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#1 Re: Installation » How to install nvidia drivers in daedalus? » 2025-03-12 17:25:50

well according to this page from nvidia it seems that my gpu doesn't even support encoding anyway so it would never be available for obs studio 🤡

https://developer.nvidia.com/video-enco … matrix-new

#2 Re: Installation » How to install nvidia drivers in daedalus? » 2025-03-12 15:35:15

ok it seems that some progress has been made here

after my last post I just gave up, uninstalled everything but after you comment I tried again

Installed all packages again:

apt install firmware-nvidia-graphics firmware-nvidia-gsp nvidia-alternative nvidia-kernel-dkms nvidia-modprobe nvidia-settings nvidia-xconfig

then I changed the xorg.conf.d files and sddm configs as proposed in archlinux wiki page

I see that now not only my screen is working but also nvidia is being used:

# glxinfo | grep NVIDIA
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
client glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: NVIDIA GeForce MX250/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.216.01
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 535.216.01
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 NVIDIA 535.216.01

However... I still can't see the driver in the applications. More specifically in OBS studio which led me to open this question here. On the encoders there is still only the option "Software x264" to use.

#4 Re: Installation » How to install nvidia drivers in daedalus? » 2025-03-11 19:48:40

well that seem to have worked but after that all GUI was not working anymore
after the reboot I got just a black screen
I had to jump into tty and undo everything I've done to be able to restore xorg/sddm and use it again (btw it is a plasma desktop)

#5 Re: Installation » How to install nvidia drivers in daedalus? » 2025-03-11 17:05:13

linux-headers-amd64 is installed but firmware-nvidia is not and it isn't available to install from apt

package nvidia-driver is 535.216

About your last question I don't know but I'll find out about it
All I know is that my card is from MX200 family

#6 Re: Installation » How to install nvidia drivers in daedalus? » 2025-03-11 14:41:19

ok but I still don't see my graphics card on the applications. When I rebooted after purging this package I got these messages:

Tue Mar 11 11:37:10 2025: Loading kernel module nvidia-drm.
Tue Mar 11 11:37:11 2025: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_current_open': No such device
Tue Mar 11 11:37:11 2025: modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1047 command_do() Error running install command 'modprobe -i nvidia-current-open ' for module nvidia: retcode 1
Tue Mar 11 11:37:11 2025: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Invalid argument
Tue Mar 11 11:37:11 2025: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_current_open_modeset': No such device
Tue Mar 11 11:37:11 2025: modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1047 command_do() Error running install command 'modprobe nvidia ; modprobe -i nvidia-current-open-modeset ' for module nvidia_modeset: retcode 1
Tue Mar 11 11:37:11 2025: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_modeset': Invalid argument
Tue Mar 11 11:37:11 2025: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_current_open_drm': No such device
Tue Mar 11 11:37:11 2025: modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1047 command_do() Error running install command 'modprobe nvidia-modeset ; modprobe -i nvidia-current-open-drm ' for module nvidia_drm: retcode 1
Tue Mar 11 11:37:11 2025: modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_drm': Invalid argument

#7 Re: Installation » How to install nvidia drivers in daedalus? » 2025-03-11 12:44:59

ok, there was indeed a file in  '/etc/apt/preferences.d/'  that was blocking it (the file was created by me following that outdated tutorial I quoted)
so I installed nvidia-detect which suggested me to install the package nvidia-driver. I did but it gave me some errors during install when it tried to run  nvidia-persistenced:

nvidia-persistenced failed to initialize. Check syslog for more details.

