I've noticed that Disqus comments aren't loading on any of the sites I
frequent. Not sure how to fix that.
Also, on another computer, but not my main one, lots of websites are asking
me to disable adblocker. I don't have any adblocker running that I'm aware
of, and I'm not getting that
Hello,
I share a laptop and it was previously using Debian.
With Debian, I could switch users without having to log out of the current
user. Multiple users could be logged in simultaneously.
Also, if a user locked their screen, but didn't log out, and then the other
user hopped on the
Hah! It *is* a Logitech.
Will get a new mouse now.
Thanks you two!
Hi all,
I've been suffering with this problem for months now. I've long thought it
was just a software bug that would get fixed with an update. But it hasn't.
Now I'm not sure if it's a software bug or I just need to get a new mouse.
I've checked my settings to make sure everything is
That's not what I said. It's just that "rights" is a fiction.
I'm not even sure how we got onto the topic of states rights. There are power
plays in action both at the state and federal level. I believe local control
over decisions that affect my life is better than federal control. If you
"California is doing pretty well"
California has a massive budget deficit and one small turn in the economy
could put it into bankruptcy. California has a lot of problems beyond just
economic.
"Not even Californians want to go"
Most don't want to go, but the Calexit movement didn't pop up
"California is one of the sanest states in the Union"
You're out of your mind.
"or not give any grant money at all."
I support that 100%
"secession is illegal"
That means nothing. America seceded from the British. Furthermore, there's no
guarantee another war would be fought if California
I completely agree. The states can tell their police not to help the feds.
And the feds can stop giving the states federal grant money for their police.
See how that works?
I'm in favor so much of states rights, that I support secession. It's
something the left wingers would *never* grant
It's well known that the US fudges its unemployment numbers big time. Our
unemployment is much worse than the Bureau of Labor will admit.
The point I'm trying to make is that the US is a crumbling empire with a ton
of problems. This country is on the brink of a civil war, for crying out
I stand corrected.
Still, comparing Norway to the United States is like comparing apples to
oranges. Governments don't scale very well. A very small, homogeneous society
with low unemployment rates, low prison rates, who gets their defense
subsidized by the United States is hardly an
Immigration is a federal issue. One of the few things FedGov was explicitly
tasked to do in the Constitution, unlike 99% of the other junk they do.
Also, the only repercussion from the Feds is ending of funding for
local/state police, which is fine by me as I'd like to see the Feds get out
That doesn't really mean much if the majority of the population is huddled in
a few cities and not spread out evenly throughout the country.
The real bogey men of internet spying are Google, Facebook and FedGov, not
the ISP's. The ISP's really couldn't care less about your traffic usage,
except when FedGov makes them go after DMCA violations, etc.
Furthermore, ISP's are easy to beat with VPN and Tor. It's the services that
you
I know it's huge. That's why I cut these companies some slack if or when they
agree "you go here and we'll go there and cover more people instead of
competing over the same small scraps."
A lot of people like to point to Europe or Japan or something, but an example
of how much easier it is
Then what's stopping a third company from coming in and competing? Or what's
to stop neighborhood or community co-ops from owning the last mile?
I understand the frustration here. I live in the middle of nowhere and I only
have one provider as an option. And it's slow-ass DSL. I would love
Again, that's not the market. That's government-enforced monopolies. But I
agree it's a problem. Hopefully some day a completely distributed internet
will exist and pay-for ISP's as we now know them will become a thing of the
past.
If a municipality wants to provide "community broadband" I would not want
FedGov to prevent that, nor do I think any other non-RINO Republican would.
So, you're right. Republicans (non-RINO's) are for states' rights.
The repeal of this legislation does not do anything to prevent local
I agree with half of what you said, in as much as the mega-corps are in bed
with the government and spy on us and collude to remove market competition.
But having FedGov step in and tell ISP's what they can and cannot do with
their own hardware, equipment and capital is ridiculous.
Guess
Good question.
