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In these two pictures below it appears the developer of MNT Reform is developing a pocket version of the MNT Reform
Whether it is imx8m I will choose or LS1028A, I have no idea at this point.
As an update:
LS1028A is better for libre minded users...
any other one, comes with a non-free wifi card built in...
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LS1028A, is the best option for either currently to escape blobs from non-free wifi.
Unless the openwifi project nitrokey told me about, ever gets far enough to work in place of other wifi cards and allow routers with openwifi firmware that is libre, etc...
Btw, it is 7 inches now supposedly and surprisingly, it can use 8GB of ram.
I don't think it would be good for say, linux phones, but OpenBSD or devuan, probably.
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Aka:
when I type starfish -d duration
duration being whatever time I mean, sadly it does the same filename no matter what.
CLI is preferred, but in general, wondered if anyone knows how to do this.
Or for that matter, even doing something akin to, making a random directiory, cding to it, then transmitting the format and then cding and repeating again and again.
Or to put it another way...
mkdir random directory
cd to random directory
then make the wallpaper
cd
repeat
I have a love for the xstarfish wallpapers it creates.
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how about this:
find . -type f -name '*.mp4' -exec bash -c 'ffmpeg -i "$0" "${0/%mp4/mp3}"' '{}' \;i've had this for ages (copied from some gist someplace), still works fine afaik.
I usually do this, which looks like it was suggested above... ![]()
for i in *.mp3; do ffmpeg -i "$i" "${i%.*}.opus"; done
Btw, this works for changing to others, such as flac, or ogg, etc...
I don't think there are many ways to keep the video format though if this is what you after...
To be honest, it almost seems to me like, microsoft might be planning to go a very specific route, hint:
A certain search engine giant that everyone says to use to find stuff may very well turn out to be their new model of doing things...
I kid you not, they may very well start making more of their system open source, judging by their Azure practices and other stuff.
It would be both awful and sneaky for them to do.
Frankly, if they haven't yet, I am surprised they haven't.
Not sure if that would be more good or more bad or combination of both compared to that search engine giant's way of doing things that I mentioned above.
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Btw, as a side note, xorg and wayland both have their flaws:
xorg, too big and bloated, but mostly works fine for most things
wayland an unstable mess that has too small of a protocol, but will probably get bloated down the road.
Two things can be true at the same time anyhow.
Both of these aren't very good, especially the replacement, which will likely make it even *harder* to escape systemd, dbus and all that other crap.
The solution?
I still think xenocara is a better move to make in my opinion, it has a lot better privilege separation then xorg and wayland, without being huge, broken and having way too many dependencies that will likely be impossible to remove.
That being said, its usually better not to trust the developer on their word alone, without having a varying of tests, by many people and then see verification.
Although, older hardware, will probably not work as well with it, which will matter to coreboot users and maybe people who disable intel me.
Actually, I used devuan at one point with kernel 5.19 on a coreboot device with intel me disabled the 5.19.89 linux-libre-lts one.
Strangely enough, tried using it on my X230 and T430i, after 30 minutes on each of them, it just freezes and you have to shut it down by force.
Weird stuff...
Did this with a usb installed image tho, as in it was installed on the usb.
Weird thing is, never had this problem before, till 5.19 kernel.
Point being, not sure what is going on, but be careful!
the impaired ISOs, I think last I checked, were deprecated, due to a varying bunch of reasons:
Under a lot of stress
Maintaining the GNU version, till the first stable is out, possibly longer, so they are maintaining two different forms of infrastructure for two operating systems
I think the impaired ISO might also have some bad dependencies? I forget...
They are not against anyone willing to help develop tho, but time is also a factor.
Most development is being used to focus on HyperbolaBSD.
Small team
etc...
EDIT:
And those focused on the 0.4.2 Hyperbola GNU version, are already occupied alot.
But if you want to add the impaired support, I am sure they would accept help.
Unless, someone fixed it already. Not sure tho
I think that might be why it works well for conferencing, because the software using it, intentionally has more support for pipewire...
