[OFFTOPIC] Plonk (wss: Meta: behavior on list)

2021-08-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
to...@tuxteam.de [2021-08-13 19:11:43] wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 12:49:34PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside > wrote: > [...] >> Plonk ? > Greg and The Wanderer already provided a definition. Just adding > one standard reference, the Jargon File [1] in such things. Old > Usenet lore.

Re: password set at installation of debian-10.10.0-amd64 not recognized

2021-08-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Nevertheless there are rare cases only root can make changes. You mean cases where `sudo zsh -l` is not an option? Stefan

Re: password set at installation of debian-10.10.0-amd64 not recognized

2021-08-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> You don't really get that far if your root FS is unmountable. Hmm... if it truly can't be mounted, then the system can't read `/etc/passwd` and then whether there is a root account or not makes no difference. In the "usual" case where the root FS is readable but fsck found errors, then indeed t

Re: how to to start X Window in debian-live-11.0.0-i386-standard.iso

2021-08-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
Greg Wooledge [2021-08-15 10:30:27] wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 04:13:37PM +0200, sp...@caiway.net wrote: >> lou what about >> # apt install xorg fluxbox >> >> $ startx > > In theory that might work (you may also need firmware), but the amount > of bandwidth you'd burn through downloading *al

Re: Debian 11 bullseye Gdm3 nvidia 7200go nouveau glitches and more

2021-08-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> From https://www.cnet.com/reviews/hp-pavilion-dv6300-preview/ I gather it > has a rather old processor (Celeron M 440 to Core 2DuoT7200) -- which one do > you have exactly? Also, it seems there would be at most 2 GiB of RAM. FWIW, I'm surprised it would only allow 2GB, since the previous gener

Re: nvme SSD and poor performance

2021-08-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> P-S: If triming it is needed for ssd, why debian do not trim by default? AFAIK trimming is not needed. It can be beneficial in some cases, but as a general rule, the SSDs should be able to provide great performance without it. Stefan

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I wanted to do something exactly like that some months ago. > What I ended up doing is using a normal Debian installation > with an overlay file system mounted over the root. FWIW, you can do simpler and just use a normal Debian install on a USB key. That saves the trouble of the overlay filesy

Re: Debian 11 Live USB with persistence?

2021-08-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
to...@tuxteam.de [2021-08-19 09:11:00] wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 10:24:27PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> > I wanted to do something exactly like that some months ago. >> > What I ended up doing is using a normal Debian installation >> > with an overlay fil

Re: /usr/sbin/reboot: disabled in systemd-nspawn container

2021-09-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
Greg Wooledge [2021-09-04 11:35:25] wrote: > On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 04:49:24PM +0200, sp...@caiway.net wrote: >> # file /sbin/reboot >> /sbin/reboot: POSIX shell script, ASCII text executable > > That's not normal for a bullseye system using systemd for init. Indeed. > I'm not sure what you did

Re: (unable to start a new discussion) Re: Can surf the internet, but not my home network...

2021-09-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> edges of text characters. So if showing a screen full of text to show > the error, smunch the daylights out of it, it will still be readable. Whatever happened to the idea of citing the actual text rather than using an (unreadable) image? Stefan

Re: write only storage.

2021-10-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Write only storage - DVD-R or equivalent Blu-Ray - but make sure to end the >> session. Deletion - feed through a paper shredder. > I already do that but currently that means I have roughly one month of > backups on network accessible storage before I write to disc. Rather than WORM you can jus

Re: Slow graphics on Intel Xtreme?

2021-10-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> This would seem to be running on the very edge of hardware: I'm surprised > that anything graphical will run at all in 1GB of total memory and 64M > of video RAM. My old Thinkpad X30 is still quite functional (that's the machine I use to plug into LCD projectors to display slides during talks an

Re: slower Debian 11 after upgrade from 10

2021-10-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Sometimes an older kernel does better than a newer kernel, in the absence > of proper firmware. Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes a blob is moved from `main` to `contrib` or `non-free` because it was in `main` by mistake (tho I can't remember that happening between Debian 10 and Debian 11).

