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How secure is protonmail? Like to give it a try with a burn account but I made the account on my work internet. Is it already compromised?
Wyatt Campbell
Bumping out of boredom.
Brayden Gomez
Reminder that syntax highlighting is for kids and faggots
":syntax off" today, reap the benefits for the rest of you're life
Aaron Carter
>mfw the ticking of the clock in your room is producing flowing electricity in certain circuits in your electronics, due to your microphones or even speakers, because speakers can be a microphone as well, membrane being moved and therefore electrones being pushed around and there's no escape, not even richard stallman can stop the proprietary clickingnoises, over whose creation you had no control, which in return means you have no control over your computers circuitry >mfw I have no face
Angel Taylor
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Julian Williams
The first thread is sasha grey redirecting to ?
Jason Phillips
No reason to assume its any safer than gmail or whatever ms uses.
Andrew Sullivan
Why are gif's so cancerous? Can you ever make them look good without being like 50MB for a 15 second clip?
Luke Nguyen
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Isaiah Anderson
When will linux get their shit together with vidya gaems? Seriously fuck this shit why do I need to have windows fucking exist on my computer in order to play shitty card games? I just booted into windows and they served me a fucking advertisement for MSoffice in the login screen. An ad! On software I pay for!
Mason Jackson
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Elijah Ramirez
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Kevin Richardson
does OSx count as linux since its Unix based?
Carson Lopez
You mean BSD/MacOS
Cameron Reyes
Steam is on Linux. Wine is better than ever. PCI passthrough is a thing.
Cameron Fisher
Mostly I use macOS.
I really hate being spied on by macOS and Windows 10 phone home and telemetrics shit.
But I really don't like how many driver issues and software incompatibilities pop up with Linux.
Is it worth the plunge?
Josiah Rivera
Sound control is pretty bad. PulseAudio main volume slider does nothing.
Michael Murphy
read stdout
Julian Robinson
Are you stupid?
Tyler Bell
I didn't mention it, i was meant to say when converting from MP4 or Webm, it always looks like shit
Josiah Martin
>58656343 how did he do that
Gabriel Howard
for i in {1..15}; do convert -size 500x500 -fill black caption:$i out_$i.png; done
I fucked up and posted in the old thread but. I updated last night and now my system won't load. Instead I get a message saying recovering journal. Is there a way to repair this without reinstalling my entire OS?
Eli Perez
The only way is to be more vague.
Christian Bell
what does it mean when I restart my os and It prints "clearing orphaned child"
Jacob Collins
you didnt shut down properly and its now cleaning orphaned inodes on your drive
Evan Allen
Might try LFS again over the weekend Just need to figure out what the best system of package management would be
Andrew Barnes
>mfw no "it's now save to turn off your computer" tech is going backwards ;_;
Christopher Thomas
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Dylan Cook
I don't have any anime or manga I want to discuss though
Is there a way to compress each file into a separate .zip file? I got a bunch of .gb ROMs that I want to compress to use with my emulators. WinRAR had a easy way to do it in GUI and I could run FOR %i IN (*.*) DO 7z.exe a "%~ni.zip" "%i" -mx9 on CMD to do the same with 7z, but I have no fucking idea about where to start on Linux. I tried some advice from stackoverflow but I wasn't able to make it work and the man page for zip doesn't specify that usecase.
Jose Martin
>incorrect aspect ratio worst girl being worst
Blake Watson
>greates program is a card game
Andrew Roberts
>text editors >neither vim or emacs are on the list Site for normies indeed
Michael Carter
GNU/Linux*
for i in *; do 7z a "$i.7z" "$i"; done
Joshua Peterson
What's wrong with card games? Stop the hate.
James Turner
efibootmgr killed my mobo can't load efi boot devices anymore immediately goes to >Please insert bootable media usb, dvd, doesn't matter. ;_;
I'm trying to set my monitor up right and I edited the xorg.conf file, my monitor now works, but Ubuntu has no task bar and my cursor is just a cross and I can't do anything. How do I make it fucking work?
Aiden Thomas
>edited the xorg.conf file >Ubuntu Something doesn't seem to be adding up here.
Aiden Baker
New Linux user, new installation. My screen rendering in firefox-dev look crap. Please take a look.
This happens only in Firefox and not Chromium or the DE UI. How do I fix this?
Thanks so much.
Eli Scott
What am I doing wrong? Should I use a different flavour of Linux that isn't so fucking useless?
