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#576 Re: Off-topic » AI on mainstream media » 2023-04-04 06:07:18
@golinux I am aware that humans are unable to have true peace, such a thing will take till the end of time to occur if it has a chance to happen at all.
This being said, I definitely seek such a transformation. As for if I seek it enough, I am not sure.
But seeing various discussions and learning about libre software, etc... these revelations came to me regarding the reality of my country and no doubt various parts of the world.
#577 Re: Off-topic » Error in VirtualBox, hoping for help » 2023-04-03 02:52:41
@ralph.ronnquist
I don't understand why you are so disturbed by it.
Then again, I don't understand why @Ron
Or really anyone still uses virtualbox when virt-manager and qemu are both options.
Even virt-manager is better than virtualbox though and bare in mind, I am aware it relies on qemu but is also more or less developed by redhat. At least that is what I recall anyways...
That being said, Virtualbox is horribly insecure...
#578 Re: Off-topic » AI on mainstream media » 2023-04-03 02:36:10
The genie is already out of the bottle but at least the MSM finally caught up with it . . .
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/vi … 6341189759
"Artificial intelligence has developed rapidly in recent years, stoking concerns that the technology is being released too quickly and without enough testing. Lester Holt speaks with Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, co-founders of the Center for Humane Technology, about the dangers of developing AI without regulation."
It is a good time to be old . . .
When you say MSM, just to clairfy, you are aware that any media and all media that operates only on TV fits this bill, right?
When corporations like Google are considered left wing, by a country, you know the countries who think that are controlled by extremism.
Although I suppose denial can be a pre-existing condition, if you don't think this.
Not sure what anyone here thinks, but considering USA's alt right uses MSM alot, it sounds like denial to me very often.
I hope, that you, golinux that you aren't one of those people.
Btw, as an obvious, patents are hell for tech, due to the power they give the tech companies to abuse their power.
In any case, it doesn't matter who controls the DRM, even if the people are mostly benevolent, there will always be the factor for people who don't care about the law who will do whatever it takes to abuse it.
Bad guys will disable the remote blobs by any means, legal or illegal and use safe havens and abuse the vulnerabilities of those who are stuck with the backdoors to cause havoc.
It would be nice if the whole world understood this...
Heard of ciphersaber.com?
That's where I realized its not about catching bad guys or about national security.
Its about finding legal dissenters and about giving corporations endless power, nothing else.
#579 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » how to easily copy a windows partition? » 2023-04-02 01:34:06
The best way to copy partitions that I know of, is to load a linux live distro and plug in a huge fast SSD Flash Drive or Portable SSD Drive to a usb 3.0, if you want this to not take forever,and then use dd to copy it.
dd if=/dev/sdX of=/media/sdY/your.qcow2 bs=10M status=progress
the X is the location of the windows partition and the Y is the drive where you want to put the image on. qcow2 doesn't need to be the type of format you want. It has to be mounted though.
I have done this many times when I break my installation and I need to clone back to get my OS back to normal.
Thankfully, this is usually not hard at all.
Though you might need a lot of space for this to work. Though, it might still be a fast transition, it depends how you intend to do this.
If you are using 4th gen or newer, this won't take too long even if its a bloody terrabyte or more.
As an obvious, make sure you aren't reckless about dd.
If nothing else, you could also use this as a further preventative measure to protect yourself from a crash if your operating system updates something and it breaks, you will now have a fallback option.
#580 Re: News & Announcements » Non GNU Linux Chimera » 2023-04-02 01:16:04
Oh zapper . . . please pay better attention. The exact content of the post that you quoted was:
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Exhale!Last edited by fsmithred (2023-02-14 15:22:01)
Did you not notice the "..." and the text beneath those excellent words of advice? HoaS had posted an unnecessarily crude, knee-jerk rant/response to charliebrownau. It was deleted/edited by one of our mods. In response, HoaS has apparently moved on from this forum because he has not been seen here since. Or maybe you like talking to the "dead"? It's a little creepy. Maybe try a seance . . .
Ahhh I didn't see that from fsmithred...
Well that restores my interest in seeing him comment here again...
How crude was it? Now I am mega curious as to how crude it was.
Btw, he isn't actually dead... he just isn't around on this forum.
Dead means he is no longer alive, so... yeah not quite.
I am going to guess it was some dirty type of joke about charlie being pregnant or something stupider, etc...
Which, if so, is even more creepy than me commenting to him here.