[OFFTOPIC] Re: mail service

2021-10-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In general, the circumstances which would require one to use a tool like > protonmail are not commonly observed in connection with a list like > debian-user. While protonmail might be used for such situations, in my experience most protonmail users I've seen are just people that are sufficiently

Re: why pae kernel has only 3G memory

2021-10-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Any particular reason why you must use pae rather than > the standard 32 bit kernel? Hmm... isn't "the standard 32 bit kernel" `linux-image-686-pae` ? At least the `linux-image-686` package seems to describe itself as for use only on those machines where `linux-image-686-pae` doesn't work.

Re: A .profile puzzle

2021-10-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> normally when a storm comes through i turn off the PC anyways because > I really don't want to have things fried (even if i do have the UPS > and surge protection). Hmmm does turning them off make any difference w.r.t a surge large enough to pass through the surge suppression? I thought the onl

Re: Sata Hard drive testing

2021-10-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Essentially, I have been experienced data loss, where nodes become > unreadable, when I try to "fix it" with fdisk, it says it moves unreadable > to the trash, basically deleting data. "it says"? Can you clarify what is this "it"? Drive-level errors of "unreadable data" normally lead to errors

Re: [OT, deeply] Guix

2021-10-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I stumble upon this article about (supposedly) Guix's > characteristics/advantages: [...] > , and was curious about the opinions of the educated Debian people on the > matter. I haven't read that article, but here's my opinion: I would love to see Debian move towards a model like that of NixOS o

Re: [OT, deeply] Guix

2021-11-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> So why not use it as an install tool? Then your entire configuration > is recorded in and driven by a pretty simple text file. That's all you > need, so we can pre-seed that config file for automatic installs. And > we can customise that SAME file for installs configured in real-time, > because s

Re: using intel i5 freqency governors

2021-12-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
How do I get the intel cpu "turbo boost" fully engaged when I'm running my script and go back into power save mode when the machine is idle? >> >> That should be the default behavior (i.e. if you don't touch any cpu >> power configuration). > > Unfortunately, it clearly is _not_ the

Re: on the verge of shopping for new desktop hardware, recommendations?

2021-03-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I realise that, but if your service were to become unsatisfactory, > then before you complained, you'd want to check that it's not your > modem at fault. Would you expect your spare modem to work, because it > has a different MAC from what's expected by the ISP's end of the line. You should be a

Re: Use motherboard video-out or GPU???s

2021-03-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Each monitor will only use the GPU that it is connected to. FWIW, I find the terminology used in the graphics card PC industry very confusing. In my view, there are 4 different kinds of components to a graphic system: - Memory: this can be dedicated "video RAM" or just a chunk of your normal

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm new to GNU/Linux systems. I would like to know > why the RAM requirements showed here: > https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/ch03s04.en.html > are double the size of those displayed here: > https://www.debian.org/releases/stretch/amd64/ch03s04.html.en I think it just reflects the p

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I have a 1GB laptop here (with XFCE4) and using Firefox on it has >> been painful for many years already. > May I ask, what version of Debian do you use? Debian testing. > I have been reading throughout the Web that Xfce4 is not so > lightweight as it was before. Apparently, its performance i

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I wouldn't know since I use XFCE4 everywhere, but the desktop >> environment only has some impact. When it comes to Firefox, the main >> issue is Firefox itself and the pages you visit. > > I had trouble with Firefox in the past on Windows 7, > I had to change to Chrome then. Surprisingly, > n

Re: OT: Footnotes in email (Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10)

2021-03-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I've never heard of an E-mail client that supports automating this, and > I'm not entirely sure I'd want it automated, although a "did you forget > to finish this?" reminder such as my Thunderbird configuration provides > when I type a word like "attach" but don't include an attachment might > be

Re: Hardware requirements between Debian 9 and 10

2021-03-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Cant you just upgrade the RAM? My Intel Atom N550 netbook supports 2GB - That's good advice: check whether your machine has the RAM soldered on or has an SODIMM: it might be easy&cheap to find a pair of old 1GB SODIMMs to replace the likely pair of 512KB SODIMMs you have. [ In my case, when I h

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I think all these shortened names derive from a time when computing > resources were limited. If you're using an 80x25 terminal over at 50 > bits per second to a time-shared mainframe, it's more comfortable to > type "/usr" than it is to type "/Programs". Easier to type "cp" than to > type "copy"

