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I've checked where the /sbin/init is pointing to and it says its linked to busybox. what do I do?
Jeremiah Baker
Three hours till I pass out, and wondering whether to rice, fap, watch anime, or shitpost Its hard sometimes.
Ryder Adams
if it's hard then your choice is pretty obvious
Liam Torres
In general I would still say no.
If you only play a few games and aren't the type to always need to play the latest greatest stuff then you might be able to just look it up first, and see how the games run on similar hardware in Linux for others. Come up with a gameplan first, basically.
But otherwise I would still say the status of Linux in the game development world is still not at a point where gamers should just be switching over without having to think about it and expect to be happy.
We don't need everyone to be using Linux though for Linux gaming to take off. All we need is for you guys to want to be able to game on Linux, let game devs know, support it. Even if you're still using Windows it'll help.
Hudson Allen
You could just dualboot and use Windows as gaming console and GNU/Linux for serious computing. Games that work in WINE actually have better performance than on native Windows, but don't expect any AAA+ games to work here. You can play in a VM when you pass the GPU to the VM, but that's a bit difficult to set up. I wouldn't recommend such things for beginners.
To be honest, it takes a while to feel save with the new OS, but you can save a lot time by learning and using the terminal as much as you can. That said, if you choose a distro like Ubuntu, you barely need to touch the terminal ever. Those distros are designed to 'just work'.
>Is it worth it? I never looked back.
Oh, to your ricing question: You *basically* don't need any programming skills or deeper knowlege about the system to rice, 99% of all programs here are configured by simble .txt config files. You change settings to your likings - ready is your 1337 tiling WM. There are also a lot of places on the web where people are shareing their configs that you can grab when you're lazy. There are also some distros which already come prericed like bunsenlabs or manjaro spins with i3, bswpm, etc.
Hunter Myers
pretty comfy right now lads
Grayson Carter
I am not new to Linux and no way new to "computers", but I lack much proper knowledge about Unix and related stuff. The hardest task for me was once to find the uncommented line of my Wacom tablet's driver due to which my Xs on Arch were completely failing to start. Also, everything applies both for Linux, Mac and Win.
So, what I want to know: 1) Using the bash and doing most of the stuff in consoles. 2) I have never compiled from a source code and do not understand how code transforms into machine commands. How does it work and how do I start? 3) I am familiar with networking, but not quite. Tannenbaum is must-read, but who would tell me how le maimai deepweb mesh networks work?
Optional, but very desired: 4) Introduction to Encryption methods.
Wikipedia would not suffice. So?
Jordan Gutierrez
/brit/
Leo Morris
What machine is that?
Kayden Morgan
nigga look up the Qualcomm MSM number, it's a Snapdragon 820 I'm running it on my OnePlus 3
Robert Wright
Running it on my OnePlus 3 using CM13 and the Linux Deploy app from the play store
check the Qualcomm msm no. in the screenfetch, it's a Snapdragon 820
Michael Roberts
stop copying my posts and fuck off back to /brit/
Nicholas Perez
1) OP -> copypasta collection -> shell pasta 2) there's basically no need for knowledge to compile a program. when you have a source code archive, you extract it, run "make" and "make install", that's it some packages can be configured with ./configure, if so, it's explained in a README or INSTALL file, ./configure --help also explaines what can be configured when you run "make", the compiler will convert the source code to binary and create a file you can execute "make install" moves the new file to your other programs 3) tor -> clearnet works like this: you -> proxy -> proxy -> proxy -> exit -> website tor -> .onion works like this: you -> proxy -> proxy -> proxy -> website 4) learning gpg is a good start
Ryder Rogers
oh fuck off you yank
Wyatt Lee
A lot of the games I play are on Linux but there's quite a few that still aren't and they're good ones. It seems that the AAA games seem to never bother to support Linux at all, the people who seem to do it are the smaller developers who actually care to listen to their community.