In /var/log/syslog:

2025-03-11T09:34:44.359371-03:00 fabiopc nvidia-persistenced: Started (6170)
2025-03-11T09:34:44.490368-03:00 fabiopc kernel: [  123.085431] nvidia-nvlink: Nvlink Core is being initialized, major device number 236
2025-03-11T09:34:44.490375-03:00 fabiopc kernel: [  123.085436] NVRM: The NVIDIA GPU 0000:02:00.0 (PCI ID: 10de:1d13)
2025-03-11T09:34:44.490376-03:00 fabiopc kernel: [  123.085436] NVRM: installed in this system is not supported by open
2025-03-11T09:34:44.490376-03:00 fabiopc kernel: [  123.085436] NVRM: nvidia.ko because it does not include the required GPU
2025-03-11T09:34:44.490377-03:00 fabiopc kernel: [  123.085436] NVRM: System Processor (GSP).
2025-03-11T09:34:44.490378-03:00 fabiopc kernel: [  123.085436] NVRM: Please see the 'Open Linux Kernel Modules' and 'GSP
2025-03-11T09:34:44.490378-03:00 fabiopc kernel: [  123.085436] NVRM: Firmware' sections in the driver README, available on
2025-03-11T09:34:44.490378-03:00 fabiopc kernel: [  123.085436] NVRM: the Linux graphics driver download page at
2025-03-11T09:34:44.490386-03:00 fabiopc kernel: [  123.085436] NVRM: www.nvidia.com.
2025-03-11T09:34:44.490386-03:00 fabiopc kernel: [  123.086179] nvidia: probe of 0000:02:00.0 failed with error -1
2025-03-11T09:34:44.490386-03:00 fabiopc kernel: [  123.086192] NVRM: The NVIDIA probe routine failed for 1 device(s).
2025-03-11T09:34:44.490387-03:00 fabiopc kernel: [  123.086192] NVRM: None of the NVIDIA devices were initialized.
2025-03-11T09:34:44.490388-03:00 fabiopc kernel: [  123.086558] nvidia-nvlink: Unregistered Nvlink Core, major device number 236
2025-03-11T09:34:44.548383-03:00 fabiopc modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia_current_open': No such device
2025-03-11T09:34:44.549411-03:00 fabiopc modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod-module.c:1047 command_do() Error running install command 'modprobe -i nvidia-current-open ' for module nvidia: retcode 1
2025-03-11T09:34:44.549433-03:00 fabiopc modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'nvidia': Invalid argument
2025-03-11T09:34:44.550147-03:00 fabiopc nvidia-persistenced: Failed to query NVIDIA devices. Please ensure that the NVIDIA device files (/dev/nvidia*) exist, and that user 0 has read and write permissions for those files.
2025-03-11T09:34:44.550387-03:00 fabiopc nvidia-persistenced: Shutdown (6170)

so does that means that I'll have to download from nvidia website?

#8 Re: Installation » How to install nvidia drivers in daedalus? » 2025-03-10 23:30:31

this is my current sources.list but I still have E: Package 'nvidia-detect' has no installation candidate when I try to install this package

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

# daedalus-updates, to get updates before a point release is made;
# see https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch02.en.html#_updates_and_backports
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
deb-src http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

# This system was installed using small removable media
# (e.g. netinst, live or single CD). The matching "deb cdrom"
# entries were disabled at the end of the installation process.
# For information about how to configure apt package sources,
# see the sources.list(5) manual.

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-backports main contrib non-free non-free-firmware

#9 Installation » How to install nvidia drivers in daedalus? » 2025-03-10 20:08:36

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I was following this tutorial from 8 months ago which seems to be already outdated. I want to use the graphics card from the laptop I gained recently but it seems not to be detected

$  lspci -nn | egrep -i "3d"
02:00.0 3D controller [0302]: NVIDIA Corporation GP108M [GeForce MX250] [10de:1d13] (rev a1)

but, for example, in OBS Studio when trying to configure where the graphics will be processed the only encoder available is "Software x264" which is my CPU

So how do I set up to use it? I dont care if it is with the open source drivers or proprietary I just want my GPU working

#10 Packaging for Devuan » yt-dlp is very outdated » 2024-10-18 14:37:03

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Hi, can u guys update yt-dlp package for the Devuan 5 repos? It is so outdate that isn't even working anymore

#11 Desktop and Multimedia » KDE's Disk and Devices doesn't detect luks external HDD » 2024-10-16 15:07:34

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Hello, I've installed Devuan 5 with KDE Plasma. One thing is not working though
I got some external HDD with encrypted LVM on them and this used to work in my previous installation. If I plug my HD the DE doesn't detect it so I can just mount it by clicking and typing the password. It work though if I run cryptsetup and then mount if through the terminal but I want to just click and mount it. It also work for my USB sticky with unencrypted filesystems. Can you help me to configure this?

