I've never seen anyone get banned here for anything other than blatant spam.
It seems more likely that boba deleted their own account for some reason.
> I have no idea whether deleted posts from a deleted account can be
un-deleted on the forum.
It depends on how long the data is retained before being deleted permanently.
If it's not gone yet, David may be able to restore the deleted posts. You
can contact him at david(at)trisquel.info
> That is great news. I briefly considered using protonmail as a candidate
but I thought it was webmail only.
I still advise against it. Freeing the bridge source code is better than
keeping it proprietary, but the bridge would not be necessary at all if
Protonmail were a real email
I think this must be the h-node page you found:
https://h-node.org/wifi/view/en/1725/Realtek-Semiconductor-Co---Ltd--RTL8723BE-PCIe-Wireless-Network-Adapter
It says "tested with the following kernel libre:5.5.10-gnu", which is much
newer than Trisquel's default kernel. I would start by
> Protonmail surely comes atop in many respects when compared to gmail,
hotmail/msn/outlook
Sure, it's not as bad as Gmail, but it's still bad. Why use something bad
when you don't have to?
Have you upgraded to the latest linux-libre using jxself's repo yet? Try
that first. It is possible that the WiFi card is supported by the kernel now
and an external repo is no longer necessary. If that doesn't work, let us
know and we'll try something else.
Why should we care about this defunct Bitcoin fork? What's your interest in
it?
Firefox-based browsers support system-wide policies which on GNU/Linux are
defined in a policies.json file. Avast is malware disguised as antivirus
software, which among other invasive things edits users browser policies.
Avast only plagues Windows though, so that's not your problem.
See
> Maybe I should try ungoogled-chromium again. Last year I recall they were
not making recent binaries available for Debian-based systems, and I tried
building it and failed tragically.
Chromium-based browsers take a lot of resources or a long ass time to
compile. It takes about two days
> What are these concerns about legal liability in relation to Searx exactly?
IIRC he was concerned about potentially serving illegal content.
> If DuckDuckGo honors its privacy policy, it uses no cookie (unless the user
changes its settings) and stores neither user agents nor IP addresses:
Yes, but there is no way to know that DDG does honor its privacy policy. If
they published their source code under a free license, there would
> Every (major/modern) browser I know of does it to earn income, maybe not
IceCat, not sure about that one.
Ungoogled Chromium does not. Not sure whether that qualifies as "major", but
I would say the same about Icecat.
> But I'm also not sure that IceCat is actively maintained any
Out of the different services I've tried self-hosting, I would put Searx
toward the easier end in terms of setting up. It would be a good one for
beginners to start with. Gitea is a pretty easy one too.
I took a look at EndlessOS a few weeks ago. There are some neat ideas, but
freedom-wise it is probably the worst distro I have ever tried. They appear
to only release source code when required to by the GPL. All of their
software which is not a derivative of a GPL'd program is non-free.
> The same happens if I try to install libgnutls-dev on my system. It looks
like a bug...
Yes, [first reported][1] in early 2019.
Welcome to Trisquel.
[1]: https://trisquel.info/en/issues/25393
> For security-critical packages such as libgnutls30, it is a significant
problem: if you would install the version from Debian Buster and would not
manually update it, it would stay at the present version until you update to
Trisquel 10.
Trisquel's version of libgnutls is not receving
> I still get "trisquel" mentioned in the duckduckgo query url. Where does it
read that from? If duckduckgo can get it, it means everyone else can get it
too.
Abrowser's default search command adds that parameter. My understanding is
that Trisquel receives a cut of the ad revenue when
> At least one other website seemed to be getting some info about my system,
they sent me warning emails that I had been connecting from a "Linux" machine
from a different IP address.
Those are unrelated issues. They are probably getting "Linux" from your user
agent. If you want to hide
> I'm hoping that with a set of peripherals (screen, mouse, keyboard) it will
be able to replace my ancient netbook as my work computer
Dont get your hopes up. Pine64 kept the cost of the device down in part by
not going with a faster computer than they needed. It's good enough for
> A temporary solution for this can be using a smartphone that supports
> USB-Tethering.
I wonder if this is better freedom-wise than installing the proprietary
firmware for the Intel WiFi card. They'd still running proprietary firmware,
just on the phone's WiFi card instead of the desktop's.