Surely it's not the hardest thing to make your game compatible with Linux right? I'm sure it's not as easy as a few lines of code, but for a game developer company it probably wouldn't be too big of a hit. I dualbooted Xubuntu on my rMBP but ended up just never booting into it because everything that I wanted to do on my laptop could be done pretty elegantly and fluently through native macOS anyway, so I never really had a reason to boot into it. It was fun messing around with it and getting it to work though, I'm not a complete retard when it comes to the terminal, know most of the basic shit but I'm far from 'fluent.'
I watched a couple videos on ricing and like you said it was mostly messing around with config files. However, the video I was watching (because he was copying his setup on his main machine from a vanilla VM) he would just know a random package to install to get xyz thing compatible or work properly. I feel like if something wasn't compatible I'd spend 1000 years trying to search for a package to fix it or add functionality etc.
For most of my computing needs a nice riced Linux distro would be perfect, I really like the custom HTML/CSS 'start pages' people make on /wg/.
But one of the main things I do with my PC is jump in a Discord chat with a bunch of mates and play some games. I don't want everyone to be playing a game and me be like, "can't play that because it's not supported on Linux."
Also switching from Microsoft Office to Libre seems like a step backwards and might make typing up a simple Uni assignment that much more difficult. Switching my music from iTunes to a nice Linux music player, trying to get my iPhone to sync to Linux, etc
Austin Jones
>can't wake up
Liam Hill
> 1) Thanks > 2) Yes, I do understand this, but I want to go further. > 3) That is obvious as well. I mean, all the implementations of non-traditional clearnet, there gotta be studies on that besides official sites and mans. You would not suggest reading iptables man and windows networking manual for clearnet, would you? > 4) What do you mean by that? I don't get it. I know there are plenty of encryption software, I mean I want to know how encryption protocol works, not how a specific program does.
Nathan Ramirez
>Surely it's not the hardest thing to make your game compatible with Linux right? It's actually a ton of work considering most AAA games are written with DirectX which Linux can't run. So they'd have to rewrite the entire rendering system to OpenGL or use some kind of abstraction layer
However that might change in the near future due to Vulkan. Even windows users are asking for devs to support Vulkan over DX12 because it'll run on older versions of Windows and is basically equivalent. In fact DX12 and Vulkan are so similar that devs have said they can't imagine companies supporting one and not the other.
So if games start being developed with Vulkan then that would make porting games to Linux a breeze
Lincoln Bennett
So I made this webm with ffmpeg, but it's too large (7MB) how can I lower the quality so it fits into 4MB?
Kevin Parker
3D isn't the only issue, you also have input/sound/networking to worry about though there's nice cross-platform solutions for those such as SDL
Robert Foster
Fair point. I just haven't seen any urgency as to why the convenient route is THAT bad and I should feel the urge to switch to freedom.
The companies stay afloat by selling your data and letting companies mine through the data for various patterns that suite their agendas. Unless you're doing something super fucked/obscure then you're just another point of data in a sea of millions of others.
Unless I'm haven't heard about some fucked shit that I should be aware of? I really hope so. If Nvidia is as shady as everyone makes them out to be then I doubt they'll just let everyone start shifting towards semi-universal Linux compatability, without a fight at least
Colton Gray
lower the bitrate/increase the CRF
also, the limit for webm here in 3M, only jpg/gif/png is 4M (because reasons) it's also limited to 2000x2000 and 2 minutes
Jackson Gray
Thanks
Bentley Bell
>mfw had to use AMPL for school >teacher gives me .bat files to run the models > use wine cmd /c 'run.bat' > parse logs with (g)awk (seriously, this is awesome) > set .dat files to use with gnuplot > orchestrate everything with zsh > it works Fucking awesome. Wanted to use an excuse to use the Turtle library on haskell, but this stuff worked at the first try.
Henry Rogers
spying on you isnt alright because they probably dont care about you personally, and'll only have their algorithms look at it.
Juan Martinez
>I just haven't seen any urgency as to why the convenient route is THAT bad Use Linux for a year or so and then try to go back to Windows. Then you'll understand. Literally everything about Windows is utter shit by comparison except for the fact that it has more software developed for it. and that doesn't even bring into consideration the privacy concerns of win10
>Unless I'm haven't heard about some fucked shit that I should be aware of? It's up to you.
