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>Intel Core i5-6200U Wow. I have an i5 M520 and everything is flying like a breeze (at least CPU wise). There should be no problems as long as one uses the latest kernel.
Liam Martinez
First for using Arch plebs as beta testers.
Charles Morgan
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Justin Young
>delaying and holding back software updates as a security feature There are idiots out there who believe that's something admirable or worthwhile. You're obviously an epic memer troll Sup Forums 2cool4school kid and only pretending to be retarded (you might actually be more retarded like them because you're pretending), but there are actual idiots out there.
Joshua Cruz
>being this butthurt Waterfall updates are still great for SOHO.
Cameron Stewart
>delaying and holding back software updates as a security feature It's not a security feature dipshit, it's stability padding and Manjaro gets the packages before 99% of the other distros besides Arch. If you hate on Manjaro for holding back ~30 days you must really hate everything else.
>but there are actual idiots out there Yeah, you.
Levi Kelly
>holding back The don't "hold back", they test if it works without breaking before they push it through. That's a difference.
Josiah Taylor
>The don't "hold back", they test if it works without breaking before they push it through. That's a difference. Semantics. And they mostly just watch the Arch forums to see what's causing problems.
Aiden Harris
Got Gentoo Hardened running in a VM. Pretty nice.
Dylan Thompson
What's the point of a hardened distro in a VM if your kernel isn't hardened as well?
Alexander Richardson
>Got Gentoo Hardened running in a VM Why in a VM? Are you going to put it on the metal now that you know you can do it?
Landon Lewis
This is what I was thinking is that its been years since the last time I used Gentoo I wanted to try it out to relearn how to do it and also to test how stable it is.
Adam Torres
MAMAGUEVO
Brody Mitchell
I have a question. I've been hopping distros for years now and I can't find one that does the following:
I need a way to ssh without port forwarding. Pls help.
Levi Wright
i dont think you understand user
Jordan Brown
reverse SSH tunneling - only way afaik
Aaron Stewart
I yeah, I suppose. But I don't have a 3rd server to use as a proxy..
Connor Garcia
I know, kinda in the same bucket aswell. Can't hold my ports open cause chinks keep blasting my ports with requests....
Elijah Allen
Plug it directly into the internet. (Not a good idea)
Connor Martin
What are some cool terminal commands?
Austin Garcia
My ISP is putting me through some kinda NAT or something, port forwarding does nothing because I need access to the router that's the gateway for my home modem.
Noah Butler
What does the command in the thread title do? Decode a string from base64, decompress the result with gzip, and output to stdout? I feel like this shouldn't be able to fuck anything up, but I also know it's probably rm -rf /*
Juan Wilson
>Decode a string from base64, decompress the result with gzip, and output to stdout?
Exactly. The result is as always the thread title.
I'm using dwm, and have been for years. As I understand it, many other wms have more features, but I haven't been bothered to learn another one. What am I missing?
Nathaniel Collins
Sounds fishy
Dominic Hall
bspwm, but if you're good with C, you should stick to dwm.
Jose Bailey
What do you call the thing that lets you have different packages installed in separate "images"? I somehow managed to forget what it's called.
Like I can have one where I have all my programming packages installed and another with my multimedia packages.
Hudson James
Docker?
Bentley Allen
chroot?
Lucas Martin
You don't even need to be good with C to use dwm. All I've done with it is change some defaults, add keybindings and apply patches, which is all babby level copy-paste programming.
Levi Hall
>When your b64 output ends in AAAA== Goddamn I hate that shit. Sometimes I'll add in some whitespace just to align the padding instead of having my encode end in what looks like idiotic screaming.
Dominic Jenkins
No, it's something you do with the command line.
Nah, I just remembered. It was virtualenv
Thomas King
Docker
Carson Morales
>Suckless text editor: sandy netstat -tupln //read otput and close those ports.
Jace Martin
BSD jails
Landon Reed
dwm, but I don't youse it now (Only weston, want to use velox but can't compile). On my xorg dual-boot I use dwm though.
Jace Phillips
Install Gentoo please. If laptop use arch.
Andrew Ramirez
stop namefagging
Blake Cox
No.
Colton Turner
he's trying to be famous, but in the end he'll end up like Dr KDE Shill
Carson Edwards
I got KDE5 Plasma running on Gentoo Hardened. And it doesnt require root to run X. Feels good man.
Samuel Hughes
does anyone here have experience with running rutorrent, a webserver and a plex media server on a dedicated server? I'm looking at some hetzner servers but I'm concerned about plex not being able to properly decode the files to my home network without lag and all that. Would a i7-2600 be sufficient?
Aaron Hernandez
BASED 64 amirite?!
Gabriel Walker
Are you talking about renting a server somewhere? If that is the case, make sure the provider is ok with you using it for torrenting.
I'm currently renting a cheap VPS from DigitalOrean, and I heard they get super pissy about that kinda stuff.
Joshua Howard
hi friends, I'm trying to install i3-gaps on bunsenlabs with this tool: github.com/maestrogerardo/i3-gaps-deb However, the installer gets stuck at this point: "Checking sources.list(s) to contain sources ("weak")... Please add necessary "deb-src" line(s) to your sources.list (and run an update)."
I don't know what lines it wants me to add. What sources do I need? I'm confused :( I think this is a simple noob thing that I'm just overlooking, can anyone help?
Elijah Rogers
nvm I figured it out!
Isaac Sanchez
FONT QUESTIONS! Got some quickies... anyone know things about fonts in /fglt/? Halp if you do.
I'd like to just import all of the fonts from macOS Sierra and Windows 10 into my Arch install. Have both OSes handy and can just copy over shit.
1) What's the best place to put them in?
2) Any stability/performance issues with just bulk-copying fonts? I think MS font dir is 330MB and macOS is ~300MB.
3) What the fuck is TTC font extension and can I read it under Arch? I have a font called "Songti.ttc" and have no idea what the fuck it is and what that format is...
Thanks bros!
Oliver Cruz
Why do not clone the repository of airblader and compile it yourself? If it really failed you could go on IRC and ask to Airblader himself. He's a very cool hacker.
Nicholas Carter
You can use everything except .fon files. Copy them to ~/.fonts and run xset +fp ~/.fonts xset fp rehash fc-cache -vf ~/.fonts
Or just shove them into /usr/share/fonts and restart
Jacob Allen
Arch has such a great wiki. Why not use it?
Grayson Walker
what server/channel are hackers hanging around?
Jackson Bailey
Go on the i3 website and search for the official irc channel.
But it doesn't build? I just did the test and it built with no errors.
Ethan Price
Thanks! Exactly what I was looking for.
they don't actually talk about my issue: bulk importing fonts from other OSes. I was afraid of conflicts and shit like that.
What prompted this was shit font rendering in my corp webmail. It looks like pic related in under Arch and that's due to missing fonts. It looks great in all other OSes.
Jonathan Gray
how do I make my desktop look like this?
Justin Richardson
Set pic as desktop background.
Nathan Butler
plenty of autism, i3, custom CSS stylesheet for 4chins, irrsi, and ncmcpp.
Dylan Scott
that looks more like weechat to me
Jacob Brooks
this
Ryan Reed
>cascading style sheet style sheet
Liam Nelson
what is that color scheme you're using? can I have it pls
