I just want to point out that this didn't come out of thin air:
https://medium.com/@selamie/remove-richard-stallman-fec6ec210794
RMS has been saying things like this for years, and only now he's being held
accountable. It's about time. He's had so many chances to change already over
the
I wouldn't recommend depending on executing setup.py scripts the way you
show. Not all setup.py scripts have the needed shebang and even with those
that do, taking advantage of it means you don't know which version of Python
it's being installed for. Instead, I'd recommend:
python setup.py
Why do you suppose that?
I just watched something on Invidious and have no cookies from
googlevideo.com.
I'm not entirely sure, but I don't think that a server that's merely sending
a resource (a video in this case) can use cookies or see your user agent.
Someone can correct me if I'm wrong. I think the only thing
I had trouble trying to set up Linphone for JMP (it wasn't accepting the
tilde in the SIP username), so I gave up and used Ekiga instead. Works like a
charm.
Is installation on the hard drives of these computers not possible? Just
wondering because if it is, I would imagine the installed systems would be
separate and what bootloader each uses (or what software of any kind for that
matter) shouldn't come into play.
What's the reason for your need to switch between BIOS and UEFI, out of
curiosity?
Use the Startup Disk Creator in Trisquel, or use UNetbootin.
What's your reason for using a live system instead of installing?
Yes, I did try that. I just tried creating a printer profile with a different
driver (I was using hplip, which seems to make sense and it's what I've
always used), but that didn't change anything.
> Ah, okay. so it happens with bsd, unix and the rest?
Of course. All operating systems have bugs at some point. You've seen or at
least heard about the Blue Screen of Death, right? And I seem to recall RMS
suggesting that the GNU Hurd had problems crashing; I never looked into that,
but I
Operating systems in general. It's not exclusive to GNU and Linux systems.
Operating systems are a lot more complex than "has systemd" and "doesn't have
systemd". They were freezing, crashing, and just plain not working long
before systemd came along, and the reasons are numerous and varied. I think
there may be better ways to solve most problems than to throw away
The GNU/Linux naming controversy has nothing to do with "talking about
freedom". It's about giving credit to the GNU Project. The FSF maintains that
Ubuntu, Fedora, Linux Mint, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Debian, Gentoo, etc are
all properly "GNU/Linux" systems and should be referred to as
If GNOME is there, choose it. Otherwise, just don't install anything. On
first boot, you'll get the command-line. Just log in, "sudo apt-get install
gnome", and then "sudo shutdown -r now".
? I don't know what you're talking about. Trisquel isn't Ubuntu, and it isn't
Debian. It's Trisquel. The package for installing GNOME, all of it, is
"gnome". I don't understand why you think it's more complicated than that.
In fact the only hard part is removing MATE, since you need to know
The package is "gnome", not "gnome-desktop".
I would suggest just starting from scratch with a net-install.
And I would disagree with the suggestion to use that PPA. Better to stick
with the versions in the repo.
I didn't declare that I was going to do anything. I only said that stalling
in this way is not really helping and a proper solution is needed.
> Some of us are fighting, and you are just
> staying in your cloud and despising everything that happens > below.
I don't "despise" anyone. But this
I didn't say "begging", but yes, that's really all that's going on. Using
stronger words to describe what you're doing doesn't change that. This is a
desparate, pleading tone. A stronger tone would be to threaten to vote them
out of office.
But even a stronger tone isn't going to make it
I don't think it's just the lobbyists. There's a deeper problem: the general
population doesn't care, and representatives and corporations know this. So
how do we get the general population (not just a sizable, scattered minority)
to care about these issues permanently (rather than for the
Well, what does stopping this one bill with desperate pleas really
accomplish? There's a core problem here, and begging your representative to
vote against this isn't solving that.
It's like with net neutrality. There were efforts going on for years to take
net neutrality away, and all
I'm reminded of this article:
http://cryto.net/~joepie91/blog/2013/04/20/im-tired-of-this-protest-the-next-lettersoup-bill-shit/
And honestly, I'm beyond sick of this kind of stuff too. So much that I kind
of hope that this bill passes just so a disaster can unfold and force real
change to
Most that I'm aware of already are, though there's sometimes a problem of
them not being available for Python 3 (in particular Pygame and Pyglet; note,
both of these libraries work with Python 3, so this is a packaging problem in
both cases).