Here is a very good article on net neutrality:
https://mises.org/library/net-neutrality-scam
tl;dr The internet is amazing and keeps getting better. But under the guise
of a bogey man that doesn't exist, the feds usurped power, and given enough
time, will micromanage it to
I side with EFF on a lot of things, but so-called "Net Neutrality" and
government run so-called "community broadband" I cannot get behind at all,
period.
Leftists may see that Vice article as a slam against Blackburn. It read like
a glowing endorsement to me.
It may be a bit less straightforward than the EFF would lead us to believe.
http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2017/03/28/rep-marsha-blackburn-fcc-rule-change-vote-eliminates-obama-admin-internet-tax-regulatory-power-grab/
That being said, relying on your ISP to protect your privacy isn't wise,
I am unable/unwilling to watch youtube live streams through my browser.
It seems like I should be able to do this in VLC, but I cannot figure out how
to. Simply copying and pasting the youtube URL into the Network Stream in VLC
gives me errors.
Anyone know what I may be doing wrong and how
Ugg, spelled it "lighting" both times instead of "lightning!"
Shame I cannot edit.
Hello,
My wife and I both use Icedove. Her on her computer and mine on mine. Two
different email addresses.
We both use Lighting Calendar extension on IceDove.
Is there a way that does *not* involve cloud SaaS whereby we can sync each
other's events so that we can share a Calendar?
There's a guy on Open Bazaar that sells librebooted thinkpads and accepts
Bitcoin as payment. He also responds to inquiries.
ob://8a5c58f98f6817d58a447fee69e57a593174c26b/store
Jitsi has done me well for a few years. The repo version is buggy, but if you
install the newest stable .deb it works fine.
Not for me.
When I visit thepiratebay.se for example, I'm presented with a cloudflare
captcha screen that I cannot pass, because there's no captcha given.
It's like this for a ton of sites, not just torrenting sites.
I'm running Gnu Icecat in private mode, so Tor is running and so is LibreJS.
I cannot use any of the torrenting sites to search files or get the magnet
link.
Anyone know of any sites that will work around that?
Actually, I just discovered a cool program in the repo called Programmer's
Learning Machine. It appears there are a lot of lessons from beginner's on.
Looks like it's just what I was looking for. It's hard to imagine it will
take me "the distance" I'm aiming for. But the method of teaching
Thanks for the list! I'm surprised there were that many.
None of these teach the syntax, however. I'm guessing a program like I'm
looking for probably doesn't exist at this time. =(
I learned how to type a long time ago by following commands given to me on
the screen by a computer program. Surely there must be some programs out
there that can teach people how to code, starting from complete scratch.
I've tried teaching myself coding in the past. And I got about half way
There are so many new ways of crowdsourcing. I think a new DAO just got over
$13 million in investments in a few days and it's a nothing BS company, if
you ask me. Chris, any chance you could create a DAO and get a ton of
investment money to build open hardware for a truly modern Free
Hello, I developed this problem recently and I don't know why. I've done a
good amount of research online to try and figure it out, and I've come up
flat. Perhaps somebody else knows how to solve this issue.
Upon sending an email with an attachment of any size or file type, I get this
Again, I wasn't directing any ire towards the FSF. I was merely challenging
your assertion that since they are a non-profit and legally bound to their
stated mission that they are incorruptible. Nothing humans do is
incorruptible.
I'm sure that the FSF is doing great things with the money
Disclaimer, I am in no way badmouthing the FSF here. I'm just addressing one
of your points because there is logical error to it.
You write: The FSF is a non-profit organization, legally required to do what
it was founded for. It is therefore entirely incorruptible.
That is completely
This may be a dumb question, but do you think we'll be able to 3D print out
own in the near future?
Bitsquare just came out. No need to go through a corporate middleman to
exchange your BTC.
Why oh why do neither Libiquity nor Minifree accept Bitcoin as payment?
Also, why has OpenBazaar not been mentioned on the forum? If you're selling
things online, I'd love to see your shop on OpenBazaar. I hope the people who
have the ears of Libiquity and Minifree can convince them to put
While it may allow you to edit in its entirety, it also allows you to simply
type in the field.
