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Linux is a kernel inside the inside inside the inside inside the inside inside the inside inside the inside inside the inside inside the inside inside the inside of Richard Stallman's ASSHOLE
Brayden Collins
ubuntu a gud
David White
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you proprietary slave? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class at Hardvard, and I've been involved in numerous free software projects, and I have contributed to over 300 core-utils for GNU. I am skilled in Lisp and I'm St. IGNU-cius, saint of the Church of Emacs. You are nothing to me but just another unethical non-free software advocate. I will distribute the fuck out of your source code with freedom the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit about me and the GPL on the internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my colleagues at FSF and your binaries are being reverse engineered right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your copyright. You're fucking dead, kid. Free software can be anywhere, anytime, and it can ensure your freedom in over four ways, and that's just with the GPLv2. Not only am I extensively skilled at hacking, but I have access to the source of the entire GNU userland and core-utils and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable proprietary code off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what ethical retribution your little "clever" program was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have ensured your users' freedom. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit free as in freedom all over you and you will drown in it. You're fucking dead, kiddo.
Brody Rodriguez
Regarding the OP: Why call it a "copypasta collection" when there are no pastas there? I was expecting the interjection pasta, the open source one, maybe even the Navy Seals RMS version.
I'm running Fedora 25 WS (GNOME) with wayland on a Dell XPS 15 9560. I've got bumblebee with managed repos installed and shit worked great in the past. Latest kernel update 4.10.15 also seemed to work but yesterday GNOME Software showed nVIDIA driver update and I installed it. Now laptop becomes completely unresponsive after login or after waiting to long on login screen. Older kernels same problem. Rescue kernel works but has short 1~2sec freezes. What do?
James Watson
Yes it sure is, this woman sued a lot of people for calling out her bullshit
Josiah Wilson
xubuntu > ubuntu
Cooper Gutierrez
I need to watch the whole talk. Now.
Elijah Williams
Enjoy, you're in for one sweet ride brother!
Jackson Allen
Waow i'm cyber expert now.
Benjamin Walker
I'm going the lasetjet route. What's a reasonably decent printer/all-in-one to buy and works well with GNU/Linux?
Juan Collins
>woman >talking about computer engineering related subjects >inside What could go wrong Sup Forums?
Jason Jones
Who fucking knows. Google your question you fucking retard
Jeremiah Watson
A while back the OP paste was like 3 posts long so we created a pastebin for the whole shit, hence the copapasta name. But you're right, we should fix that.
Caleb Brown
>Google botnet >unfriendly wrong thread
Austin Walker
>Friendly HP have decent support through hplip. The other are hit and miss. CUPS only work for printing if you want to go down that rabbit hole.
Juan Powell
>botnet RMS uses it through Tor with JavaScript disabled.
Carter Morales
>dark as my soul theme >fucking sun, can't see shit >xcalib -i -a comfy_pepe.png
What are some cool terminal commands?
Chase Russell
should i just learn straight up emacs or emacs with evil-mode. i don't know vim.
Jonathan Smith
Can someone please direct me to a resource that would help me install the correct driver for my apu. I know that there is radeon for old amd gpus, and that there is amdgpu and amdgpu-pro for GCN 1.2 cards. my apu gpu is gcn, but i don't think it is gcn 1.2. thanks
Noob here. I'm not familiar with file systems and stuff, if I've been using Windows and have some files on a USB drive and boot up Linux, will I be able to access them from the hard drive or will it have to be formatted or something? I'm only running Linux in a VM before I commit and I can't get it to detect the hard drive through the VM.
Nicholas Gutierrez
touch cat
Parker Brooks
best command here, fresh out of the meme factory \(^
Kayden Mitchell
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David Cruz
wtf i ran this as root and now my computer wont start
Nathan Gomez
nvm i think i did it
Andrew Smith
Seems to be a bug in kernel 4.10.XX. I will now have to use my laptop in runlevel 3 exclusively. V Hacker but not comfy at all.
Austin Rodriguez
If you've been using that USB drive in windows, it'll be formatted in either fat, NTFS or exfat. Free GNU/Linux implementations of all those filesystems exist. Depending on your distro of choice, it'll work out of the box or you'll need to install some package first, but you can access those files just fine.
Luke Kelly
That's what I like to hear. Thanks!
Jonathan Scott
Why is WiFi performance bad after resuming from a suspend
Ryder Adams
In vim, can I search for regexes like in nano? i.e. enter regex, press enter, cursor is now at next match?
Anthony Sullivan
Esoteric CISSP
Anthony Clark
What's the best way to automatically resample/convert (whichever term is more correct) 5.1 surround sound in mpv to 2.1 or stereo upon playback? Is mpv responsible for that or should I use something else (system sound settings, pulseaudio)?
Dylan Nguyen
>tfw I can never be this confident in presenting something even when I am pretty sure I am right
Kayden Kelly
mv opinion /bin
Lincoln Powell
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Andrew Wood
dOESNT DO THAT MPV AUTOMATICALLY?
Evan Sullivan
is this satire?
Ryder Ramirez
thanks for the help yesterday guys. this wintard compiled from source :)
I used wxwidgets package from repos instead of their site. I think that was the difference. Also reinstalled with gnome. maybe it had some dependency i didnt catch.
Yes, her name is Enav Gand Gallili, and she tried to sue the whole world and its dog for taking the piss out of her and calling out her factual mistakes.