But I think I remember an incident in the past where AOL data was leaked and some people basically created a browsable database of all the sites people were visiting. You could follow someones activity and see which sites the went to and when.
and those were just your basic logs. Imagine what kind of shit you could do with the kind of data that win10 (or google) harvests. If you're comfortable trusting their security, and supporting those actions by not telling them you don't like it, then that's your choice.
Carter Watson
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Isaiah Young
pointless question - is shutting down from the menu the same process as shutting down from terminal? if so, why do i need to provide my password in terminal but not in the menu?
Isaac Morris
I've always held the opinion that we could certainly have both.
Jeremiah Carter
to find what bitrate you multiply the filesize you want (3mb in the case of the chans) by 8192. Then you divide by how many seconds long the webm is. so for a 20 seconds clip it's 3*8192/20=1228. I usually round down a little bit, so I'd target 1200 in that case. I went full autisim with my webms and use this
where -b:v is the calculation you made earlier and bufsize is anywhere from 1 to .5 times that calculation. so in this case 1200 to 600.
Austin Jenkins
I'm pretty sure you need to be root in the terminal because its using a program in /sbin, which is in the superusers path, but not in normal users. IDK about startmenu shutdown options.
Jaxson Young
Depends on how your system is set up. Password-less shutdown usually goes through PAM and as a result desktop enviros are usually given full permission to shutdown and restart the machine without a pass. In most distros, terminals are as well but idk why yours isn't.
Logan Robinson
Thanks for your autism, I've already searched for a solution to calculate this for a shell script.
Eli Ross
I'm sure some good services/improvements to algorithms have come from the mining of everyone's data but fair point. Everyone should be entitled to their own privacy and have 100% transparency of where their data is going/what it's being used for if they opt into letting it get harvested. Yeah, I feel like as soon as I get hooked on Linux I'll never turn back. It's just getting over the hump that is learning how different it is running your computer in manual as opposed to automatic. Need to learn how to edit configs, shell scripts, master the terminal, figure out how to troubleshoot when shit goes wrong, etc, etc. It's like a whole new methodology, decent amount of work
I guess whenever you give an ISP money to have your house connected to the internet you're giving them all your data around your browsing history. Unless there's measures to hide this embedded within a Linux OS?
Austin Rivera
>I guess whenever you give an ISP money to have your house connected to the internet you're giving them all your data around your browsing history. Unless there's measures to hide this embedded within a Linux OS?
If you want to hide your net history a VPN would be the way to go.
Leo Clark
It's not really even a question of whether it's harmful or not.
The question is why do they need this now? Windows never spied on you like this before and they got along just fine. Why would you be ok with having your comp have tons of backdoors and streaming data of your daily activity round the clock to some company all of a sudden just because they're become aware of what a cash cow big data is.
>The question is why do they need this now? Windows never spied on you like this before and they got along just fine
They can sell data to advertisers and the NSA.
Henry Brooks
does anyone know what the fuck an xmi file is? there's no real history or information on it anywhere i can find. it looks like it's some kind of legacy midi format. i've never seen it before and i'm trying to get compatibility with a modern midi server daemon
Ayden Walker
Windows started to phone home since XP, it's just that they don't hide it anymore since 10.
Andrew Peterson
Did they? on what sort of levels? I thought it was only stuff like crash reports, update status etc. I didn't think full scale telemetry was a thing even in win 7. Well, before win got certain patches anyway.
With what MS have gotten away with surrounding win 10 it goes to show people on the whole don't give a fuck about their OS spying on them. Some personal users go to linux like me, some buisness users crack the shits when a forced update ruins their work. but how many can really afford to switch infrastructure? MS has everyone by the balls.
Joshua Thomas
>people on the whole don't give a fuck about their OS spying on them.
Of course they don't. Even basic security and privacy measures are too much for them. Why do you think people always make shitty passwords? Because they're lazy and a crap password is more convenient.
