fellow octagenarians unite!

^^^ re: "lower life forms" TBH that is well over half of:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population

also see:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Basic_Laws_of_Human_Stupidity

...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement

...

enjoying some popcorn while the world burns

my Beowulf desktop-live dvd works correctly and desktop directory shows:

-rwxrwxr-x 1 devuan devuan 244 Oct 18 2019 refractainstaller.desktop

my Chimaera desktop-live dvd works correctly and desktop directory shows:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 devuan devuan 253 Jul 16 2021 refractainstaller.desktop

the background filename change added the extra size

my Daedalus desktop-live usb exhibits OP OT

don't have time for digging deeper ATM

edit: more experimenting

note: to access the "Launcher" tab, right-click on the desktop icon and select "Properties"
(naturally only "launchers" have that tab in addition to the normal "General" "Emblems" and "Permissions" tabs)

starting in Daedalus the launcher has two additional settings under "Security:"
a checkbox for "Allow this file to run as a .desktop file"
and a checkbox for "Set this file as trusted"

my Daedalus desktop-live usb has three .desktop launchers "Install Devuan" "SMALLER FONTS" and "LARGER FONTS" and all three required the box to be checkmarked/selected for "Set this file as trusted" to operate as they had previously on Chimaera and Beowulf

hope this helps

kicking the weeds a few days ago came across this good snippet from:
https://starbreaker.org/grimoire/entries/i-want-my-bsd/index.html

^^^@swanson & all

re: "all the songs are already composed"

reminded of Barry Manilow's version of "i write the songs"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Write_the_Songs

and now it's an earworm...argh

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/why-you-cant-get-a-song-out-of-your-head-and-what-to-do-about-it-2017100412490

Brother HL-L3280CDW here

^^^@chris2be8 and @all

*Fully*
*Always*
*Really*
*Good*

F
A
R
G

yep, we're farged[/sarcasm]

bought a brand new fancy canon multi-function 30ish years ago and it was a nightmare.

never bought anything canon again

(full disclosure, i have experimented with canon stuff that was thrown out in the rubbish by other poor souls)

imagine what the planet would be like today if ALL the humans on the ENTIRE planet lived like the americans(mostly referring to the _earth_destroying_level_of_consumerism_ with a side-dish of several hundred years of global murder and mayhem)

_who_would_jesus_nuke_

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic_bombings_of_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

_slavery_is_alive_and_well_

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristian_Williams

also see:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement

the whales can't wait til we're gone:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_whaling

or:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tIdCsMufIY

and:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration

^^^@zapper, thanks for your installation report! keep us posted on your experiences/observations/progress/etc

check out this specific post and then read the complete thread to get a better idea of what you are up against:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=23730#p23730

another thought is if your free hard drive space is below a certain amount, then that will cause strange machine behavior

for the convenience of other thread visitors

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2024/milk-v-jupiter-first-itx-risc-v-board-ive-tested

https://www.xda-developers.com/3-fun-projects-you-can-build-with-this-cool-risc-v-motherboard/