#12 Installation » How to install php 8.2 on chimaera? » 2023-07-04 18:17:18

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I'm trying to install the newer version of php and I've added the "https://packages.sury.org/php" to my source list but when I try to install it, it fails with dependencies incompatibilities and doesn't let me install. I even tried using aptitude which uses to handle these kind of errors very nice but in this case it gave me no solution:

$ aptitude install php8.2
Warning: Invalid locale (please review locale settings, this might lead to problems later):
  locale::facet::_S_create_c_locale name not valid
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  php8.2{b}
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 8 not upgraded.
Need to get 28.3 kB of archives. After unpacking 63.5 kB will be used.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
php8.2 : Depends: libapache2-mod-php8.2 but it is not installable or
                   php8.2-fpm but it is not installable or
                   php8.2-cgi but it is not installable
          Depends: php8.2-common but it is not installable
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:

     Keep the following packages at their current version:
1)     php8.2 [Not Installed]

Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

#13 Re: Other Issues » mkfs.ext4: invalid blocks offset=X on device device.img » 2018-10-04 01:20:15

fsmithred wrote:

What you tried looks right to me, but the man page for mke2fs doesn't actually say what units to use for offset. Further down the page where it talks about specifying the location of the journal, the wording suggests that you might need to use 'offset=1M'.

One thing you did looks odd - why partition with cfdisk if you want gpt? gdisk is the right tool for that.

Well, it happens that I was just forgetting to pass a -E flag to the mkfs command. After that, it was possible to create the filesystems

Plentyn wrote:

What about:

loopdev=$(losetup -P -f --show imagem-zero.img)
mkfs.ext4 ${loopdev}p1
losetup -d $loopdev

(Or something along these lines)

Nice, losetup did the trick easily

#14 Other Issues » mkfs.ext4: invalid blocks offset=X on device device.img » 2018-10-02 02:57:05

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My goal is to create a regular file and within it make a partition and file systems (literally a virtual hard drive) and finally mount it, so I did:

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=imagem-zero.img count=20480000

To create the file with aprox 20Gb. Then I've partitioned with cfdisk, after that the status of the file was:

$ gdisk -l imagem-zero.img
GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 1.0.1

Partition table scan:
  MBR: protective
  BSD: not present
  APM: not present
  GPT: present

Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT.
Disk imagem-zero.img: 40960000 sectors, 19.5 GiB
Logical sector size: 512 bytes
Disk identifier (GUID): 544A9633-7FA3-4BE8-BEE7-612C151A4504
Partition table holds up to 128 entries
First usable sector is 2048, last usable sector is 40959966
Partitions will be aligned on 2048-sector boundaries
Total free space is 0 sectors (0 bytes)

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1            2048        16779263   8.0 GiB     8304 
   2        16779264        40959966   11.5 GiB    8302

Now I want to make the file system ext4 in both these two sectors but I'm failing with the error message in the title of the question:

$ sudo mkfs.ext4 imagem-zero.img offset=$((2048*512))

mke2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
mkfs.ext4: invalid blocks 'offset=1048576' on device 'imagem-zero.img'

$ sudo mkfs.ext4 imagem-zero.img offset=$((2048))

mke2fs 1.43.4 (31-Jan-2017)
mkfs.ext4: invalid blocks 'offset=2048' on device 'imagem-zero.img'

My question is, how to find the correct offset to make the FS on both of the partitions? Thanks in advance.
Suggestions on how to reach my goal are also welcome smile

#15 Re: DIY » Mount android disk image inside linux » 2018-09-30 18:52:32

neutron_stz wrote:

try to mount with offset for desired partition:

-o offset=$((START_SECTOR_OF_PARTITION*512))

example for partition 42:

-o offset=$((5033984*512))

Hey, that did the trick
thanks a lot

#16 Re: Other Issues » How to solve files hash sum mismatches when updating? » 2018-09-06 02:29:18

strange thing, this error just happened again but now the proposed solution is not working anymore. Any tips?

