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#951 Re: Devuan » New Devuan user here » 2023-12-19 21:20:18
@greenjeans . . . It's looking like there won't be any more Devuan custom themes for you to bitch about . . . so you can do a happy dance . . .
What? Need more info!
But first let me explain about the gentlemanly art of curmudgeonry, you see, we would be miserable if we DIDN'T have something to bitch about, what good is a lawn if not for yelling at hippies to get the hell off it?
Perhaps a visual aid, this is me and The-Amnesiac-Philosopher recently, taunting Lennart Pothead as he left Redhat, telling him not to let the door hit him in the a**, just look at how happy we are:
Now what's all this about no Devuan theme?
#952 Re: Installation » how to get a team work between refractasnapshot and refracta2usb? » 2023-12-19 18:59:51
Well all it takes is some of those billions of folks getting the gumption up to make a distro in their native language, lol, and many already have, there's like two dozen of them in Spanish alone.
Having all the translations available in a given distro is a freakin mountain of stuff I will never use, I delete all of it, and I would expect a non-english speaker to do the same on their machine.
It's Linux, completely configurable, and priced right too! 
#953 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » A lightweight irc client??? » 2023-12-19 18:34:05
Hexchat is what i've been using for years, works great!
#954 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » Upcoming browser changes » 2023-12-19 18:30:49
* If this does not occur, it may be 'fork time' again. Someone ought to copy the Firefox code base and start a new project to have a browser genuinely free of corporate control.
Is that not what Palemoon has already done? Installed the latest version last night, working better than current Firefox does on my machine.
#955 Re: Devuan » New Devuan user here » 2023-12-19 18:02:26
uggh...purpy....
Now maybe if there was a Package: meanlooks-dark-ornery-curmudgeon-monochromatic-theme I could get on board with that.
#956 Re: DIY » Announcement of the OpenMATE desktop environment » 2023-12-19 17:30:09
Let us know when ready, i'll be all over it and would be happy to test and report, i'm not a dev but I am willing to do grunt work which is tedious to some folks, I actually enjoy hunting through files looking for cruft to destroy, lol.
I actually have a private repo somewhere on one of my old outboard HD's, with the entirety of the last version of gnome2 and and the kernel they worked with and various programs that I preserved so I could continue using them, which I did for years.
Gawd, I still remember it clearly, "Gnome 3, made of easy"....miserable crap.
#957 Re: DIY » Announcement of the OpenMATE desktop environment » 2023-12-17 19:51:51
Sweet! Looking forward to it! X and gtk2 FTW!
#958 Re: DIY » Crowz-Devuan-Daedalus ROOT Only Ultimate-Linux Hyper Drive Gaming Inst » 2023-12-09 23:57:16
I'm pretty sure I get better looking when I drink tequila, I have no benchmarks but i'm fairly certain.
Wife however disagrees, but she says I do get better looking when she drinks tequila.
One thing however is FACT, my computers all run better without systemd.
#959 Re: Off-topic » Say hello! » 2023-12-09 04:32:26
Why as small project as Devuan supports 3 init systems and as big one as Debian supports only systemd? (I don't know why but it reminds me EEE strategy.)
I believe debian relented and now offers some other init systems. Regardless, Devuan and the VUA's never compromised and were the vanguard of init freedom in the big distros.
Now the systemd troll has gone to micros**t where he belongs, back under the bridge of goblin crap, there to wreak more havoc upon those who are content with script-kiddy government-accessible-for-money code.
Welcome!
#960 Re: DIY » Crowz-Devuan-Daedalus ROOT Only Ultimate-Linux Hyper Drive Gaming Inst » 2023-12-08 19:58:48
Well anything's possible I reckon.
"instantaneous performance" = Me, 18 years old. Poh-leese-man hollers "Hey you, long-hair, hold it right there"
Instantaneous world-class sprinter.
#961 Re: Off-topic » The Joke Thread » 2023-12-07 21:20:49
I thought things when I read groan and fertile, but I won't say what I thought...
Bwahahahaha!
Settle down Beavis.
#962 Re: DIY » Crowz-Devuan-Daedalus ROOT Only Ultimate-Linux Hyper Drive Gaming Inst » 2023-12-07 21:16:00
There is no 'you' that can own anything. 'You' is a mental fiction and 'ownership' a delusion . . .
Cogito ergo sum
I own my thoughts, and when I die i'm taking 'em with me!
#963 Re: Off-topic » The Joke Thread » 2023-12-06 16:22:34
Prerequisite: I apologize if this offends anyone...but it is kinda funny...
If math is mathematical, and a quiz is quizzical, then what is a test?
Nothing if not putting up with these groaners of yours without rolling my eyes.
lol!
#964 Re: DIY » [SOLVED] Weather display in conky, a simple one-line-of-code solution » 2023-12-06 01:42:46
Updated original post to detail the solution.
#965 Re: DIY » [SOLVED] Weather display in conky, a simple one-line-of-code solution » 2023-12-04 15:48:31
Thanks nixer, that's good news!
#966 Re: DIY » [SOLVED] Weather display in conky, a simple one-line-of-code solution » 2023-12-04 04:38:28
Redundant post, issue solved, conserving site resources.
#967 Re: DIY » [SOLVED] Weather display in conky, a simple one-line-of-code solution » 2023-12-04 04:00:22
Redundant post, issue solved, conserving site resources.
#968 Re: Off-topic » USA Foods » 2023-12-04 02:41:24
LOL! @steve_v, love me some motorhead, the ace of spades is a favorite!
