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so i've been using gnu/linux for around two months now. i started by installing mint on my desktop and then after about 2 weeks i decided i would install arch on my laptop because i wanted to learn a bit more about how everything works. i've got everything about set up on my laptop but when i went to install arch on my desktop (setting up dual boot again because gaym) i realized that i really don't want to go through all of the steps again to get everything working exactly as i want. so, if i want to keep using pacman and the aur, which arch derivative would you guys recommend? the two i'm aware of are manjaro and antergos but i've heard quite a bit of bad about manjaro and i know nothing about antergos.
Brandon Stewart
If you check the authors of free software you'll find some Japanese names. It should not be the last country to think of.
Christopher Diaz
>Yankee go home i like 2ch
William Murphy
>Sup Forums has a kym article >Sup Forums doesn't Feels good not being a meme
Matthew Davis
Familie, what's a normal core temperature for fanless laptops?
My cores go up to 60°C with the browser opened.
Chase Jenkins
completely normal. mobile cpus always run hotter than desktop equivalents.
Cooper Lee
Okay. It's my first fanless laptop so I'm not sure what to expect. I tried to install thermald but it doesn't really affect the core temperature at all.
how can I get a random video from a specific category?
Bentley Peterson
I'm using sys-kernel/gentoo-sources 4.9.34 since the grsec thing should I just switch to sys-kernel/gentoo-sources?
Noah Jones
I'm using sys-kernel/hardened-sources 4.8.17-r2 since the grsec thing should I switch to sys-kernel/gentoo-sources 4.9.34?
Cooper Evans
Unless you plan on backporting security fixes yourself it's probably a good idea to ditch grsecurity since I don't see anyone "picking the baton" like they formulated it
Adrian Wilson
Try going to the site with your browser to see if you can do it, then paste the url behind mpv on your cli
Alexander Cruz
Working on it, gimme a minute.
Parker Hughes
What's the best lightweight rolling release distro?
Easton Peterson
The one I'm using.
Nicholas James
Any way to select a time after which the computer will automatically suspend/hibernate? Running arch.
Julian Martinez
Which is?
Wyatt Rivera
Sup brosep, I'm on Arch too.
Ryder Rogers
>pic Reminds me of a story.
I'm a paramedic, my first "in the field" job was when I was still at uni in a private transport ambulance as a driver (three people squad, two paramedics me and a girl and a physician). The company mostly did contract stuff for inter-hospital transport.
Forementioned physician was absolutely one of the fucking dumbest people I know. Grey hair, glasses, half deaf. The last time he worked in an ambulance was in the early 90s and the first question he asked when he "where the fuck is pavulon" which was the drug paramedics from our city used to kill their patients in the early 2000 to "sell" the bodies too funeral homes and has been pretty much outlawed and replaced by less dangerous succinycholine in case we need were to perform rapid sequence intubation.
So we got a call from a retirement home, we go there, the fucking dumbass walks to the patient and starts """"""""auscultating""""""" the woman with the stethoscope still on his fucking neck. After that he says "those lungs sure sound bad". We looked with the girl at eachother like we're in some parody universe but nigger is told nigger must do. We loadead her up, dump at the hopistal, chest X-ray results come in and bam.
He was right. Fucking pneumonia. How nigger. How
Carter Rivera
He was a wizzard.
Isaac Stewart
>arch derivative Never use DOWNSTREAM distros.
Nothing is preventing you from imaging your arch setup to your new install
Matthew Flores
edgy
Dylan Morgan
Facts
Michael Wright
Win 7 at least wont auto-update
Nathaniel Allen
None of those are downstream distros
Cooper Roberts
I'm running Debian 10 buster (testing) right now and I'm wondering if there's any reason not to dist-upgrade to sid? Has anyone had any kind of catastrophic system instability in the past with it or was it just things being upgraded so quickly that they didn't have the right dependencies in specific situations? Because I can deal with some of my programs breaking, I just don't want that kind of shit at the system level.
Colton Hall
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Matthew Bailey
>tfw installed obongo on htpc >installed chrome for parents to use >configured samba and ssh >installed torrent deamon for me to download shit
shit, so what now? i don't run any game server or anything, so what else could i put on there? i download torrents like once a week so right now it's not even a server but just a shitty netbook basically, i can't even justify keeping it on 24/7 like this
shit like tor hubs is pointless, that is just a pointless waste of internet
Matthew Flores
That's why he's the doctor and you're a glorified pizza delivery guy except the meatballs you're driving around aren't quite dead yet.
Brody Harris
Well that's just your opinion man. There are people who don't want to bother wasting time with installing arch and fixing bugs themselves.
Colton Jones
>chrome >samba >torrents Please be joking.
Sebastian Collins
>That's why he's the doctor Yeah now I work at state EMS while he still works at a dead-end private glorified taxi service. Also happen to be earning more than he does lol.
Jaxon Peterson
Yeah i'll get right on using some obscure buggy broken foss alternatives
Also, is this your first day using gnu/linux? samba is literally the industry standard for file sharing
Joseph Davis
Got any cool stories to share, user? Yeah it's not GNU/Linux related, so sue me.
