Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

2017-02-22 Thread will . hillnotes
Hopefully, someone in your country will translate that potential difference into a profit. I'm sorry to hear about all of those barriers. I have to wonder how much a new computer costs there.

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo Ups Ante: Gives $300K to ‘Raise the Standard of Trust

2017-02-22 Thread will . hillnotes
I'm not sure there is a good replacement, but Trisquel should not promote Duck Duck Go over other search engines unless DDG is free software and people can prove it respects privacy. Because DDG passes on Bing and has hidden free software in the past, I never use it myself and would not reco

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

2017-02-22 Thread Paul Hanzlik
I am ordering a lot of stuff from Tehnoetic right now. While I agree the price is pretty high, I think many people in this thread neglect how valuable service, bug help and return policies can be. Before ordering from Tehnoetic I bought a BBB, a Samsung S2 and an Asus C201 which, while interes

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo Ups Ante: Gives $300K to ‘Raise the Standard of Trust

2017-02-22 Thread onpon4
> move their servers outside USA This is a somewhat popular way that people attempt to protect themselves, but it actually makes it more likely that you're going to be snooped on for the most part. As weak as they are, the U.S. actually does have some restrictions on how they can perform su

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo Ups Ante: Gives $300K to ‘Raise the Standard of Trust

2017-02-22 Thread calmstorm
you know, microsoft's operating system is much like an ordinary glass window protecting your secrets and wealth from a burglar... its actually worse than that all joking aside. but yeah... lets just go with a No... and not trust microsoft because their security is soft thus easy to break.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 is STILL not out yet?

2017-02-22 Thread calmstorm
More than anything I am just curious when it will come out in beta and stable. Not particularly complaining. IT is a good os. I just wondered when trisquel 8 is coming out in beta or even stable. So yeah... you can call it complaining if you want but it isn't completely accurate for all of

Re: [Trisquel-users] DuckDuckGo Ups Ante: Gives $300K to ‘Raise the Standard of Trust

2017-02-22 Thread albertoefg
Even though everything said by Will Hill seems ridiculous. There a few important points against DuckDuckgo 1.- Is non free and there are Libre options (like searx.me or YaCy) so there is no point in recommend it. 2.- DuckDuckgo is located on the USA a country with masive surveillance, even i

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 is STILL not out yet?

2017-02-22 Thread jason
Great idea, although that's probably not as fun for them as coming to the Trisquel forums and complaining.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Doubts about libreboot flashing and configuration

2017-02-22 Thread megver83
something else that I forgot to comment, about the GRUB configuration https://libreboot.org/docs/gnulinux/grub_cbfs.html About the option 1: What if I have more than one distro with the libreboot_grub.cfg file? and where it says in libreboot_grub.cfg on disk, if you are adapting it based on

[Trisquel-users] Doubts about libreboot flashing and configuration

2017-02-22 Thread megver83
Hi everyone. I've some questions about libreboot. As I said in the Spanish forum, I got a Thinkpad T400 and, of course, I want to flash it Libreboot. The problem is that I don't have a BeagleBone Black, but a friend has a Banana Pi. As banana pi is based on Raspberry Pi, I thought that this g

[Trisquel-users] Re : Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

2017-02-22 Thread lcerf
Supply and demand: not many businesses propose that service. Fell free to enter the market!

[Trisquel-users] Re : editing multiple photos in the same way

2017-02-22 Thread lcerf
G'MIC probably is a solution by itself (i.e., without using GIMP): http://gmic.eu It is in Trisquel's repository.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

2017-02-22 Thread cyberdevoper
I think that X60 would be good enough since i could try to pull off the LCD screen and use keyboard only,for example something like commodore,and use mounted monitor into the wall as a display. Now i am not aware of which CPUs are compatible with Libreboot or with specific Lenovo laptop nam

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

2017-02-22 Thread cyberdevoper
Guys,i was just browsing on MiniFree website and i seen that they have device on pre order https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-x220/ Price is over the top on my opinion,but i can not see the guide if i have x220 on my own.Can someone explain me what is this all about,how can we find out

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

2017-02-22 Thread cyberdevoper
Let me explain about the pricing : I am not within the states or the EU zone,so for example if Laptop with LibreBoot cost 500$add extra 50$ for shipping,40$ taxes(in case of DHL for customs)590$ total and on top of that 30% for import taxes to the country.Just on taxes alone i would have to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

2017-02-22 Thread cyberdevoper
I don't have raspberry pi or beagleboard at the moment. I don't think that procedure itself would be too hard,and yes power is crucial for the device(CPU on board and RAM/SSD which i would upgrade later.)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

2017-02-22 Thread will . hillnotes
I was happy to pay more than $500 for my X200, and the bar has been set very low. $500 is not much more than I'd pay for a similar laptop at Walmart. Yes, the system at Walmart may have a snappier CPU, but it's going to come with Windows 10 which will only work for twelve hours a day. That

Re: [Trisquel-users] Lenovo thinkapds(LibreBoot )buying guide

2017-02-22 Thread travis
I really hate how so many of these shops drive up the price of their equipment. I know it takes time and effort to install these operating systems, but the price they're asking for a Galazy S2 is insane when you can buy them for almost 1/4 of the price elsewhere and install the OS yourself.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel 8 is STILL not out yet?

2017-02-22 Thread travis
Normally I wouldn't say this, but... If you're so disgusted with the way Trisquel is being developed, why don't you build your own distribution? Fork Ubuntu yourself and make, I dunno, t3gbuntu and see how quickly you're able to roll out releases on your own working for donations. Then deal

Re: [Trisquel-users] editing multiple photos in the same way

2017-02-22 Thread mcz
Try ImageMagik, it can be used with Gimp I believe. I've had good experience using the (marvelous) automation on Photoshop (just record a sequence of actions, and apply the sequence on a whole folder). I've never tried ImageMagik yet, but I suspect it isn't as easy to use. But it seems powe

[Trisquel-users] editing multiple photos in the same way

2017-02-22 Thread adel
I have 25 colour photographs, 5 megapixels each, in a folder on my computer. I would like to edit each in the same way: scale down to 1000px * 1333px, and apply Gimp's "photocopy" filter. Can I make Gimp edit each photo in this way automatically -- it would be time consuming to do each man