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how do I set a default fallback font for japanese with fontconfig? I want to use unifont for it but my terminal is falling back to mplus or a noto font, and I dont want to just use urxvt or some other terminal.
Charles Brooks
The one thats executeable. Executable files are placed in one of the bin directories, for 'binary'
Jonathan Mitchell
dpkg-deb -c | egrep $(echo $PATH | sed 's/:/|/g') idk, maybe try one of these files, if that shows any
Benjamin Thompson
Pretty sure this is it, but when I try to open it from the file manager nothing happens.
Blake Thomas
Is ls a botnet?
Are there any potential security risks introduced by using it?
Dominic Peterson
open a terminal type in "dwfcmd" and press enter
Alexander Scott
That is a good question. The fact that the GNU version of it is so bloated compared to Unix and BSD versions certainly makes it really suspicious. Who knows - maybe it sends content of your directories right to Richard Stallman's email client
Landon White
Digilent WaveForms utility application. Version 0.1.1 Supports the following commands as application argument or listed in text file in separate lines. The assignment commands can also be used to print the current value.
connect Automatically connect to the first available device. enum|enumerate Enumerate connected devices. connect= Connect to the device by enumeration index, name or SN. disconnect Disconnect from device. info|information Print information about the device or selected instrument, channel. show Print configuration and reading of the device or selected instrument, channel. execute= Executes the command file. reset Reset all the configurations to default values. pause= Pause execution for specified seconds. Ex: pause=0.1, pause=100ms print= Print the text on the output. datetime Print the date and time on the output. time Print the time on the output. debug= Debug level: 0-disabled, 1-print input commands, 2-API calls, 3-time after API execution watch= Watch timeout for play/record processes. Default is 10s, 0 disables it.
.....blah blah blah.....
Examples: dwfcmd enum dwfcmd connect digitalio oe=0x0F out=0x0A pause=10ms in dwfcmd sample1.txt Set range and print the actual obtained range: dwfcmd connect analogio channel=1 range=5V range
maybe that's not it.
Leo Campbell
just use urxvt my son
Julian Morris
What are some cool terminal commands?
Leo Davis
Oh, I don't use GNU. I use Alpine.
Parker Cox
>echo $PATH | sed 's/:/|/g' sed 's/:/|/g'
Noah Perry
dd if=/dev/urandom of="$HOME"/waitforit
Carson Collins
I heard busybox cat hat lots of features.
Kevin Barnes
is there even any difference?
Hunter Ortiz
wow I'm retarded
Ayden Ross
>features botnets*
Andrew Adams
% busybox cat --help Usage: cat [FILE]...
Concatenate FILEs and print them to stdout % cat --help Usage: cat [OPTION]... [FILE]... Concatenate FILE(s), or standard input, to standard output.
-A, --show-all equivalent to -vET -b, --number-nonblank number nonempty output lines, overrides -n -e equivalent to -vE -E, --show-ends display $ at end of each line -n, --number number all output lines -s, --squeeze-blank suppress repeated empty output lines -t equivalent to -vT -T, --show-tabs display TAB characters as ^I -u (ignored) -v, --show-nonprinting use ^ and M- notation, except for LFD and TAB --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
Examples: cat f - g Output f's contents, then standard input, then g's contents. cat Copy standard input to standard output.
Report cat bugs to [email protected] GNU coreutils home page: General help using GNU software: For complete documentation, run: info coreutils 'cat invocation'
Bentley Cook
lol busybox is such a fucking trash, in fact why do I even have busybox installed anyway let me remove them
Isaac King
awk is bit more feature rich. % busybox awk --help Usage: awk [OPTIONS] [AWK_PROGRAM] [FILE]...