I tend to think of my own libraries (sge,
I tend to think that PyPI is less important than you might think. Yes, it's
convenient. But it's a language-specific installer, easy to install yourself
if you really want it, and even if you don't have it, it's perfectly easy to
just download the files from PyPI, extract, and do
I unfortunately haven't succeeded at compiling it, but the source code is
here:
https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio
I don't think that clause renders libfdk-aac proprietary. Note that it says
"copyright license fees", not "fees of any kind". You're not allowed to
charge "copyright license fees" with the GNU GPL either, because anyone you
give a copy to is required to get full permission to
OBS will work without it, but you need to recompile it without AAC support.
No, OBS is not available in the Trisquel repository. It wasn't in the Ubuntu
16.04 repo either. You need to download the source code and compile it
(without AAC support).
Right, if I understand correctly, the OS isn't even sent signals for them; it
would just send signals for things like mouse button presses and keystrokes
based on a macro.
Like those "programmable buttons" advertised on a bunch of them? I'm not
familiar with them, but it seems like those are designed for macros. If I'm
understanding, the OS has no idea that they even exist.
If it's something else, I haven't a clue. It would depend on what they are
exactly.
I meant to reply to this.
Trisquel doesn't support snaps. The facility was removed because making it
only libre software snaps was too much work (if I understood the reason
correctly). This should serve as a reminder that just because something works
in Ubuntu doesn't necessarily mean it
I tried to make the day shade about the same as dim sunlight (i.e. shade),
and I tried to make the night shade similar to a campfire or fireplace
(ballparking low). The Wikipedia page on color temperature shows a simple
chart with a bunch of color temperatures and about what they correspond
> Removing systemd completely including library files is near impossible in
debian.
I don't know about that. But if so, it would only be because systemd is just
so useful.
> PS, what are the specfics of this?
Take a look at the link MB gave:
https://wiki.debian.org/Debate/initsystem/
Wow, so some systemd haters are actually engaged in active quote-mining? I
didn't expect it to be that bad.
That's not necessary. One of the options in the gtk-redshift tray menu is
"Autostart". Just check that and it starts up automatically.
The only extra step necessary is tweaking the config file
(~/.config/redshift.conf).
There are two settings, one for day and one for night. What did you set them
to? I use 5000 and 1500, respectively.
> what advantages does systemd have
Lots. *Everything* about systemd is better than SysV-init, which is why no
one ever planned on keeping the latter. The battle was between systemd and
Upstart, and systemd won out because the Debian developer community decided
that systemd was the better
> I never, have said you cannot make fun of anti-systemd inits, just don't do
it in anger.
No. Not inits. You. You do realize that the systemd developers are people,
right?
> I just don't get why at the drop of a coin I make a joke about it, and you
guys go to town on me.
If I may be
> why has devuan succeeded in getting community support when fedora's and
ubuntu's systemd-free forks failed?
I can't say I know what you're talking about. It's been a long time since I
looked, but when I did, Devuan was lagging severely behind Debian. Meanwhile,
Debian continues forward
Using a thread that has nothing to do with systemd to publicly shame a
systemd developer doesn't strike me as a very nice thing to do. How would you
like it if on some forum about, I don't know, turkey sausages, some random
guy was linking to your posts on the Trisquel forums and making fun
The SoC used by the C201 is actually a very good one, in fact it's one of the
SoCs lkcl is looking at for the next EOMA68 computer card.
Libreboot is not needed for Chromebooks, by the way. They come with Das
U-boot installed. The only concern is how well the SoC works with Linux-libre
You need to open the config file and change it, or create one. See:
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/redshift-trisquel-8#comment-131152
It's just listed as "Redshift" in Add/Remove. "redshift-gtk" is the package
name, though, so that's what it's listed as in Synaptic and what you would
put as the package to install with e.g. apt-get.
No, not in addition, instead. MATE is found only in the regular version of
Trisquel, not in Trisquel-Mini.
> The question came to me about why the default desktop will not be deleted.
Are you talking about the Trisquel-Mini entry in the display manager (login
screen)? If you're still seeing
MATE is not the DE of Trisquel-Mini.
Are you trying to remove the window manager of Trisquel Mini? That would be
OpenBox. Anyway, if you don't see it, there's usually no reason to remove
something even if you don't need it.
Any program designed to break DRM is illegal, so as a general rule, breaking
DRM is not easy. The one exception I can think of is CSS (used for encrypting
DVDs), but that's just because the encryption is so weak that it can be
brute-forced very easily (so despite the illegality of it, all
OK, so I did a quick test, and it seems it works with buttons, but for some
reason not axes (analog sticks). That's odd. In fact no mouse buttons seem to
work for axes. Judging by what the dialog box says, this seems to be a design
flaw or oversight rather than a bug, per se.
Actually, I
Yes, you can. Assign a "key", and when it tells you to press the key, hover
the mouse over the box and roll the mouse wheel in the desired direction.