> My PC is 6 years old and it loads for ages under Mate so the only acceptable
> solution for me is Xfce environment
Really? My PC is 12 years old and has no trouble with MATE. I have tried Xfce
as well and noticed little difference in performance.
> I wish it was available under
> Trisquel
> to try GNOME Shell and see if really, the dongle better
> behaves on GNOME Shell (for some mysterious reason):
Is there reason to think this might be the case? My USB dongle works pretty
well but occasionally needs to be removed and reinserted. This is the case
whether I use nm-applet (the
> UEFI crap is handcuffs for any user, it really doesn't protect user
> from anything, it just f**k it up. And Windows 10 is the worst
> Windows for far. Windows 10 it is an adware, and virus inside, also
> you can get easily infected by third patry malware. And remember,
> using Windows 10 you
> I recently found out that some computers will accept only UEFI ("Secure
> Boot" or "Restricted Boot"? I don't know, UEFI can be any of these two,
> that is it can be either good or bad for software freedom,
> respectively).
Secure Boot, which makes installing free systems difficult, is
I think it better have to have assistive technologies enabled by default than
disabled, but this seems to be a very common question. I can think of a few
possible solutions
- have a separate ISO with which assistive technologies are enabled by default
during and after installation
- have an
> For now, there is a documentation page explaining how to uninstall Orca.
>
> https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/disabling-orca-screen-reader
I meant to write how to *disable* Orca.
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> 1) Is Intel HD Graphics 630 supported? (was told to install proprietary
> firmware on Debian to fix tearing issues and such)
If there is free firmware for your graphics card, it is likely in the Trisquel
repository. There is no proprietary software in the Trisquel repository.
> 2) Will
> I have tried the upgrade-via-software-updater repeatedly, and it refuses to
> get beyond telling me I can't because I have software from other sources
> installed.
Does is it mention any specific packages? If not, try upgrading in a terminal
with
$ sudo do-release-upgrade
and see if this
> Out of interest, why isn't the default Linux kernel completely free
> software, since it's released under the GPL? Are there loopholes in v2 of
> the licence (under which the default Linux kernel is distributed) that allow
> the inclusion of non-free elements in the software?
I've wondered this
> In short is the Unity shell no longer available for Flidas but that’s based
> on 16.04?
Unfortunately Unity is currently broken in Flidas. As far as I know this is a
bug, not intentional lack of support for Unity.
https://trisquel.info/en/issues/24140
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As I understand it, Dropbox consists of GPL'd software that downloads and
installs proprietary softwarei, without which Dropbox will not work. I could
see someone being mislead into thinking that Dropbox is free if they saw "GPL"
and didn't know about the rest.
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> Why can't I just open 2 PDFs and drag and drop pages between them? :(
$ sudo apt install pdfmod
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> In other words, every webmaster who uses Re-Captcha is
> forcing their users to be unpaid Mechanical Turks for gOgle :{
Disgusting. Another example of humans serving as computers, with AI as the
user.
In reading about CAPTCHAs today I was unsurprised to learn that there are
"CAPTCHA
> Should I put music in Music, stored under a directory named after where
> I got it from?
I put music in Music, stored under a directory named after the peformer or
composer, depending on which is more useful. In general I organize files based
on how I use them, rather than where I got them.
> --Using mousescroll wheel to adjust sound over the volume indicator crashes
> the applet.
I can't reproduce this now, but I recall having a similar issue back when
Trisquel 8 was in beta. I think I found that I could make small volume changes
using the mouse wheel, but the indicator applet
Was this problem immediately present when you installed Trisquel, or did it
occur after making configuration changes? Did you update from T7 or do a fresh
install of T8?
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With shutdown/restart/hibernation/suspend issues I find that trying a different
kernel version can sometimes help.
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I don't see anything wrong with the copyright notice. Copyright is what gives
the GPL legal weight. However, it's concerning to me that your sources.list has
been modified. Even if this particular driver is GPLv2, what guarantee is there
that other drivers in their repository, now or in the
> But what about "putting display to sleep" as opposed to screensaver?
That should use less resources than a screensaver, though I don't know by how
much.
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That's strange. If you uninstall thunderbird are you able to install it again?
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> But why I had the package in the first place... I have no idea. I think
> maybe because I installed from a relatively old T8 image and updated
> afterwards. Instead downloading fresh image.
