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Your friendly neighborhood search engine: Try to use a search engine that respects your privacy such as qwant, searx, ixquick or startpage.
Simplest way to block sites on Mint? I'm talking porn sites (hentai mangas too) and things like reddit/Sup Forums. It has to be done on computer, not on router.
Nolan Hernandez
1. Open a terminal window.
2. Type in the following command to back up your hosts file, then hit Enter:
sudo cp /etc/hosts /etc/hosts.bak
3. Type in the following command to block Facebook, for example:
sudo sh -c 'echo "0.0.0.0 facebook.com" >> /etc/hosts'
4. If you prefer to use a different method, use this command:
sudo sh -c 'echo "127.0.0.1 facebook.com" >> /etc/hosts'
To block a different site, just replace facebook.com in the command.
Ryan Taylor
Why the hell would you block yourself? What's wrong with reality? Take your censorship and move back to
Jack Ward
blue board
Christopher Torres
>advertising your favorite place
Daniel Miller
Hey retard, there is hosts.allow and hosts.deny exactly for that reason.
Jack James
>hosts.allow and hosts.deny bloat by definition
Evan Reed
you should uninstall mint, it's a security nightmare and their isos were backdoored a while ago
Angel Adams
esxi doesnt like my hardware and wont install proxmox doesn't like my disks and wont install xenserver works fine but randomly shat itself and died after three months
any other baremetal hypervisors to try before I reinstall xenserver?
Anthony Fisher
>xenserver works fine but randomly shat itself and died after three months sounds like a pebkac
Joseph Parker
may well have been
just wnrt to connect with cencenter one morning, no conection, ssh, no response, physical y interface dead, reboot, starts to boot then blackscreen and dead.
booted up a live image and checked disks and hardware- fine
could mount it and check logs but desu I don't really care
Mason Davis
I want to address your retardation and everyone else's retardation too with a similar request. Why do you think that there's a distribution 100% tailored to your idiotic needs? Can you think for a second and realize why that's a beyond retarded idea? Sane people use one of the handful of core distributions and then install and configure it the way they want. Sane people aren't retarded to expect that there's a distribution for the billion billions possible combinations out there.
Ayden Ward
>/t/'s GNU/Linux Training Videos: >
Are these updated?
Which ones of them would you recommend for beginner?
Ryder Harris
Consider trying out one of these nice distibutions of GNU and/or the Linux kernel > GuixSD > NixOS > Gentoo > Funtoo > Exherbo > Source Mage > Slackware > CRUX > Void > Devuan > Debian GNU/kFreeBSD or these fine Unices > FreeBSD > OpenBSD > NetBSD > DragonFlyBSD > MINIX 3 > illumos (a fork of OpenSolaris) and remember - keep an open mind.
Henry Thomas
What does it matter if you're running a free as in freedom operating system if the hardware microcode underneath is closed source and botnet? Face it, as long as Stallman doesn't create a company such as Intel that sells only open hardware (that will never happen) you will NEVER ESCAPE THE BOTNET.
Ian Ross
I like Linux because of customizability. I don't care about freedomz
Austin Lewis
I wasn't asking you.
Josiah Bell
How do I compile the virtualbox dkms module with a custom kernel?
==> dkms install vboxhost/5.1.12_OSE -k 4.10.0-rc2+ Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 4.10.0-rc2+ (x86_64) Consult /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.1.12_OSE/build/make.log for more information.
I've installed the kernel headers but it seems the build process won't find them so does anyone know where it's expecting them to be?
Dominic Walker
have you tried consulting /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.1.12_OSE/build/make.log for more information?
Chase Richardson
...
Brandon Wood
You didn't quote anyone, faggot.
Adrian Murphy
If I install Steam trough playonlinux programs will run in a windows vm but what about games that have native linux support? What can I do to avoid having 2 steam clients (the client that runs trough playonlinux and the one that is natively support by debian's package repo)
Brayden Walker
There's no way, not until Steam adds native Wine support through the Steam client. Which, I'm pretty sure isn't a priority at all to Valve.
