@cynwulf 

Yup. <s>Also the sky is blue.</s>

Edited to delete irrelevant tmi

golinux, that's exactly why Devuan isn't the right distro for me. I like cynwulf. I've already wasted enough of my own time finding out the valid reasons he has for being very upset by what I intended to be a polite thank you note and he has wasted enough of his own time getting upset over "obvious trolls".

I don't want to be one of the "bad guys" on the internet any more. I want to get excited about Miyo, feel good about reclaiming a drive, spend my time learning how to do what I want to do, and stop messing up your forum (and, I am grateful to all of you for pointing this out to me) every other flippin' peer support forum on the internet that I have ever loved like family.

I'm a bad guy. I'm a troll. I'm a drama queen/king/unicorn/brony/pervert. I can accept that now and do something about it. I wanted to express my appreciation to you for that and I blew it yet again.

Does this make any sense?

I also unintentionally lied to you. I promised to be the succinct but detached and occaisional poster who wrote a single word.

I am, for whatever reasons that are not your faults, unable to be who I want to be at the present time.

Please accept my sincere apology for my lack of social and language skills, cynwulf, and can we please both just killfile and move on? I don't need to be your friend and I don't want to be your enemy or yet another nuisance you have to deal with.

Miyo, we can continue this discussion on social media where it belongs. I have no idea which one of my "new friends" in the "acquaintance" aspect of which one of my pods you are, but you obviously do and that's good enough for me.

The username had nothing to do with modern Greece or politics at all. I just like the classics and I'm fascinated by languages in general but fluent in absolutely none.

Onward and upward!!! Veni, vici, MIYO!!!!!!!!!!

(fanboi coming soon to an appropriate social media fictionalized funny wannabe standup comedy laughing-at-myself-and-the-world character near you.)

I am having difficulty with the javascript  the Patreon page and don't think I have ever used it, but I do want to second the idea of supporting Devuan on a monthly basis. I do this with Trisquel, Damn Small Linux (yes, still; even after all these years I still value what I learned from the project in the '00s and I couldn't afford donations when I was actually using  the software daily), riseup, and a musician who has set up a "CSA" for his fans just as our farmers do with our food.

Low income folks can frequently come up with $20 a month much more easily than $240 a year. Patreon isn't the only way to do this.

Thank you. Much appreciated!

This is what I do:

qemu-img create -f qcow2 name-of.img 100g

In the directory where you made your image put your iso and:

sudo kvm -m (amount of memory for VM, i.e. 2048) -cdrom (name of image, i.e., gnuinos.iso) -boot d name-of.img

To start the image after install do:

sudo kvm -m (amount of memory for VM, i.e. 2048)  name-of.img

HTH

Much, much obliged.

The 900A has a lot more possibilities and has been neglected for way too long. The 2gigsurf is kind of what I do instead of sudoku so I'm thrilled to have some more brain candy.

I'm on one of the big guys right now, but the T43 is probably going to be my main workhorse for browsing the web. I just put on Icecat (freed Firefox; perhaps a tad lighter, but more full featured than Palemoon) and it's plenty peppy for me. I don't have a Linux-Libre kernel on it yet so I may lose functionalty of the internal wireless card when/if I do, but it can take a PCMCI card as well as a USB adapter.

I'm quite surprised by the little beast. I set up a T4X for someone else around '10-'11ish but I totally underestimated my new-to-me T43 when I acquired it and only planned to run legacy software on it and keep the internet far, far away. You know what John Lennon said about what you call that thing that happens while you're making other plans.

I don't have sound working yet, but that's not exactly a high priority (especially with fresh input for playing with my itty bitty eeePCs!!!!!) since I've got other hardware for playing music.

I've heard about speeding up the Eee PCs with a BIOS upgrade, but by the time I summoned up enough confidence to libreboot my X60s, I couldn't find the ROM. Looks like maybe you know where it is...or maybe some more tricks...

I'll be back after I have a peek. Both of them boot off of SD cards as well as the SSDs and two new 8 gig ones are on their way to be purpified.

I am on Palemoon right now, Dillo when I don't need to flap my jaw or access anything that needs a password, w3m when GUI annoys me, and am still looking around.

I don't see GNU Icecat in the reps, but I have used it on Trisquel and would prefer it on my 64 bit machines. It might be a bit heavy for some of my 32 bit machines, but still worth a test drive and some education for my illustrious self.

My biggest concern  is that I would prefer to run exclusively free software and am trying my wings at holding my own hand instead of asking others to do that for me.

Well, that was short-lived love for me too. I found Icecat here:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

wrestled it on to (some of) my beasts, and it's not too heavy for them at all.

Preferred browser on preferred operating system. Mission accomplished.

Besides my T43, I also have two eeePCs, a T20, and two librebooted X60 tablet convertibles. Yea, I could take them to eWaste or turn them all into museum pieces but I don't want to.

My eeePC 900A is my itty bitty server when I plug in a USB drive and edit smb.conf. My 2gig surf is for public wifi instead of carrying a smartphone and also an exploration in minimalism and trying to get all my work done without using a GUI. One of my X60 tablets is for "antisocial networking", lol; I can access the internet for updates and to download software, I can go get whatever files I need from my server, but nobody can bug me when I want to be alone. The other X60 is my eReader. The T20 hasn't met Devuan yet but it might when I can pick up a spare hard drive for it.

It's not just about money, although I'm certainly less cautious and more willing to stretch my comfort zone when I'm learning how to work on inexpensive hardware than I would be with an expensive 64 bit machine.

Marketing is scary these days--they want me to want newer faster and shinier. They know more about psychology than I do. They want to increase the profits of their shareholders.

I want to be left alone to tinker and learn. My new-to-me T43 suits me just fine. It will be even nicer when I can get the sound working and learn more about what software does and doesn't work on it, maybe pick up a bigger drive, and everything else people always do when they get a new-to-them computer, but I like it and am beginning to have some hope that I can use it online for a long time to come.