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I hope you posted an image of ESR ironically, because that guy is a true cunt.
Leo Reyes
Probably to show ESRs autism when talking about meeting ballmer.
Matthew Howard
first for fedoro
Ian Morris
It's a screencap of the first minute from .
Julian Baker
>I hope you posted an image of ESR What the hell. He's pretty cool. What exactly did he do?
Daniel Reyes
Ayy lmao who /bluetile/ here?
Austin Collins
So I'm trying to get nvidia working. Installed nvidia-settings. and it said to run "nvidia-xconfig" and after rebooting xorg won't start anymore. can anyone help? From the log it looks like it was a no screens found
Looks interesting. vimeo.com/6661713 I guess newfriends would enjoy it.
William Turner
I need some help with this command. find . -mindepth 0 -iname "*hokudai*"/ -exec rsync -R --remove-source-files "{}" 0-Hokudai/ \;
This finds all files containing the word 'hokudai' in its name and moves them to the 0-Hokudai directory.
My question is, how do I make it to transfer also directories that contain the keyword.
The command would transfer hokudai01.txt hokudai02.pdf welcometohokudai.avi, but not the directory logsfromhokudaiandstuff/ .
How do I achieve that?
Nolan Powell
-type d
Jose Lee
Anyone have functionally or visually cool scripts for i3-blocks/i3-blocks-gaps they'd like to share?
Nathan Stewart
>-mindepth 0 Doesn't make sense to me. Try without.
Logan Hill
Is anyone here using the latest 1.2.2 version of NetworkManager and its applet? Does the applet sometimes fuck up for you? It says that there's no connection available and right clicking doesn't show any connections, but according to the right click I'm connected since there's a "disconnect" entry. The CLI version of NetworkManager shows the proper values and available connections. The connection is working fine.
I don't know if I'm doing something wrong or if it's a bug that should be reported.
Caleb Baker
WHEN IS FUCKING F24 COMIGN OUT
David Ross
Are you running Arch
Levi Sanders
sugi pula
Tyler Lopez
Yes. The ncurses (nmtui) version is also working fine and connects without issues. I assume this is an nm-applet bug.
>tfw too lazy to report it and concerned to embarrass yourself when you report something that turns out to be an issue on your end
Does anyone else suffer from bug reporting anxiety?
ESR was one of those people who, post 911, just never really bounced back. Whatever political leanings he had became much more pronounced, and nowadays most things he talks about are either borderline tinfoil hat or full-blown schizophrenia.
If you think the usual brand of morons that hang out on this website are bothered by "social justice" and the people who perpetuate it, you ain't met ESR yet. The same goes for governmental coverups/conspiracy theories, ladder theory, gun rights, and whatever happens to be bothering him this month.
Not saying he isn't a talented guy, it's just that he took a dive off the deep end a number of years ago and never resurfaced. Nawmean?
Samuel Nelson
I need help with lemonbar.
I've configured it to display a lot of informations, but some of the scripts are slow, which results in lemonbar updating slow also.
Currently I'm using it like this: while true; do echo "$(function1) $(function2)..." done | lemonbar
How can I make it so lemonbar doesn't wait for all functions to finish before it displays the echo line?
Parker Allen
I've never really known much about him except for the stuff he's done, but just looking at his wiki entry,
>Raymond describes himself as neo-pagan.
...He literally puts on his robe and wizard hat.
Luke Mitchell
Where exactly do I put that?
Looks in all directories with depth higher than 0. i.e. All directories.
Elijah Foster
How do I write the contents of a command to a text file in linux?
Like a log file or the output of sudo pacman -Qs nvidia?
Joshua Moore
Added it to rsync. It's working. I'll post results.
Jonathan Butler
command > file command >> file to append
Lincoln Green
Nope.
Carson Barnes
when I put in a usb in arch where is the folder? at command line so don't know where to find it
Ian Lewis
want to export some error logs to a usb and I can't find the usb.
Jaxon Brown
try just typing in 'mount' or 'less /etc/mtab'
It'll probably be the one under /media/ or /mnt/
Adrian Nguyen
I have two large problems with a recent Ubuntu 16.04 installation on a HP Probook 6475b. Based on my limited knowledge they are probably both related to Unity, but I could be wrong:
>1 Oftentimes when I turn my computer on it displays the screen that shows before the OS loads, ie the screen that you could press esc on and then get into the BIOS. However after this the screen often goes completely black, and remains that way. It takes no input, and I cant get any way. Sometimes it works after a while, and the login screen shows, only it takes very long (15 - 30 min), but other times it stays that way. Longest I have seen was 45 minutes. I have tried using ctrl + alt + t, and ctrl+alt + f1 to get into terminal but this hasn't worked. I thought I found a workaround, namely to shut the lid on my laptop when in this state, and wait for it to go to sleep mode, then open the lid again, press the on button once. This has actually worked a few times, but not always. >2 If my computer manages to get into the login screen I often (but not always) meet a second problem. After entering my credentials, the login "box" diseappears and the background on my computer is the only thing that shows, no taskbar, no launcher, not even the cursor. Sometimes it works after a while, from seconds to minutes, but other times it just stays that way. After my computer remaining in this state for 15 minutes I tried to open a terminal with ctrl+alt+t and ctrl+alt+f1, this didn't work. I also tried the REISUB method of restarting the computer but this didn't work either. I eventually had to just use a hard shutdown. Sometimes this problem appear after using the occasionally working work-around in 1), and sometimes it appears on a boot without any other problems.