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Actually, I think wayland is the sytemd of display protocols...
I should have said this before...
But yeah, I agree with that comment that the devo that blog made.
Unless corporations want their systems to get fried by every malevolent hacker under the sun...
Given the buggy nature, just overloading the system should be enough to crash it...
I highly doubt malevolent hackers couldn't break that.
I guess whoever made wayland can congratulate itself on making something as bad as systemd in stability...
meh...
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Small updatre on this, wondering,
what hardware parts are absolutely needed, for rockpro64 to work
Anyone have an answer?
Thanks in advance and also, sorry to have revive this thread, been occupied like a lot...
I didn't suspect this, to be honest...
I knew redhat was trying to
Embrace
Extend
Take Full Control
I just didn't know that Lennart had sunk that low from a while back...
Man is that just plain...
cold, even for him...
That being said, it is also possible, that redhat didn't give a damn if he did.
Given their ways of messing with the distro ecosystem as a whole.
Whether you consider it GNU/Linux or Linux...
So... yeah, this doesn't surprise me, at all.
EDIT: well, except the part about him working for microsoft since a while ago.
Surprised he didn't work for google instead, to be honest...
xD
czeekaj wrote:I see there is a iceweasel package. I opted to use that.
Although i see no real change between firefox-esr. It's still in the repo so I use it instead.That's because the current iceweasel is a transitional package which loads the firefox-esr deb as a 'required dependency'.
Or in other words: Iceweasel *is* Firefox-ESR
Sigh. See e.g. https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/pack … -1~deb10u1
Huh, I thought most debian AND devuan users knew this
Meh, w/e lol.
Seems palemoon finally got back on track...
Someone who was a part of the team was forced out of it due to them going bonkers...
A "core dev" left...
This had happened a few months prior, but I never saw reason to mention about this here...
As good as badwolf is, it still needs ublock origin like functionality or better.
And something even more effective then both versions of noscript combined, before I could use it again.
Then I will probably do so again...
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Especially if bookmarks are added.
Till then, I will do what I think works best. ![]()
@Headonastick
>No bluetooth support
>No MALI needed
Sounds good, now if only the distro world could drop bluetooth and other insecurity crap and stuff with the "trademark redhat bloatware seal of approval"
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Probably not happening for a while, but maybe if other alternatives crop up, that are better, it won't matter. ![]()
(Including Devuan)
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"Lots. OpenBSD's install71.iso will happily run in QEMU with only 128MiB of RAM. Devuan's chimaera netinstall ISO image won't even start with so little memory available.
OpenBSD is the absolute best choice for a router IMO. Accept no substitute. And don't install any ports. Base system ftw!
EDIT: and arm64 is particularly good because the OpenBSD developers have managed to remove almost all ROP gadgets:
https://www.openbsd.org/papers/asiabsdcon2019-rop-paper.pdf"
Response to @headonastick
I had a feeling bloatware in linux even on a minimal system would be bad on most arm64 supported distros...
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Btw,
>Optional 802.11ac with Bluetooth 5.0 expansion module
I don't like bluetooth, for some obvious reasons, insecurity and its supposedly hazardous in other ways...
Does OpenBSD disable it by default? Also, I thought 802.11ac requires an insecurity blob to use...
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Or has OpenBSD figured out a way to reverse engineer it to where it is harmless/works without any non-free blobs. In this case, I mean a freedom sense as a whole.
Oh and btw:
Is a wifi card needed in an OpenBSD router, I think it does probably right? I know this might sound very stupid to ask though.
I assume the MALI isn't needed for a router?
And, how do I connect to the device, to make wifi zones and then of course, connect other devices to them.
Btw, I assume you don't connect this to a modem directly right?
I think that sums up my other questions...
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there are two thoughts, however:
wondering if its possible to do something similar to this on a pinebook single board device:
https://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/example1.html
The general principle, is very much the same, using it for a router aka.
I might consider doing it a different way, aka, using actual OpenBSD, except, I don't know the level of support for open source drivers/firmware to know, if there are non-free drivers required for ARM64 boards such as ROCK64, ROCK64Pro, etc...