Aiden Bailey
that "linux is free and doesn't spy" thing is just marketing, it hasn't much better politics than microsoft. actually, there are over 20,000 linux of code made by microsoft developers in the kernel, so the foundation doesnt sue ms for usin gpl'd stuff, instead of writing free drivers, they use proprietary ucode, which make backdoors possible in the same way like on windows...
Nathaniel Perez
>Windows started to phone home since XP, it's just that they don't hide it anymore since 10. It's been logging url/email/viewed pictures since 98, there's hidden encrypted files with that shit on.
Kevin Reed
Found this yesterday: Yeah well, but it's obviously A LOT better than using an OS where everything is proprietary, right? It's a very succsessful entry level, at least. Then again, if people want full freedom, there's always GNU Linux-libre.
Xavier Sullivan
>there are over 20,000 linux of code made by microsoft developers in the kernel,
The only reason they did that was so Linux would work properly on HyperV. Microsoft is getting to the point where they don't care if people run Linux as long as they run it on Microsoft services like Azure or on a Windows Server running Linux VMs
Luke James
That's what disturbs me the most.
I mean, Microsoft is a company and I can't blame them for doing whatever they can that works and makes them money.
But people not caring about their privacy not only scares me because the general public decides what's acceptable, but also because I literally cannot comprehend it. Try as I might I simply cannot in my wildest dreams put myself in a position where I don't care about someone looking over my shoulder 24/7.
Isaiah Collins
The annoying thing is as well is that having the slightest concern over your own privacy gets you labeled a "tinfoil hatter" (or some variant) or that you shouldn't have anything to fear if you're not a criminal.
Think about how many times you've heard the phrase "I have nothing to hide"
Wyatt Brown
It's not really surprising given how much people will willingly surrender to Facebook and other communications platforms. As far as Ms tells you about win10 telemetry it's just "usage stats", which seems fairly innocuous if you aren't a tinfoilfag like myself and others in the minority.
I may have posted this before, but I stopped using 10 when it downloaded 8 gig of patches on a metered connection, forced the install. I reverted the patches, tried to block updates. it had wiped all mys settings even after reverting anyway. Then the next night it did the same thing again I was fucking livid.
other shit like that actually makes me want to throw up. my grandmother died and no one posted anything about it or did anything like send text messages relating to it, only immediate family in the hospital knew. within the hour my sisters/mums facebook was nothing but ads for funeral services and such. the fucking mic is on and listening to conversations I'm sure of it.
Liam Nelson
Facebook is actually a huge problem, even when you don't have an account, because of all the like and comment shit all over the web. Every time you see such a button, facebook knows what site you are on, keeps logs, generates ads and the NSA just needs to collect the collections.
Michael Ward
We are in the matrix
Asher Harris
guys what happened, actual informative content and discussion on /fglt/? did I miss something?
Isaiah Green
Install uMatrix and filter the fuckers.
Brayden Powell
I stopped using KDE's discover and installed synaptic. Can I now remove discover without causing issue?
Parker Green
Unless it's part of a package group you should be fine.
Zachary Lee
I want to go back to the Berenstein universe
Jason Green
I want web 1.0 back. Fuck this phone optimized ugly bloated shit. Load one website, contact 100000000000000 servers to load another 1000000000000000 js libs fonts and other content that tries to spy on me or asks me to "comment" on every little shit.
I want a web with useful content, not a normalfag toilet. (reeee) :^)
godd damn..... i want an excuse to murder as many people as i can before i run out of ammo
Austin Lopez
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Elijah Campbell
i don't want to waste ammo on center-leftists when there are far leftists left
Isaiah Lopez
Hey /fglt/, I could really use some help here.
I'm running a very recent release of Linux Mint. I'm interested in setting up my own hotkeys for tab switching, copying and pasting, switching windows, and what not. However, when I set my hotkeys in the control panel, they often break when I try and run them. So I need to fix them.
I figure there is some source code I can look at for how these keyboard shortcuts are implemented so that I can debug these issues.
To find the source code, I started top and opened the control panel. Then I looked for the process and got the pID. But I'm not sure this is the right way to going about finding the source code, looking into the pid.