#581 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Unity desktop environment » 2023-04-02 01:13:14
@zapper . . . yes
Got it...
So essentially, like windows vista or newer.
It would have been nice if eye candy had taken 40+ more years to get as bad as it was in the days of windows vista, let alone xbox 360 and every other grotesque nightmare.
#582 Re: News & Announcements » Non GNU Linux Chimera » 2023-04-01 03:48:59
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Exhale!
And this is the person who judged me nonstop over disagreements of things I did...
Meh...
I looked at that page and I noticed a few things:
They are against loud anti-systemd nonsense and far right movements at the same time.
Only problem is, systemd, was created by a corporation, thus... it falls in that exact territory.
@Head_On_a_stick
You do make me wonder if I should in fact leave devuan forums yet again.
Your caring about memory space while not caring about cpu usage tells me you fall in the suckless dogmatic category and thus you would be just as welcome as me there.
You might not be paying attention, but I will send just in case.
I am sure you know more than me about everything there is in the world
/S
#583 Re: Off-topic » How to exclude words in DDG etc. searches » 2023-04-01 03:32:28
On youtube, they doubled the amount of ads, along with the offer to have it ad-free for 10 bugsa month. Same technique may apply for the search.
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You had one specific part of that right, which I will try to embolden... well to be fair, its a tiny fraction of the truth, but yeah its at least on the right track.
Although, to be fair, they are still tracking you always, no matter what. They are completely full of it, if they think that is enough of a deal for it to be worth it to anyone but the most gullible people on the planet. Although, sometimes I forget about something very insane that happened not much more than 2 months and 2 years ago...
But yeah,
EDIT: Actually double the amount of ads is also true as well.
That being said, block their ads or use a frontend where you have none of those issues.
Those are your best options.
#585 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2023-03-31 15:09:29
zapper wrote:Here is a wallpaper for you @headonastick
HOAS is gone, Zap. He left to find a new group of Linux users to bedazzle with his sed and awk demonic incantations, I would imagine.
Don't stare at your wallpaper too long, that one could give a person seizures from the looks of it.
So bizzaro
#586 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2023-03-29 20:05:54
Here is a wallpaper for you @headonastick
Does this satisfy you? 
Edit: How do I make it appear on the page like other people's?
#587 Re: Off-topic » Show your desktop (rebooted) » 2023-03-29 19:54:13
zapper wrote:sakura
lol. No.
Firstly, sakura is so shit that it isn't even available from the official Arch repositories. Secondly, the configuration options are far too minimal — it's not even possible to set the complete colourscheme from those stupid menus, only a limited selection of pre-set themes are available and they're all rubbish. And thirdly it's a complete bloat monster.
Look:
https://i.postimg.cc/GHGfdZ2C/20230205-09h56m59s-grim.png
How much cpu does xterm use though compared to Sakura, that is the real test.
If the cpu usage is way more than most others, I might understand your thinking.
RAM to me is a non-issue, but CPU, that actually means something.
"my And please provide a screenshot of your desktop when posting in this thread. Your flagrant violation of thread topics and multiple attempts to derail any thread in which you post really is getting on my tits."
Btw, I thought you liked my flagrant violation of thread topics and mulitple attempts to derail your threads.
Also, I don't derail all threads, otherwise my account would have been suspended multiple times or more and also, people wouldn't want to help me ever on anything.
Btw, how do you upload an image on here as a last edit?
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#588 Re: DIY » A Survey of User-made Content » 2023-03-29 19:48:00
@EDX-0
Cool, I might just test it out now!
#589 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Help requested with WINE setup and/or Chromium Cache Searching » 2023-03-29 19:44:48
I agree on both points. Btw, I have more patience with someone who just doesn't know of other alternatives then someone who while not needing windows, still chooses to use it as their main operating system when they aren't ignorant.
That is a special kind of awful, like the kind of awful that continues a perpetual unnecessary cycle, for nothing.
#590 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Unity desktop environment » 2023-03-29 19:40:36
@zapper . . . I think you missed the point. Fisher-Price on steroids and fisher price steroids paint two entirely different mental images . . .
Yeah that's true... your saying its too much eye candy or is chidishly lame?
Help me understand here if possible.
#591 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » [SOLVED] Help requested with WINE setup and/or Chromium Cache Searching » 2023-03-29 01:43:25
or perhaps place it somewhere that is not on by microsoft.