Options: -v VAR=VAL Set variable -F SEP Use SEP as field separator -f FILE Read program from FILE % awk --help awk --help Usage: awk [POSIX or GNU style options] -f progfile [--] file ... Usage: awk [POSIX or GNU style options] [--] 'program' file ... POSIX options: GNU long options: -f progfile --file=progfile -F fs --field-separator=fs -v var=val --assign=var=val -m[fr] val -O --optimize -W compat --compat -W copyleft --copyleft -W copyright --copyright -W dump-variables[=file] --dump-variables[=file] -W exec=file --exec=file -W gen-po --gen-po -W help --help -W lint[=fatal] --lint[=fatal] -W lint-old --lint-old -W non-decimal-data --non-decimal-data -W profile[=file] --profile[=file] -W posix --posix -W re-interval --re-interval -W source=program-text --source=program-text -W traditional --traditional -W usage --usage -W use-lc-numeric --use-lc-numeric -W version --version
To report bugs, see node `Bugs' in `gawk.info', which is section `Reporting Problems and Bugs' in the printed version.
gawk is a pattern scanning and processing language. By default it reads standard input and writes standard output.
Examples: gawk '{ sum += $1 }; END { print sum }' file gawk -F: '{ print $1 }' /etc/passwd
Christopher Scott
BSD is worthless garbage.
Jack Smith
well, busybox is a stripped down toolset meant for embedded systems, you shouldn't use it on your desktop tho
Asher Campbell
Don't feel bad, OP. I was sniffing gasoline a few hours ago.
Grayson Rivera
Not really. I rewrote BSD coreutils myself. 1. It has close to 0 features, easy to rewrite 2. You can lock the source out of public without any risks
I say it's nice in those ways
Luis Carter
I just installed the latest version of the sfotware and that fixed it. Sorry for shitting up the thread, lads.
Camden Evans
It isn't, BSD is still Free Software. Proprietary software is garbage.
Jonathan Bennett
is this a new meme?
Matthew Howard
what are the differences between debian minimal and arch? i've used ubuntu for about a year and now i'm thinking about getting deeper into the linux with either debian or arch...
Jaxson Hernandez
Prints some random ASCII art. curl -s www.asciiartfarts.com/random.cgi | sed -n '//,//p' | sed -n '/
Lucas Lee
Package manager
Robert Campbell
Test
Dylan Morales
Complete noob here. I am having trouble getting Debian to run in 1920x1080. xrandr does not list any widescreen resolutions as an option and I suspect the default driver of Debian is insufficient and I don't know the name of the driver i should install, and I also don't know whether installing drivers can be done with apt-get. Can't seem to find any answers online that I can understand, a reply would be much appreciated.
Shouldn't matter. I'm trying to get Debian as a whole to run in 1920x1080. As far as I know, no one's resolution changes merely because they log in with a different DE.
But if you honestly think that information matters, the two DEs I have are Gnome and i3, and both give the same list of resolutions with xrandr as I expected, so do what you will.
Austin Hall
driver has nothing to do with your resolution
James Fisher
So my playstation runs a free OS? Cool. I feel better now.
Colton Morales
video drivers don't matter for resolution? k
what are my possible resolutions dependent on?
Jacob Myers
read
Hudson Smith
xrandr detects a set of standard resolutions, but basically you can set your resolution to whatever you like, you just add a new one and load it
Nicholas Gutierrez
What is the best antivirus for Linux?
Joshua Rivera
seems to be working, thanks
Carson Smith
Most distros come with a built-in antivirus that you can run at any point from root.
dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda
this scans your hard drive for signs of viruses by comparing it to the urandom virus database (updates automatically every 24 hours).
It takes a few hours to run, though.
Cooper Bailey
thanks
Grayson Moore
What are the differences between plasma-meta, plasma and plasma-desktop on Arch? The wiki isn't very clear and just vaguely mentions that plasma-desktop installs less bloatware.
lol noob >installs arch >bloats it up with a DE just use tty1 like a real man
Thomas Baker
if we're now considering a desktop to be bloat, we've reached the autism event horizon
Easton Mitchell
What is the most lightweight and portable way to urldecode a string of html entries? Currently going with perl: >something | perl -MHTML::Entities -pe 'decode_entities($_);'
Jayden Evans
>using arch >not autistic pick one
Jordan Ross
> not using a tiling WM
Eli Butler
I'm so n-not autistic that I haven't even installed M-Manjaro! I s-swear!