I do remember being able to install Thunderbird at one point when Trisquel 8
was in beta, so perhaps you
> Have you tried linphone and/or linphonec (terminal program) I have used it
> and it works great. It uses the SIP protocol.
I've being using linphone for phone calls. It works the best out ot all the
graphical sip clients I've tried. Somehow I didn't know linphonec existed, but
it's the cli
> can this be done via gui because i am unable to locate my .config file..? (i
> do see the config.bak file)
Files and directories beginning with a "." are hidden by default. You can
toggle the visibility of these files in your graphical file manager with Crtl+H.
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> Yeah, in my start menu under the Internet group I have Thunderbird and
> Icedove, both with their own logo
If you use the Thunderbird launcher, does it launch Thunderbird or Icedove?
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The purpose of a screensaver is to avoid screen burn, not to reduce battery or
CPU usage. To reduce battery and CPU usage, suspend or hibernate your computer.
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> and must have added a
> repository to my sources.list .
Are you sure? I always assumed that system-config-printer was searching the
Trisquel repo for drivers. Open System->Administration->"Software & Updates",
and go to the "Other Software" tab. Do you see any sources other than the
Trisquel
When installing Trisquel, I find that if I begin installing from a live
session, Orca does not always work. However, if when booting I install Trisquel
directly by selecting "Install Trisquel" instead of "Try Trisquel without
Installing" Orca is always enabled after installing.
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> Thunderbird is installed by default and very visible in my
> start menu :/
Do you mean that the item in your start menu is called "Thunderbird" and/or had
the Thunderbird logo? If so, this should be reported as an issue under the
"branding" tag.
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> I can't find ncurses-dev or ncurses5-dev in synaptic
Libraries often begin with 'lib' and aren't always under the name you'd expect.
I find it helpful to search by substrings that should be in the name.
$ apt-cache search ncurses5 dev
lib32ncurses5-dev - developer's libraries for ncurses
> E: [pulseaudio] pid.c: Daemon already running.
> E: [pulseaudio] main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.
This is the message I get if I try to run pulseaudio *without* killing it
first. Are you sure that you ran 'killall' correctly. Paste this into a
terminal exactly:
killall pulseaudio &&
> You can also try to contribute for Parabola where you are now keeping
> upgrading the whole system timelessly, unless you need more stability then
> you don't suit Parabola that's a rolling system (not LTS like Trisquel).
I went through a versionitis phase, but I've since come to prefer LTS. I
Try 'pulseaudio --kill' instead of 'killall pulseaudio'
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> After some changes I solved it by installing a package called Trisquel.
Not having the 'trisquel' metapackage installed during the upgrade could
certainly be a problem. In Flidas it has mate-desktop-environment and other
MATE packages as dependencies. Without it, the new desktop environment
> We
> should use precise language.
Yes, although in this case the distinction does not make much of an ethical
difference. DRM and proprietary JavaScript are both bad for freedom. Even if
the proprietary JS executed by youtube-dl does not constitute DRM, we should
not recommend it in this
> Purge removes too much, usually not only the package but things that depend
> on the package so it will break your system by getting rid of too much
> stuff.
'apt remove' also removes things that depend on the package. According to the
apt man page, the only difference between remove and purge
> I admit JavaScript could be a problem with privacy.
Yes, all proprietary software is a problem, but invasion of privacy is integral
to Google's business model. We should assume that any proprietary software
developed by Google is not privacy-respecting.
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> Thank you for this awareness! :-)
happy_gnu is right that you probably want pulseaudio. However, it might be a
worth a shot to temporarily remove it along with any config files that could be
causing the problem, and then adding things back in one at a time.
Try removing pulseaudio with
$
> My browser is js-less, meaning it is always mute anyway.
Files embedded with the html5 tag can be played back without JavaShit,
if audio is working in the browser. pulseaudio also integrates nicely with the
desktop environment. Without it rytege will probably lose the sound applet in
their
> One could tinker for ever with Trisquel, and never find a solution, if the
> problem is actually dodgy RAM, or a dying hard drive etc ;)
Since the problem was introduced in a recent update, I think that the problem
is likely in Trisquel Also, audio began working again when Totem crashed, so
"The Licensed Materials being provided to you hereunder are being made
publicly available by TI, even though they contain copyrighted material of TI
and its licensors, if applicable. In no event may you alter, remove or
destroy any copyright notice included in the Licensed Materials. To the
> My two monitors are duplicating the
> display instead of extending as two separate displays.