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> While I was making my research before installing Debian > I saw that the filesystem hierarchy is not so friendly > (I'm new to GNU/Linux operating systems). "Not friendly" indicates that you see a problem with it, but doesn't really say what problem it was and even less how to fix it. I persona

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I like to know at hand what file is on which disk. That used to work for A: vs C: back in the days of floppys, but what part of "E:" tells you which disk it is? At best you get to assume that E: and D: are different disks, but the names don't tell you which is which. > Even though, it would no

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I just read this: > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/TheCaseForTheUsrMerge/ > It seems as a good idea that merge of /usr. > I was wondering what would happen if some program used filesystem paths > as its input data for some processing task. He he, yes, changing status quo > is

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> [ I think even back in the early days of time-sharing, connections were >>faster than 50bit/s. ] > Common teletype Baud rates were 45.5 and 110. 45.5 was used primarily for > radio transmission and 110 for landline - both using a modem. 110bit/s is indeed the number I remember as "the slow

Re: Is there an alternative filesystem hierarchy that could be adapted to Debian.

2021-03-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> And oh, please: drop those whitespaces off file and directory names. This > makes teaching shell scripting to newbies a really #@%*&$ยก~ chore. Unless > you want newbies to not learn scripting [1]. On the flip side, it teaches good practices, compared to the all too common scripts using un-quoted

Re: /home partition filling immediately after recent sid upgrade

2021-03-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> du -hd1 | sort -h > then 'cd' into a likely candidate directory and repeat. Hmmm here's what I do instead: du | sort -n | tail -n 100 -- Stefan

Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> But nowadays, there are some audio links that play quite happily > without leaving any trace that I can find. Which leaves only the > option of recording the soundcard output. Some computers have both > LineOut and LineIn, and these can be connected together, but that's > not a very good solution

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Besides the social part of asking *everybody* *else* to switch I'm also > not aware of a viable . Fortunately most of the > conversations have been moving to WhatsApp (where they are supposed to > be encrypted, at least). W.r.t. something else, I don't know anything comparable to Facebook (whi

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> Besides the social part of asking *everybody* *else* to switch I'm >>> also not aware of a viable . Fortunately most of >>> the conversations have been moving to WhatsApp (where they are >>> supposed to be encrypted, at least). >> W.r.t. something else, I don't know anything comparable to Faceb

Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use >> From: deloptes >> Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2021 12:13:28 +0100 >> ... ... [snipped] ... ... [snipped] >> ... ... >> >> http

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
Felix Miata [2021-03-13 15:44:50] wrote: > Charlie Gibbs composed on 2021-03-13 11:04 (UTC-0800): >> (DuckDuckGo works fine for searches.) > I use Google and DDG. It's not unusual here to have DDG to return 0 hits, > and the > exact same search repeated in Google return multiple good hits. The c

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can > confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really > secure/private". I guess it's a bit more secure/private than whatsapp because you can see the code of the client, but AFAICT it's still just as centralized :-(

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > I'll stick with Signal for now, at least it's something that I can >> > confidently recommend to people as "WhatsApp, but really >> > secure/private". >> I guess it's a bit more secure/private than whatsapp because you can see >> the code of the client, but AFAICT it's still just as centrali

Re: [?]Are Realtek Audio Drivers for Linux available for use

2021-03-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> AFAICT, for video, that just records the screen. I do that with > Shift-Alt-F12 start, Shift-Alt-F11 stop (fvwm bindings to customised > ffmpeg commands). But the disadvantages of that method (it gets > polluted by all sorts of screen clutter, it's uses up CPU, you're > recording a resampled imag

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> The problem is also the metadata: it still leaves a centralized record >> of who sent what size of message to whom at what time and from which >> IP address. > > It's definitely more than just "dry" IP addresses: I was talking about Signal (I admit I didn't make that clear). Stefan

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Federated services have metadata as well. > If a particular communication involves two different servers now *both* > servers will have all the metadata for that communication. Indeed, hiding all the metadata is *hard*. Still, Having the overall metadata divided among a hundred servers or more