Can anyone help me? I need to find the source code for implementing keyboard shortcuts so that I can fix this bug and submit an upstream patch.
Ryder Reed
>Mint stopped reading right there there's literally NO reason to use it when theres ubuntu
Ayden Anderson
So if I have a Facebook account which I haven't posted on for 3 years, only like things every now and again to show friends I'm not dead and only really use it for a few group chats or scrolling aimlessly when I'm bored; how fucked am I privacy wise? What sort of data is being collected?
Also have Instagram which I barely ever post on, once every 5 months if that, just like hot girls and hope for the best, same question?
And what about a google account that I just use for YouTube subscriptions and watch random shit, same question again?
How fucked am I, and how can I go about lessening my ties to the botnet without being labelled a complete weirdo/tinfoil if I was to delete my Facebook/Instagram
Angel Morales
I'm making a script that fires 4 instances of mpv with random vids from my porn folder.
How can I auto tile them to the corners?
James Campbell
Not what I asked for.
Are there any big reasons to use Ubuntu over Mint? Kernel optimizations, etc? Or is it really just small differences?
Ethan Wright
don't care mate yes. mint is literally being maintained by a retard who lets isos on the main page get infected with malicious software and your "distro" blocks updates for "stability" reasons when they contain major security patches. keep using it though.
Jaxson Fisher
>isos got malware once >i don't agree with him declining a patch In other words, no difference between the two distributions. Thanks, man! I'll keep using it.
Leo Hill
bump
Brayden Harris
keep using it. "people" like you don't deserve something better
Andrew Williams
bump
Bentley Powell
What's a good way to learn guile for guix? I had a semi-functional setup for a bit, but I found documentation and examples for writing OS configs lacking.
Gavin Jones
xdotool or wmctrl, but a much smarter way would be to tile the movies in one mpv window (lavfi can do that)
Cooper Carter
No, people like me don't have the time to distro-hop for no good reason. I don't have the time to compile Arch or Gentoo but I need Linux. So if Ubuntu holds no major advantages, I will not use it.
In the spirit of /fglt/ could you help me navigate around the source code? It would save me a lot of time if you could point me to where I could find desktop code on my system, and how to find what code is running from each pid. Maybe that's not the right question, but either way I think you get what I mean.
Noah Butler
Thanks for the input. I'll look into lavfi.
Christopher Hernandez
>arch >compile don't namedrop distros to make yourself look cooler if you don't even what what the h*ck your talking about. >source code which source code and what language is it in? >So if Ubuntu holds no major advantages, I will not use it. wouldn't you consider not having broken security an advantage? you could just use windows if you don't care about that
Camden Martinez
>copyright 2007 richard stallman
what now freedomfags even your messiah has forsaken ye
Lucas Gray
Want a new distro for my laptop.
Void or Alpine?
Void: larger community, great init-system and package-management system. Alpine: no GNU, better security, more lightweight(?)
Jayden Hughes
The question you should be asking is what spectrum of autism you are on.
Cooper Turner
prolly hfa just like myself i can spot this kind of thing easily :0
Andrew Roberts
I'm 100% autism free.
But arch has too many dependancies by default and gentoo will kill my laptop battery. Aiso, fuck Stallman.
Juan Allen
Oh, and Pottering too.
Ethan Lopez
are we talking about base-devel or packman itself?
Chase Cook
Why does my wireless internet regulate itself, as in when I use some site its 4-5% and when I watch video or something its 90~%
Justin Rodriguez
Both. but latter more. I just removed >140Mb of comepeletely unneeded kde libs from the system, that were automatically installed with some package to which they are optional.
Wyatt Cook
Guys. I hate the systemd, but sysinit is the best wireless manager I've used, What to do?
Michael Smith
fuck off
John Mitchell
Why the hate, user?
Joseph Jones
you don't hate systemd, you just want to be cool
Adrian Wright
Well, no. I hate it because I've got a bootloop because of a very silly reason and was unable to properly debug it, unlike openRC and since then don't like or rely on it.
