is little evidence on anything in that field because it's one of the most taboo fields.
Adam Parker
The problem I have with these quotes are not the quotes itself, it's the retarded kids who don't understand what he's saying and call him a pedophile.
Nathan Sanders
I managed to bind a key to insert previously used files into the current command line in python. In particular it cycles through arguments containing a '/' from your shell history.
It depends on a python script I wrote to pull path-like arguments out of you history. The reason I used python is because it has shlex to handle parsing the shell quoting. I had a crack it doing it in shell but trying to parse eg cat ~/My\ Pictures/"some file".tiff was ... trying. see here: gist.github.com/toofar/24d9ca7398201777da0f2e3b67c7d925 # function to cycle between last path like command line arguments used. # Depends on sfs to pull path like argmunts out of history. last_file_cycle() { # Clear our saved variables if HISTCMD changes or the command line has # changed if [ -n "$LFC_HISTCMD" ] && [ "$HISTCMD" != "$LFC_HISTCMD" ];then unset LFC_HISTCMD unset LFC_ORIG_RLLINE unset LFC_ORIG_RLPOINT elif [ "$LFC_NEW_RLLINE" != "$READLINE_LINE" ];then unset LFC_HISTCMD unset LFC_ORIG_RLLINE unset LFC_ORIG_RLPOINT fi if [ -z "$LFC_HISTCMD" ];then LFC_ORIG_RLLINE="${READLINE_LINE}" LFC_ORIG_RLPOINT="${READLINE_POINT}" LFC_HISTCMD="$HISTCMD" LFC_CYCLE=0 fi LF=`history 100 |sfs -r -s$LFC_CYCLE` LFC_CYCLE=$(($LFC_CYCLE+1)) LFC_NEW_RLLINE="${LFC_ORIG_RLLINE:0:LFC_ORIG_RLPOINT}$LF${LFC_ORIG_RLLINE:LFC_ORIG_RLPOINT}" READLINE_LINE="${LFC_NEW_RLLINE}" READLINE_POINT=$((LFC_ORIG_RLPOINT + ${#LF})) } bind -x '"\C-f":last_file_cycle'
Andrew Torres
I have installed Arch.
I would like create a nice desktop like I see in the desktop threads.
Are there any guides or walkthroughs that can put me on the path to creating something?
I am using i3 currently, but I am happy to change.
Thanks in advance.
David Mitchell
Good luck getting research funding for 'The effect of sexual contact with children on long term development'.
Levi King
Rice tutorial: Step 1: Choose a wallpaper and choose it wisely. Step 2: Use programs that let you customzie almost everything and try to use the wallpapers colors. Step 3: Don't be a retard and stay away from desktop thread.
Any rsnapshot users here? All my shit is fucking up. It still rotates backup folders but stopped copying/deleting files from the backup when the source is changed. I've redone my 6tb backup like 4 times over the last few days and it always manages to delete itself.
Evan Rivera
hm, maybe my laptop was just close to overheating
Juan Long
Great. Now please a zsh-like menu that shows up but also disappears again. Then zsh is finally btfo.
Caleb Rivera
I quoted wrong.
William Thomas
Open or proprietary drivers for AMD graphics? Is there a way to scale screen size down on open drivers for AMD?
Logan Wood
Exactly. Nobody even dares to touch this. Speaking about it is already a problem.
Benjamin Perry
Just follow your heart. And write scripts.
I'd say wallpaper doesn't really matter. I can cycle though pictures randomly.
Levi Parker
What fonts do I need to install to read chink + nip characters?
Jaxson Evans
Chink + nip fonts
Jeremiah Ortiz
open box ricing guide where?
Angel Rivera
scale screensize down like with xrandr or do you mean scaling with gtk or qt? display scaling is very easy with things like gnome. foss drivers should do fine.
Ethan Rodriguez
What is the difference between zsh and bash?
Tyler Hall
scale screensize down like i have 1080p monitor but when i 1920x1080 it cuts down the edges like it's too big to fit
Isaiah Flores
Come from OS X thinking about starting with elementary OS. All I do on a computer is use the internet and make music (thinking about running Bitwig).
Is elementary a good place to start?
Brandon Cook
>install openbox theme >done
Nolan Adams
No, it's not. Install normal Ubuntu or one of its flavors and get the Elementary Os GTK themes. The reasons why Elementary Os should be avoided have been posted countless times: it's an immature desktop environment on top of an Ubuntu LTS release.