Josiah Ramirez
You don't
Connor Thompson
I'm on Arch if that matters.
Hudson Johnson
shit nig! me too!
Brayden Murphy
I have a really old/crap computer that my father wants to use for word/internet and stuff. What distro would you guys reccomend?
Isaiah Barnes
specs?
Joseph Scott
Thanks user. Albeit with "simplest" I meant GUI if possible and something that I could turn off/on with just a click or two (not that I hate CLI). My bad. If there's a GUI solution, do tell.
So I guess I could write multiple hosts files and use the ones I want, like one for only blocking pr0n and one for social networks and copy the one I would want to use at the moment? I assume it must be only 1 file and only "hosts" as a name? Could symbolic links help me here? Keeping vanilla hosts file and just linking to the one I want? Bad?
Notice the "friendly" in title.
>>Why the hell would you block yourself? Because I have (close to) no self-discipline and it affects my life in a negative way. Most of people here might regard me as a "weak faggot" or something along those lines.
>>What's wrong with reality? Fuck if I know.
>Take your censorship and move back to This will be done on my computer, hence the "not on router" part. And hardly censorship because it will be done by me, for me.
Satisfied your 'tism?
Heard of that. Apart from that and forum breach (and ignoring the incompetence of core people), am I compromised? I heard something about Clem not wanting any help from Israel or people supporting it. Found it: abriefhistory.org/?p=774
Now because I heard of past incidents I am looking for another distros. Maybe even Arch if I will muster up the energy to learn enough and customize fully to my needs.
Bentley Powell
>GuixSD Did you try it? Is it stable?
For how long should I be learning programming before trying to contribute to a distro you listed since they are smaller I assume there might be a lower entry gap? Of course not a lower standard.
Blake Young
>wants to use for word >What distro would you guys recommend?
Isaiah Bailey
Has anyone tried to make proper systemd services for their X utilities? Taskbar, volume notifiaction, wallpaper setter, etc?
I tried to, but they fail to start because there's no X session running and they fail. Apparently a way to solve it is to create an X target. But how would I create such a target that starts up with X? Create a target file and autostart it with my window manager (because that's the first thing that launches)?
Christian Bennett
Great question. I think the answer is "baby steps". At least we try to make software open source as possible. Open HW of course also exists but there are probably several factors that limits it's spread. Found this quora.com/Why-is-open-source-hardware-not-as-successful-as-open-source-software and I think it's good answer to your question. I think (maybe I'm too optimistic) in the future there will be vastly more OSHW because the knowledge will be more accessible (arguably it's already because of the internet. But not a lot of people know how to use google to find free PDFs (or for even basic things), use subreddits/boards/forums to find the stuff they need. But this is more anecdotal but I still think masses regard technology as some kind of magic) and because the machines needed to make chips will get cheaper.
Hudson Powell
Specs.
But for a start maybe Ubuntu flavor, like Xubuntu/Lubuntu with Libreoffice if he doesn't needs some exclusive M$ Office stuff.
Asher Ortiz
Is there a good install script/way to install Arch without having to manually install it (I mean using a GUI or something of the sort)?
I have installed it manually a few times but I want to install it again and I'm too lazy to bother with manually installing it without a GUI.
Nolan Roberts
great answer
Nathaniel Taylor
THIS BETTER NOT BE SARCASTIC!
Levi Price
it's not
Noah Brown
1. Installing it takes 5 minutes disregarding the time it takes to download. 2. You must be an idiot if you had to install your operating system that many times. 3. If you actually needed to to automate it, you'd know how. Because anyone who is in a position to automate installs, would be familiar with basic shell scripting. 4. If you actually needed that operating system, you'd have no problem installing it, because the installation is an integral part of it
tl;dr: you're a pretentious idiot who only uses things to appear cool
Jordan Martin
so on fedora rescue mode works fine but normal booting results in kernal panic, what do I do?
Cooper Bailey
Just install Antergos or use Arch Anywhere if you can't bother doing it yourself desu.