Interesting thread y'all. Back in 2008 after years of living in the city and eating crap, met my wife and we moved to the country and started gardening and raising chickens and making/preserving a lot of our own food, and long story short, the benefits to our health were ASTOUNDING. Health improved, allergy issues seemed to disappear, I felt 10 years younger.
Fast forward: Had to live in a city again for the last 4 years, health went to s**t, tired, aching, sinus infections and ulcers returned, we didn't even dare drink the city water that came out of our tap, it stank of chlorine and the poo they were desperately trying to cover up with the chlorine, it was just miserable.
Now: Finally bought our own place, will be installing half an acre of garden in the spring and raising more chickens, I can't tell you how excited we are, we have clean water again, clean air, and good soil and already feeling better, y'all should stop by if you're ever in the area.
#969 Re: DIY » [SOLVED] Weather display in conky, a simple one-line-of-code solution » 2023-12-04 01:10:51
Oh and while talking conky, another little tidbit:
I use the Exaile music player, it's my favorite, not too complex, does internet radio and seamlessly integrates with streamripper. It's not in the repo so i'm likely the only user, lol, but if you do, it works with conky, it's not on the list of music/media players that conky works with, but it does work. Here's my lines, all I want it to do is display artist name and track but i'm sure you could add more if desired:
${if_running exaile}${font BankGothic Md BT:pixelsize=14}now playing : ${execi 10 exaile --get-title} – ${execi 10 exaile --get-artist}$endifI put it at the bottom of the display, since when it's not running that line closes up to the one above, if you stick it between sections somewhere it has to add a new line and that freaks conky out sometimes.
#970 Re: DIY » [SOLVED] Weather display in conky, a simple one-line-of-code solution » 2023-12-04 00:52:18
Redundant post, issue solved, conserving site resources.
#971 Re: DIY » [SOLVED] Weather display in conky, a simple one-line-of-code solution » 2023-12-03 22:49:27
Redundant post, issue solved, conserving site resources.
#972 Re: DIY » [SOLVED] Weather display in conky, a simple one-line-of-code solution » 2023-12-03 20:37:12
Redundant post, issue solved, conserving site resources.
#973 DIY » [SOLVED] Weather display in conky, a simple one-line-of-code solution » 2023-12-03 19:19:37
- greenjeans
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So i've added weather to my conky display using wttr.in: https://github.com/chubin/wttr.in
Super cool service, only had to install curl for it to work. It will display full info in terminal, but i'm using it with conky and don't need all the details it gives in terminal. It can be a bit tricky to get it to work for your area, it tries by default to do it based on your IP, which wouldn't work quite right for my location so it defaulted to some other area. Play around with it by running in terminal:
curl wttr.in/(add your city, county or lat/long)You can add a location to the command, in my case again my city is too small and remote for it, but it did recognize me when I typed in my county name, which is great because my county is very small and weather is consistent across it. You can also do it by latitude/longitude.
I set mine to update every 20 minutes, but will probably change to every 30 minutes, the less calls the better as it will freak out on you for too many calls.
You will likely need to use your system's fixed width font to get the arrows in the wind output to work, mine is Monospace Regular:
${voffset -7}${font Monospace Regular:pixelsize=12}${alignc}Here's the code I used to stack some simple results in my conky:
${execi 1800 curl wttr.in/(enter your city or county or latitude-longitude here, no parentheses)?format="Condition:+%C\n""Temperature:+%t\n""Wind+chill:+%f\n""Humidity:+%h\n""Pressure:+%P\n""Wind:+%w\n""Precipitation:+%p\n"}And this is the result (ignore the Exaile output below it, lol):
You can add or subtract as you see fit, here is a list of the params you can call up:
To specify your own custom output format, use the special %-notation:
c Weather condition,
C Weather condition textual name,
x Weather condition, plain-text symbol,
h Humidity,
t Temperature (Actual),
f Temperature (Feels Like),
w Wind,
l Location,
m Moon phase 🌑🌒🌓🌔🌕🌖🌗🌘,
M Moon day,
p Precipitation (mm/3 hours),
P Pressure (hPa),
u UV index (1-12),
D Dawn*,
S Sunrise*,
z Zenith*,
s Sunset*,
d Dusk*,
T Current time*,
Z Local timezone.
(*times are shown in the local timezone)That's it, works great, simple small solution, just how I like 'em!
#974 Re: Installation » all the new kernel disturb some old PC's! » 2023-11-27 22:58:36
my pc?
Dell Aptitude XT3 i7 4 cores 8GB Ram 1 TB
*laughs in 2-core @1ghz 4GB ram 300gb HD*
#975 Re: DIY » So i'm doing a netinstall and have a couple questions » 2023-11-27 20:09:35
You don't really need to exclude Suggests, because they don't get installed by default. I would put such lines in a file under apt.conf.d (usually 00norecommends). That way they won't get clobbered if apt.conf gets updated.
If you do a netinstall, you don't need to update and upgrade right after. You already have the latest.
Cool, thanks! Was really only going to use the lines for apt.conf to avoid having to type out --no-recommends every time until I was able to boot into the GUI and start using Synaptic. Probably overthinking it because now that I reflect you can type multiples into the "apt install" command, yes? So I would only have to type the no-recommends line once....sorry, been awhile since i've done this stuff and memory is going kaput.
RE: netinstall and upgrades, I was assuming the kernel and infrastructure that would be initially installed was whatever was on the netinstall iso? And since there's been a kernel upgrade since I first downloaded and installed Daedalus I thought that might be the case with the netinstall as well.
So basically the netinstall is just the vehicle, and all the files you will install on the machine will come not from it but directly from the repo?
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