I wonder if there would be any value in running it on a tiling window manager like DWM? I use DWM with a patched-in systray, so I can probably run any panel applets from JWM Kit. Could be interesting, JWM Kit has a lot of useful utilities for a window manager.

You may want to check out the antiX distro. It's very similar to Devuan with a Debian base and sysvinit as the init system. It's got a ton of boot options, including the boot from iso you are looking for, about 7 different USB persistence options which could also help you, and "frugal install" in which you boot with a USB stick but have a small partition on the hard drive where you can store files. I've used it a lot over the years. Not near as polished of a desktop as Devuan, but it's got some amazing tools.

But you said it was true love, how could this possibly happen? I think you owe us a "why I fell out of love with Gnome" rant video. There aren't enough Gnome rant videos available online.

Sir Isaac Newton wrote books on Christian theology. Any serious atheist would have to dismiss his laws of gravity as the rantings of an unenlightened madman. Gravity is fake news.

Christian scholars are nearly unanimous in rejecting December 25th, 1 AD as the birth date of Jesus. The Christmas deniers on this forum are in agreement with the Biblical and historical scholarship. December 25th AD 1 is a date that was calculated by 6th century Roman monk Dionysius Exiguus. Catholic scholars seem to agree that a primary motivation of Dionysius was to eradicate the widely used Roman calendar which celebrated 3rd-century emperor Diocletian, a noted persecutor of Christians. Jesus was probably born between 6-5 BC, and some scholars believe it would have been between March and May, depending on their view of the astronomical signs that were recorded.

Nothing that's been brought up here is worth arguing over. Many Christians do not celebrate the birth of Jesus on December 25th and see it as simply a pagan festival time that Roman Christians grabbed onto. For me it's a matter of it being part of the fabric of society, as is our wrongly dated calendar. Around Christmas each year I get time off from work, so I spend it with my family like most others. I don't mind adhering to incorrect traditional dates and calendars as long as the trains still arrive on time - no harm no foul.

As far as the fantasy of Santa Claus, Saint Nicholas (Nikolaos of Myra) was a real person, a 3rd century Turkish bishop, apparently quite rich, who apparently liked to anonymously give gifts to poor children. Whenever we sneak a gift to someone, in a way we're carrying on his same spirit and tradition. However, anyone but a child believing in a magical elf in a red suit riding a sleigh pulled by flying reindeer and squeezing down chimneys to distribute gifts, all because they watched some show on TV about a book by Clement C. Moore, is just a victim of Madison Avenue advertising and Hollywood hype - that depiction is all about generating profits for retailers.

I'm reading the Greek Interlinear New Testament to improve my Koine Greek. When I'm done, I'll read the Hebrew Interlinear Old Testament to improve my Biblical Hebrew. I'd prefer to read the Septuagint version of the OT, not sure if a good interlinear is available. I'm going to try to get both of them read by the end of 2022, but it's a tall order. I read about 2 hours today and only got through 3 chapters in Matthew. I'll probably have to improve on that pace quite a bit to finish within the year. It's hard to read for speed, because some conjugations and some phrases are so interesting that I have to stop and study their lexical entries for a bit.

Hebrew is the harder of the two for me. For some reason, reading from right to left is a bit of a strain and can give me a headache if I keep it up for too long. A nice thing about Hebrew is that it doesn't hit you with a mouthful of consecutive vowels like Koine Greek does. Whether sounding the words out mentally or verbally, Hebrew has a very nice pattern to it, almost like the rhythm of a well played percussion instrument.

My steps for installing abrowser on Devuan and pinning the repos are here: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/how-inst … ser-devuan

A Trisquel forum contributor improved my procedure a little bit and wrote a shell script to do it all automatically on Debian. Should work about the same on Devuan: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/state-we … ent-163433

The main improvement was using 'Pin: origin "archive.trisquel.info"' instead of 'Pin: release a=etiona-updates', so that the repo should update to the latest Trisquel repo. Also some of the Pin Priority numbers were adjusted in the shell script to be more in the range of what apt expects to see.

Either method will work, but the shell script steps will probably work for a longer period of time. My steps are all commented, which makes it useful to read through both.

Oh, I see, you are really focused on just using icecat. I was talking about "abrowser", which is Ruben's/Trisquel's fork of regular Firefox. It is quite up to date, and uses the same build scripts as icecat from what I've heard.

Latest version is 95: https://archive.trisquel.org/trisquel/p … x/?C=M;O=D

Couldn't you just use Ruben's/Trisquel's deb's for abrowser - isn't that the same thing as running the makeicecat script on current firefox? Do you prefer to build it yourself, or to base it on Firefox-esr?

If it's a new laptop then it's highly unlikely that your fan is the problem. I'd focus on trying to find the runaway process first. You can use ps -A to get the exact name and process ID of the process you want to kill once you find the offending one with htop. And sudo pkill [process name] will kill it for you. Let us know if you need more help.

If you like icecat, the Guix package manager has preview version 91. It's an incredibly good browser. I disable their librejs extensions and use noscript instead, but it's probably got the best default privacy and security configuration of any firefox-based browser.

My step-by-step post on installing Guix and icecat on Trisquel (should be the same steps on Devuan) is here: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/installi … d-chromium

She's nearly the perfect guard dog but why does she give openbsd users a pass? I trained my chickens to bite openbsd users.