Install Xournal. It's in the repo. Problem solved.
Hi there!
I've been using Voip Supply for a couple of years. I don't use any of their
hardware. I just pay a monthly fee, connect via Jitsi over the SIP protocol.
Easy.
But they've stopped providing VOIP service recently. Now they only sell
hardware.
I'm having real difficulties
For some reason after a recent update and reboot, trisquel is no longer
loading my background image. It's just a solid grey screen now.
I went to the System Settings -> Background and it clearly shows the picture
I've chosen, but it's not loading.
I'm assuming this is just a trisquel bug
That fixed it! Thanks!
I refuse to keep my icons up though! Simply switching it on and off again did
fix it though. Thanks again!
Hi there!
When I run Gnu Icecat it's always in private mode. This means I have to open
Gnu Icecat, then start a new private mode, then close my non-private mode
instance. That's slightly annoying, but tolerable.
What's a real drag is that any time I click a link in an application that
Hello!
I've never owned a laptop. One of the reasons why is that I can't stand
losing internet connection simply because I want to close my laptop. Is it
possible to have my laptop continue to remain in the same exact state as it
would be if it were simply "locked screen" but open, even
Thank you very much! I was confused by the fact that it wasn't telling me it
was in private mode. But by clicking the little Onion icon and testing it and
having it show as Tor connection established, I'm now confident that it is.
=)
Thanks again!
Wow! Thanks very much for all of the help I received on this thread.
I think I'll just start a new installation of Trisquel on the new HDD.
I really appreciate all of the tips given for repairing the drive and further
investigation. It's nice to know that it probably was a bad HDD, and not
It's a desktop. I've just opened it up and removed all of the dust build-up.
Everything appears to "look" good by my amateur eyes.
If you're the only person selling sunscreen in the desert and there is high
demand for your product then you should charge as much as you can possibly
get for it.
Those high profits will inspire more people to start selling sunscreen in the
desert.
If there is no decent incentive for the
Even if one company charges "high" prices for libre computers, it will not
diminish the demand for such computers. You either want one or you don't. The
question is at what price.
As far as sacrificing short term gain for long term profit, isn't that was
this thread is about, in essence?
I'd like to get this box to stop popping up on every startup. Anybody know
how to do that?
The little box reads:
HPLIP Status Service
No system tray detected on this system
Unable to start, exiting
OK
No, I do not. But I also take my security to the next level by not installing
anything that's not in the Trisquel repo as a matter of personal policy.
When sending images as attachments it prompts to have the image scaled down
in size before sending email. Any way to turn that question off and just have
it automatically do it for me? I see a thunderbird add-on called Auto Resize
Image, but it's not in the Trisquel repo, so I won't install
I'm looking at this router:
https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/free-software-wireless-n-broadband-router-gnu-linux-tpe-nwifirouter2
I'd love to have a router that I control and respects my freedom. The problem
is, I don't know what to do with it. I have DSL internet. And the internet
So, you just connect an ethernet cable from one of the LAN ports on the ISP
provided router to the LibreCMC router?
Also, what do you do differently or what capabilities do you have with the
LibreCMC router that you didn't have with the ISP provided router?
Thanks!
Not necessarily. Sometimes people create offshoots. But it's not Chris. I see
now it just happens to be a coincidence.
http://www.libiquity.com/news/libiquity-to-sell-free-software-libreboot-x200-laptops
Is this Chris? A subsidiary of ThinkPenguin? I notice from their Terms of
Sale that they're also in New Jersey? Coincidence?
http://www.libiquity.com/legal/terms-of-sale
Thanks for your reply. It might be a little over my head, but why do some
programs i.e. Electrum have "helpers" and others i.e. Jitsi do not?
Today I ran my updates and to my surprise Electrum upgraded from 1.9.8 to
2.4.4 and I don't know why. Don't get me wrong, I'm really happy it did. I
thought I was going to have to wait another 2 years to get the latest
version.