Jack James
It's my first time here, and I'm sure this question is asked all the time.
Why is systemd hated so much?
Austin Murphy
For the same reason people use FreeBSD
Nicholas Edwards
Muh Unix philosophy (do one thang and one thang only, and do it well)
Also despite being open-source it's really obtuse and complicated code that is difficult to audit effectively.
Also people don't like Lennart Poettering and Red Hat forcing systemd on them.
Functionally, though, Systemd is great. It simplifies a lot of things. If you don't like it, there's Devuan, Funtoo, and probably a few other distros out there that don't use it at all.
Robert Jenkins
Hating systemd makes you look tech literate to newbs.
Elijah Richardson
It's very complicated and prone to exploitation. Or, in Meme Code, "botnet".
Austin Wilson
systemd is much, but it doesn't fall under "botnet" user when we start calling systemd botnet, nobody will ever trust us anymore when we call google botnet
Nathaniel Young
Hating anything raises your superficial intelligence level. Positive, optimistic, noncritical people are widely perceived as morons. See: Undecided voters.
Dylan Evans
tell me more about the meme code is there a list?
Andrew Hernandez
systemd is botnet
Samuel Perez
That's why I said botnet is a meme word. It already HAS lost all of its meaning because of highschool anons. Nobody trusts g anymore already as well.
Colton Phillips
...
Camden Ward
Sup Forums is only good for shitposting
Christopher King
You have to download the .MEME framework to truly grasp it. It's an "A-ha" moment.
Charles Cox
Thank you everyone.
Adam Carter
Hey Sup Forums, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?
Ian Roberts
Source Mage, faggot, GNU/Linux
Cooper Gonzalez
Gentoo LINUX
Asher Perez
Wayland is trash that has hard dependencies on GNOME
Bentley Rodriguez
Following the rules of English, in the construction “Foobar Linux” the word “Foobar” modifies “Linux”.
This basically means “Foobar's version of Linux”, but a Foobar GNU/Linux system includes more than just a modified kernel.
Ian Russell
Having ryzen on gentoo causes segfaults when doing -j16 with less than 32GB ram
Levi Green
Linux is an operating system, not everyone needs that GNU trash
Robert Gray
i love you guys
Joseph Torres
Is this a shitpost or can any other anons confirm?
Aiden Stewart
Technically, everything has hard dependencies on glib from the GNOME project
Alexander Scott
>-j16
y tho
Gavin Morgan
The ordinary understanding of "operating system" includes both the kernel—the specific subsystem that directly interfaces with the hardware — and the "userland" software that is employed by the user and by application software to control the computer.
Moreover, both the name "GNU" and the name "Linux" are intentionally related to the name "Unix", and Unix has always conceptually included the C library and userland tools as well as the kernel.
Asher Robinson
every time GNU is mentioned I just think "man, Richie "The Stall Man" Stallman sure does get triggered when he doesn't get credit for things. maybe if he had made GNU proprietary he'd have more say in the matter. HMMMMM
Hudson Myers
So FreeBSD should be GNU/FreeBSD, following your logic, because it includes some GNU software, right?
Aiden Kelly
Linus is related to Linus. >My name is Linus Torvalds and I am your god. >-- Linus Torvalds
Mason Ward
or we could just call it Linux to save breath, explanation, and our small collection of fucks to give
Jose Hill
show me how you boot, init and post here with just linux, the operating system, faggot
William Nguyen
HOW THE FUCK DOES A 50 MB PACKAGE TAKE UP 1,1 GB RAM?! I use vivaldi as my web browser under arch linux, package from repo takes up 50mb but when i open it and load up just one youtube tab ram usage goes up by 1100mb
Jordan Barnes
>plasma Group, you can select which packages you want and which you don't. >plasma-meta Meta package, you cannot select which package you want and which you don't. Uninstalling one dependency of metapackage requires to remove all other. >plasma-desktop Minimal package, only installs what you really need to run it. You'll probably see it as too bare bones, so I'd suggest installing plasma group.
Noah Rodriguez
>arch linux clearly linus torvalds fault, write hatemail to him