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> And signal... with all due respect to Moxie Marlinspike... >> - the centralised server model >> - the fact they don't publish their server code since a while > https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server To the extent that the service is centralized, I don't really care if their code is availa

[OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Well, nearly. Itanium Merced was 2001 [1] (althoug you wouldn't buy > /that/ as a private person), DEC Alpha was even 1992 [2]; FWIW And MIPS was there even a bit earlier with their R4000 (tho the software support for it only appeared some years later: they first wanted to have an installed base

[OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> IA64 (Itanium) was completely incompatible with the installed i386 base. > The first CPUs had a (very slow) compatibility layer, assisted by > software, so you could run your "legacy" 16bit/32bit applications. The original plan/claims was that the support for legacy i386 application would be "ju

Re: [EVEN MORE OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Another rumor I read was that IBM, when developing the first IBM PC in >> 1980, opted to use the 8086/8088 CPU instead of the also availble M68k >> CPU because the Intel one was less powerful so it would not be in >> competition with the mainframes the PC was supposed to interface with >> primar

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Indeed. Also, they wanted to move away from the i386 instruction set >> so as not to be bothered by pre-existing licensing agreements with >> AMD, and thus making sure there'd be no competing implementation. The >> IA64 architecture was quite complex, and there are reasons to believe >> that c

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> The original plan/claims was that the support for legacy i386 >> application would be "just as fast". This never materialized >> (unsurprisingly: it's easy to make a CPU that can run efficiency several >> slightly different instruction sets (ISA), like your average amd64 CPU which >> can run ap

Re: [EVEN MORE OFFTOPIC] Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> No it wouldn't, and we had it by the late '80's with the advent of >> 68040 abd 68060 accellerator boards for the Amiga's. But that flat >> memory model and poor production QC doomed it. Any program could make >> a missfire and write into another programs memory space, crashing the >> whole Mar

Re: [?] Why should Distros be called as i386 for a 32-bit PC, and as amd64 for a 64-bit PC, when Intel Core PCs are also 64bit systems

2021-03-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>So it was a great move on the part of AMD: cheap to implement but with >>an enormous marketing impact. > It had much more than a marketing impact, because x86 was a PITA for more > than 2GB of RAM and that was getting cheap and becoming a common problem by > 2003. Switching to opteron for 8G or 1

Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Perhaps you and all the others could use -debian-offtopic to air Not sure what "offtopic" has to do with this discussion, so I'll assume it was a typo for `debian-offline`. I hear there's a lot of interesting discussions there about how to communicate safely, but sadly so far I haven't managed

Re: [OT] Re: Social-media antipathy (was Re: How i can optimize my operating system?)

2021-03-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In my (not so humble) opinion, this level of security could make sense > for a disident in a totalitarian state, less so for regular users in > democratic country. Reminds me of the saying that the difference between USA and USSR was that in USSR the population knew that it was propaganda.

Button events from headphone+micro combo

2021-03-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
My Librem mini comes with a an audio jack in the front into which I can connect the same headphones-with-micro as used typically on phones. This works fine to the extent that I can hear the audio out and it can grab the audio from the microphone, but what about the buttons (typically used to incre

Re: Running debian on WSL (windows-system-for-linux)

2021-03-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Does anybody have any experience running debian on a WSL > (windows-system-for-linux) machine? I don't, sorry. > I need to get a machine for family use, but i would also like to be able to > also use it myself. But I do have experience with using Debian for "the family computer". So maybe you

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

2021-03-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> My Librem mini comes with a an audio jack in the front into which I can >> connect the same headphones-with-micro as used typically on phones. >> This works fine to the extent that I can hear the audio out and it can >> grab the audio from the microphone, but what about the buttons >> (typically

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

2021-03-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Does acpi-listen pick them up? No, it does give me the jack/headphone HEADPHONE unplug jack/headphone HEADPHONE plug events but nothing when I press those buttons. > It's entirely possible that the Librem doesn't have a sound chip > that translates impedance changes to button clicks.