#19 Other Issues » How to solve files hash sum mismatches when updating? » 2018-08-15 02:13:02

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I've added to my sources lists the repositories of metasploit and virtualbox in order to make it easy to install them. It was working normally and the updates were coming but today when I tried to update I got the following output:

Err:4 [url]http://downloads.metasploit.com/data/releases/metasploit-framework/apt[/url] lucid/main i386 Packages                   
  Hash Sum mismatch
  Hashes of expected file:
   - Filesize:429 [weak]
   - SHA256:02899db9c850f78edc1f5abfdfe485ffbf3b7d04a4695d0ef7ff912aedb1a492
   - SHA1:37419453a05e2a2586e63cf078f597514b919a17 [weak]
   - MD5Sum:b2dcab0962b2b53319f4715beedcb911 [weak]
  Hashes of received file:
   - SHA256:3ae2486b947d2db14add85154b39a4fc35e30dda695d4b628edea71365c846a4
   - SHA1:4672a8054e770556316417658f335ba31cb4160a [weak]
   - MD5Sum:27517729f2a9ed7ec35e051c08983491 [weak]
   - Filesize:428 [weak]
  Last modification reported: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 16:13:17 +0000
  Release file created at: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:21:02 +0000
Get:5 [url]http://downloads.metasploit.com/data/releases/metasploit-framework/apt[/url] lucid/main amd64 Packages [429 B]          
Err:5 [url]http://downloads.metasploit.com/data/releases/metasploit-framework/apt[/url] lucid/main amd64 Packages    

Err:13 [url]http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian[/url] stretch/contrib i386 Packages                                  
  Hash Sum mismatch
  Hashes of expected file:
   - Filesize:1739 [weak]
   - SHA256:e9756829a27c807bf8d25a90a1001adce03a31fb87efc96b13e9854cba66eed8
   - SHA1:83539259fc124b4bbba5f77a1e6e835fe34deebf [weak]
   - MD5Sum:aa86cc0404bedfd33919ca5977f15a24 [weak]
  Hashes of received file:
   - SHA256:f84652d7ac0afe92cb8fa010056f4121551342cdecf7ae104cb9e03057da4167
   - SHA1:1a0de458cdc36a66e8b8bbf68c141a9111775c86 [weak]
   - MD5Sum:37678c5fd937ecd1c2634ba544001112 [weak]
   - Filesize:1727 [weak]
  Last modification reported: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 07:50:04 +0000
  Release file created at: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 16:13:46 +0000
 ......
Fetched 89.8 MB in 41s (2,143 kB/s)                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
Reading package lists... Done
E: Failed to fetch [url]http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/stretch/contrib/binary-i386/Packages.bz2[/url]  Hash Sum mismatch
   Hashes of expected file:
    - Filesize:1739 [weak]
    - SHA256:e9756829a27c807bf8d25a90a1001adce03a31fb87efc96b13e9854cba66eed8
    - SHA1:83539259fc124b4bbba5f77a1e6e835fe34deebf [weak]
    - MD5Sum:aa86cc0404bedfd33919ca5977f15a24 [weak]
   Hashes of received file:
    - SHA256:f84652d7ac0afe92cb8fa010056f4121551342cdecf7ae104cb9e03057da4167
    - SHA1:1a0de458cdc36a66e8b8bbf68c141a9111775c86 [weak]
    - MD5Sum:37678c5fd937ecd1c2634ba544001112 [weak]
    - Filesize:1727 [weak]
   Last modification reported: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 07:50:04 +0000
   Release file created at: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 16:13:46 +0000
E: Failed to fetch [url]http://downloads.metasploit.com/data/releases/metasploit-framework/apt/dists/lucid/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz[/url]  Hash Sum mismatch
   Hashes of expected file:
    - Filesize:429 [weak]
    - SHA256:02899db9c850f78edc1f5abfdfe485ffbf3b7d04a4695d0ef7ff912aedb1a492
    - SHA1:37419453a05e2a2586e63cf078f597514b919a17 [weak]
    - MD5Sum:b2dcab0962b2b53319f4715beedcb911 [weak]
   Hashes of received file:
    - SHA256:3ae2486b947d2db14add85154b39a4fc35e30dda695d4b628edea71365c846a4
    - SHA1:4672a8054e770556316417658f335ba31cb4160a [weak]
    - MD5Sum:27517729f2a9ed7ec35e051c08983491 [weak]
    - Filesize:428 [weak]
   Last modification reported: Sun, 12 Aug 2018 16:13:17 +0000
   Release file created at: Tue, 14 Aug 2018 11:21:02 +0000
E: Failed to fetch [url]http://downloads.metasploit.com/data/releases/metasploit-framework/apt/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/Packages.gz[/url]  
E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

