lemmyreader

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lemmyreader ,

There used to be wicd as alternative for NM but its development is stalled. There is ConnMan though with apparently GUI and TUI options :

lemmyreader , (edited )

According to this Samba 4.16 removed the support for the old SMB1 Protocol.

Looking here : https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=samba you can see the difference between Jammy and Noble : 4.15 -> 4.19 So it looks like you're out of luck with fast and easy solutions. Maybe downloading the older Samba package and its dependencies and downgrade and then put the package on "hold" is maybe possible. During such an attempt using aptitude instead of apt could be helpful.

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Update available! This version is very old.

Xscreensaver has apparently been checking for updates and is disappointed that it hasn't had one for 14 months because Debian is too stable. Can anyone recommend a linux screensaver which would work with xfce and can be trusted to never do that?

lemmyreader ,

https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#upgrade

lemmyreader ,

Well, if you read some more of jwz's blog posts about the horrible security bugs that others have added while creating derivatives of Xscreensaver you might think twice before doing so. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition For me a screensaver is no longer about trying to prevent dead pixels (or something like that) but being able to safely lock the screen when being away from it for a while.

lemmyreader OP ,

Dillo browser's original project goal was to provide a web browser for people with slow Internet connection.

Here some screenshots of Dillo browser on a phone and how the developer did that :

lemmyreader OP , (edited )

Stunning - EDIT: The Android and Dillo browser part I meant!

lemmyreader OP , (edited )

The screen shot has a document Xubuntu -> Chicago95 open which appears to be related to this :

lemmyreader ,

Why ? Don't you geddit ? :) (Guess cause languages and dialects)

lemmyreader ,

OP was banned. Time to move on.

lemmyreader ,

I prefer to use debs (apt) for most packages and just a few Flatpaks. Avoiding snaps (Among others because I find the Snap Store too messy) and I do not bother with AppImages. But if you (OP) would need certain software that is only available as AppImage then go it.

lemmyreader ,

Depends on use case and the country. I use Mullvad and Riseup VPN and something private (and Tor). Sometimes when a site has Mullvad in Europe blocked, it works when I try one of their servers outside of Europe. In my experience Mullvad is awesome, and you can try it for one month. And Mullvad, the no nonsense VPN provider, has had the same prize since years! (And no discounts like Proton trying to get you sign up for a year or more trying to keep you with Proton).

lemmyreader ,

No need to have an account.
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=riseup

lemmyreader ,

um I don’t use a vpn. Please tell me why I should use a VPN.

It is up to you to use a VPN or not. Some people use a VPN to watch regular TV series which are blocked in their own country. Some people, like myself, despise the ad- and tracking- exploitation industry, other people may want to download e-books from anna's archive or simply do not trust their ISP. Other people live in countries where their government is very oppressive and intends to arrest and torture any critical voices.

I have nothing to hide.

Reminds me of : "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."

Recommended viewing : https://piped.video/results?search_query=Shoshana+Zuboff

Error when loading Ubuntu live USB ( lemmy.world )

I've been trying to boot a Ubuntu 24.04 USB (please no discussion of distro choice) but I keep getting a very unhelpful error during the initial startup. I've tried using a different USB drive, a different USB port, booting from UEFI. The only thing that has made a change was booting into safe graphics mode. It got to the...

lemmyreader ,

I've tested the Beta of Ubuntu 24.04 and during the installation it bailed out as well which I've never seen before.

Normally the installation disk has Try and Install mode. If you go for the Try mode and then choose install you should be able to navigate to the log files and check the contents which can give you an idea of what went wrong.

