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#1226 Re: Off-topic » What are you reading/want to read ? » 2022-01-02 19:58:49
This also dense reading:
In the 70s and early 80s, Sugar Blues and Confessions of a Medical Heretic and others exposed the manipulations that have gotten us to exactly where we are so no surprise to me that we are in this mess.
#1227 Re: Installation » I am shocked: The most official way to install Devuan is TERROR pure! » 2022-01-01 16:57:25
Plenty of different Daedalus ISO's from this page.
I stand corrected. The Devuan elves have been busier than I imagined!
#1228 Re: Installation » I am shocked: The most official way to install Devuan is TERROR pure! » 2021-12-31 23:05:17
Hi
First of all, I wish you fsmithred, as well as all forum user an Happy New Year for 2022! We all need that: Never did our world so much exigences to satisfy not really being easy to satisfy... ALSO BEST WISHES TO ALL!
You too!
But the major problem is not that: if I really understand https://www.devuan.org/get-devuan there is no DVD for devuan daedalus i686 :-) !
How to use that, what is not available?
The full list of Daedalus options is not available because it has not been released yet! It is not "stable" but "testing". That is where bugs are discovered and worked out by Devuan users like you.
#1229 Re: Installation » chimaera update firefox broken/ linux-image not updated » 2021-12-31 18:44:14
Isn't symbiosis great!
#1230 Re: Installation » chimaera update firefox broken/ linux-image not updated » 2021-12-31 18:27:37
Please use code tags when posting terminal output (as I have above), they greatly aid readability.
Your wish is my command! I often edit users posts to do that.
#1231 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-30 18:34:29
^ Well it's certainly one of my coping mechanisms, along with trolling. How do you manage?
In a few cryptic words . . . by not following the rabbit down the rabbit hole.
Data impinges on the eye, ear, nose, tongue, physical body and mind. Where we take it from there is a choice. We can either note the event and let it go or follow the rabbit into a Proustian novella of mental spaghetti.
With practice, the reaction to these events swings with less force and stays closer to a place of neutral observation. Like frames in a video the discreet events go by but the mind does not latch on to and follow them down the rabbit hole so over time there is less and less to cope with.
This is a taste of freedom from impulses that bring us so much grief.
#1232 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-30 16:08:20
Newton's laws have already been shown to be nothing more than a vague approximation, as has Einstein's theory of General Relativity.
FWIW I find Loop Quantum Gravity to be the most appealing of the current theories on offer but we don't have enough data to make any firm statements. Yet.
The human mind has infinite ways to entertain itself with excursions like these while ignoring the reality of the present and thus remaining mired in ignorance. 
#1233 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-30 00:16:20
Nothing that's been brought up here is worth arguing over.
I am seeing rather playful observations and discussions not arguments.
For me it's a matter of it being part of the fabric of society, as is our wrongly dated calendar.
There are many possible "fabrics" from which to choose. Why does it always have to be the same. All yearly observances for whatever reason are boring and annoying and . . . a great way to control the narrative. "Columbus Day" is embarrassing for any number of reasons . . .
Around Christmas each year I get time off from work, so I spend it with my family like most others. I don't mind adhering to incorrect traditional dates and calendars as long as the trains still arrive on time - no harm no foul.
There are many holidays that provide a respite from the day to day but only one that beats us over the head with nonsense for months in advance.
#1234 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-29 21:58:08
Thanks to everyone who has made this thread such fun! All of you are what makes Devuan so special!!
#1235 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-28 19:15:02
Modern BMWs are horrifically unreliable, sadly.
Ah . . . what's in a name . . .
Marketing!
And the sheeple "buy" into it!!
#1236 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-28 02:18:24
@MiyoLinux . . . Are you suggesting that the movement of planet earth around the sun is a belief? Maybe the earth is flat too?! LOL!!
Well, perhaps a flat earth belief is going to make it into your neighborhood school . . . You never know these days . . .
#1237 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-27 16:56:19
Thanks for a definition/description of the solstice. I assumed everyone would already know that but maybe I expect too much of humans in 2021 (which is also an arbitrary numerical designation) . . .
#1238 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-26 17:41:28
Very true. In fact the fantasy comes from the solstice...
Yes . . . humans live in a fantasy world. They rarely see things are they are but rather as they imagine them to be. The source of all our suffering . . .
#1239 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Dual boot, can't do "update-grub" » 2021-12-25 20:04:10
Sorry for not knowing this, yet.
And Thank you to point that out and get my problem fixed.
The "problem" is not that your installation hit a wall. The problem is not reading the Release Notes BEFORE you start to install.
#1240 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] minimize,maximize buttons gone » 2021-12-25 20:00:41
Do I have to load them externally with the img tag?
Yes.
#1241 Re: Off-topic » Happy Holidays & Merry Christmas » 2021-12-24 17:47:06
The solstice is the only event worth noting. All the rest is just human fantasy.
#1242 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] create new partition table on HDD, but not with root as owner » 2021-12-22 21:59:24
Note to nobodyuknow . . . I still struggle and get confused when I try to do what you're trying to do.
#1243 Re: Off-topic » Colour of the future? » 2021-12-22 21:51:44
I think we could consider (in some way) honouring the name.
That's pretty much the process I went through for ASCII, beowulf and chimaera. Feel free to take over the task. There is a short HOWTO here.
But also note that #806A55 is a nice almost chocolate and nothing to do with green . . .
#1244 Re: Off-topic » Colour of the future? » 2021-12-22 16:54:19
I like pastel green ...
Interesting that you would say that . . . the original color for jessie was going to be "leafy green" but it got voted down by devuan users.
If anyone is interested in taking on the theming of Daedalus, ping me. 
#1245 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » [SOLVED] WiCD and Chimaera » 2021-12-17 15:05:23
@Altoid . . . You might look in chimaera-proposed-updates.
#1246 Re: Devuan » As Debian 11 moves closer to Devuan. Is there any reason to stay on De » 2021-12-12 17:36:53
As someone who has worked in a service area supporting students with little of no vision (I retired end of August this year), I can now start arguing for Devuan on other mailing lists.
Thanks for the positive feedback here and on your other thread. But perhaps "advocating" might be more a more effective approach than "arguing".
#1247 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Making Devuan more secure. » 2021-12-05 00:42:06
GlennW . . . the isos at the above link are in the "unstable" directory. IIUC, they are not part of the main distribution offered at files.devuan.org and the mini.iso is even more minimal than the netinstall iso. Maybe have a look and correct me if I'm wrong . . .
#1248 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Making Devuan more secure. » 2021-12-04 18:06:27
Devuan claims to be a minimalist base GNU+Linux distribution . . .
That, of course, depends on the definition of "minimalist". That being said, there other Devuan installation media at https://pkgmaster.devuan.org/devuan/dis … s/netboot/. I have installed from the mini.iso. I can't remember the details but it was pretty "bare". Anyway, you might poke around there to see if any of those options suit your criterion better.
#1249 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Making Devuan more secure. » 2021-12-04 16:02:26
HoaS saves the day! I was not happy to see all those posts disappear. Broken link fixed. Anything else need to be done?
#1250 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Need to reset root password » 2021-11-29 20:48:34
There is a way to do it from the boot screen by editing the kernel line. bluesdog has a howto over on the debian forum that I have used but it may be outdated by now. I would copy some notes that I have here but don't trust their accuracy because I haven't had to do it in years . . .
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