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#1 Re: Devuan » RISCV support » 2025-09-15 07:42:17

@EchedeyLR, how is your VisionFive2 experimentation progressing?

#5 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] Suddenly no audio » 2025-09-11 14:17:16

but what triggered the sudden loss of audio(since it was working perfectly before)?

#8 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] OpenRC Woes » 2025-09-07 13:44:26

major kudos and hat-tip to @Andre4freedom for expending their finite, valuable time and energy to actually post...what the rest of us were thinking.

#9 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » trying to keep my 100yr-old father computing for another year » 2025-09-07 08:49:09

@kapqa, had problems with claws-mail rss-plugin not performing properly and so now use newsboat

#10 Re: Other Issues » amd64-microcode update for transient scheduler attacks » 2025-09-02 14:03:15

this thread makes me want to dig out my Q6600 and Q8200 quad-core machines...iirc they still have beowulf on spinning rust...sounds like a rainy day endeavour.

#12 Re: Freedom Hacks » Patching on the fly with "stream editor" (fftrate ALSA plugin) » 2025-09-01 09:28:57

transcript of Alan Watts: The Individual & The World

https://www.organism.earth/library/document/individual-and-the-world

pro-tip: if you toggle to "reader view" in firefox you can then fairly easily select all and cut/paste into a simple text document/file for offline reading(roughly a 150KB file / 24 page pdf)

more: the link referenced in the previous post is probably not the best offered at yt(commenters complained of numerous ads/commercials through the near 4hr audio-only "video" although i didn't personally sample said 4hrs)

another possible resource:

https://archive.org/details/alanwattscollection

#16 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Should the live desktop auto start RAID arrays? » 2025-08-29 09:09:28

thanks to everyone who is talented enough to continue to investigate "the borking"

hopefully a fix can be found

#22 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Should the live desktop auto start RAID arrays? » 2025-08-25 12:44:40

looks like mdadm has been in debian/ubuntu since at least debian 3 and ubuntu 5.10 based on this webpage:

https://www.howtoforge.com/linux_software_raid

so it is possible that an original or a remix may/might possibly cause these failures/issues

using DDG Lite and searching for ubuntu 8.04 mdadm finds numerous results, just one of which is:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootDegradedRaid

which appears to have similar questions regarding out of the box operations

@fsmithred, fortunately there would have been few of these "situations" however it is "non-zero" and one must wonder how many borked systems were never accurately diagnosed regarding the exact cause of failure(after all, the innocent live-distro user believes wholeheartedly that booting their liveusb thumbdrive in an unknowing/unsuspecting owners/users machine doesn't change anything on the computer itself...because that is what the distros claim...a claim we now know is sometimes false)

#23 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Should the live desktop auto start RAID arrays? » 2025-08-25 08:57:06

before starting a new thread(and potentially requesting it to be a frontpage sticky) i wanted to clarify something
(mostly to @fsmithred given admin/elevated-status/mod/etc. but @all as well)

if i understand this correctly there may be millions of live-cd/dvd/usb/etc distros existing out there globally.......

that.....

bork the booting of an uncertain number of machines owned/used by an unknown number of unknowing victims?

seems like the makings of a good commentary on arstechnic, hacker news, reddit, slashdot, etc...

hmmm.....

i'll be the first to admit that i was unaware that many/most/who_knows? of currently circulating live-distros(cd/dvd/usb/etc), claiming to be completely safe to boot up on any machine without changing _anything_ on that physical computer, instead...

bork it?

i do not think that the vast majority of casual live-distro users(past/present/future) are aware of this potential issue.

in other words, i guess i really want to be wrong about this. hoping anywho.

edited to turn it down a couple notches...squirrels and coffee you know...

#25 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Devuan Thunderbird Release Channel v142? » 2025-08-25 07:48:05

our email journey/saga starts at aol and ends at claws-mail
(aol/earthlink/thunderbird/evolution/claws-mail)

forty years of irreplaceable correspondence...sigh...

...walks off muttering something something put those something backups...cough...

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