Thus, I will also ask, how much, bloatware does Devuan use in the situation of a router by default?
This is kind of a mixed question, regarding the topic, but yeah...
Point being. librecmc is becoming tiresome and openwrt and others, don't feel right to me.
Hope this helps you all understand what I am seeking info on.
Thank you.
Didn't work much last I checked, but thankfully, seems the whole UXP situation has been fixed, so I don't need abrowser anymore...
Thank God...
Seems a problem was lifted recently...
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The amount of shilling for Wayland is preposterous, particularly by those who use distros without Systemd. I also think that D-Bus, Polkit (formerly PolicyKit), GVfs, Avahi, and PulseAudio being forced onto essential packages is every bit as bad. I remove what I can before ending up with a broken, unusable system (especially in D-Bus' case). Even things like Elogind are not what I desire, but it is what it is.
I can't speak for everyone, but I dislike the following;
dbus
systemd
pulseaudio
avahi
networkmanager
logind
polkit
pipewire
wayland
java
rust
pam
bloatware in general...
Hence why I usually don't use devuan and instead use Hyperbola which finally removed all this crud, ![]()
Actually, xorg and wayland while both being bad, have an alternative, its called xenocara.
The only problem being, the linux devs seem to be shrooming more and more with their designs.
I think microsoft, apple, google, etc are all indeed disasters and have evil intentions, but...
I honestly think redhat has changed the game even more...
I think its no longer EEE as a plan,
I think it is now, EETFC
Embrace
Extend
Take Full Control
I wouldn't be surprised if that is redhat's plan at this juncture... even more so with IBM being in the mix, aka owning redhat now... ![]()
Btw, if I recall correctly, xenocara already does a few things wayland does, regarding being a rootless xorg and in the case of OpenBSD, privledge separation..
I don't really get why people shill for anything redhat makes in general though.
There are alternatives that don't force crap down people's throats, ya know?
Besides, gnome3 and its forks are bloated beyond words, in fact the only desktop environment not bloated its lumina desktop.
But as always, I will use jwm, till I feel like there is something lighter that has the same feature set. ![]()
Seems you've forgotten this is a GNUinOS - Libre thread not a Trisquel thread.
Yeah, sorry bout that, I was making mention of this, because I wondered if I could put Abrowser on Devuan/Gnuinos
But that probably is not relevant enough due to the amount of odd stuff on this thread... my bad...
I think that zapper and andyprough should create their own forum where they can try to outdo each other's nonsense. Please stop wasting Devuan resources on irrelevant babble.
Actually, my point about minifree having a paypal hate page once, was to point out that paypal is a really bad corporation and that's why they require a phone number if I had to guess.
Here is a thought as to why:
https://news.slashdot.org/story/22/01/1 … -and-funds
No idea why you choose to criticize my nonsense on this thread, this is actually on topic.
My point is, that they are an unethicial company and unethical companies like to have people's phone numbers.
But okay, I will go for now...
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torquebar wrote:I tried to make a small donation but the form wanted my phone number and that's something I would even give to mother Theresa :-)
I just investigated the options HERE and it seems that credit card donations are going through PayPal (yuck) and the the form does indeed ask for a phone number. Is that the option you tried? I don't know if it's always been that way but I can ask the folks at dyne if they are aware it is set up that way. That web page hasn't been changed in a long time. PayPal might have changed their procedure or someone would have probably mentioned it before.
This wouldn't surprise me, minifree.org used to have a paypal hate page...
Supposedly they are the most abusive way of paying for things online.
zapper wrote:Something interesting has happened of late... I don't know why, but I cannot enter their forums, only 7 possibilities exist I imagine:
1: They blocked my IP address
2: They only let members view the forum now
3: Trisquel has finally died... -_- Not sure if this will do any good for anyone...
4: They have been hacked
5: Their forums website is buggy right now
6: They are blocking certain useragents
7: Something elseNone of the above. It's this:
8. They are moving the forum to a new software and server, and it is currently down during the transition.
So... something else
That was option 7.
