Re: [Trisquel-users] Yet another "best way to help newbie" question

2017-06-15 Thread eemeli . blasten
I have dedicated one laptop (Macbook2.1 with Libreboot) for photography. I have Parabola there instead of Trisquel, so this advice might not apply. Here's what I use: - for photo tagging, organizing and modifying: darktable - for touching single images (both RAW and jpg): rawtherapee

Re: [Trisquel-users] Yet another "best way to help newbie" question

2017-06-15 Thread enduzzer
Gimp is quite alright. It's not Photoshop and doesn't claim to be.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Yet another "best way to help newbie" question

2017-06-15 Thread smirnovdmitri29
As I know good Darktable is good libre software for photography http://www.darktable.org/ GIMP has a lot of features, but it is impossible to use. GIMP has the most awful UI I ever seen. It requires a lot of configuration to make it be something similar like Photoshop.

[Trisquel-users] Re : Yet another "best way to help newbie" question

2017-06-15 Thread lcerf
If it doesn't work out for any reason, will the winshit viruses still be there if some idiot puts winshit on the hardware? If you let Trisquel take the whole disk, no: the installer will format all the partitions. What are some good libre programs that she might enjoy and find useful?

[Trisquel-users] Yet another "best way to help newbie" question

2017-06-15 Thread noordinaryspider
I'm going with Belenos again because it was such a success the last time I was asked. New newbie is his girlfriend. I asked her if she had a laptop in the context of a different thing we were doing together and it turns out she's very excited because someone is giving her a nice HP but "it

Re: [Trisquel-users] can you tell how to install replicant?

2017-06-15 Thread noordinaryspider
Thanks, CalmStorm! I thought it was hard and was going to mention someone who used to hang out here and seems to spend more time on Replicant these days. Tonlee, what helped me with libreboot was to have someone on IRC sit with me while I did it. Mostly they just listened while I figured

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread enduzzer
>...I don't know how else to help. Help? He doesn't want your help. He's up to enlarging his business, taking over the forum and ignoring all advice. That's why this thread should go to the lounge. It's a perfecty legitimate subforum. He can spam all he likes over there, but no, he wants

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread calmstorm
Just for the record, if you don't appreciate my comments, Tiberiu I apologize, but I don't know how else to help.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread calmstorm
I am stumped. I will try to leave you alone if that will help, but just try to take it easy. I am only trying to help even if it may seem like an insult to you. Take care Tiberiu. I hope you will see the light.

Re: [Trisquel-users] can you tell how to install replicant?

2017-06-15 Thread calmstorm
It actually isn't as hard as people think, tell me which part your stuck on and maybe me or someone can help. I have done it once, although... you need a few hours if you don't know what your doing to figure it out and also the model has to be one that is compatible such as galaxy note 2

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread calmstorm
Okay, Tiberiu, my bad... I do have to actually answer this because I am not trolling you. I am only trying to help you see that you are not helping yourself. Does it even make you happy to be so against your competition and people who are trying to help you? More importantly, does this

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread calmstorm
I would prefer if this thread stayed on point and rational and if you would just ease up. IF you die because of high blood pressure or anger, it will make me sad for a time, but disappointed long term. Please just mellow out, we are not your enemy. I will continue to support your products

[Trisquel-users] Is Javascript (JS) necessary, a modern crutch, or something else?

2017-06-15 Thread J.B. Nicholson
smirnovdmitr...@yandex.com wrote: I work 15 year in web-development. Can say that JavaScript is a tool of evil, but we cannot live without it. My experience is that website developers greatly overstate the need for Javascript and most websites would work fine without Javascript use at all

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread info
Hi Tiberiu, Can you also document (ideally with photos too) how to flash the T400S? libreboot.org documents T400 flashing, but not T400S. T400S requires heavy amounts of soldering and the procedures differ a lot. The documentation on libreboot.org is in Markdown and easy to modify. See:

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread shiretoko
I think this forum is not the right place for advertisement in the first place, at least not in the sense of posting threads. You should rather but an advertisement like thinkpenguin does. If a user on her own mentions problems regarding trisquel and your notebook, of course you can join the

Re: [Trisquel-users] A Liberated Version of Youtube-DL is Almost Here!