The new res works but Ubuntu just shits the bed and I can't click or type anything, pic related.
Charles Torres
theres efi repair
Nicholas Brooks
Does anyone know how to restart hdparm on ubuntu without rebooting?
>sudo hdparm restart >Failed to restart hdparm.service: Unit hdparm.service not found.
Christian Morales
what ubuntu flavor? server, mate? was xorg-conf already there before you change it? also paste the lines you added to xorg.conf
Leo White
>what ubuntu flavor? server, mate? I have no idea what that means.
I'm just going to try Fedora, fuck this garbage.
Isaac Morales
How many packages do you have installed on your system?
Also, what's a good music player with KDE integration? Like I can access the Deadbeef controls while it's minimized on XFCE, but not on KDE.
Grayson Flores
>good music player with KDE integration for mpd: cantata Standalone: qmmp
use mpDris2 for mpd direct integration
Caleb Price
>fucks up his system >fuck this garbage.
T O P K E K O P C U C K
Ayden Ramirez
>Should I use a different flavour of Linux that isn't so fucking useless? No, user. You shouldn't need to edit anything from Ubuntu.
Literally all I need to be able to do for this shit to work is to get my monitor to run at the right refresh rate and I'm golden. Since my Ubuntu install is irretrievably fucked I'm just going to wipe it.
Fedora here I come.
Nathaniel Campbell
woooooooooooow you can preview the OS from the USB when it's not even installed? That's fucking COOL.
Nicholas Hughes
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Isaiah Kelly
Took less than 5 minutes to overclock my monitor on Fedora where I was trying for a week with Ubuntu.
Basically if you're using Ubuntu you should immediately kill yourself.
Ryder Bell
well then you should go back in time and kill yourself
Logan Bell
Why does my printer refuse to work on Puppy Linux? I install it through CUPS but nothing happens when I try to print something.
Is there another distro that I can try that can fit on 1gb ramdisk with printer support?
Christian James
Fedora can fix your problem
Zachary Martinez
how do I make my desktop look like this? mostly the matrix terminals, the funky line thing and the government hack thing i.imgur.com/BVH7ytp.gif?1
Ethan Taylor
ask the original poster. theyre somewhere on /r/unixporn
Xavier Baker
savage
Cooper Torres
post was deleted unfortunately. the only results are a post asking about the screenfetch setup and an archive of post links with no comments
Noah Wright
is i3 good or is it a meme?
Matthew Russell
just use atom
Jacob Miller
I meant the wm
Brody King
meme
Isaiah Morris
it wont, boot windows on external drive with your games on
Colton Scott
how does one change terminal font easily?
Parker Williams
i'm in mint and want to try i3, how do i switch cinnamon to i3? is there a way to do it without deleting cinnamon?
Gabriel Foster
You can keep both. Install i3 and select it from your login manager.
Hunter Morgan
meme
Elijah Jones
cmatrix, pipes, hack.exe search github
Ethan Bailey
trying to install compton for i3 after running compton I get a white flash, and the terminal window ignores any commands. closing the terminal warns of an ongoing process. is this normal? also, how do I make it start on boot? the arch wiki article is a little confusing
Luke Rodriguez
Install an out-of-the-box GNU/Linux OS, like Mint. When I first booted, it automatically found the newest nvidia driver, and all other drivers are working just as well.
One thing you have to watch out for is upgrading mint, I upgraded from 17.3 to 18.0 and it broke half of my software because I wasn't being careful enough.
Isaac Bailey
Realised I don't game anymore
Whats a good start linux to dick around in for general use?
Ubuntu, Gentoo, Debian, Antergos, Arch?
Benjamin Young
>using mint >recommending mint wtf?
Ryder Perez
Get Ubuntu.
Jaxson Gomez
I forgot fedora
Austin Wood
>Realised I don't game anymore GNU/Linux has no games is a meme, there are many games out there and even steam has a huge library.
Ubuntu is good for starting
Nicholas Cox
ubuntu is also good for coming back after all the distro hopping
Luke Turner
Nah, Cannonical a shit. I'd rather use Debian.
Brayden Hall
Trying to install Linux Mint off a USB stick. I get to the stage where it asks me what to do (install, install in compatability mode, check the integrity of the medium or whatever it says), but I can't get any further. No matter what I click on there's a split second of terminal lines, my HDD makes a sound like its writing, then the screen just goes black forever.
I tried changing the boot option between UEFI and USB in my BIOS but it didn't make any difference. What do?