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

2021-03-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
> It's entirely possible that the Librem doesn't have a sound chip > that translates impedance changes to button clicks. You could > ask the hardware folks, right? So, that's what I did: https://forums.puri.sm/t/headphone-buttons-on-the-librem-mini/ so you were right: my chip doesn't support

Re: Button events from headphone+micro combo

2021-03-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm sure this can be made in software, by looking at the mic > input. Most probably even in user space. > Now to find someone with enough time in her/his hands and who > can be convinced into trying :-) What I find puzzling here is that this is a 100% standard feature on pretty much all Android

Re: How I scan, was Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-03-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Scanning the output to a server just seems plain obvious to me. > What's the downside? It has its advantages, indeed. On the downsides: - the scanner usually has a very limited UI, making it difficult/inconvenient (if at all possible) to control and select the scanning options, compared to

Re: xsane can't see Brother ADS-2700W scanner

2021-04-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I tried a freshly-formatted 16GB stick, and the document scanned > successfully. The PDF is just shy of 40MB for 360 pages. The Most likely the document is first scanned to a set of separate uncompressed pages (maybe kept in separate files) and only converted to a PDF at the end, hence the nee

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-04-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> A notable class of exceptions is that of OpenWrt powered devices: > OpenWrt comes with dnsmasq configured out of the box, and thus provides > caching. "Back in the days" (at the beginning of OpenWRT), most home routers used `dnsmasq`, AFAIK. So I'd expect today's devices to use `dnsmasq` or sim

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-04-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> A notable class of exceptions is that of OpenWrt powered devices: >>> OpenWrt comes with dnsmasq configured out of the box, and thus provides >>> caching. >> "Back in the days" (at the beginning of OpenWRT), most home routers used >> `dnsmasq`, AFAIK. So I'd expect today's devices to use `dnsm

Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web

2021-04-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
Celejar [2021-04-05 14:49:15] wrote: > On Mon, 5 Apr 2021 14:12:07 -0400 Dan Ritter wrote: >> Celejar wrote: >> > What's the recommended modern best practice for putting a contact email >> > address on the web while avoiding having it scraped by spam / fraud >> > bots? >> Assume that every addres

Re: Modern best practice for putting a contact email on the web

2021-04-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I use some GMX accounts, and they apparently don't support plus > addressing (I just tried, and the message was refused with "550 > Requested action not taken: mailbox unavailable."). I suppose it would be > nice if they did support it, but I can't really fault them for not > supporting a non-sta

Re: Temporary failure in name resolution

2021-04-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> That I can believe (and isn't a bad option, IMO), >> but the discussion was about broken DNS proxies/servers. > Well, I assume that's your term for the modem/router being leased > by the OP from att, and similar. Not really. It was my attempt at reproducing the approximate description of some

Re: No space left when: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-5-amd64

2021-04-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> What do you recommend I do? Other than purging old kernels, I also recommend you check /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf where `MODULES=dep` and `COMPRESS=lzma` have made a big difference for me (more or less shrunk the initrd images by a factor 3-4). > Doubt: after this, by default old

Re: No space left when: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-5.10.0-5-amd64

2021-04-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> where `MODULES=dep` and `COMPRESS=lzma` have made a big difference for >> me (more or less shrunk the initrd images by a factor 3-4). > Thank you. > Why did you choose lzma Vs xz or zstd, by the way? Measured diff? `lzma` and `xz` should be pretty much identical, it was a toss-up (I have a pref

Re: Boot better have mounted on root or /boot ?

2021-04-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I use auto partitioning (if not mistaken) and boot mounted on root "/" > instead of creating own "/boot" partition > > $ df -h /boot/ > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/sda1 110G 62G 43G 60% / > > What actually the best way for boot directory? The best way is th

Re: ubuntu/snap future

2021-04-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> But I'll bitch and moan loudly to my interlocutor. Good. > Perhaps I'll lie and say that I've got just a telephone or something. Better not: better tell them clearly why you refuse to use that tool. We have a duty to educate, I think. Stefan

Re: [?]List of Best Debian-approved laptops in India

2021-04-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'd recommend to find a vendor that is shipping hardware with a linux > distribution pre-installed, Seconded. Not only it minimizes the problems you'll have when installing Debian on it but it additionally helps promote those vendors who do provide GNU/Linux support: vote with your wallet.

