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#676 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.
#678 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
#679 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?
#680 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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#681 Re: DIY » A Survey of User-made Content » 2023-03-29 19:48:00
@EDX-0
Cool, I might just test it out now!
#682 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.
#683 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.
#684 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.
#685 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
#686 Re: Off-topic » Got another troll prank! » 2023-03-21 18:16:34
bump, because more feedback is desired!
#687 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.
#688 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.
#689 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.
#690 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...
#691 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.
#692 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.
#693 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.
#694 Re: DIY » A Survey of User-made Content » 2023-03-15 13:31:06
@EDX-0 welp, here some interesting things i've cobbled together with what little i know.
sct-daemon: my own version of a daemon for sct, nice if you like the redshift function but don't like the bloat of the program. https://github.com/eylles/sct-daemon
How well does sct-daemon work?
If it works well enough, a stable tarball release would be appreciated for people who need that before it can be added.
#695 Re: Off-topic » Got another troll prank! » 2023-03-08 21:09:35
zapper wrote:Actually, he probably could do that. Maybe he did what I did when I used to use devuan and found out about Hyperbola and found one he liked more.
I still have a devuan install if needed on a usb, but not my main anymore.
This being said, anyone read that peppermint has a devuan flavor now? Or was this old news?
I saw it when I typed in devuan into the search bar just now. So who knows how old or new it is.
Edit: Tiny one, it started almost 6 months ago, so nvm. lol.
I was about to say, I'm actually involved with their Devuan port. It's going quite well.
Seems like it must be.
How does peppermint compare to linux mint btw?
If I had to guess, yours is probably a massive improvement.
#696 Re: Off-topic » deb.sury.org now requires systemd » 2023-03-08 21:07:50
Hi All,
We have now pushed a number of updated packages.
PHP 8.0, 8.1, and 8.2 are now available for ascii, beowulf, and chimaera.
All php modules on our build-list, for example php-imagick have been refreshed to include 8.2 support.
Out of support versions, such as Devuan Jessie and versions before PHP8, are no longer getting updates - but will remain available in the repo.
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 1CC02413BFF88108 ### PHP Rebuilds for Devuan Ascii deb https://pkgs.tdrnetworks.com/apt/devuan ascii main deb-src https://pkgs.tdrnetworks.com/apt/devuan ascii main ### PHP Rebuilds for Devuan Beowulf deb https://pkgs.tdrnetworks.com/apt/devuan beowulf main deb-src https://pkgs.tdrnetworks.com/apt/devuan beowulf main ### PHP Rebuilds for Devuan Chimaera deb https://pkgs.tdrnetworks.com/apt/devuan chimaera main deb-src https://pkgs.tdrnetworks.com/apt/devuan chimaera mainRegards,
TDR
I didn't know you guys still supported Ascii.
To the best of my knowledge, is it on LTS now?
#697 Re: Freedom Hacks » Is it safe to encrypt only the home directory? » 2023-03-08 21:05:38
eyeV wrote:I have full-system encryption applied, so my applications and UI elements run slower than they could
I am interested in whether any personal data can leak out if you encrypted only the home directory during the installation by making it a separate partition
Сonsidering the swap file will be on the home partition and there is no swap partitionSuppose you plug a flash drive into such a system and try to retrieve as much user information as possible.
What information will be retrieved?Is it safe to encrypt only the home directory? - No
I have full-system encryption applied, so my applications and UI elements run slower than they could - it should not be the case. AES encryption is supported by CPU itself so the slowdown should be negligeable.
Suppose you plug a flash drive into such a system and try to retrieve as much user information as possible - your activity including logs, time etc.
More of that if your system is compromised either by inserting flash or by other means the attacker can get luks password.
Actually, this reminds me... I tried installing Devuan on an old AMD Athelon 64 bit processor desktop computer once.
I tried putting doing the encrypted install option of devuan on it, but funny thing happened...
Anytime I tried to do this, it refused to boot when I went to reboot it.
Come to find out, it absolutely cold not handle that part!
I don't encrypt the part before the login screen appears and it worked! But before? NO!
LOL!
It was an HP desktop computer btw. Not sure how their quality was then, but yeah...
Maybe it is something to do with the system and not devuan itself that is the OPs problem.
Aka, the hardware...
Just a thought... and yeah, this was a real experience I had once when I decided to try to change the OS on an old computer my father rarely used anymore, that he said was okay for such a purpose.
Anywho, I hope I made my point clear to any who weren't aware of this possibility.
Btw, this wasn't even FDE either, it was the standard install method... which made things really odd.
#698 Re: DIY » Regarding making cronie jobs, » 2023-03-07 03:31:44
/etc/rc.local is an executable script (or program) that gets exec'd by e.g., the /etc/init.d/rc.local startup script.
/etc/inittab is a configuration file for sysvinit's init program, and it is not a script, but rather a series of service declarations that are interpreted by /sbin/init. When man pages were a thing you would have "man inittab" as way of finding out its syntax.
Hmm.. if I understand then correctly, all I need to do is put it in the hourly folder and set it up like a cron file and it should work, right?
wanting to make a system type one where you add parameters at the end as I said above, I think?
tblock -Syu
#699 Re: Off-topic » Got another troll prank! » 2023-03-07 03:00:25
zapper wrote:That's actually pretty good zap. I wonder if google will agree to launch their data centers and explode them? I guess that would be one way to close the bug report.
golinux wrote:Haven't you noticed that the forum has been wonderfully "normal" lately? HoaS hasn't logged in since 2023-02-14 . . .
I'm surprised HOAS hasn't re-spun his own distro yet. It's been languishing for the past year, and he talked like he had some ideas for it. Maybe he's busy doing that now, who knows. I always liked him, he would help me do crazy things like rip the init system out of an installation and replace it with something experimental. That's probably old hat for folks around here, but for me that's over my head. Anyway, he's an internet wanderer, leaving an imprint on most Linux-y forums at some point. Kind of like zapper in that way.
I wonder what he would have thought of this prank...
Darn...
Btw, did you laugh at all when you saw that?
Actually, he probably could do that. Maybe he did what I did when I used to use devuan and found out about Hyperbola and found one he liked more.
I still have a devuan install if needed on a usb, but not my main anymore.
This being said, anyone read that peppermint has a devuan flavor now? Or was this old news?
I saw it when I typed in devuan into the search bar just now. So who knows how old or new it is.
Edit: Tiny one, it started almost 6 months ago, so nvm. lol.
#700 Re: Freedom Hacks » Is it safe to encrypt only the home directory? » 2023-03-06 23:36:44
I Don't know how you would do this, but my recommendation would be to FDE - /Boot
I know how to do this in other Unixlike OS, one specific one...
But as for Devuan, never tried to... ever.
Just is the case aka.
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