What can be causing this? And also, how to solve?
Thanks in advance

#20 Re: DIY » Mount android disk image inside linux » 2018-08-07 23:41:27

actually with a fast read on photorec man solved the problem, it happens I need only to call it passing the image file and it does the search automatically without having to mount

#21 DIY » Mount android disk image inside linux » 2018-07-22 20:24:43

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Hey guys
I've done a copy of my android phone disk into an image file but now I can't mount it in order to inspect (i wanna run photorec on it to recover some files...).
To obtain the image file I just copied the dev block from the device:

adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0 ~/imagem-thea-20180722.img

Now I'm trying to mount it but is returning the error message:

$ sudo mount -t msdos -o ro,loop imagem-thea-20180722.img mnt/

mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop0,
       missing codepage or helper program, or other error

       In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
       dmesg | tail or so.

Some info on the file:

$ file imagem-thea-20180722.img

imagem-thea-20180722.img: DOS/MBR boot sector; partition 1 : ID=0xee, start-CHS (0x0,0,1), end-CHS (0x3ff,255,63), startsector 1, 4294967295 sectors, extended partition table (last)

$ sudo fdisk -l imagem-thea-20180722.img  

                                       

Disk imagem-thea-20180722.img: 14.7 GiB, 15758000128 bytes, 30777344 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: gpt
Disk identifier: 98101B32-BBE2-4BF2-A06E-2BB33D000C20

Device                       Start      End  Sectors  Size Type
imagem-thea-20180722.img1      256   131327   131072   64M Microsoft basic data
imagem-thea-20180722.img2   131328   132351     1024  512K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img3   132352   132415       64   32K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img4   132608   134631     2024 1012K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img5   135608   136007      400  200K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img6   136608   137407      800  400K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img7   137608   137671       64   32K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img8   137672   138695     1024  512K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img9   138696   142791     4096    2M unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img10  142792   147455     4664  2.3M Microsoft basic data
imagem-thea-20180722.img11  147456   149479     2024 1012K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img12  150456   150855      400  200K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img13  151456   152255      800  400K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img14  152456   152519       64   32K Microsoft basic data
imagem-thea-20180722.img15  152520   153543     1024  512K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img16  153600   154623     1024  512K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img17  154624   155703     1080  540K Microsoft basic data
imagem-thea-20180722.img18  155704   158775     3072  1.5M unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img19  158776   161847     3072  1.5M unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img20  161848   162823      976  488K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img21  162824   162887       64   32K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img22  163072   166143     3072  1.5M unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img23  166144   166145        2    1K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img24  166146   166161       16    8K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img25  166162   168209     2048    1M unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img26  168210   168465      256  128K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img27  168466   174609     6144    3M unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img28  174610   182801     8192    4M unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img29  182802   190993     8192    4M unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img30  191232   207615    16384    8M Microsoft basic data
imagem-thea-20180722.img31  207616   208639     1024  512K unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img32  208640   229039    20400   10M unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img33  229040   249599    20560   10M unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img34  249600   251647     2048    1M Microsoft basic data
imagem-thea-20180722.img35  251648   284415    32768   16M Microsoft basic data
imagem-thea-20180722.img36  284416   300799    16384    8M unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img37  300800   327679    26880 13.1M Microsoft basic data
imagem-thea-20180722.img38  327680   360447    32768   16M unknown
imagem-thea-20180722.img39  360448   425983    65536   32M Microsoft basic data
imagem-thea-20180722.img40  425984  4521983  4096000    2G Microsoft basic data
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Can anyone help me in what I'm doing wrong here? thanks in advance

#23 Off-topic » Installing Steam on Devuan Ascii » 2018-06-09 03:22:04

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What's the simplest way to do it?
I've made some searches on google and even found that there's a Devuan group on steam but all tutorials I found involves adding a debian repo into sources.list. Anyway, how can I do it?
Thanks in advance.