Good to hear.
Did you just not see it in the system tray when you ran it at first?
Yes, and also pay attention to manufacturing quality. Some controllers have
terrible buttons and bad d-pads are sadly extremely common.
I'd steer clear of Logitech, unless they've changed recently. I've owned two
controllers from them, and both of them eventually just stopped working after
Use QJoypad to make any gamepad mimic the keyboard and mouse. It's the best
GNU/Linux program I know of for this task. You can set it up however you
need, and you can have multiple profiles for e.g. different games and
different controllers.
The Linux joystick driver makes all controllers look the same to software
(e.g. games); they're gaming controllers (sometimes called "joysticks"). No
extra software is needed; the Linux joystick driver is a part of Linux. One
program you might be interested in installing, though, is
These types of adapters are typically just recognized as USB-HID joysticks.
No special software needed, you just use them. I have such a SNES controller
adapter myself.
Yeah, they're compatible, no problem. In fact Trisquel's addon database often
just links directly to download links from the Mozilla addons database. Just
check to make sure it's libre and you're good.
Lots of game controllers will work. In fact most controllers that work on
Windows work with the Linux joystick driver. This is the one thing to look
out for: controllers that use the DirectInput protocol (an old proprietary
protocol for DirectX) only work on Windows. These controllers are
Yeah, I know. I'm sure it can help to work together with the Debian and
Fedora communities, though. They've been really helpful when it comes to this
sort of thing in the past (especially Fedora).
The point is, if we only have a downstream solution, we'll be constantly
patching the
I haven't stopped using computers, but I've progressively been removing my
dependency on them.
Not for freedom's sake, mind, but just because paper is much more durable
than magnetic hard drives. Who knows? I might even go so far as to print my
passwords and GnuPG keys on paper and then
I used Ubuntu 16.04 before switching back to Trisquel 7 recently, and it was
a nightmare specifically because of the problem with Snap packages. I simply
could not search for libre software in GNOME Software; every time I did a
search, I would get all these Snap packages, completely
If you're talking about "shredding" files, that's the nautilus-wipe package.
> The input method for Japanese, "Mozc", fails. nihongo: konnichiha.
私は「Anthy」というIMEを使います。
Did you try Anthy?
Unity is no longer being developed. Ubuntu switched to GNOME as of version
17.10.
I see no reason for Trisquel's developers to waste their time on a dead
project like Unity. You can use extensions to add everything Unity has to
GNOME Shell.
I prefer Pitivi. OpenShot is pretty nice too.
Handheld, you say?
https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/pages/pyra/
Or software:
http://onpon4.github.io/articles/gaming-trap.html
I maintain a list here, by the way:
http://onpon4.github.io/articles/libre-games.html
What does that have to do with consoles? That seems like a regular computer
game.
Really? I've never seen even a decent libre homebrew game, and I've only ever
seen one in total.
I didn't say "equally bad". I said "not much better".
No, if you run Windows in a virtual machine, it's entirely sandboxed from the
main system. Also, it's a mistake to just assume that any sandboxed program
can't do anything malicious; JavaScript can, and often does, assist in
identifying you, or interfere with browser functions, or implement
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think if you're using a Web browser
as a proprietary JavaScript interpreter (as most people do), it's really not
much better than a proprietary Web browser. After all, how much better is a
libre virtual machine running Windows than a proprietary
If that's a problem, and I tend to agree that it is, then not sending people
to Google is not the solution. After all, almost the entirety of the Web has
proprietary JavaScript on it, even if it's optional, and every modern Web
browser executes that JavaScript code automatically. Let's take
I'd just like to mention that SWF files contain software. If the SWF file is
proprietary (almost always the case), then any execution of it involves
running proprietary software.
Yeah, you've got it. Of course OpenGL can be implemented in software too (and
it is as a backup in Trisquel; this is done through MESA), it's just slower
that way. Testing is the only way to find out whether any given game will run
properly on your machine.
Glad to hear the new version is
Yeah, newer STK versions are better. Much better graphics in particular, but
also several gameplay improvements.
Just to clarify, you do have OpenGL support. The issue with STK is whether or
not your GPU supports (at the hardware level) a recent enough version of
OpenGL for the game's
Recent Intel integrated GPUs have started requiring proprietary blobs for
some (important?) features. I don't know the full details.
Regarding Hexoshi, yes. Progress is slow, but that's to be expected at this
point (lack of time and all that).
The problem componetns are WiFi and the GPU.
For the GPU, make sure it's an Intel CPU. All Intel CPUs have Intel
integrated graphics controllers, and these are the only ones that work
without proprietary blobs in Linux.