Have you tried going to System -> Control Center -> Displays?
> Also: when it detects non-free software, is it always going to black screen?
No. Trisquel does not include proprietary software, but it
To clarify, I got the looping message upon installing Trisquel, without
attempting to install any proprietary drivers. If this is the case for you then
you should problably do the blacklist thing, as in my case those messages were
logged and eventually filled up my disk space. However, if the
> "Same image in all monitors" is grayed out. I don't think the OS is
> detecting one of the monitors at all; it just thinks there is one monitor
> going. I attached what the interface looks like.
I see. I thought you meant both monitors were showing up but onw was labled
"unknown." I'm still a
> When going to Displays it only detects both monitors as one "Unknown"
> display. Pressing "Detect monitors" does nothing.
I don't have access to another monitor at the moment so I'm going from memory
here, but I'm pretty sure that when I plug in a second monitor via VGA it says
"Unknown VGA"
> Can anyone please explain the advantages of Guix, for a n00b like me? I
> haven't researched too far yet, but it looks like the packages are similar
> to what I already have available from the standard Trisquel repositories.
Trisquel is a long-term support (LTS) distro, which means that when a
> When I am trying to launch a video file with Totem, the application crashes!
> But then I am able to get **the audio back** ?!!??!
> Then I am able to launch the video file but with VLC
If Totem crashing fixes your audio, I guess you should add Totem to Startup
Applications so that it crashes
> I'm looking to install GNU/Linux on a mid-2009 MBP (5,4). Which distribution
> would you recommend in terms of the greatest compatibility with the
> hardware? Ideally, I would want T8, but if certain hardware is not
> recognised by it, I would be stuck, wouldn't I?
I've never owned a crapbook,
I think that a general free software forum is a good idea, but I'm not so sure
about the Trisquel subforum. There is already a Trisquel forum here, and I
don't see a benefit in moving some of the conversations here to a new forum.
This would require users to check both forums in order to fully
> but anyway yeah seems like the clue was to have Internet connection, but why
> though?
No idea. I'm glad everything's working now though.
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> "The 'grub-efi-amd64' package failed to install into /target/. Without the
> GRUB boot loader, the installed system will not boot."
Try installing while connected to the Internet.
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> what is that jenkins list?
Did you not use it to get Flidas beta images?
> is that somebody who keep a database of historical Trisquel iso releases?
If you want to try an older ISO that is where you'll find it. I'm not sure why
you'd want to do that now that Flidas is officially released. If
I can't replicate this. If I go to
Actions -> Join Group Chat -> Join New Group Chat
and fill out the form, initially only "Join this room automatically" is greyed
out, and it become selectable once I select "Bookmark this room". I wonder if
all XMPP servers support persistent rooms.
I doubt
I've never done anything with panoramic images, but
$ apt-cache search panorama
libpano13-3 - panorama tools library
libpano13-bin - panorama tools utilities
libpano13-dev - panorama tools library development files
pandora - GIMP Plugin For Creating Panoramas
hugin - panorama photo stitcher - GUI
I'm pretty sure that the X230 can be upgraded to 16GB RAM, and it may be
possible with the X220. They cannot be librebooted, but they can be corebooted
and ME-cleaned. If you have the technical knowledge to flash Coreboot, this
will be as free as the most recent Purism laptop (the one with no
> ... what that means in practice is that Google is (indirectly) using
> sweatshop labour to train their machine learning systems.
Yep. No need to get their hands dirty. The economic system does the job for
them.
> If it's wrong when
> Nike and the Gap and Apple do it, it's wrong when Google do
> It would, but given how many people I've spoken to are able to rationalize
> this[1] I am not optimistic that such a discovery would hurt Google.
Forgot the link.
[1]
> Why do you think that will help?
My friend got an identical (or at least extremely similar) message when
installing Trisquel 8 on his Mac. We ended up reinstalling Trisquel several
times that night, and found that the problem only occured when we weren't
connected to the Internet. I don't
Have you tried gnash?
$ sudo apt install gnash
$ gnash file.swf
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> One reason why I was leaning towards the x220 is because Ive heard a lot
> that its eventually going to get libreboot support, so if everything else is
> almost equal, the chance of libreboot would give the edge to the x220 for
> me.
