Re: [Trisquel-users] Wire is Free Software now

2017-04-12 Thread shiretoko
Hi albertoefg I don't know why nobody seems to care about your post / is only referring to other so far unfinished solutions (ring is beta at the moment). I think it's great news and I can't wait to check it out! However, do you know about WebRTC? There are a lot of providers out there which

[Trisquel-users] Big problem with Router R841N

2017-04-12 Thread julian
Hi. I had flash my router TP-LINK WR841N with librecmc, but now when I turn in on, all the lights are in on, and the router doesn't work. I can't reset it, it seems died. What can I do to revive it? Thanks!

[Trisquel-users] Do youtube-dl/HTML5 Video Everywhere run nonfree JS?

2017-04-12 Thread csh
I looked at the source code to youtube-dl. youtube.py, the code that handles YouTube, calls JSInterpreter on line 1056. Does this mean that youtube-dl is running nonfree JavaScript code from Google on my computer? Does HTML5 Video Everywhere do the same thing in IceCat? It seems to work

Re: [Trisquel-users] I have tried everything...

2017-04-12 Thread csh
Trying different USB ports and plugging them in more than once in each port helps, too. It shouldn't help, but it does -- at least on a Libreboot system, it does.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moving to full FOSS, need advice

2017-04-12 Thread liam . odonnell
Hi All First thanks for the advice given so far, the open source thing in my head always links to libre personally, to be fully open, but I do understand what you are all saying. Additionally I am also looking into privacy first services, I hear Spideroak is a rather good service that makes

[Trisquel-users] Re : Moving to full FOSS, need advice

2017-04-12 Thread lcerf
The system is called GNU/Linux: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html Parabola GNU/Linux basically is Arch without the proprietary software. Since you wrote that you had a good experience with Arch, you should be at home. Trisquel is based on Ubuntu: fixed instead of rolling release, A

[Trisquel-users] AR9285 on 4.4.0-66-generic

2017-04-12 Thread sjalistra
Hello, I just swapped wifi card in my Thinkpad X60 and encountered a problem with missing ath9k module. sjal@MegamanX60:~$ lspci | grep Ath 02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01) sjal@MegamanX60:~$ sudo modprobe ath9k modprobe: FA

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moving to full FOSS, need advice

2017-04-12 Thread liam . odonnell
I do have to admin its a decent looking distro is trisquel, even if I do prefer MATE (I believe this is coming in the next release?) I think I might try install both of them and use what every I need that day I think, best of both worlds

Re: [Trisquel-users] Big problem with Router R841N

2017-04-12 Thread radiowavers
Hi Lightmoon, please tell how you verified that a router doesn't work? For additional security, wireless networking is disabled by default for LibreCMC installations. You have to connect to this router by Ethernet with Telnet or SSH, and either through LuCi web interface or by using vi, edit

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moving to full FOSS, need advice

2017-04-12 Thread enduzzer
I hope Trisquel will look just the same more or less even after the MATE transition.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Big problem with Router R841N

2017-04-12 Thread jason
You might also want to consider contact the libreCMC project since you question is about, you now, libreCMC. :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] AR9285 on 4.4.0-66-generic

2017-04-12 Thread sjalistra
Well as I thought, getting newer kernel fixed all my problems

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moving to full FOSS, need advice

2017-04-12 Thread leoo
If you prefer tablets, there are also tablets that can run Replicant, which is a fully free derivative of Android. http://www.replicant.us/supported-devices.php Unfortunately, there are still some apparent freedom issues with the hardware. And Techno ethical does not seem to sell them anym

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do youtube-dl/HTML5 Video Everywhere run nonfree JS?

2017-04-12 Thread greatgnu
AFAIK by default youtube-dl does not run any javascript code.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moving to full FOSS, need advice

2017-04-12 Thread greatgnu
Welcome OP! You wrote 'open sores' 4 times. I hear when someone writes 3 (or more) times 'open sores' within a same post Stallman suddenly appears in his room and spanks him with his halo, which is actually an old hard drive. Can you confirm this? I never tried and I'm curios. Welcome, I'm ju

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moving to full FOSS, need advice

2017-04-12 Thread liam . odonnell
No Stallman never appeared, to many closed source devices in this house, like garlic to a vampire, I do believe he is stood at the top of my street though!

[Trisquel-users] Problems with playing DVD

2017-04-12 Thread jbahn
I often encounter problems when trying to play a DVD on my Trisquel (and earlier other distributions) computers. Everywhere I read, that this or that player will play virtually everything. So how come I still have problems? Is there something I can do, or do I just have to realise, that 'virt

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do youtube-dl/HTML5 Video Everywhere run nonfree JS?

