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Why don't any GNU/Linux distros have a "Switch User" function? It's the one thing I miss from windows.
Sebastian Morales
How can I use wget to download all images in a thread, on a website that uses a directory structure like : blahblah.website/g/src
Ryder Watson
You mean switch user when logging in or switch user when already logged in?
Jaxson Harris
post site
Luke Richardson
I can't post the URL without getting banned.
Brandon Jenkins
su = switch user But seriously, lock your screen then switch to another vty.
Adam Hill
I posted this just before the other thread was abandoned. Is there any hardware+distro combo with which everything just works?
I've got a MacBook Pro retina, running Fedora 25, and - hybernation just does not work (laptop shuts down instead, and then reboots) - shuttdown takes forever - keyboard doesn't match the ones available at install - webcam obviously doesn't work
Using my command, wget creates the directory structure but downloads no images.
Jack Russell
Compared to UFW how hard is to learn iptables? I want to learn them but ufw can do everything i want so i don't want to learn them if they are like insane hard
Xavier Mitchell
I don't think hibernation is really supported in Linux. My eeepc 701 4G works flawlessly with Debian.
Charles Moore
Have you checked the man page? Try recursive options or required resources. Might have to turn off robots too.
Kevin Bell
My general command for imageboards is: wget -e robots=off -rHD -nc -nd -nv -ERhtml,s.jpg
Domain is where the media is sitting around >i.4cdn.org >img.4plebs.org >media.8 ch.net >etc
>I don't think hibernation is really supported in Linux. FAKE NEWS It totally is. nativly or with Tux on ice
Noah Sullivan
Then maybe (actually) scrape the links and feed them to wget like this (another example for Sup Forums, replace): wget -qO- | grep -o 'i.4cdn.[^ ]*/[0-9]\+\.[0-9a-z]\{3,4\}' | uniq | xargs wget -nc -nv
Edit the grep part to catch the src links.
Christian Allen
What's the best behaviour I can set up for when my laptop runs out of battery?
btw, this method has also the average of using xargs' -P option for parallel processing wget -qO- | grep -o 'i.4cdn.[^ ]*/[0-9]\+\.[0-9a-z]\{3,4\}' | uniq | xargs -P 0 -n 1 wget -nc -nv
Udev rule to read the state of the battery and then execute a hibernation script
Jaxon Thomas
why does nobody mention this? stallman uses it.
Hunter Martinez
Will look into that, thanks. Hopefully I can finally get some sane workflow out of my laptop.
Isaac Collins
Because 99% of laptops have cucked wifi so nobody uses it.
Kevin Hernandez
>nobody I see it mentioned fairly often, what do you mean?
Lucas Green
>stallman uses it. A good reason not to use it.Thanks!
Luke Bell
On Sup Forums maybe. Because some people actually got a wifi stick.
Dylan Foster
What the hell, kid.
Thomas Brooks
I use musl c,busybox,and clang aswell!
Ian Adams
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 Harvard, 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 reversed 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.
Chase Butler
Download all media from given thread () into the current directory: wget -nc -nd -nv -e robots=off -ER html,s.jpg -rHD i.4cdn.org wget -nc -nd -nv -e robots=off -ER html,s.jpg -rHD img.4plebs.org wget -nc -nd -nv -e robots=off -ER html -rHD media.8[the character 'c']h.net wget -nc -nd -nv -e robots=off -ER html,s.jpg -rHD archive-media-0.nyafuu.org # bonus wget -nc -nd -nv -e robots=off -r -Ajpg,JPG -ERhtml rms.sexy/img
Any more sites/archives suggestions?
Isaac Morris
Install foobillardplus >the billard part isn't a typo
Jaxon Bell
My keyboard is listed in xinput as "keykoard". >coding drunk
Wyatt Scott
Post eastereggs.
Thomas Hall
It isn't "fake news", you are just misreading me. Yes the feature is there but it hardly works properly. >linuxplumbersconf.org/2017/ocw/proposals/4680 >we’ve received quite many bug reports against this feature, some of these bugs were solved gracefully but some of them haven’t not been root caused yet, and for the rest, we already found the cause of these bugs, but can not provide a graceful solution to them And from 2007 >lwn.net/Articles/243404/ >As you have certainly realized, there are some known problems and limitations related to the suspend and hibernation code, so I do not consider these subsystems as finished work.
>TuxOnIce Neato, I wasn't aware of this.
Colton Jenkins
Survey question for all of you.
What features would you put into a modern day terminal?
Michael Martinez
>hardly works properly My two laptops are telling me you're wrong.
Jonathan Johnson
posting from gnome 3
Adam Robinson
apt get moo aptitude moo
Brandon Davis
HP probook 470 g1 + ubuntu 16.04 and upwards has been really good for me.
Anthony Scott
i made my antergos (what a stupid name lol) gnu/linux taskbar behave like windows one but kind of better
are you proud of me \g\
Lincoln Lewis
grep LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC /usr/include/linux/reboot.h Linus dropped some birthdays here, convertable via printf '%x\n' 672274793 or more comfy: perl -e 'print localtime(672274793)."\n"'
Asher Gutierrez
I think the author mentions a bunch of marginal points that don't do much to support the claim. He mostly compares Linux on the server to Windows everywhere, the largest attack vector for windows is desktop users, and that is a problem that linux just doesn't have. Yes IIS and the SMB server and other server things on windows have had vulns but so has apache and ssh and whatnot on windows. Yes windows has been pretty shit about having a convention of security updates, but lots of linux servers go un-updated for decades too.
