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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
a forum search for "technofeudalism" gave just this one post/thread(with one mention so far):
post:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=48456#p48456
thread:
https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=6425
found this wonderful and informative commentary(be sure to check out all the links!):
https://news.elenarossini.com/technofeudalism-disclosing-my-tech-stack/
via the ever awesome Don Marti:
https://blog.zgp.org/inquiring-minds-have-a-right-to-know/
kicking the weeds a few days ago came across this good snippet from:
https://starbreaker.org/grimoire/entries/i-want-my-bsd/index.html
If I learned anything, it was the following:
GNU/Linux is mainly for people who dislike Microsoft and corporate Unix.
GNU/Linux + systemd is mainly for people who loathe Microsoft but miss Windows.
macOS is for people who dislike Windows and are OK with throwing money at problems.
The BSDs are for people who actually like Unix.
I’m not hardcore enough for Plan 9, and that’s probably OK.
have you tried barry's newer easyos?
^^^@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
john perkins is a must-read(here is a 20yr-old interview at democracy now):
https://www.democracynow.org/2004/11/9/confessions_of_an_economic_hit_man
wikipedia and other links(for your convenience):
Brother HL-L3280CDW here
enjoyed Jeff Atwood's post enough to repeat the link visually accurately:
https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-are-typists-first-programmers-second/
^^^@chris2be8 and @all
That is why any sensitive data should *always* be encrypted before being stored on any system you do not *fully* control. And *really* sensitive data should not even leave your systems, even encrypted, without a *good* reason.
*Fully*
*Always*
*Really*
*Good*
F
A
R
G
yep, we're farged[/sarcasm]
update: currently using daedalus and claws-mail and taking it slow and easy, day by day, thanks again all.
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)
it is important to understand that with just the last few years of ai/llm/etc related _world_wide_web_ scraping, along with all the additional _internet_traffic_harvesting_and_storage_
it is already all in the _wrong_ hands...
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:
@all
please see both the article as well as the comments:
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/14/tackling-the-ai-bots-that-threaten-to-overwhelm-the-open-web/
Proxies for Bots / Global Proxy Networks
do a quick search for “proxies for bots” and a hypothesis develops where hundreds of millions of individual consumers/users get “free” internet access simply for willingly being an active part of a global proxy network. not sure how cloudflare or anyone will be able to distinguish quasi-random proxy-networks from naturally occurring web traffic. definitely a race to the bottom nevertheless.
would expect to see more of these types of apps:
https://geekflare.com/consumer-tech/apps-to-sell-internet-data-and-earn-money/
^^^@zapper, thanks for your installation report! keep us posted on your experiences/observations/progress/etc
this was insightful(or inciteful, depending on your take) - circa 2021:
https://unixdigest.com/articles/this-is-how-you-keep-your-dignity-and-not-sell-your-soul.html
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
stumbled across this commentary which references g*
mostly sharing it because...[sarcasm]well, what we need is to be more like microsoft windows...sigh.[/sarcasm]
more on the k* word
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/kumbaya-song-meaning
side-eye dude
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Lee_Jones
alternatively
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000169/
just fer fun
tracfone unlocking webpage:
https://www.tfwunlockpolicy.com/wps/portal/home/
sad how verizon has consumed Straight Talk, Net10, Clearway, Total, Tracfone, Simple Mobile, Safelink(obamaphone), and Walmart Family Mobile
^^^@tux_99
Got sound in Firefox with only alsa and JACK!
power and fuses and circuitboards, oh my!...beware the Magic Smoke!?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_smoke
re: ... oh my!
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/lions_and_tigers_and_bears,_oh_my
and to get that earworm out, Bad Wolves tribute covering Cranberries Zombie rip Dolores O'Riordan:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XaS93WMRQQ
peace out
re: "charging only" cables
best guess is when a batch of cables Q.C.ed bad for data at a high-enough failure rate then they magically became "charging-only" cables(ooohhh, specialty item...sigh...argh)
mostly thinking along the lines of @golinux at reply #60 regarding "peace"