Hudson Brown
did this girl copy that meme image with the layers of the internet
Angel Stewart
Going to get my Masters in around a year. What do? 2 offers so far:
Stay at current research institute >coworkers use Ubuntu and Vim >software I develop released under proprietary license >downtown, lots of shit to do after work but annoying traffic >good pay >big comfy 3 man offices >Python and C++ (computer vision)
Switch to smaller research institute >coworkers use Arch and Emacs >software might be released under free license (have to check) >industrial area, fuck-all to do but easier to get to >only like 70% as much monies >C (firmware development, embedded Linux) >fellow student works there and loves it
Both jobs come with flexible work hours though the smaller institute seems to be more laid-back.
Nolan Bailey
How much pay are we talking for each? I would go with the second one personally, especially if the software they're releasing is libre.
Adam Wood
>How much pay are we talking for each? Meaningless to post numbers since cost of living is different in different countries and areas. At the current job I can expect to get around 3-4 times what a 3-4 room flat in quiet places near the city would cost. More than enough to live comfortably in any case, except I can go to race tracks only half as often with the lower paying job I guess.
Asher Scott
>Enav Gand Gallili Not enough that she's a woman who doesn't know what the fuck she's talking about, but she's a Jewess, so that naturally disposes her into spreading mass lies, spreading disinformation & shuing all who call her out on it.
>Oy gevalt! It's another shoah!
Owen Ramirez
suing*
>Oy veh! I'm even starting to talk like a Jew
John Rodriguez
alternativly jump in a lake
Julian Sullivan
Is it possible to run a program that requires X11 like a video game without having to use a windows manager? I just want to use X for a handful of programs and only want to open them directly without using a windows manager.
Cooper Hall
look into xinit you can start x with a terminal like xterm instead of a wm, so basically it should work for other programs too
Joshua Phillips
>Level 3 - Deep web >Math research
Samuel Barnes
>Being SJW Umm... You do realise this is the internet, right?
And yes, fyi, Enav Gand Gallili is a Jew. I don't know how dense & faggoty you have to be to tell someone to jump in a lake for pointing out such an obvious fact, but it also doesn't play well on you here, tumblrite.
Adam Diaz
kill yourself, this is a friendly thread, not your poo in loo lelelelel thread
Dominic Bailey
idgaf Get out.
Angel Hernandez
Not him, but this thread already has to deal with a troll who spams the ((())) meme for linux and GNU, we don't need more politics to derail this general.
Elijah Flores
There is literally nothing wrong with being jewish.
Jayden Allen
This is a friendly thread not a fiendish thread.
Michael Cox
come home
Robert Gray
I need detailed info about bootloaders and partitions and bios and shit that is even easier for understanding than articles on arch wiki. Anything, anyone?
Zachary Cook
You're going to need to be less vague of what you want to know. The arch wiki is pretty detailed and simplified so anyone can understand the basics.
John Mitchell
As detailed as i can: should MBR flash drive work flawlessly on machines with UEFI?
Jaxson Turner
Femanons: Does the distro really matter?
Andrew James
>[Return] [Catalog] [Top] 66 / 11 / 28 / 3 [Upda No, it should not, MBR obsolete and must be dead. But it does work on UEFI systems.
Charles Garcia
it's how hardened it is that counts
Ian Foster
Yes, it matter which repositories and package managers you use.
Asher Moore
Today, after two days, I'm going to install the thingy.
Bentley Sanders
Which group is more autistic, suckless or cat-v?
Jose Barnes
>Being a Jew
Wyatt Carter
Suckless is mainstream, not autistic at all, st terminal even supports wayland now.
Zachary Phillips
cat-v not autistic, more like old-school, but should be useful.
Jose Perez
>Suckless is mainstream Delusional
Brody Stewart
DWM is classic.
Nicholas Gonzalez
>Getting upset over a fact I didn't know there were so many SJWs on Sup Forums now. I always thought that Gnoobies like you would be more like Linus & flip the bird at all your female colleagues, hate on shitskins for keeping you unemployed & hate on Jews for overcharging for their Intel CPUs.
Robert Smith
>being a jew
Kayden Jenkins
Doesn't mean it's mainstream. Most people just install KDE or GNOME and call it a day.
Samuel Wood
Most people just install ubuntu, regardless which de it have.
Ian Nguyen
Point is they're probably not going to use any suckless tools if it doesn't come with it. It's not mainstream.
Jaxon Morris
>restricted internet freedom is so funny guise le internet SJW BTFO for the epik winz
Anthony Torres
Same shit in Ukraine, most russian sites are blocked.
Jack Sullivan
Ukrainians are not people
Joseph Roberts
Am I fucked if I upgrade my ubuntu 16.04 server to 17.04? Is it safe process and should you upgrade your server?
Bentley Williams
So true.
Dominic Hughes
Yes. You're fucted because it's Ubuntu. Switch to Arch.
Blake Perez
...
Ian Rogers
don't put it onto 17. keep servers on LTS releases.
Jaxon Garcia
>custom window manager on mac
Is such a thing possible at all? I don't care if I have to spend an entire weekend dawn to dusk configuring shit. As long as it doesn't completely fuck up the OS.
I have to use a mac for work and I'm getting real fucking tired of the macOS DE.
Angel Jones
this doesn't belong in this thread user. isn't the idea of having a mac for macos & its design?
Cameron Hill
I thought 17.04 is the new lts release?
Kayden Perez
no
Jason Harris
... and heavy porn.
This stuff is priceless!
Angel Adams
How can I get TTYs greater than 12? Is it possible for infinite TTYs?
Matthew Parker
Is there a way to compile Gentoo in a VM and pass to a bare metal machine?
Juan Carter
install the gentoo system, make an iso image of the filesystem & put that onto a disk.
Anthony Wilson
Why not just install on bare metal and avoid overhead?
Grayson Diaz
Compile times on an older CPU is a pain in the ass on a older CPU takes two or three days to compile everything also make the computer useless meanwhile installing