Jason Rodriguez
ok, thanks
Michael Edwards
So I'm trying to use jGRASP and the README tells me to: Run ./configure followed by ./Make.sh to build the native wedge and startup shell on UNIX and UNIX-like systems. since Debian doesn't have a package called lsb-core that I can install.
Dylan Carter
Had to install lsb-compat and default-jdk.
Charles Gray
Is your kernel up to date?
Nathan Russell
>want to install a python package >it's packaged for python 2 only despite working with python 3 flawlessly
What the fuck Arch package maintainer? Is this a bug, where can I complain about this?
Firefox tells me that my system date and time is wrong, but thats not the case.
Angel Cooper
I think your system is in the wrong year by the "6" on the leftmost side of the picture.
Dominic Cook
Hahaha ye Its 2k17 Lol thx
Aaron Cook
>Its 2k17 200017
>tfw CCI century >tfw no robot waifus yet >tfw no space travel yet >tfw proprietary software is still a thing Why even live?
Eli Hill
use pip3?
Jace Fisher
KEK YOU GUYS NEED TO SEE THIS KDE SHILL wants anal secks from BeAwesome but BeAwesomre is very tsun tsun about it
Asher Allen
@58425072 (you)
Elijah Brown
fuck off Kde "Anal" Schlitz
Robert Miller
we all knew he was a fagoot from the start
Brandon Ross
kek
Brandon Lopez
you want me to join your gay men wire chat room? no thanks.
Noah Sanders
this kde shill is even worse than BeAwesome, if that's even possible (BeAwesome's at least trying not to look like a faggot (although failing))
Josiah Martinez
>it's the "spillover from Sup Forums trying to fit in" episode
Nathan Torres
Anyone tried Apricity OS or arkOS?
Jayden Lee
How do I identify what is causing my computer to go to sleep after a certain amount of time inactive? It's Ubuntu, but a while ago I uninstalled unity and replaced it with i3
James Harris
what's the best GNU/linux distro to run on a brand new macbook pro with touchbar?
Hudson Powell
Could someone help me with a small problem?
From one shutdown to another, my icon theme simply stopped working. I tried switching on the tweak tool (only works from default to High Constrast and back) and even running from the terminal with the debug flag on there's no errors.
I also tried taking ownership of the /usr/share/icons directory, downloading a different icon theme, reinstalling, clearing the icon cache, changing it by gconf/dconf editor and resetting both gconf and dconf configs.
The only weird thing I noticed is that gconf says it can't change the icon theme value.
I'm running antergos with gnome3.
Thomas Perez
I like the idea of Apricity's GNOME
Adrian Parker
Your default power manager may still be working
Jaxon Turner
>It's Ubuntu, but a while ago I uninstalled unity and replaced it with i3
>can't add "I'm on Arch, btw" in order to look cool >maybe mentioning that I'm running a tiling wm will help
Oliver Parker
Instead of /usr/share/icons you should try ~/.icons
Oliver Carter
I tried searching to try to find a config file that controls it but couldn't find one that worked >friendly gnu/linux thread
Juan Gomez
Who uses Kali besides legitimate pen testers working for a business? Are all the tools packaged with it just script kiddie tier? Is it acceptable to use as an everyday distro or is there no good reason to?
why the fuck can't you switch between things in a wine virtual desktop
Landon Phillips
is "wire" a good service?
Anthony Hall
Wire is not closed source
Matthew Ross
no
Adam Bailey
Who the fuck is the KDE shill?
What point in there in shilling something that's free as in freedom and as in free beer?
Lincoln Lopez
>being this new
Jackson Sanders
good, then you should join right now and suck kde shill dick
Jonathan Cooper
KDE Shill did nothing wrong.
Except for shitting on BSD and wintards.
Jordan James
I took a long break from Sup Forums.
Julian Campbell
kde shill is a namefag from reddit devoid from any IRL friends and attention he uses these threads to promote his gay wire club because he's a desperate lonely fuck
go kiss his ass on wire
Anthony Barnes
>Shitting on wintards and BSD fags is a bad thing now