2017-06-15 Thread infinityfallen
>with youtube-dl and vlc, what data am I giving up by using >that tiny bit of JS used for making URLs readable? What you've asked is an extremely good question, and the answer should be made absolutely clear: At present, the JavaScript engine does not implement *any* functionality which

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread noordinaryspider
Is that a T400s? I thought that was a Lemote Yeelong. I don't want to buy a T400s because the regular T series and the little X series work better for me but other people might be THRILLED to find out that this is available so it's kind of mean to make them sort through irrelevant OH

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread shiretoko
Interesting. You wrote to Leah: "I'd say you're the one desperate, judging by all the lies and contradictions you've submitted" but you feel yourself offended by the word "whining", immediately calling me biased.

Re: [Trisquel-users] A Liberated Version of Youtube-DL is Almost Here!

2017-06-15 Thread mcz
Not gonna happen any time soon, just like with PHP :/

Re: [Trisquel-users] A Liberated Version of Youtube-DL is Almost Here!

2017-06-15 Thread mcz
I agree, and it's the best option. Yet in this specific case, since it isn't available right now, no matter the malware, getting that URL is safe enough (any potential malware remains sandboxed). But clearly, it's just a second-best fix.

[Trisquel-users] Re : A Liberated Version of Youtube-DL is Almost Here!

2017-06-15 Thread lcerf
Freedom and security are different. Free software is a prerequisite for security (against the developer, who cannot include malware and get by with it) but security does not entail freedom.

[Trisquel-users] can you tell how to install replicant?

2017-06-15 Thread svhaab
I got 2 phones, I want to install replicant on. I have read the instructions and it appears to be complicated. I asked on replicant's irc if I could get told how to install replicant. There was not much response. If I do not get to find a person on replicant's irc able to tell how to

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread info
There have been questions regarding the Libreboot code running on the Technoethical T400s. Our policy is to use the latest stable official version of Libreboot on our laptops. That is 20160907. https://libreboot.org/release/stable/20160907/ We confirm that everything that works in the

Re: [Trisquel-users] A Liberated Version of Youtube-DL is Almost Here!

2017-06-15 Thread mcz
Or when you don't have a better option at the moment. Technically it's not running non-free software directly on my machine since it's in a sandbox. Sure it doesn't strictly goes with full software freedom, and I'm all for a better option. But right now, this is a way to execute just a bit of

Re: [Trisquel-users] do you use tox?

2017-06-15 Thread svhaab
I would take part if it is zero knowledge encrypted programs. I had jitsi installed. I think it worked. I had to test it between to of my computers because I did not know of others having jitsi installed. Then there was a jitsi update and then the software did not work. I have read about

Re: [Trisquel-users] do you use tox?

2017-06-15 Thread svhaab
I would take part if it is zero knowledge encrypted programs. I had jitsi installed. I think it worked. I had to test it between to of my computers because I did not know of others having jitsi installed. Then there was a jitsi update and then the software did not work. I have read about

Re: [Trisquel-users] do you use tox?

2017-06-15 Thread svhaab
is gnunet conversations ready for use? If so would it not be in a package in debian?

Re: [Trisquel-users] New development mailing list for Libreboot

2017-06-15 Thread info
That's fine :) We used to have a mailing list for user support, but we found that a mailing list wasn't an optimal place for such use-case. User support is handled much more efficiently on IRC. So the new mailing lists are for development only; mailing lists are very efficient for code

Re: [Trisquel-users] A Liberated Version of Youtube-DL is Almost Here!

2017-06-15 Thread smirnovdmitri29
I work 15 year in web-development. Can say that JavaScript is a tool of evil, but we cannot live without it. Really crappy language. Today JS community wanted to fix it with kind of preprocessors and "compilers" thousands of them. Everything is crap. Usually people who write those frameworks

Re: [Trisquel-users] Monitoring desktop temperature with Trisquel

2017-06-15 Thread info
hey sudo apt-get install xsensors this is what i use. it works well.