#24 Re: Off-topic » Microsoft acquiring GitHub » 2018-06-05 01:40:03

It's funny I was about to make a thread exactly about this. Imo, they sold the soul for the devil. I don't even want to imagine what kind of sh*t they will do to ruin it for their business (like they did to skype, Msn, others). I've deleted all my repos because I don't want to be part of this. Maybe they will grab their hands on the private codes that resides there? I think it is possible giving their historic of devious actions. Maybe they will limit the number of free repos, who knows?

anonymous wrote:

> The login system gets deleted and replaced by a Microsoft ID thing that prioritizes your Microsoft username over Github's username system, resulting in everyone having their @names taken away by random name squatters belonging to a 6 year old, unused Outlook account.

> At the same time, Github support gets outsources to Microsoft Support, which is already outsourced to the most rural parts of India, resulting in @name restoration requests recieving "I'm sorry, Sir. I am unable to do the needful." responses.

> A few months later, following a rather cryptic announcement by Microsoft regarding plans to "improve enterprise issue tracking", everyone suddenly finds Github's issue tracking system being replaced with an <iframe> reading to Microsoft's new, revolutionary Office 365 issue tracking system that serves an ample amount of 503's and has an average latency of 6 - 18 seconds. But don't worry, purchasing Github 365 Premium resolves all these problems, at an affordable $99 per year per repo.

> A few months after that, Microsoft's CEO announces that he "understands the frustrations" of the new Office 365 issue tracking system, especially when hosting multiple repos. Therefore Microsoft is now rebuilding Github to be leaner and better, and offering better Office 365 integration. This is followed by yet another announcement on Github's website that they are changing how repos work. Free account users can now only have 1 repo per account, "to avoid unnecessary resource usage, ensuring that Office 365 issue tracking will work better than ever", as the announcement put it.

> A year later, Microsoft announces an exciting new look for Github. The only problem is that it requires JavaScript. A lot of JavaScript. So attempting to access Github with JavaScript turned off simply presents you with a blank page saying "Please turn on JavaScript" with a sad octopus next to it. In the same announcement they also quickly mention that free account users can no longer use use "external apps" to get or push things to/from their repo. The only solution is to upgrade to Github 365 Premium, or use a "Microsoft Certified App", such as Visual Studio 2019, for development.

> Yet another year later Microsoft announces proudly that Github is now part of Office 365, ensuring that every enterprise will have their own, integrated, simple source code managing tool. No other info is given, aside from marketing buzzwords talking about SUCCESSFUL and REVENUE. Free users is suddenly presented with a "This account does not have an active Office 365 subscription. Click here to buy." when they attempt to login. Attempts at backing up or migrating their account fails with 403 errors, since you now need an Office 365 subscription to access any Github page.

That's the kind of stuff that can happen.
Can we also talk about alternatives to github? I'm yet to decide where to go.

#25 Re: Other Issues » What is the simplest way to escape out of "Broken packages" problems? » 2018-06-03 01:21:32

devuser wrote:

I am a bit unsure about ascii-updates and ascii-proposed (probably still better to avoid unless you know you need them) but mixing in experimental is not a good idea unless you know exactly what you are doing. What is the reason for adding it and do you have any pinning in place to keep it in check?

Well I added them because I like to always have the most recent updates of packages available, just like I did when I was in the ArchLinux world. Should I remove them from sources-list?
Btw, I solved my problem by installing the packages through aptitude

KatolaZ wrote:

And, have you run:

  apt-get update

before trying to install the g++-multilib package? It currently installs just fine here using the same repos as yours.

Yes, I've tried it and didn't worked.

Thank you guys for the help

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