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Elijah Flores
>thingking Sup Forums is more than one person
Robert Martin
You caught me! XD
Jacob Fisher
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Ryan Hill
>using the picture of a dead, gay transgender. who'd blame him.
Parker Carter
...
Connor Roberts
>implying
this guy gets it...
Juan Gutierrez
shit, forgot image
Austin James
intellij ide is just giving me a black screen in bspwm, but works fine in i3. any suggestions?
Ethan Bennett
don't use meme window managers?
Colton Wood
Gonna get this plushie one of these days. I already have Tux, and the OpenSUSE chameleon.
Jaxson Hall
fuck got me there what should i use instead? i often switch between tiling and floating
Lincoln Phillips
personally I used dwm back when I was full-time tiling minimalist WMs. these days I use fluxbox, which is floating but it has several built-in commands for quick-tiling and it has been working well for me. there's also pytile/quicktile/whatever python scripts, which I have never used, but I think it's supposed to enable dynamic tiling in any WM/DE
Aaron Hernandez
>install Linux like a fucking retard >dccp vulnerability allows privilege escalation Well I guess I'll back to fucking OpenBSD. Maybe in 2050 you dumb faggots will get your heads out of your asses and stop adding useless fucking bullshit to the kernel without auditing anything.
Bentley Turner
(you)
Joseph Gutierrez
>add useless bullshit into the kernel in 2005 >kernel is vulnerable for 10 fucking years Meanwhile shitnux has 20+ million lines of code in the kernel alone. I wonder how many millions of those lines are vulnerabilities.
Lincoln Cox
>in the kernel alone where else?
Chase Taylor
how do I stop screen tearing in i3 floating windows? it's ridiculous, and compton is unusable because it stutters horribly and rapes gayme performance.
Samuel Jackson
thou shalt not reply to trolls
Juan Adams
I'm trying to enjoy vim but every single time I save a file with wq and come back to it later it bitches about swap, how the fuck do i make it stop making swap?
James Fisher
set noswapfile
You should try using :help , or just :h something.
Jose Morris
if it's bitching about swap it's because you have one left over from a session where it terminated unexpectedly (like you killed it, or you closed the terminal it was in). swap files are usually the same name as the file you were editing with a dot in front and .swp on the end (if there's more than one i think they go swo, swn, swm, ...). the message should tell you all the details. if it's an old swap file that you already recovered from, just delete it (when you are not editing the file, obviously)
Carson Gutierrez
using void linux as my new daily driver. killer feature for me: i can send a pull request on github, it gets merged, my package manager sees the update, all in the same day. love the transparency.
Colton Perez
github sucks
Jacob Price
could always use Gitlab, as long as you don't mind everything being deleted from time to time
Jordan Davis
anyone used whonix before? is it viable? it says it forces TOR so im worried 99.9% of websites that use google won't work well
James Torres
When I mount my USB drive with sudo mount /dev/sdb /mnt/usbstick and copy some files, what would be the proper sequence of actions to make sure the files have been written before unplugging the stick? If I copy and then unmount sudo umount /mnt/usbstick it still shows up in Thunar, where I can then "eject" it with a button press. I want to use CLI only if possible.
Zachary Young
I did it. It took me 8 times of starting over with Arch, but I finally got the gist of it. If a file or config isn't there, make it yourself. Took me a bit to understand i3 as well as bash. I got the hang of the terminal, but my god. I've never put so much effort into something like this before. I honestly thought I was gonna give up, but I kept going. I know I'm slow please don't laugh
Jack Campbell
the umount command won't complete until all the files have been written. a cp command usually "completes" when the file being copied is fully read, not when it has finished writing (the unwritten part is held in memory). umount won't let you go back to the shell until it has "safely" unmounted the device. try copying some large file to the stick, then umount as soon as the cp command returns. you'll probably have to wait a while before umount completes, because umount is waiting on the device to finish writing.
Thunar probably shows all block devices whether or not they are mounted. Idk, I haven't used it in ages.
Austin Allen
Alright. In that case my iPod is dying I guess.
Ryder Ramirez
Choose more user-friendly distro, what a problem?
Sebastian Sullivan
I want to suffer
Brandon Richardson
Hey Sup Forums, I m new to linux/gnu I am currently using Mint with Cinnamon as total noob.
I have already installed TLP, to get better battery life of my x230 chinkpad.