Although, I didnt think that was it, for sure... good to know though!
Btw, do you know how to get alsa working in for it in devuan? I doubt you can with dbus requirement removed, especially for Hyperbola, but I don't use alsa or pipewire.
As a heads up!
Thanks though, I am surprised they didn't put a notification about this anywhere on the current website, but ah well, it least I know now why.
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Ah, I wondered if you were still around, I wasn't sure if you left for good or not.
I looked at this thread of yours once, on your website, the first comment to you was rude for sure but some of it made sense,
http://qgqlochekone.blogspot.com/2021/0 … mment-form
I was with him somewhat until this nonsense that he spewed in his comment:
"And another thing, increasing RAM is valid for any computer instead of your useless argument of planet resources or that 64 bits are the devil. You really suck."
Planet resources dying is an extremely huge problem, you almost wonder if having a bunch of huge data collection corporations that waste massive amounts of water, for the sake of so called protection of national security might be a probem... that being said, 64 bit is not at all a problem if people would use some common sense in the design.
Hmm...
I wonder...
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Not that ram has to be a problem, its just that efficiency is not valued enough on making all technology work efficiently.
Controlling everything seems to be many times more times important in tech sector, which may very well destroy the planet at some point.
Even Debian, has a lot of this, it is though at least good they have become more reasonable, but yeah, that person who replied to you, has an ego that makes me shiver.
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That is very, very bizzare... I didn't think Devuan had that kind of policy... super weird...
Unless you were being manipulated by some adversary online...
Sounds unlikely though even if you were using chromium.
Very weird indeed...
zapper wrote:andyprough wrote:Just a note that the latest Chimeara and Daedalus ISO's have been uploaded over the past couple of weeks, presumably by @aitor. Very much appreciated, I am downloading and installing now.
Yep, I knew this like a month ago... sorry, I thought you did too.
That being said, updates have been somewhat problematic. I think he needs to make a libre version of librewolf, ironic? yes, but it has better settings by default anyhow.
Also, icecat is too outdated/slow, to be any use...
I wish this wasn't the case, but it is.
Trisquel's abrowser is basically the constantly updated version of Icecat - anyone can install it on Devuan/GNUinOS with MagicBanana's little script: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/state-we … ent-164779
For 32-bit Devuan/GNUinOS, just make one small change to the script as I describe here: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/state-we … ent-165331
GNUinOS webpage warns us not to add outside repos, but I think in the case of abrowser we are OK because we are apt pinning all of Trisquel's other packages not to install.
Something interesting has happened of late... I don't know why, but I cannot enter their forums, only 7 possibilities exist I imagine:
1: They blocked my IP address
2: They only let members view the forum now
3: Trisquel has finally died... -_- Not sure if this will do any good for anyone...
4: They have been hacked
5: Their forums website is buggy right now
6: They are blocking certain useragents
7: Something else
I originally thought of three, but I think these are all possible, but honestly, I think 1 and 2 and 4 are the most likely... unless they are working on their website...
More to the point, I cannot see any thread on their website... within their forums, it all looks blank, its just rather...
Weird...
I will put it simply, as... 0 posts or threads on each category super weird. Point being, something doesn't seem right...
Hi again
With the above reasons Devuan is not meant for you. So go and look somewhere else. Stop trolling, please.
Have a nice day
Lars H
To be honest, I kind of miss that troll, he was amusing, albeit, not always.
Meh, welp, easy come, easy go, it seems.
Just a note that the latest Chimeara and Daedalus ISO's have been uploaded over the past couple of weeks, presumably by @aitor. Very much appreciated, I am downloading and installing now.
Yep, I knew this like a month ago... sorry, I thought you did too.
That being said, updates have been somewhat problematic. I think he needs to make a libre version of librewolf, ironic? yes, but it has better settings by default anyhow.
Also, icecat is too outdated/slow, to be any use...
I wish this wasn't the case, but it is.