Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-03-01 Thread sora
@calher I find myself in the same situation as you are. Although I am still studying and cannot get a job yet, my friends/family do use proprietary softwares and I do still preach to them that it bad but I doubt that they listen or open their eyes. I'm not giving up though.. You can add me o

Re: [Trisquel-users] News Media

2018-03-01 Thread fbits
I'm not aware of GPL news media. Maybe Creative Commons works for you? If so, here is a list: https://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Journalism As to "neutral news," I think that doesn't exist. What is neutral? Who decides? In my opinion, it is not possible to be free from ideology and rema

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-03-01 Thread fbits
I understand. Companionship and hugs do not come about in a vacuum, that's all. If you focus on puttin yourself in a good place first, companionship and hugs will follow. You will put yourself in appropriate places/situations. Others will look for you more, etc.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-03-01 Thread Caleb Herbert
fb...@runbox.com wrote .. > If your life is unbearable and you > are asking for help in a forum, it would be smart to be more receptive > instead of shooting down all proposed action. I'm sorry. I just can't go without companionship and hugs.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-03-01 Thread fbits
The point here was the premise that Calher is unhappy, and as I see, all the advise everyone was giving was aimed at fixing this premise. Obviously, Calher, and everyone else, can do whatever they want with their life and eat as they like. I probably should not say more on this topic, but I

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-03-01 Thread legimet . calc
Agreed. Similarly, I can come up with this example: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/27/there-was-no-love-in-this-kids-life-parents-fed-hot-dog-smoothies-to-starving-6-year-old-boy/

Re: [Trisquel-users] News Media

2018-03-01 Thread jason
Wikinews is not licensed under the GPL though, which was one of their requirements.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel

2018-03-01 Thread Mason Hock
I get the "failed to install locale" warning all the time. I haven't bothered learning how to get rid of it because it has never caused any problems. It looks like the two packages you were trying to install downloaded successfully. Try running $ guix package -I dbus $ guix package -I libxcompo

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-03-01 Thread Caleb Herbert
Those parents were morons.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-03-01 Thread tgalbers2000
I just pointed all that because I know the story of a vegan family that lost their child negating him the nutrients that come in meat (yes I know, there are vegetal alternatives) but the only point was to remember that if you do it the wrong way you can harm you (and yes ther is the other ext

Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel

2018-03-01 Thread intheforest
everything is alright :) I just need to learn more sorry for this stressful posts

Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel

2018-03-01 Thread intheforest
it is not normal that I get this sort of things every time: guile: warning: failed to install locale warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument Downloading https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/gzip/xr0zjan791j0pgvcs770m59za9bsjsr6-dbus-1.10.22... dbus-1.10.22 614KiB2

Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel

2018-03-01 Thread intheforest
I ran it not as root ... guile: warning: failed to install locale warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument Downloading https://mirror.hydra.gnu.org/guix/nar/gzip/47jgabf5wx296alb06pb5iig6cqbmx0v-gdbm-1.13... gdbm-1.13 218KiB54KiB/s 00:04 [##]

Re: [Trisquel-users] Guix on Trisquel

2018-03-01 Thread intheforest
Hi all!, I followed all of the steps listed in 'Binary installation' manual ['2.1 Binary Installation] here is what I get when I run `guix archive --authorize < ~root/.guix-profile/share/guix/hydra.gnu.org.pub`

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-03-01 Thread Caleb Herbert
great...@riseup.net wrote .. > My jabber address is the same as my mail. Add me too, you excellent free > people. Added. jxself: Can I connect to riseup?

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-03-01 Thread intheforest
:)

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-03-01 Thread greatgnu
My jabber address is the same as my mail. Add me too, you excellent free people.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is httpseverywhere useless?

2018-03-01 Thread greatgnu
I see, I was not aware of this, I thought it did so by sheer magic.. :) tx Legimetto and Bannnannna Magique for explaining it to me so clearly. You helped my precocious senility very much. Have a cake ->

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is httpseverywhere useless?

2018-03-01 Thread greatgnu
>it works, if you just block unencrypted requests :) Right, but then again I don't want to have that checked as it will break all the websites that do not support https, as I already mentioned in this other thread about the fully "'anonymous'" image board (not anonymous at all, it sucks maj

Re: [Trisquel-users] do you have a rk3399 or rk3288 debian notebook?

2018-03-01 Thread greatgnu
Nope, but I have an 11 y old laptop with Debian main + Xfce and can run FF with 100 tabs on it (haven't really tried so many but I'm quite positive..) or 30 programs simultaneously (I tend to use only lightweight non-bloated software though - FF is truth be told the only bloat I have installe

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-03-01 Thread Caleb Herbert
This is a public thread, not a PM with Strypey.

[Trisquel-users] News Media

2018-03-01 Thread sigdpsy
I am searching a media that follows GPL license and service neutral news. Please help

Re: [Trisquel-users] News Media

2018-03-01 Thread enduzzer
Wikinews https://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page

Re: [Trisquel-users] Is httpseverywhere useless?

2018-03-01 Thread jodiendo
SuperTramp83 THE ANSWER IS NO!!! HTTPS IS AWESOME

Re: [Trisquel-users] Confirmation: Iridium is libre

2018-03-01 Thread jodiendo
SuperTramp83 LOL Well, I will develop a sat-phone only with the satellite foot print of each person shadow. The software will open sorcerer, mix with components of Google, and micro softy. LOL J/K

[Trisquel-users] do you have a rk3399 or rk3288 debian notebook?

2018-03-01 Thread svhaab
How is the performance of a debian main rk3399 notebook? Debian main rk3288 notebook? Can it run firefox having 5 tabs open? Run 3 programs simultaneously? Fx firefox, thunderbird and vlc? Thanks.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-03-01 Thread onpon4
That wasn't a message that was meant for you. Whatever happened to not being a vegan activist, as you proclaimed (by agreeing to strypey with no caveats) on the previous page? You're just proving what I said to be true. I still stand by what I said in relation to that: you need to drop the

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any good freedom hardware for game development?

2018-03-01 Thread igorfree
What you have to find out is, which GPU is on your Lenovo T400. AFAIR it is the 4500MHD. Please find out the exact name, I'm not sure which one it is. Now, look into which OpenGL version that specific GPU supports. I believe the 4500MHD supports OpenGL 2.0 and nothing above, but don't quote

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any good freedom hardware for game development?

2018-03-01 Thread vitacell
You have same trouble as me. I am student, I also do Android Studio and Unity. I love Unity, nut yes, is proprietary. I don't know how good is Godot, but I think that is the best alternative possible to Unity. I have T400 but did not tested, greatest laptop you can buy but shittiest screen

Re: [Trisquel-users] Firmware bug after upgrading kernel

2018-03-01 Thread vitacell
CPU microcode is the shittiest non-free crap you can install on your payed computer.

Re: [Trisquel-users] Any good freedom hardware for game development?

2018-03-01 Thread onpon4
I don't know the answer, but note that using software is always a possibility if the GPU doesn't support the version of OpenGL you need. I believe most distros are set up to run any unsupported OpenGL calls in software, so you should be good regardless. Also, there are some 2-D libraries an

[Trisquel-users] Any good freedom hardware for game development?

2018-03-01 Thread sora
I am looking for a way to create an environment for game development using Godot Game Engine and in school we will be taught on Unity (which I do not want to use) and Android Studio (yuck). Does the lenovo T400 (should be librebooted) can run Godot Game engine, in their site it appears versio

Re: [Trisquel-users] Most people hate free software

2018-03-01 Thread Caleb Herbert
It's a pain to go into my browser and log in just to respond to forum posts, but ok...