But then again, you shouldn't listen to random post on here and make up your own mind by trying it.
Michael Cruz
wasnt openbox supposed to be as rice-able as all those android launchers ?
David Gutierrez
could you try to explain this further? or draw a graphic?
Jason Bennett
Ok, replaced that shitty python script with a bash function now. Parsing shell syntax in shell, yay.
Samuel Price
What does riceable even mean?
>as all those android launchers What?
Thomas Young
Is there a way to automatically open mpv with "always on top" and "always on visible workspace" by default in GNOME3?
Jace Hughes
How do I change the colors on vim? I changed in my terminal but vim is showing all the text in white.
Jace Wright
Why does noone install gentoo? I'm disappointed...
Ayden Lewis
There's a flag for always on top. How about you check your mpv config.
Leo Rogers
Took me 4 seconds to search the internet on how to enable syntax highlighting in vim.
you know like android ricing you even have generals on Sup Forums dedicated to showing off their homescreens and all that stuff. I want to be able to configure it for neat looks
Lucas Hall
you can do that with any DE. if you want similarity to that start with GNOME
Nathaniel Johnson
The shell features are different. The first thing you will notice is the auto completion is a lot different. There is small inconsistencies in the scripting but I don't have a list
Samuel Rodriguez
i would want to use WM instead of DM, im on openbox but as a newbie i cant find any customization options
Sebastian Rodriguez
a DM (display manager) has nothing to do with your WM other than that you can set which WM or DE you want to start. as a newbie you should really rather use a DE first but if you are this stubborn you could try to find the openbox settings. it's just one menu dude, it's not too hard.
Jaxson Cruz
Guess what, a desktop environment has a window manager. So even if you use GNOME you're still using GNOME's window manager (which is called Mutter if I remember correctly).
>i cant find any customization options There are themes and the obconf utility. Alternatively edit the rc.xml file manually.
It seems to me that you don't even know what you want to change, but instead you have this ridiculous concept of "ricing".
Justin Russell
>It seems to me that you don't even know what you want to change, but instead you have this ridiculous concept of "ricing"
i dont even know what can i change, maybe i should change my DE to like gnome or xfce
Benjamin Martin
you can install all of those and use gdm or lightdm to choose between them. this way you can test stuff out and see what you actually like.
Daniel Rivera
If moved the files from the hard drive I use for games and steam to cloud storage and formatted the drive from ntfs to ext4 and move them back to play on my Linux partition and made a wine prefix, would that work and could I still play them on windows?
James King
windows doesn't natively support ext4
Michael Sanchez
Can anybody with the AMD gpu run Steam?
Owen Long
On 16.04*
Kevin Cox
Yeah
Lincoln Jenkins
i can use steam on FOSS amd drivers on debian sid at least. i removed it though because it supports DRM.
Adam Thompson
Install obconf, obmenu and obkey. Those allow you to change anything Openbox related.
Chase Barnes
You can run steam with any GPU if you cant get it to start you are probably having this issue
zenity --question --title="Purge libraries" --text="Do you have an OpenGL/render error preventing Steam from starting?" --icon-name=steam 2>/dev/null if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then find ~/.steam/root/ \( -name "libgcc_s.so*" -o -name "libstdc++.so*" -o -name "libxcb.so*" \) -print -delete zenity --info --title="Purge libraries" --text="Potentially incompatible Steam libraries have been purged." --icon-name=steam 2>/dev/null else zenity --info --title="Purge libraries" --text="This likely isn't the solution. Check site/forums." --icon-name=steam 2>/dev/null fi
Save that as something like steam-clean and make it executable with chmod +x steam-clean I don't think you have to run it as root because im pretty sure all of the stuff it removes should be in your home folder
Mason Richardson
I have no /media folder, do i have to create it myself now or what?
Connor Nguyen
Why do you need that directory? I finally get to use this phrase: "I think this is a XY problem".
Jack Campbell
to mount my external devices there? at least thats what they taught me in school, did something change?
Liam Clark
When downloading videos, youtube-dl doesn't work for some sites (command line. Version: 2014.08.05). I'm using debian testing. However, I can download everything from the browser using an add-on.
Should I say fuck it and update youtube-dl? Will it fuck up something with my distro?
Samuel Torres
You can mount it wherever you want and create directories that you want. Depending on how you mount your devices, it might behave differently. For example if you use automatic mounting with udisks, it will mount things in /run/media/YOU
Blake Richardson
Hello fellow ricers! Tell me please what file managers look similar to nautilus but are more lightweight?