A while ago Leah said she was working on the X220, but she
> Please show which parts of the FSDG those things violate:
> https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-system-distribution-guidelines.html
Bugginess certainly is not a freedom issue. However, the JavaScript in
google.com is proprietary. If a browser uses Google as its start page, then
even if the
> Trisquel 7 has decent Hebrew support, but once annoyance is that the
> titlebar text is still anchored to the left, rather than the right.
> Does Trisquel 8 fix this?
You probably intended for this to be a new thread rather than a comment here.
Probably a mailing list bug. I suggest trying
> 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.
I agree. Between Google Drive, Gmail, Facebook, and YouTube it is possible for
the average
> guile: warning: failed to install locale
> warning: failed to install locale: Invalid argument
It's possible to get rid of this warning if you find it annoying, but it is
harmless. I get that warning every time but have never had a problem related to
it.
> guix package: warning: Consider
I agree that the problem with JavaScript is a much bigger issue than the start
page of a broken web browser called webbrowser-app buried in the Trisquel repo.
> If we actually want to solve this problem, there's only one good solution:
> turn off JavaScript support in all supplied browsers (and
> Thanks, please clarify, running a swf game in gnash is similar to running a
> nes game ROM in a nes free software emulator?
Running a proprietary game in a free software emulator doesn't address the
freedom issue either. An emulator doesn't give you the ability or legal right
to modify and
It doesn't look like anything is wrong. Just let it continue. 'guix pull' can
take a while.
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Facebook is good to avoid in general. The exception is if you want to reach
people on Facebook in order to help lead them away from Facebook. Facebook
useds might not understand why Facebook is a problem if they are unaware of the
dangers of mass surveillance, so sharing Panoptoclick on
Also note that the EFF page does not suggest that anyone *join* Facebook, just
that if they *already* have a Facebook account to share the information to
other people who are still on Facebook.
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> For example FSF endorsed Purity which many people have many issues
> with, which I find understandable.
Are you referring to Purism? The FSF endorses freedom-respecting software and
hardware on a case-by-case basis. They don't endorse companies. The only
product of Purism's that the FSF has
> What MBP models do your friends have?
The one running Ubuntu has a Macbook Pro Retina, from around 2013 I think. The
one running Trisquel is newer, from around 2015.
> Did they install the "third-party"
> software during installation of the system?
I don't think so, but he enabled the
> Hi guys do you suggest me to upgrade the Trisquel version(7) in my card ?
Trisquel 7 is supported for another 8 months, so you don't need to upgrade now
if you're happy with T7 but will eventually have to get around to it.
> And how ? thank you.
First make sure that the packages 'trisquel'
> Reading this five pages you can run Icedove - Enigmail - Thorbirdy without a
> problem even with your disgusting gmail account.
Back when I had a disgusting Gmail account, Google would lock my account for a
few hours almost every time I accessed it using Torbirdy. Also, every time I
used
> I mean how to upgrade the bootable image on the FSF membership card
Sorry, I should have read more carefully. I wasn't familiar with the membership
card until now, but it appears to be a regular USB drive in the shape of a
credit card. You should be able to install Trisquel 8 on it the same
> System suspends or hibernates nicely
Then a temporary workaround might be to map[1] those commands to keyboard
shortcuts. When I get home I'll install GNOME and look into getting it to
suspend when you close the lid. In the meantime, see if you can find anything
about behavior when lid is
Thanks for the feedback. Assuming that you have completed every step on the
documentation page, including logging out and logging in again, can you next
try the following?
- Go to Control Center -> Startup Applications and see if Orca is in there. If
so, deselect it, log out, and log in.
- If
None of those packages look problematic.
To clarify what's going on, Trisquel 8 uses MATE as its default desktop
environment, whereas Trisquel 7 and earlier used GNOME. The transition is why
the upgrade process is a little messy. The 'trisquel' metapackage installs
everything needed for the
Try installing the packages 'trisquel' and 'trisquel-recommended'.
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> Actually, even suspend doesn't always work. All is good with Mate though so
> it's pretty frustrating.
I won't have time to investigate any further for next few days, but if no one
else has helped you by then I'll look into it. In the meantime, I suggest
suspending and hibernating manually
Try installing xul-ext-lightning instead.
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Yesterday I tried booting Trisquel 8 on a friend's Acer Aspire running Windows
10. I was unable to do so, due to Secure Boot. I tried disabling Secure Boot
using guides like these,
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/disabling-secure-boot
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