Can you recommend me any other battery life tweaks ? And any recommended software to have around. thanks for help and any tips
Christopher Reyes
you can throttle the cpu for $cpu in `grep processor /proc/cpuinfo | cut -f2 -d:`; do sudo cpufreq-set -c$cpu -g powersave; done
to undo, just substitute powersave with ondemand if you know how many cpus you have (probably 4), you can just do for $cpu in `seq 0 3`; do ...
John Martin
should I remove /var/cache/pacman?
Alexander Cooper
whats the difference between all the AUR packages with -git on the end of the name and the normal version? which one should I install?
Alexander Stewart
never
Andrew King
One is the development version,while the others are snapshots/releases
Carson Reyes
so should I avoid the -git version then? is it just an early release that is going to eventually become the main package, or is it a beta?
Lucas Gutierrez
Take a moment and learn about versioning
Jackson Lee
I love pacaur and the AUR, but I wish pacaur didn't also bother acting as a wrapper for pacman. Why would anyone want to use it instead of pacman for official repo packages?
Daniel Ward
Convience
Owen Young
What is the logical evolution after Arch?
Eli Taylor
so pacaur -Syua will do the equivalent of pacman -Syu , but only affecting the aur? that's nice, thanks
Jackson Morales
Source Mage
Benjamin Murphy
Void, CRUX, Slackware or Gentoo
Aiden Bailey
> github sucks
any reason, besides 'muh sjw'?
Asher Flores
you should avoid -git packages unless you want untested code straight from the developer's drunken commits
i have evolved to void
Brandon James
Muh SJWs is exactly it, though. They've taken down repos just because it conflicts with their opinions.
Nolan Baker
>They've taken down repos just because it conflicts with their opinions.
all providers have that option. unless you physically own your own data center and isp, you'll have to play nice. or host your FOSS on TOR, i suppose.
Nicholas Ortiz
This is driving me insane! How do I sandbox applications with SELinux?
Kayden Lee
Let's discuss systemd.
Kayden Ward
>20 million buggy as shit LoC kernel >add 500k buggy as shit LoC init system/actually does everything frankenprogram What could go wrong?
Joseph Rodriguez
no
Brandon Edwards
Am installing solus as we speak, it gives you a browser during install
Samuel Price
Am installing arch as we speak, it gives you a tty during install
Ryder Price
Am install ubanto as we speak, it gives you a spyware during install
Thomas Martin
so, did someone manage to make thumbnails work on ubuntu/mint?
>but I did not manage to install it. Why exactly? I wrote the guide in a fairly dumb-proof way albeit for Debian.
Carson Powell
Any way I can resize the xfce4 drop down terminal?
Grayson Clark
i doesn't work for noobuntu because reasons.
Angel Ortiz
So you have troubles compiling it?
Camden Gomez
Which panel colorscheme would you choose?
Theme has dark titlebar and menubar, but otherwise it's a mix of light grey with colour accents.
Eli Mitchell
>Accidentaly chpwn entire system >No backups FML
now I have to stare at a black monitor after install completed with some splattered My Legs are >[OK] text for an hour before it finally decides to reboot. Is UEFI causing this?
William Edwards
i am a linux noob i installed a new ssd, to which i want to clone my current linux partition and add it to grub
the disk is listed in sudo fdisk -l
Jackson Bell
I've recently taken to calling it GNU(+Linux)
Connor Hernandez
GNU(GNU+Linux)*
Christian Stewart
Correct would be just "GNU", but this has several flaws: - normalfags don't know what you're talking about - autists may call you autistic
Julian Wilson
>I don't name the things correctly because people who are wrong will call me out found the cuck
I set up SSH so I could connect to my server from my Android and it works okay.
When I tried to copy my laptop's ecdsa key using my Android to the server's authorized_keys file, and then connect, it says "Permission denied (publickey)"
Where is it fucked up? I'm not sure because I did the same process on my Android and laptop.
Gavin Howard
Does the user have read rights on the file?
Luke Mitchell
function topp() { top -Hp $(pgrep -d, "$1") }
# USAGE: topp i.e topp tt ... topp firefox
Matthew Jones
I think you meant the id_ecdsa on my laptop, but no it doesn't, which is very strange and I can't think why that would be?? Why would I need to set it up that way? I don't remember creating the key as root.
Grayson Richardson
what does this do???
Matthew Turner
How stable is OpenSuse Tumbleweed?
James Carter
I find pkill ""
useful sometimes.
Jordan Flores
I tried again from scratch and it worked so I guess I fucked up first time.