Re: [Trisquel-users] do you use tox?

2017-06-15 Thread info
"I can hear you, can you hear me?" pretty much describes my own experience with tox

Re: [Trisquel-users] A Liberated Version of Youtube-DL is Almost Here!

2017-06-15 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
I think it's better to forget virtualization whenever possible. We're talking about potential end-users here. Virtualization of non-free software usage is still non-free software usage. This kind of usage should be reserved only for development purposes. :) -- -

Re: [Trisquel-users] Topic locked, huh? Follow up to making Coreboot work with full disk encryption on ASUS KFSN4-DRE

2017-06-15 Thread mcz
Ah, so while the CPU is maybe similar to a X200, the performance is still better? Is that a libreboot PC? Yeah, I forgot that I don't even know if my GPU works with SeaBIOS chainloading GRUB... I just tried, and it doesn't work... *sigh*, I'll try to update SeaBIOS (I shouldn't be needing

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hardware: cheap Intel config?

2017-06-15 Thread vitacell
Buy 4gb of ram (8gb is possible buy expensive). And a Xeon x5460. Also one Nvidia Kepler will be fine, if you compile coreboot+seabios. Don't know if nvidia will work with actual libreboot version.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Hardware: cheap Intel config?

2017-06-15 Thread vitacell
Or if you know about soldering, but 8MiB SPIs chips, and solder those. Or/and desolder main and backup chips, and solder/left only main SPI chip. Backup chip make no sense.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread davesamcdxv
A bit off-topic here I guess but that's not how the word "effort" works

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread enduzzer
Let's slide it... Either that, or we take the main forum to the lounge and let Tehnowhatever keep the spam in the main thread.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread info
You go ahead, maybe others like you will follow you inside the lounge. Your efforts to throw this thread in the trash bin are noted. We at Technoethical would like to be able to continue answering questions about our T400s laptop installed with fully free BIOS and OS.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread greatgnu
>The post got too enraged Yep. Let's slide it to the trolly lounge! :)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread info
I won't repeat myself. If you want an explanation, please read with attention my comments here: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available#comment-116154 (the paragraph before the last quote)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread info
Please don't engage in troll-like behaviour. You're not helping. At all.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread info
By using words like "bitching" and "whining", you and Magic Banana prove you are hostile towards me. https://trisquel.info/en/forum/technoethical-t400s-now-available#comment-116061 A new forum member doesn't even need to go through the hassle to track your past comments in other threads,

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread calmstorm
sad to say, this book's message applies to tiberu, but as for hillary... not so much. Though I disliked both candidates, Trump is ten times worse than her. Anyways, I am just mentioning that because the title on that book is a falsehood. He did have ties with the russians. So yeah... while

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread smirnovdmitri29
The post got too enraged. I am also sorry for my comment.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread greatgnu
>How is my comment biased? But Magic Banana asked the very same question and did not get any answer from you. Most likely, every unpleasant comment is just "biased" to your eyes. lulz, indeed, that appears to be the case :D

Re: [Trisquel-users] Introducing Tangomon - Educational Monster Battling Game

2017-06-15 Thread onpon4
I have no intention of re-skinning the same concept in another shell. But improvements to Tangomon itself are still a possibility. It all depends on my personal needs (since I did develop this specifically because it would help me study Japanese vocabulary) and what my $10+ Patreon

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread gnuhurd
F FO FOC FOCU FOCUS Libre

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread shiretoko
How is my comment biased? But Magic Banana asked the very same question and did not get any answer from you. Most likely, every unpleasant comment is just "biased" to your eyes.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread info
Please feel free to submit reviews in the dedicated forum threads such as: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/libreboot-t400-minifree-reduces-price-once-again https://trisquel.info/en/forum/libreboot-t400-returns-minifree-trisquel-preinstalled-permanently-reduced-price /tct

Re: [Trisquel-users] Technoethical T400s now available

2017-06-15 Thread info
We won't reply to biased comments such as yours. /tct