Re: Smart TV on WiFi as Extra Display

2021-04-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> not support stretching your desktop to it) and it has a Java viewer > applet that can be used to connect to it from a web browser. There's a good chance the browser hardcoded in the TV doesn't support Java applets. Stefan

Re: Strange emacs behavior after upgrade to bullseye

2021-04-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Because the error says it cannot use LOCKS. > Because you can't do Unix file locking on a non-Unix file system. > The error does NOT say "Permission denied". FWIW, the error comes from Emacs's own locking code which doesn't seem to use unix file locking, so the problem comes from elsewhere. Ema

Re: Strange emacs behavior after upgrade to bullseye

2021-04-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Emacs implements its locking protocol using symlinks with names >> that look like `.#` and whose content looks like >> `u...@host.pid:BOOT_TIME`. > > Ah, good old dot-locking. Well, perhaps the OP can test whether it's > possible to create a symlink in that directory. That's probably part of t

Re: installing two versions of a user application

2021-04-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> $ sudo apt install ./master-pdf-editor-4.3.89_qt5.x86_64.deb > ./master-pdf-editor-5.7.08-qt5_included.x86_64.deb > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree > Reading state information... Done > Note, selecting 'master-pdf-editor' instead of > './master-pdf-editor-4.3.89_qt5.x86_6

Re: installing two versions of a user application

2021-04-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> You probably want to look inside the control archives rather than the > data archives: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_%28file_format%29 > > If both control archive files are using a package name of > "master-pdf-editor", you can try Stefan's suggestion of renaming one > and seeing if they'

Re: OT: Freestanding spreadsheet program?

2021-04-23 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Back in the good (bad?) old days of TRS-80, all we had was VisiCalc. Simple. > Today, is there a useful spreadsheet program that does not rely on all the > baggage associated with either an "office suite," or > a "desktop environment?" I can mention `gnumeric` and if you're into Emacs I can also

Re: OT: Freestanding spreadsheet program?

2021-04-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I think he also wanted something that doesn't require a desktop environment. AFAIK Gnumeric works fine in "naked X11". Stefan

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-04-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Here's a sort of example I just ran into. When trying to find > information about Thetis hardware security keys, DDG simply couldn't > find the company's website: searching DDG for "thetis key" turns up (in > the first page of hits) a bunch of Amazon listings, and a bunch of > reviews of, and art

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-04-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> FWIW, I'm pretty sure that such anectodal evidence is of no importance >> because you can also come up with examples where the situation >> is reversed. > Can you? I meant "you" in a very general sense: I'm pretty sure it's possible, but no, I haven't done the necessary work (and I'm not very i

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-04-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> viewing material because it's about ten years old. But when we > inevitably replace it and have no choice about accepting a 'smart' TV, There are still normal TVs around. Stefan

[OFFTOPIC] Re: pci 0000:00:01:0: MSI quirk detected; subordinated MSI disabled ...

2021-04-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Now I wonder how this might enable random access to the nth > character. I will keep looking around. Another part of the question is: why would someone give you the position information in terms of characters rather than in terms of (say) bytes, or words, or ... Stefan

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-05-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> For example I wanted to know what is Stieglitz in German - it is kind > of bird, but I wanted to know how it looks like. DDG results did not > even come close to a bird. For these kinds of searches, I tend to go to Wikipedia first. One of the reasons is that I can do that via the Wikipedia app

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-05-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> when I just try to search for "language:en stieglitz" (without the >> quotes) > YES! That's what I was looking for. I wasn't sure DDG had this > feature (although I hoped for it). Sadly, it doesn't work when combined with `!w`. [ and I think it'd make sense to allow the shorter `lang:de`. ] A

Re: Google vs. DDG

2021-05-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
deloptes [2021-05-02 17:44:42] wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: >> For these kinds of searches, I tend to go to Wikipedia first. >> One of the reasons is that I can do that via the Wikipedia app which is >> much more snappy than my browser on my smartphone. >> Anoth

Re: When to reboot after dist-upgrade?