Nautilus starts almost instantly thanks to the "daemon" feature, uses like 20MB of RAM and 0-1% CPU during idle. You couldn't tell that it was running if you weren't looking at htop constantly. So, please stop misusing the term "lightweight". Unless with lightweight you mean less features, but it's hard to find a file-manager with less features than Nautilus.
Asher Morgan
I can't open Steam. It doesn't show any login information. How to fix this? I am running Xubuntu 14.04.3
Nolan Walker
Don't open Steam, it's botnet!
Luke Hill
I installed Ubuntu 16.04 in my netbook and appears I do not have graphics driver! There are many causes to this, but I need to know if I did something wrong, ok? So please, help me: >NO GPU, NO CPU: APU! >AMD E-240 >wrong screen resolution, adding one by means of Xrandr fucks everything if selected >checked 'additional drivers', not even one listed there >I chose 'no proprietary software' when installing >Ubuntu 16.04 abandoned the first proprietary graphic drivers of AMD, chose new open-source ones still being developed and released >don't know if AMD will release drivers for my model, that has at least 6 years So, what do you think?
Christopher Green
use mc, its very 'lightweight'
Juan Morgan
I mean, has less deps. A screenful of dependencies is a bit too much for a file manager, isn't it?
Jace Gray
It doesn't look anywhere like Nautilus though.
Easton Flores
where can I get a 32 bit binary of wget?
I installed arch and set up pacman (keys etc..), but it needs wget to get the files... I can't build it from source there (no compiler, make) I tried 'apt-get download wget:i386' on my other machine, but that gets me a deb package, not a binary I couldn't find a binary on the internet I don't know how to change the configuration file to make it build a 32 bit binary on my 64 bit computer (arch is on a 32 bit computer, debian on a 64)
what do?
Joshua Miller
you can unpack the .deb file on you other machine with dpkg -x (or --extract)
Asher Taylor
spacefm
Wyatt Bell
>no compiler, make Install the base-devel group.
>it needs wget to get the file What are yo utalking about?
Gavin Scott
Why on earth are you using such an old version? It gets updated like every couple of days or weeks.
>what do? How about getting to the base of the problem? Why do you think you need wget and what files are you trying to get? There's a reason nobody else has this problem.
Jayden Gutierrez
when I run 'pacman -S' I get '/usr/bin/wget no such file or directory'
Ayden Young
post the full command you are trying to use, or is that it?
Grayson White
how did you install arch without installing wget? in any case, you can download the arch package from a mirror, either install it manually (pacman -U pkg) or place it in /var/cache/pacman/pkg and pacman will detect it as "already downloaded"
'pacman -Syu' or 'pacman -S pkgname' both get the same error
Juan Ward
thunar, if you want cli - ranger
Sebastian Clark
Are you still in chroot or something? You've done something drastically wrong.
Anthony Rodriguez
visit nixers.net
Ian Nguyen
if this is a new install, you should start again, you fucked something up and it's probably easier to start over
Colton Jones
gnome/kde/xfce or something else for Sup Forums badboy
Bentley Brown
Did you want to ask a question?
James Evans
CDE D E
Ryan Morales
ok, this worked and now I can use pacman normally
Xavier Miller
i recommend reinstalling base (pacman -S base)
Charles Morgan
So does it work with the foss drivers + firmware-amd-graphics and amd64-microcode? Do you have problems with xrandr? I have difficulties understanding your problem.
Alexander Nelson
there's no obkey in my repo and AUR one is asking for GTK when it's already installed
>one is asking for GTK when it's already installed So what? Install it. It's asking for gtk2 most likely and I don't know how you don't have that one installed already.
Thomas Ward
Hold on. I'm running Stable (Jessie). Whoa. I didn't switch when they did the freeze of Jessie back when it was Testing.
Call me names and shit, I deserve some nudging.
Nolan Rogers
I'm reading a lot about Fedora being the Linux version of Windows 10 in terms of calling home to the mothership, is this because it comes with selinux and no firewall by default or am I being ignorant?
Camden Sanders
you're not ignorant for reading bs. Fedora has a firewall by default and neither it nor SELinux phone home by default. The only questionable thing Fedora does is to sneakily install a browser extension in Chrome, Chromium or Firefox, which changes your user agent string to have "Fedora" in it, so they can more accurately measure usage numbers through, for example, wikipedia's statistics, because previously there was no way to tell apart Fedora users from users of other distros