There's other flavors of Ubuntu, like Lubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu, Edubuntu. Try one of them and see whether the same error happens. After you would successfully install for example Xubuntu you can use apt to install the ubuntu-desktop package which is a meta package which will install the default GNOME of Ubuntu. Then proceed to remove the XFCE4 packages and you're done.

lemmyreader ,

Good that you mentioned that. Reminded me that I have an Arch Linux install here where I forgot that I did choose BTRFS during installation. Within maybe a month I noticed FS errors. Looked scary. Nervously searching for documentation was even more scary :

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/btrfs#btrfs_check -> This article or section is out of date. (Discuss in Talk:Btrfs)
Warning: Since Btrfs is under heavy development, especially the btrfs check command,
it is highly recommended to create a backup and consult btrfs-check(8) before
executing btrfs check with the --repair switch.

What is this? My beloved Arch Wiki is not 100% perfect!

Then found this :

WARNING: Using '--repair' can further damage a filesystem instead of helping if it can't fix your particular issue.

Warning

Do not use --repair unless you are advised to do so by a developer or an experienced
user, and then only after having accepted that no fsck successfully repair all types
of filesystem corruption. E.g. some other software or hardware bugs can fatally damage
a volume.

I figure this explains the popularity of BTRFS snapshot configurations.
Luckily I had some backups :)

lemmyreader ,

Note that ext4 is damn old

Hmm ? Linux kernel is way older than ext4. And before ext4 there was ext3 and ext2. Linux users also have the choice of using XFS file system and for IT persons working for corporations XFS can have some advantages. Let's see, XFS was born in 1993.

more modern ones like btrfs or bcachefs

Years ago I thought that bcachecfs looked interesting but last thing I read about it this year was not very promising regarding reliability. Not sure whether it was in comments on Lemmy but here I found something from Linus himself : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bcachefs#Stability

What are some free interests/things/hobbies you can do in the city?

I live alone and I'm just wasting away my time here. It's actually making me very depressed to be honest. I do live in the city which makes think there ought to be at least something to do out here. Though I can't really afford to spent money on it every day....

lemmyreader ,

  • The city where I live in has several few Little libraries that people have in their garden or hanging at the wall of their home. And I know that other cities have them as well. Today I went biking and brought back two books and I was pretty sure that I did not want to take any because I have more than enough to read, but I noticed an interesting book and took it home. This is something you can do yourself. Build a small wooden box, and have other people put or take books. You don't have to do this yourself, you could ask friends, family and co-workers to help you build it or ask them to provide such. Then you could take a little bit care of it and promote the idea.

  • What I like about bigger cities are public parks. I like to go to parks and just sit, listen to birds, enjoy the green and in Springtime, Summer and Autumn enjoy the colors.

  • Public libraries here have magazines and books to read for any visitors. I've learned about open source software thanks to the Internet but also a little bit thanks to public libraries. I find that reading paper books or magazine can also be a nice break from staring at a screen of a device.

lemmyreader OP ,

Thanks.

lemmyreader ,

They are not pioneers, they are Microsoft funded group (at the beginning, at least)

In the beginning in 1997 GNOME was a direct response to KDE using Qt toolkit with a license that GNU with RMS did not like at all. Not sure why you mention Microsoft and funded ? When I search for it I see that M$ gave 10K to GNOME in 2022, more than two decades later.

American Motorcyclist Association Urges DOT to Act on Automated Driver System Regulations Following Tragic Collision ( americanmotorcyclist.com )

PICKERINGTON, Ohio (April 26, 2024) — In the wake of the most recent tragedy involving a fatal collision between a Tesla vehicle in autopilot mode and a motorcyclist in Washington state, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) once again urges the Department of Transportation (DOT) to strengthen Automated Driving System...

lemmyreader ,

I think the progress we’ve made on driverless vehicles is pretty amazing and I really want to live in a world where they work - but we’re not there yet and some idiots are under the impression we are.

Who is the "we" you mentioned three times ?

lemmyreader OP ,

Indeed useful to not having to share passwords. I think sudo historically started as a way to let some users in a company for example manage printer server settings without having a root password. (And I believe it was Ubuntu in 2004 which promoted sudo and forced the default user after an installation to use sudo to perform root commands).

lemmyreader OP ,

Actually, i thought about merging rdo and ssu, both a bit over 100 loc in C.