But my understanding is that only security updates and other
If people can somehow figure out how to smuggle drugs, weapons, and people
into the country I'm sure we can figure out how to smuggle illegal hardware,
too.
Hey there!
I've got a ThinkPenguin laptop which I love. Only problem is that it has a
DVD player that has a button on it and the button keeps getting accidentally
pushed, which ejects the DVD player tray. Super annoying.
I suppose I *could* open the laptop and disable the wires to the
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/accidentally-removed-panel-icon-and-cant-find-it-order-add-it-back#comment-68288
Nevermind. Seems to have fixed itself. Not sure what that was all about.
I run Icecat in private mode 100% of the time. This means Tor + No Cookies,
etc.
This setup means not being able to participate on reddit. But at least it
still looked good and allowed me to read subs I liked. But now I find all of
the pages are totally jacked and the website looks just
Hello,
I'm in the market for a GPS, but I've got some questions you might be able to
answer.
First, I want a GPS that tells me where I am, but doesn't transmit my
location to anyone or anything else. So, basically a strict receiver and not
a transitter. Is that possible? Is that how GPS
That video played fine for me and I'm running very stringent Icecat, private
browsing, librejs enforced, etc.
Do you have any idea why it's no longer in Debain 8 repo? It's also not in
Ubuntu Vivid. I'm worried that maybe some part of Jitsi is no longer free
software or something.
One of my favorite programs, Jitsi, is still near unusable on Trisquel. Or at
least the repo version is near unusable. There are already a couple of other
threads here in the Trisquel forum about Jitsi crashing.
The Jitsi version in the Trisquel repo is 2.4.4997
But if you look here:
I really like LibreJS, and I like how it's allowing web developers a coherent
way to free their javascript. I also feel much more secure running LibreJS,
as it disallows nonfree javascript from running on my machine.
But even if a web developer conformed perfectly to the protocol of LibreJS
I would like to make it so that all of my software updates and installs are
done through Tor.
Is this possible? If so, how?
Thank you!
Thank you very much! That was just what I needed! I wish I had been more
patient and waited for an answer before trying to fix it myself, because
now I've messed things up further! I tried following some old instructions
online and now I can't get or keep a panel at all. And I'm afraid I may
Okay, so I managed to get my panel back thankfully, and I'm pretty sure I
didn't cause any lasting damage to my system.
I got lucky and stumbled across this response by Chris:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/gnome-panel-lost#comment-22843
That brought my panel back to its system default
I've been running Trisquel for a few weeks now. I love it! I run Icecat in
private viewing mode 100% of the time.
A lot of websites aren't functional without nonfree js or cookies enabled.
I think what I miss more than anything are the sites that allow me to
communicate with others.
I
I had two different time icons in my panel. I liked one better than the
other, so I decided to delete the one that comes standard at installation.
Little did I know that it would also delete the Network Connection (showing
my wired internet connection with VPN symbol) and Volume icons as
My understanding is that LibreJS would automatically find the contact info
for a site and help you send a complaint email. When you look at the LibreJS
extension's preferences, it contains a subject and body for an email.
But any time I click the complain tab it gives me some links to the
Is this out of the box software or was this created by the trisquel.info
website dev?
I like the fact that it doesn't throw any LibreJS complaints. There may be
free software forums out there, but even then they contain js that doesn't
conform to LibreJS standards, and so, while
Done and done! Thank you two so much!
I have a website and email server through namecheap. I'm very happy with
their service. Recently, though, I switched over to Trisquel and along with
that Icecat. Now the Namecheap website won't function completely unless I
approve a bunch of nonfree js, which I don't want to do.
I once
During the installation, I noticed that unlike Debian, Trisquel didn't offer
me the option to completely overwrite the disk. It did allow me to write
empty space for greater security. But that process only takes a few minutes.
Whereas with Debian the completely overwriting entire disk option
Hello all,
I've been lurking on this forum for a few months and finally made the jump to
Trisquel last week. So far I'm loving it!
I love Icecat.
In fact, since I've made the switch I've used Icecat exclusively. LibreJS is
really awesome and it feels good to finally be surfing the web in
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