2021-05-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm trying to distinguish when a system reboot is an absolute need > and when it is absolutely safe to keep the system running/working > after a `sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade`, once > I have already performed a complete restart of all needed services > through `sudo needrestar

Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-05-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> There: now your smart-ass TV is a monitor again. At least until they start using a cell-connection for Internet access (which would seem only natural in the world of TVs, which historically got their programs over the air) :-( Stefan

Re: HTML syntax.

2021-05-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Is there an editor which checks that HTML opening and closing tags are > paired and nested properly. An opening tag without matching close, a > closing tag without matching open and crossed tags should be flagged > by line number or color. Since Emacs's built-in `nxml-mode` does that, and Em

Re: Ghost cronjob

2021-05-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> root@galahad:~# grep btrbk /etc/ -rl Have you `grep`d in `/var/` as well? [ E.g. `/var/spool/crontabs` ] > And yet I find this in /var/log/btrbk.log: > > 2017-03-12T20:16:28+0100 startup v0.24.0 - - - - # btrbk command line client, > version 0.24.0 Any other mention of activity around that ti

[OFFTOPIC] Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-05-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > There: now your smart-ass TV is a monitor again. >> At least until they start using a cell-connection for Internet access >> (which would seem only natural in the world of TVs, which historically >> got their programs over the air) :-( > Cars do that already. Why shouldn't TVs? Or pet collars?

Re: Ghost cronjob

2021-05-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
Mart van de Wege [2021-05-03 20:11:25] wrote: > Stefan Monnier writes: >>> root@galahad:~# grep btrbk /etc/ -rl >> >> Have you `grep`d in `/var/` as well? >> [ E.g. `/var/spool/crontabs` ] >> > Yep, nothing there, aside from the usual suspects (apt & dpk

[OFFTOPIC] Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-05-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
> It doesn't seem sensible to put a cell-connection into each TV > when they're all immobile. OTOH cars and pets go places. > > And is 20GB of data per day a "reasonable usage" on a mobile data plan? > Whereas 1TB per month on a fixed line is quite normal. These arguments seem stuck in the present

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: how to use fetchmail with MS Office 365 / davmail?

2021-05-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I'm also interested to know how good a service you actually get within > buildings, where most of us are most of the time. I see that wireless > repeaters are recommended according to a home's floor area. Are they > repeating 30GHz round the house, or conventional 2/5GHz? If the > latter, there's

Re: What is the best (and free) Linux softphone?

2021-05-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
I think Linphone used to have a CLI interface, so you might want to look into it. I haven't used it in a long time, so I don't know what is its current status. I basically gave up on SIP (partly because of very spotty support for encrypted communications and for async messages like SMS) and recom

Re: PC fan getting very loud because of CPU load

2021-05-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
deloptes [2021-05-08 21:33:47] wrote: > Dan Ritter wrote: >> It is also the case that fans are cheap. Replacing one for >> $10-20 is generally good for another 5-10 years. > But the question is why it runs > 100% - the fan is not that important in > the case. It could be replaced with not so loud o

Re: Suspend on old MacBook with fresh Bullseye installation

2021-05-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I also used hibernate as well as the LXDE controls or closing the lid - > the result is always the same: > > 1. Black screen > 2. Network disabled (ssh session freezes, no ping from other host) > 3. Fan keeps on moving silently > 4. Can't wake up to normal operation neither by > -

Re: Suspend on old MacBook with fresh Bullseye installation

2021-05-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
Andreas Tille [2021-05-11 20:18:55] wrote: > Hi Stefan, >> > I also used hibernate as well as the LXDE controls or closing the lid - >> > the result is always the same: >> > >> > 1. Black screen >> > 2. Network disabled (ssh session freezes, no ping from other host) >> > 3. Fan keeps on mov

Re: AppleWEBkit

2021-05-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
to...@tuxteam.de [2021-05-12 09:42:33] wrote: > On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 03:28:18AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > [...] > >> The recent thread involving the mac G5's intrigues me though, so its war >> story time: >> >> We bought a pair of them in a quite graphically capable editing kit for >> comm

Re: OT: minimum bs for dd?

2021-05-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 01:31:49PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: >> > I'll bite ;} >> > When is it the right tool? >> >> When you're using it to convert ebcdic to ascii, while swapping bytes and >> reblocking an ancient file from a barely readable archival tape. >> >> > When is it not? >> >> W

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