Found ssu here : https://github.com/illiliti/ssu Can't find rdo. What is it ?

lemmyreader OP ,

Thanks

lemmyreader OP ,

The project is based on CSS and HTML files. I guess deploying would mean putting it in the right place (Say : /var/www/html/) and using it with your web-server software or at your hosting provider.

lemmyreader OP ,

Well, yes, I prefer desktop. But you know, in some countries some people have nothing else than phones. I am glad that Mullvad has posted this and hopefully Google can fix the bugs soon.

lemmyreader OP ,

Upvoted.

lemmyreader OP ,

On the desktop it does. But on Android things are maybe different ? Not directly related but I remember (long time ago) wanting to tether from an Android phone with Mullvad VPN app in use, to a computer, only to find out that the Android defaults (In Android not in the Mullvad app) needed a button swiped to make it work correctly on the other device.

lemmyreader OP ,

Well, I didn't see the other comments till now, and wrote Upvoted as an alternative to Insightful which I was intending it to sound. I appreciated your comment because I think Google likely have their own priorities.

lemmyreader OP ,

All fine. Your comment where you mentioned autistic suddenly made me "understand" the let-s-call-them misunderstandings in this thread. And I agree about the toxic world, but we're all in the same boat, so I'd say we may as well be nice to each other at least a few seconds per day. Sometimes small things can make a big difference.

lemmyreader OP ,

Very nice.

lemmyreader OP ,

I've heard that on Microsoft OS the root user is named Administrator (and on some BSD OS root is called Charlie!), so yes.

lemmyreader OP ,

No worries. When I saw the image on Mastodon I thought I did not get it but still looks funny.

  • "RunAs" is apparently the Windows equivalence of sudo in Linux.
  • Administrator in Windows == root in Linux.
  • Furries are popular among some users on the Fediverse, for reasons.
lemmyreader OP ,

The book you mention appears to be quite something! (below parts of a description I found on the Internet). Thanks for sharing, guess it makes a perfect gift book for a friend of mine :)

An off-beat introduction to the workings of electricity for people who wish Richard Brautigan and Kurt Vonnegut had teamed up to explain inductance and capacitance to them.

To understand your toaster or your fax machine, it doesn't really matter whether there are electrons or not, and it's a lot easier and more fun to start with the toaster than with quarks and calculus. The book is mildly weird, often funny, always clear and easy to understand.

OK, it's more than mildly weird.The book has been reprinted numerous times since 1991 and has achieved minor cult status. Reviewed and praised in dozens of electronics and educational magazines, it is used as a text by major corporations, colleges, high schools, military schools and trade schools. It has been studied by education programs at colleges across the United States.

lemmyreader ,

That reminds me : Last time I tried Garuda Linux it came with a local Whoogle instance.

lemmyreader ,

The Ubuntu laptop had to connect to company vpn. It were using openconnect-network-manager-gnome thingy to do that. Recently the company upgraded their vpn software which is sorta incompatible with openconnect and requires a modified user agent string for it to prompt for 2FA keys. package in ubuntu 22.04 is too old to modify that in the gui.

If you have a good idea what I could have tried let me know, love to hear new ideas.

Hmm, tough one.
Suggesting to post your question as a new post in relevant Lemmy /c/ or StackExchange and so on.
Here as a not so new comment of a comment it will get little exposure I guess.

lemmyreader OP ,

Thanks, and go go gadget valid link!
https://pdodds.w3.uvm.edu/files/papers/others/1976/robinson1976a.pdf

lemmyreader ,

It can be, but for that, I would rather recommend Aurora or Bluefin. They are almost the same, but without gaming stuff.

Both links in your comment rendered invalid. Providing the correct links for other readers, based on the README from https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin :

lemmyreader ,

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/USB_flash_installation_medium#Using_ventoy

Note: archlinux-2024.05.01-x86_64.iso should be run in GRUB2 mode to work. See Ventoy issue #2825.

lemmyreader ,

Guess only North-Americans will worry about PixelFeds names :-)

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