2017-04-12 Thread csh
Then what does JSInterpreter do? What does youtube.py do with it? It looks fishy, and I've seen discussions on the GitHub page about "fixing" support for a site by putting the JS through JSInterpreter.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Obsolete software in the Trisquel repos

2017-04-12 Thread csh
There are imperfect solutions to this. One common solution is to add PPAs to get the packages you want. Another thing some people do, including myself, is to install the GNU Guix package manager and install apps with that. GNU Guix is rolling release, so everything is up to date.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Moving to full FOSS, need advice

2017-04-12 Thread tirifto
I didn't have many problems with Parabola. I think all problems I ever had in Parabola (or Arch – the parent distro – back when I used it) were caused by myself being careless (not checking the news before updating, forcing updates, or ignoring bugs). Those kind of mistakes usually aren't har

Re: [Trisquel-users] Transferring Windows 10 backup files to Trisquel

2017-04-12 Thread csh
Magic Banana, I don't think JB was talking about backed up OpenDocument files. JB mentioned several times that the backed up files were Word document files.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wire is Free Software now

2017-04-12 Thread albertoefg
Hey, thanks :) Yes I wish more people were interested in this :) It seems that neither Spanish or English forum had much interest. Some even said is bad because comes from a company. Which personally I found sad. Because we should celebrate new companies are joining the free software moveme

Re: [Trisquel-users] Wire is Free Software now

2017-04-12 Thread albertoefg
If you create an account tell me so i can add you :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] I've started a Patreon page

2017-04-12 Thread csh
Does donating with Patreon require use of JavaScript code that is not under a free software license? If so, you are recommending proprietary software on this free software forum.

[Trisquel-users] Re : I've started a Patreon page

2017-04-12 Thread pinmaritim
Calher ;-) Opon4 is one of the most ardent combatant against proprietary Javascript on this Forum, have a read http://onpon4.github.io/other/kill-js/

Re: [Trisquel-users] Transferring Windows 10 backup files to Trisquel

2017-04-12 Thread sublime4
I believe it worked this time! As far as I can remember from when I had Windows, it appears that the script found all of my Word documents but I'm unable to say for sure without comparing it to my backup on another computer. Only problem I had was that a few files were completely different

Re: [Trisquel-users] you cannot watch youtube on a libre software computer?

2017-04-12 Thread csh
I was an avid user of youtube-dl, until I figured out that it runs the nonfree JS from YouTube, and that the developers plan an making it do that in the future. https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/12129#issuecomment-279647782

Re: [Trisquel-users] Transferring Windows 10 backup files to Trisquel

2017-04-12 Thread csh
I have read that you can't find particular files in your backup. Were they disorganized when you backed them up? To make sure I can find everything in backups or on my system, I use this file organization method: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15677/zen-and-the-art-of-file-and-folder-organi

Re: [Trisquel-users] Please contribute to Trisquel 8!

2017-04-12 Thread csh
Another thing I like about qBittorrent is that it runs on Windows, so Windows users who have already switched their userspace to free software will feel at home once their OS is replaced. In this way, you could make a "free software conversion kit" with literature, audio/video, free program

Re: [Trisquel-users] I've started a Patreon page

2017-04-12 Thread jason
It does seem to be the case though. Try it out.

Re: [Trisquel-users] you cannot watch youtube on a libre software computer?

2017-04-12 Thread fipplej
Hi to everyone on the forums. I'm a new member here. I'm not especially technical but I am certainly interested in Free Software (and Free Culture) and I find the discussions on the Trisquel forums very interesting. I was curious to get some thoughts on whether software such as youtube-dl or

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with playing DVD

2017-04-12 Thread jason
Who knows? There isn't much detail to go on here other than you've got problems.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Transferring Windows 10 backup files to Trisquel

2017-04-12 Thread lcerf
Yes for .docx and the other OOXML formats.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Problems with playing DVD

2017-04-12 Thread lcerf
Have you installed libdvdcss2? From the terminal: $ sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh

Re: [Trisquel-users] you cannot watch youtube on a libre software computer?

2017-04-12 Thread jason
"...through any technology or means other than the video playback pages..." Well, youtube-dl does report: [youtube]: Downloading webpage So maybe an argument could be made that "Content" is indeed being "accessed" "via" the "video playback pages"... But really, only Google can know what the

Re: [Trisquel-users] you cannot watch youtube on a libre software computer?

2017-04-12 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
ell then, one more reason to team up and give a petition or something similar to YouTube, asking them to fix it. I actually have a template of the request, and it's on Action Items page at LibrePlanet wiki. If for some reason the list in that page doesn't mention YouTube, look at the subpages of t

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do youtube-dl/HTML5 Video Everywhere run nonfree JS?

2017-04-12 Thread onpon4
I am not familiar with JavaScript, so looking at the class in qestion, I can't really tell what it's doing. But from the naming, it definitely looks like a JavaScript interpreter. If youtube-dl does interpret JavaScript code to find the video file, maybe a no-JavaScript option should be add

Re: [Trisquel-users] I've started a Patreon page

2017-04-12 Thread onpon4
It would be a mistake to make the perfect the enemy of the better. I won't say that Patreon is good, but there currently isn't any better alternative for making it easy for people to give me monthly donations without entrusting me with their credit card information. If a similar service wit

Re: [Trisquel-users] Do youtube-dl/HTML5 Video Everywhere run nonfree JS?

2017-04-12 Thread mcz
I don't have the time to compare right now, but if it's the same as this one (https://github.com/NeilFraser/JS-Interpreter), it's sandboxed (curious about how it works, if it's the same one).

Re: [Trisquel-users] Transferring Windows 10 backup files to Trisquel

2017-04-12 Thread infinityfallen
Glad to hear it worked! Hopefully that's the last time anything arises- if there is still a problem, obviously don't hesitate to ask for help. For the 108 files, you might have to open the file manager as root, which you can do with the command "sudo nautilus", and then try deleting them.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Problems with playing DVD

2017-04-12 Thread jbahn
Nice comment - point taken :-) Again I reveal my lack of knowledge (that'll probably happen again soon!). It takes knowledge to describe a problem well.