Benjamin Hernandez
FTPS is a thing and so is SFTP. IceCat may be obscure but buggy it ain't.
Nolan Foster
Save this somewhere in your path as "pornhub", but replace the category number with your preferred category. It's not perfect, because it also takes into consideration some random videos that show up on the category page. I'll fix it tomorrow.
I just spent 30 minutes finding out why the internet stopped working, only to realise my Ethernet cable was unplugged rate
Evan Mitchell
cool thanks
Christian Young
At least you're not too dumb to get double dubs.
Evan Cruz
checked
Isaac King
I don't think there's much to talk about really, it's mostly visually intensive stuff and I very rarely take pictures (mostly as evidence to protect myself in case some idiot had an idea to sue me for whatever reasons).
There was one guy who took a heavy hit on one of these "designer drugs" and deluded himself that there's a squirrel in his abdomen. So he took a pair of fucking scissors, cut himself wide open and ripped his intestines together with the mesentery in an attempt to "get it out". People really underestimate how dangerous these things are to your brain.
Nathaniel Hernandez
What the Christ. Did he call you guys himself or did someone else? Do you get motorcyclists and how many of the shrekt ones don't wear proper gear?
Tyler Nelson
Nowhere near being the worst.
My first GNU/Linux adventure was installing debian. My wifi didn't work (didn't have a flash stick large enough to fit full DVD at hand) so I had to resort to ethernet. Installed the system, started researching how to install intel wlan drivers. After some time stumbled on the relevant page and installed iwlwifi firmware. Didn't fucking work. Reboots, driver reinstalls, disabling/enabling modules all assortment of stupid shit that your average drooling normie does when "computer no worky worky" in hope that in a Windows-style fashion it miraculously starts working.
After a solid 2 hours of frantically trying to figure out what's wrong I noticed that the wlan switch was in the "off" position.
>Do you get motorcyclists and how many of the shrekt ones don't wear proper gear? At the speeds those guys usually have an accident no gear is going to save you.
We had one guy who lost control, fell of the bike and with his momentum "slid" towards a car with opened driver door and hit on the sharp edge of door with his neck cutting his larynx in half. He survived, though lost his voice completely.
Plus I've heard that people who treat motorcycle racing (street fighters?) seriously here have a suicidal culture of putting a music wire in a loop around their necks so when they fall down it decapitates them. But I've seen only one case and that was only picture made my a friend. Sheared clean off. Haven't seen one in person, so could be just one retard who took a meme to reality so can't confirm really. Maybe an urban legend.
During summer practices (at uni) an ambulance brought a guy with a his forearm cut off. Clean. He cut it off himself with a table saw, cause he had suffered from psychosomatic pain in his arm for months and all the physicians did was prescribe some painkillers (doesn't fucking work since it's not actually a real pain). Imagine the look on his face when he learned his arm will not be replantated because amputation due to self-harm is a clear contraindication to such intervention.
Wouldn't it be ironic if after all of this he was left with phantom pain in the arm he amputated himself?
Luis Cruz
I recently did a fresh install of debian. I used /etc/network/interfaces to connect to my wifi because wpa_supplicant and my dhcp client was giving me problems. Is the /etc/network/interfaces file systemd exclusive?
Mason Kelly
Hi /fglt/
What would be the absolutely fastest way to get 300GB worth of files into some kind of archive format to easily be moved?
Levi Anderson
Openrc user here, looks like that ~ $ ls /etc/network/ ls: cannot access '/etc/network/': No such file or directory
Alexander Collins
USB 3 external drive
Eli Carter
yes
Isaiah Reed
Unforunately that's not an option, I should have elaborated
I just need to get a large amount of files into a single .zip, .tar or whatever. I was just wondering if there was something faster than zip -r -0
Awesome, looks like that will work perfectly. Cheers
Julian Williams
I would expect tar without compression to be faster.
Grayson Collins
Good to know, thanks
Gabriel Gomez
No, it is a Debian thing and has been used since long before sysd came around. It was (is?) used by the ifupdown package/script and other consumers add hooks in /etc/network/if*.d
How was /etc/network/interfaces able to connect to my wifi without wpa_supplicant because I was under the assumption that it was mandatory for WPA or WPA2.
Noah King
your distro and de? Bonus points if not arch.
Zachary Taylor
Name for the next edition: Not even Microsoft's AI uses Windows, why should you?
Owen Parker
arch fluxbox
Matthew Thompson
> >200 post left to limit >auditioning for new thread
Daniel Wilson
It doesn't. $ head /etc/network/if-up.d/wpasupplicant #!/bin/sh
##################################################################### ## Purpose # This file is executed by ifupdown in pre-up, post-up, pre-down and # post-down phases of network interface configuration. It allows # ifup(8), and ifdown(8) to manage wpa_supplicant(8) and wpa_cli(8) # processes running in daemon mode.
Lucas Scott
I'd just like to interject.
Connor Cooper
Just an idea. I'll probably lose the ending of the thread, since I have to go now.