I get if people want to play very old games, etc... if people use microsoft, but who does this by either A:
Exposing anything to the internet or B:
Running that as their main system.
Also, its interesting that windows is still an industry standard.
I wonder why bosses still want it done that way. That sounds like a good way to do security..................................................................If you like the security of being protected by an OS that seems like its made by someone who used the zombie drug, bathsalts... same with having windows being an industry standard.
#592 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Unity desktop environment » 2023-03-29 01:36:20
zapper wrote:Doesn't unity look similar to Gnome 3?
I have no idea what gnome looks like. I abandoned that ship with the arrival of gnome3. The desktop image provided on the link has all the subtlety of Fisher-Price on steroids and caters to the ADD generation. I don't know how anyone could do serious work in that environment. Gives me a headache . . .
Devuan is not soliciting additional desktops and I am not sure it would even be offcially included unless it gets passed down to us from Debian.
Gnome 3 has a look similar to windows 8... although its possible gnome 3 came before that... idk.
Lumina Desktop, Common Desktop Environment are the only ones I might entertain myself, so long as the wallpaper I choose for the startup wouldn't be that mega creepy one with the seahorse and darkness nearby.
The rest is a... no
JWM obviously not a window manager, but I will likely use it until something better comes, which I would doubt will ever happen in the near decade at least as far as my desires.
Btw, unrelated and somewhat off topic, but if you want Fisher Price on steroids, I think Windows 10 has everyone beat, except windows 11 which pushes that off the hill even! 
More off topic btw:
I would love to know what fisher price steroids must look like now that you made that comment. Not because I want them, but because it would be hysterical if someone tried to make some!
You know, like if green giant was known for more than just selling frozen vegetables... think illegal green planet in usa on the nation level.
Of course if they did that, it would be under the counter. xD
#593 Re: Off-topic » Got another troll prank! » 2023-03-21 18:16:34
bump, because more feedback is desired!
#594 Re: Off-topic » Here is a good lesson, in the art of the troll! » 2023-03-21 18:14:46
Just a bump, because that thread was deleted LOL.
#595 Re: Freedom Hacks » To permanently block installation of Pulseaudio. » 2023-03-21 18:12:27
Since "depends" is the technical term that the package manager uses, it can't not be a right word, even if there might also be other more descriptive ones.
*shrug*
Whatever it's called, it would be nice to have a generalized list of packages to avoid, (along with reasons why, how, what the alternatives are, etc).
My point was that debian adds it as a dependency for their own reasons, reasons that aren't related to users wanting it or needing it.
Aka, it doesn't need to depend is a bettr way to say it.
They have ulterior motives.
#596 Re: ARM Builds » [SOLVED] Have been arm images dimissed? » 2023-03-19 20:15:00
Arm images are provided by the Devuan Arm community. They are not and never have been "officially" supported by Devuan.
So they are just added to the repo as long as they maintain them?
Btw, has anyone here actually had experience installing linux on arm?
Wondered how that works.
#597 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Anyone where to find more cartoony old icons for jwm? » 2023-03-19 20:12:53
Actually, I found out what I sought was in icewm. My bad yall!
Egg on face...
#598 Re: DIY » Regarding making cronie jobs, » 2023-03-19 20:11:40
Possibly yes; cron typically executes scripts and programs in /etc/cron.hourly according to the line saying so in /etc/crontab.
See also the note about PATH in man 5 crontab.
Couldn't figure out how to start this, dunno why.
*sigh*
But no worries, the developer of tblock actually is trying to debloat his package so it won't slow everything down to a crawl.
#599 Re: Freedom Hacks » To permanently block installation of Pulseaudio. » 2023-03-19 20:10:03
No mention in this thread of other packages that come from PulseAudio's source package, e.g. libpulse0, pulseaudio-utils, and others.
Blocking/pinning pulseaudio* and libpulse* would handle them all, but there appears to be a lot of software that depends on libpulse0 package...
"depends" isn't the right word(s), because it works without it on other distros and/or operating systems.
"Forced to have" is more accurate due to the nature of bloatware that keeps getting added over and over again.
Pipewire and pulseaudio are good things to block.
alsasound was always an approach I preferred back then when I used devuan alot.
#600 Re: DIY » A Survey of User-made Content » 2023-03-19 20:05:02
well, it works okay but i need to add checks that the values from the config file are valid before applying them, also perhaps adding a logging functionality, other than that it is okay enough.
Either way, whenever you get a chance, stable release would be nice.
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