Anyone know the soulution to this / these problem(s), or know any troubleshooting tips?
Tyler King
Thanks so much.
Kayden Ortiz
Where the fuck do I download WPS Office's .tar.xz?
Gavin Hill
systemd-analyze --blame would come to mind. Which DM do you use?
Parker Jenkins
What distros have the best out-of-the-box Cinnamon setup besides Mint?
Brayden Clark
manjaro
Nathaniel Taylor
Debian newfag here Is there any program to replace Flash?
mount device_node /mnt/usbstick how do I find out device_node. I've tried lsblk -f but none of the details there work.
William Bennett
Tinkering with the command. find . -mindepth 0 -iname "*hokudai*" -exec rsync -R -type d "{}" 0-Hokudai/ \;
The find command lists all right directories named 'hokudai', but rsync skips them. It only gets them if they contain a matching file, and only the files that match.
How do I make rsync to transfer the directories?
Xavier Hughes
type d should be used with find
Evan Parker
DM, what is that? Dont know what that is, I'm on the standard Ubuntu 16.04 installation. Do you think the two problems have a common cause in the systemd-analyze?
Samuel Ramirez
If you still want to use flash, Chrome has a third-party flash player called PepperFlash. You can either install it bundled with Chrome, or install it separately and use it with Chromium or something.
Elijah Kelly
>unironically using chrome
Dylan Wright
This is a friendly thread, no bullying allowed!
Alexander Scott
Ok, but that doesn't solve my question.
Aaron Hall
I think it's /dev/sdb? from but when I put that in I get wrong fs tupe, bad option , bad superblock.
do I need to format my usb?
Cameron Flores
I have been using Xubuntu for 2 months now, everything just werks but I need to wipe my laptop soon. I also want to set up a home server with Debian stable. Should I just change to Debian XFCE on my laptop?
Levi Price
you should be able to install cinnamon on most distribution. And the configuration of it is pretty easy since there is a lot of GUI to configure it as you want.
Josiah Flores
I know I can. I do. But that's not what I asked.
Jaxson Jenkins
If you uninstall flash you'll see that most websites provide a html5 player. If they do not, you can use mpv that will stream the content for a lot of websites. There is also pluggins to replace the flash players with a html5 player on firefox.
Joshua Torres
I don't understand why Mint's security gets memed so hard here while distros like Arch/Manjaro have been guilty security transgressions as bad or worse and no one ever brings those up.
Chase Martinez
What's a faster transfer protocol than SFTP? My NFS sucks at speed
Landon Sanders
Manjaro does get bashed by security oriented people.
As for Arch, I don't know. You can see complaints about security here and there from security experts, but most people here don't complain about their security. Might be bias, I'm not sure.
Jace Richardson
finally got it working. learned alot lol.
Adam Turner
I want to buy this thing. Will Mint work well with this? I'll really just be using it for books and shit. Since it has Windows 8, I"m assuming it will bother me with the Windows 10 shit.
Be careful; a lot of those cheap Atom tablet things have 32-bit UEFI which no one really supports properly (as of the last time I looked into it).
Christopher Foster
I cracked the case! This one works. I needed the -a flag! find . -mindepth 0 -iname "*hokudai*" -exec rsync -Ra "{}" 0-Hoku/ \;
It needed the -a flag (archive). The reason I wasn't using it is because I have rsync aliased to 'rsync -avzP', but when doing the -exec rsync, it doesn't pick the alias, but the original command.
I'm off to sort my ancient files.
Angel Ward
How can I use mpv to stream for sites? I usually download beforehand.
Sebastian Martinez
from sites*
Josiah Ward
What does that actually do?
Daniel Peterson
They should have named the Flash alternative as Quicksilver.
Logan Peterson
mpv supports youtube-dl ootb, just have youtube-dl installed
Austin Evans
It just makes it a pain in the ass because it's a goofy, non-standard setup that no one provides installation media for. It's possible things have improved in the year or so it's been since I looked into it, but expect lots of fiddling around by hand trying to get things to work, and not a lot of information available to help you.
Adam Thomas
Word of advice if someone wants to add this to his/her bashrc. Use instead.
Otherwise is finds itself over and over again and fills the hard drive ad infinitum. Make sure that the destination directory doesn't match the regex or the same shit will happen!