For wireless, you have to get something old, because that's completely
No, Cinnamon is not supposed to be "light". It's based on GNOME 3.
6 years old is not that old. My old laptop was a budget laptop from 2007 and
it worked with MATE, Cinnamon, GNOME, etc just fine. Pretty much any x86
computer from 2012 should easily be able to handle any modern desktop
environment, even KDE. In fact the newest hardware that can work with a
You need to either create ~/.config/redshift.conf, or if you already have it,
edit it to use the geoclue location provider. I found this page which
suggests a template for that file, if you don't have one already:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Redshift
That doesn't look to me like anything the GPU would do.
It looks like you've changed your settings quite a bit. Is it possible you
might have accidentally changed the language? What you have actually looks to
me like there are some characters missing from the font you're currently
using,
Hm? But this is what you said:
"With the exception of Secure Boot, which requires Microsoft to sign stuff
for the project so it can be trusted."
Since when does Secure Boot require Microsoft's approval? That sounds like a
version of Restricted Boot.
190 is a very small number (there's a larger petition indicating "dissent
from Darwinism", and then an even larger petition against that petition
composed only of biologists named "Steve"[1]), and the opinions of scientists
are irrelevant anyway. What matters is what their research shows.
Is there any possibility the bootloader might have loaded the wireless card's
firmware (perhaps newly so because it's using UEFI)?
Don't you mean Restricted Boot?
I haven't seen scientific research which finds that humans produce
electromagnetic radiation. I was under the impression that the only
interaction the human body had with electromagnetic radiation was the eyes'
detection of visible light, and the use of ultroviolet light to synthesize
It's firmware, not drivers. Unfortunately, most wireless cards these days
don't work without proprietary firmware, and there isn't much
reverse-engineering going on. There haven't been any advancements that I'm
aware of between Trisquel 7's release and now.
Yes, wifi is a common piece of probem hardware. The recommended solution is
to buy a wireless dongle from Think Penguin or Technoethical:
http://libre.thinkpenguin.com
https://tehnoetic.com/
Think Penguin also has wireless cards you can install inside of a computer,
but this is more
I'm s glad I don't deal with mainstream laptop manufacturers' nonsense
anymore...
From a DDG search, it looks like the key you need to press is F2, so just
shut the system off, then power it on, and keep pressing F2 until you see the
setup screen.
Another thing you could do is bring up the boot menu with F12 it looks like,
but it looks like you have to enable that in
> Ah, Okay then.. welp I am confused... you said it had proprietary binaries
in it I thought.
No, it doesn't. I'm not sure what part of my posts you got that impression
from, but PlayOnLinux is libre. What it has is installation recipes for
proprietary software, since that's the job it's
> Since PlayOnLinux itself is already libre, the only way to make it "more"
libre would be to remove support for proprietary games. onpon4's point is
that since the only use for PlayOnLinux is to play proprietary games,
removing support for proprietary games would make it useless.
Exactly.
Spam definition:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming
> You see. My favorite game, the game I grew up with and I love is DotA 1.
This game is a game inside the Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne. This game is
proprietary and it is made for a proprietary OS.
And what's going to help you install that is PlayOnLinux. Not a "libre"
version that strips out
> What I mean by a libre playonlinux or winetricks-libre, is an effort to
make it possible to play windows games without any blobs or anything
proprietary at all.
Don't you see the contradiction in this? You want to make it possible to play
proprietary games "without... anything
On a side note, I know this has been said a hundred times, but whoever used
the downvote button on my posts, stop doing that. That button was added to
mark spam and rule-breaking posts, not disagreement. I disagree with its
existence, but as long as it's there, please do not abuse it.
Please do not ignore context. I said there's no use for a *libre version* of
PlayOnLinux, because the whole point of it is to play proprietary games. If
PlayOnLinux doesn't have its installation recipes and configuration values
for proprietary Windows-only games, it does nothing for you,
Probably because the software that removes HTML tags interprets it as one
(since an HTML tag begins with a less-than sign).
No, PlayOnLinux uses Wine. PlayOnLinux is literally just designed to give
proper configuration values for particular proprietary programs people want
to install.
Wine is just a Windows API compatibility layer; it's useful for running
proprietary programs that aren't available for
There's no use for it. The whole point of PlayOnLinux is to play proprietary
games that are only available for Windows.
I see I haven't been very diplomatic with my posts. To all involved parties,
I apologize, and I'll try to do better next time.
This is what you said:
> I don't have a particular preference, but I think it should definitely be a
*female* name.
>
> That would be a small but significant sign of not following the dominant
patriarchy in technology (and in society in general).
You offered no suggestion for a name to
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