Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-18 Thread Cindy Sue Causey
On 7/18/22, James H. H. Lampert wrote: >>> Another place to look is your local laptop store. My current laptop, >>> as well as its predecessor, are refurbished ThinkPads I bought there >>> for about $300. They run Linux just fine. > > "Local laptop store?" > > Not quite sure I've heard of such a

Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-18 Thread Dan Ritter
James H. H. Lampert wrote: > > As it happens, my beat-up old DOSbook (an old Compaq Contura 486) crapped > out on me, a couple months ago, and I'm looking for something of about the > same physical dimensions (or a bit smaller and lighter) to replace it. > Something old enough to have a floppy dr

Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-18 Thread James H. H. Lampert
Another place to look is your local laptop store. My current laptop, as well as its predecessor, are refurbished ThinkPads I bought there for about $300. They run Linux just fine. "Local laptop store?" Not quite sure I've heard of such a thing, at least not recently. My Chromebook came from

ACSM/DRM protected file ...

2022-07-18 Thread Albretch Mueller
As I see it, some time ago a cat and mouse gaming around started between people who see as not only their "legal" and "moral", but also "patriotic" "responsibility" controlling people's access to information which is in the public domain anyway. Even archive.org is doing that (imagine what Jon Sch

Re: 32 bit thin client

2022-07-18 Thread Brian
On Mon 18 Jul 2022 at 12:26:50 +0100, David wrote: > On Sun, 2022-07-17 at 08:37 +, Marco wrote: > > Am Sun, 17 Jul 2022 07:07:28 +0100 > > schrieb David : > > > > > I am running Debian 11 on a 32 bit thin client. This thin client is > > > running headless. > > > > > > I am trying to add eit

Re: 32 bit thin client

2022-07-18 Thread David
On Sun, 2022-07-17 at 08:37 +, Marco wrote: > Am Sun, 17 Jul 2022 07:07:28 +0100 > schrieb David : > > > I am running Debian 11 on a 32 bit thin client. This thin client is > > running headless. > > > > I am trying to add either ssmtp or msmtp, but these appear not to > > be > > in the reposi

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-18 Thread Roger Price
On Mon, 18 Jul 2022, Dekks Herton wrote: What kernel is 11 running? are you using a Haswell or Broadwell CPU? Command inxi reports: System:Host: titan Kernel: 5.10.0-15-amd64 x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0 Distro: Debian GNU/Linux 11 (bullseye) Machine: Type: Desktop S

Re: OT, Recommendation for low cost laptop

2022-07-18 Thread Dekks Herton
"Rick Thomas" writes: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2022, at 1:59 PM, Charlie Gibbs wrote: >> On Sun Jul 17 09:16:57 2022 Dekks Herton wrote: >> >> > john doe writes: >> > >> >> I'm comtemplating buying a Pinebook pro but I'm not sure if this is >> >> better then buying a Windows laptop and putting lin

Re: Debian 9 cron = sounds are ok : Debian 11 cron no sound

2022-07-18 Thread Dekks Herton
Roger Price writes: > This ran for years with Debian 9. I upgrade to Debian 11 and hear > nothing. The usual advice is > (a) in /etc/crontab export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1000 > (b) play the sound from a script. > > But that doesn't work with Debian 11. Does any reader of this list > have