Camden Campbell
I have it. I thought it was something more complicated. Just start downloading the video and open it with mpv even before the download ends, right?
Jordan Morales
open the URL with mpv
Angel Fisher
Nope, you just use mpv directly
mpv youtube.com/videoblahblah
Thomas Roberts
Thinking of dual booting linucks on my laptop. Tried using ubuntu in a vm but it was running too slow so I'm just gonna dual boot it. Totally new to linux. What distro should I use?
Jackson Jones
architect
Jason Smith
You had the right idea with Ubuntu. Try the standard (Unity) version and Ubuntu MATE live CDs and see which one you prefer. You can try Linux Mint (Cinnamon version), too.
Jason Watson
No internet connection, can't get to router. Living in a hotel for 20 days. Is internet connection required?
David Jackson
when installing it, yes
Nathaniel Edwards
I think i'll probably go with mint. Thanks.
Nathan Hughes
I'm trying to set up MPD to stream over http, but it doesn't work (no audio)
This is the audio_output I have in my config
audio_output { type "httpd" name "My HTTP Stream" encoder "lame" # optional, vorbis or lame port "55555" # quality "5.0" # do not define if bitrate is defined bitrate "128" # do not define if quality is defined format "44100:16:1" always_on "yes" # prevent MPD from disconnecting all listeners when playback is stopped. tags "yes" # httpd supports sending tags to listening streams. }
Then I do mpc add 192.168.1.244:1234 and disable the pulse audio output so it looks like this ~ $ mpc disable 1 Output 1 (pulse) is disabled Output 2 (My HTTP Stream) is enabled
To expand, I also tried via MPDroid on my phone I set up the IP and the port and select Streaming from the menu, but also no sound
Aaron Miller
I don't get why the FGLT website in the OP omits arch linux and says it has NOTHING special. I don't use arch. But the AUR and the wiki were fantastic when I used it.
Lincoln Sanders
Actually fuck it even has funtoo there, funtoo is literally gentoo. Every time I've asked why I should use funtoo instead of gentoo I never got a good reason.
Kevin Wilson
It's fun instead of gen
Christian Taylor
I started with Ubuntu and Mint and moved to Arch after about two months.
Brody Baker
just configured mine, this is what i did kill all mpd edit mpd.conf
port "6600" music_directory "path/to/dir" playlist_directory "path/to/dir" db_file "~/.mpd/mpd.db" log_file "~/.mpd/mpd.log" pid_file "~/.mpd/mpd.pid" state_file "~/.mpd/mpdstate" audio_buffer_size "4096" mixer_type "software" bind_to_address "your ip" #ifconfig will tell you samplerate_converter "0"
audio_output { type "alsa" name "equal" format "44100:16:1" options "dev=dmixer" device "plug:plugequal" }
audio_output { type "httpd" name "My HTTP Stream" port "8000" encoder "lame" quality "5.0" #bitrate "128" path "/tmp/mpd.fifo" format "44100:16:1" max_clients "0" }
audio_output { type "fifo" name "my_fifo" path "/tmp/mpd.fifo" format "44100:16:1" }
restart mpd bind mpdroid to your ip and port works for me, along with alsaequal and fifo for visualizer
Nicholas Barnes
Do any arch users have bumblebee working on their computer?
Kayden Stewart
>tfw have to use FLGRX driver for OpenSUSE >tfw AMDGPU for Ubuntu 16.04 gave me screen tearing issues in multi-monitors
I guess I will keep being proprietary cuck
James Walker
How long til wayland becomes good enough to use fulltime?
Levi Cox
>tfw not enough penguin reaction images. I never asked for this.
Jaxson Ward
>Install Debian on new x220 >Works fine >4gb ram gets here, install it >Endless boot loop >Take ram out >It works >Install Fedora >Same issue >Install Windows 7 >it just werks If I boot with apci=off, it boots into a weird resolution, but actually boots. What exactly am I doing wrong here?
Cameron Foster
And to add to this, I've tried using known good memory. Same results.
Parker Thompson
Which distro should I install in order to learn some intro C programming? I don't really give a shit about linux as a whole, it just seems to me like unix etc. would be the best environment to work with pure C in, and we used ubuntu in my intro college OS course.
Should I just stick with memebuntu again? I've installed it myself before a long time ago so I'm not a complete stranger.
Thomas Walker
literally any distro
Chase Robinson
trying to boot it just doesn't't go further than this
Xavier Morgan
>he fell for the ArchLinux meme
Ayden Myers
Try Ctrl+Alt+F2, then execute startx. Tell me what it says.
Jackson Long
What are some good Japanese IMEs? (kana input)
Jonathan King
The very best I've used is mozc and Anthy; it isn't fun to configure, but once you've got it going, it's very good. I used this guide because I'm stupid: okomestudio.net/biboroku/?p=1834
Jack Johnson
...
Zachary Fisher
When more then 5 programs use it. And when it dosent rely on hooking in to X11 for everything
