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#182 Re: Off-topic » US Proposes Forcing Google to Sell Chrome . . . » 2025-01-13 13:51:22

more gxxgle

edited. removed slashdot link/reference/url due to an unconscionable change in the operation of their website. noscript ftw!

digital devices fingerprinting and tracking:

https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/biggest-privacy-erosion-in-10-years-on-googles-policy-change-towards-fingerprinting/

see also these:

https://lukaszolejnik.com/works.html

especially:

https://blog.lukaszolejnik.com/icrc-report-on-cyberoperations/

and for those late to the party, a reference to a previous thread post:

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=53058#p53058

of utmost importance to the times ahead regarding skynet/starlink/starshield:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/the-nsas-skynet-program-may-be-killing-thousands-of-innocent-people/

#184 Re: Desktop and Multimedia » XBell (beep) muted or disabled on Xorg (daedalus) » 2025-01-13 08:24:01

thanks for letting thread visitors know that this was another "upgrade versus fresh-install" conundrum.

while i humbly and respectfully acknowledge that not _everyone_ is able to do a fresh-install(whether from lacking hardware and/or skills and/or willingness), nevertheless a fresh install is by far best.

should this be a poem or haiku?

#185 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Mounting HDD in a USB cradle » 2025-01-13 08:07:34

mostly for the convenience of future thread visitors, since DD was mentioned:

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

also please visit the other projects as well for additional food for thought:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ddrescue#Unrelated_recovery_tools

sometimes i remember to remember to marvel at each and every successful storage media activation(but oh how the expletives flow when they don't...sigh)

#186 Re: Other Issues » [SOLVED] Mounting HDD in a USB cradle » 2025-01-12 06:29:03

shouldn't the thread title be less misleading? how about "Can I recover data from a raid member?" also, why no mention of important information like "raid array" and "managed by lvm" in the original post?

#187 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] cannot boot netinstall iso » 2025-01-12 06:01:49

typically customer initiated returns are a discrete opportunity to continually be on the lookout for counterfeits. the company feels fortunate that you don't feel the need to send it to one of the labs that does this:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/02/rejected-chips-hidden-microsd-cards-plague-the-usb-stick-market/

#189 Re: Off-topic » US Proposes Forcing Google to Sell Chrome . . . » 2025-01-08 03:39:48

@zapper, golinux modification was only to add some text to the original post(no deletions iirc)

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Note that this response is not only incredibly stupid but off-topic and way out-of-line. stargate-sg1-cheyenne-mtn . . . you can do better than this.

humor and/or "lack" of it, is a contentious/deep/wide subject/topic(and varies widely depending on a vast multitude of conditionals)

for one example consider the contributions of:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquis_de_Sade

anywho/nevertheless/andallthatjazz...

even the OT of the OP is such a deep subject that it is almost defies logical rational reasoned thought.

#190 Re: Devuan Derivatives » GNUinOS - Libre » 2025-01-03 13:50:02

Security is necessary for privacy.

agreed. so where to go from here?

#191 Re: Off-topic » [SOLVED] "A future for the i386 architecture" and other good(???) news » 2025-01-03 13:44:38

@yeti and all, we are already in the "off-topic" area and discussing "architecture(s)" IS what we are already doing.

so i see no reason not to cross-post(yeti-again, pun intended!):

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=53863#p53863

https://archive.fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event/rv_selfhosting_all_the_way_down/

we/us users/developers/engineers/etc. are all in this together and as long as there are people willing AND hardware available...and the two have access to each other(physical people AND physical hardware, no qemu please) then we will continue to see some antique architecture software availability.

wonder what architecture and operating system Voyager is using?

https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/12/21/0612239/voyager-1-signals-from-interstellar-space-detected-by-amateur-astronomers-on-1950s-telescope

amazing.

#192 Re: Off-topic » [SOLVED] "A future for the i386 architecture" and other good(???) news » 2025-01-03 12:16:18

have been watching risc-v with interest for several years now.

these boards ship with ubuntu pre-installed(i know...ugh)

https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-premier-p550

#193 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] cannot boot netinstall iso » 2025-01-03 09:34:02

re: corsiar voyager GTX 128GB

this doesn't reference your specific model/version but i wonder if corsair support is still so lacking?

https://forum.corsair.com/forums/topic/29621-voyager-bootable-linux/

sidenote: in the early days of thumbdrives we came across some that had "special" drivers and software on them as well as an autorun function(windows executable) that would automatically install "drivers" and offer to install and set-up some sort of encryption capability that may or may-not have been just for these brand/make/model/version of thumbdrives(too long ago to remember exactly). also, back in those days there were questions regarding alignment/block-size/erasing/formatting/secure-deletion/trimming/etc...sigh...

i would like to know exactly what corsair has to say for themselves and a product that doesn't perform the same as _virtually_any_and_every_other_external_storage_media_ so please keep us informed(even if you just return it for a refund/exchange/etc).

#195 Re: Hardware & System Configuration » Screen Brightness app for SysTray? » 2025-01-02 10:08:05

guessing by now you've come across this webpage but just in case you haven't:

https://support.dynabook.com/support/viewContentDetail?contentId=4015505

were you able to determine if the functionality you desire was operational in the units original operating system?

do you need a brighter or dimmer screen and/or is the adjustment more for power conservation efforts?

keep us posted.

#196 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] cannot boot netinstall iso » 2025-01-02 09:28:46

have you tried other *nix liveusb distros on that setup? if you have definitively established that a certain hardware combination fails then it would be valuable to know the specifics of your assembly(make/model/version/firmware/etc).

#197 Re: Installation » [SOLVED] Sources.list hates me! » 2025-01-01 06:32:36

i seem to remember using "sudo gedit" for some files that required elevated privileges to save edits.

then i came across a commentary saying never to use plain "sudo" for gui applications but use "gksudo gedit" instead.

that was many years ago and i don't remember the exact scenario/situation but in those days when something went borked i just did a fresh install and carried on(simpler times...ha!)

#198 Re: Devuan Derivatives » Vuu-do 5.03 (daedalus) New: with more legacy-firmware support » 2025-01-01 06:08:02

doing a topic-only search for "vuu-do" shows eight different threads.

but only one of them has the vast majority of posts(same as i referred to earlier).

just continue posting to that one well-known, well-used, thread(hopefully for years to come)...ha!

i have not looked at all the _other_ _lesser_ threads so don't know how easy it would be to combine them or incorporate them into the preferred thread.

as always, your mileage may vary.

#199 Re: Devuan » Devuan runit system pauses during first boot at net connect manager. » 2024-12-31 11:38:42

according to this, q4os-setup.sh puts a q4os system "on_top_of" whatever _debian_distro_ is "under" it?

https://www.q4os.org/dqa017.html

distrowatch says q4os expects?/uses? systemd?

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=q4os

hmmm...

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