So basically on server they are about the same and on desktop they aren't really comparable.
>I’m also an economist by training, so I see the invisible hand working nearly everywhere [muffled laughter]
Jaxon Wilson
Bash4retards help menu that gives very clear definitions and examples of commands. Also include a "most common problems" page detailing shit like "black screen on boot? try nomodeset" or "broadcom chipset? go buy a USB dongle."
Kayden Hughes
date -d 'tomorrow 1 day ago'
Nolan Ward
I recently removed systemd and installed openrc on debian, after the initial feeling of having done a big mistake since I couldn't boot, I finally managed to get on my system. However when I boot it takes decades because of this thing: [ 2.655970] clocksource: Switched to clocksource tsc [ 24.775427] random: crng init done I'm assuming this is related to the /dev/random device? If yes can I do something about it (like feed less entropy or something, I'm not an expert).
Hunter Walker
In vim, when you type :help! instead of :help you get a good suggestion.
Noah Turner
lel, what did I even expect
Kevin Rogers
Are you using crypttab on boot? Are you using swap,if yes partition or swapfile?
Jaxon Powell
is manjaro good?
Gabriel Diaz
use kde
Blake James
>Are you using crypttab on boot? I can't find anything like this when using crypttab. >swap I use a swap partition, here's my fstab UUID=003e46c5-5f6f-4bde-8fbb-9e5f5146e23d / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1 # swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation UUID=acd6877c-634b-457f-8ef2-7aab9b726aa5 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sr0 /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 When I run htop it actually tells I have 0K of swap, this is weird.
Elijah Robinson
Can anyone tell me how to see what packages are in these options?
Isaiah Collins
Majaro is a good Linux OS, not as good as Arch Linux, but it just works and since I want to use my systems instead of petting it, I recommend Manjaro Linux as my favorite Linux OS for your Linux computer.
Gavin Gomez
Thank you
Bentley James
>echo -e '\n\033[1;31;1mhi\u0020f\u0061g\u0067ot\033[0m\n' why does this work?
Camden Nguyen
I made one too.
Ryan Evans
No. It's a NEET distro with a tattered blue trilby to tip instead of a bald head. The developers can't even maintain SSL certs for fuck's sake.
Aiden Evans
So I ran gparted and could initiate my swap here with swapon, I'm assuming I should make it do that at boot time?
Bentley Cook
>removed systemd and installed openrc on debian consider migrating to devuan. Packages with systemd dependency were patched to circumvent that. Works right of the bat too.
Jason Martin
Stop using echo. Use printf.
Logan Long
is it better than arch for linux beginners?
Michael Davis
That was the endgame plan but I wanted to see what OpenRC does before switching since I have quite a few packages I would need to reinstall.
Mason Sullivan
No. Dont use DOWNSTREAM distros,they are full of problems and arent supported on the main distro's forums should you ever need help
Levi Ross
nice! [spoiler] Don't panic [/spoiler]
Hudson Scott
Linux beginners should use Ubuntu Linux. It's literally Debian actually made usable. But well, I didn't got Ubuntu work on my macbook so I'm using Fedora.
Bentley Butler
Beginners should use Solus. It's Ubuntu easy but not Ubuntu shite.
Parker Young
>Debian actually made usable How is Debian not usable?
Charles Torres
stop
David Cook
I'd wait then. Devuan is still on 1.0 and there are rumors (mind you only rumors) that 2.0 will run OpenRC instead of just barebones sysV init like it does now.
Gabriel Garcia
help echo
Gavin Ramirez
this >033 on gnu we use \e
Camden Watson
Literally noone ever bothered to explain the difference
Henry Wood
I've been looking for a good script for this bud P.s. you're my bud
Logan Rodriguez
No one? Why is Fedora's documentation so piss poor?
Joshua Anderson
echo is inconsitent as fuck among systems, on solaris for ex. its even just a symlink to printf -- '%b\n' "$*" printf supports proper formatting which results in cleaner (and at some corners more secure) code
there are some things that you cant do with echo, like printing '-n' (printf -- '-n\n'), printf supports on some ends lots of shit like converting hex to dec and vice versa, it supports date hackery like printf -- '%(%F %T)T\n' -1 and you can format the output further by adding dynamic spacing: printf -- '%*s\n' 80 "$(uname -o)"
tl;dr its more portable and cooler
Parker Torres
It changes every 6 months, noone wants to keep up with this shit. Even debian struggles sometimes to have it's wiki up to date. Some articles still mention sysvinit despite the fact that it's been two years (and two releases) since they switched to systembotnet.
Jason Thompson
What music player does Sup Forums reccomend?
Also, any experiences with fedora?
Nolan Hill
Good to know. I got forced to use printf because dash doesn't play well with echo -e, and if it wasn't for that I'd probably still use it.
