Hi, it's been a while.
My machine didn't want to boot anymore.
After a few tests, it's my SSD : it's not detected anymore.
After some research, it seems it's dead.
I tried the SSD on another machine,
and although I can't detect it on gnome-disks or in sudo fdisk -l,
it IS listed as /dev/sdb in l
I have drive A and drive B.
I want a fresh install on A while setting up a mount point for B (already has
user data, and is encrypted).
Some background : B was initially empty and set up with LVM.
Since the SSD with the OS gave up on me, I can decrypt it and access it with
a live CD.
My fi
I forgot one thing:
I'm in the manual partitioning page,
and the disk shoes as sdb, with tiny bits of space before and after.
So I don't know if it counts as a partition.
Assuming you did manual partitioning, did you have to select the partition
type ?
Thanks Magic Banana.
Out of curiosity:
1. I've unplugged B (the important one) and kept A and C plugged (empty).
2. I've put C as ext4 and with a specific mount point. there's a file in it,
to see if it's still there after the install.
3. I configured A as LVM, and made / and /swap as logical v
I have a working tehnoethic Wi-Fi dongle.
It is listed in lsusb.
ath9K driver is installed.
jxself's linux-libre kernel is installed.
I rebooted the machine several times.
What else could I try please ?
Sorry, I'll clarify :
When I say I'm rebooting (by choice), it's only meaning that I tried this
option, since it solves issues sometimes.
When I say it's a working card, I mean it's recognized by lsusb, and it
worked up until now (my SSD died, I had to reinstall on a new disk).
My problem
I checked them from another machine, all caps or not, etc.
I also have the document from my ISP where they're printed/written.
Yes, personal, not pro.
Nothing really :
most of my data was on an encrypted HDD.
The OS was on the SSD, along some configuration files and .org files (oh
well...).
So I picked an old HDD from an older machine which I was using as an external
drive, erased it and made a new install.
Ah, maybe this matters:
this t
It is indeed ath9K_htc.
I reinstalled the whole OS, and now the proper Wi-Fi network is already
listed. But after inputting the passphrase, I still can't access the network
via Wi-Fi.
I'll reinstall the linux-libre kernel now, and see how it goes.
Btw, for your linux-libre tutorial:
"gpg --
ANSWER
It was a bug.
https://blog.sombex.com/2017/12/fix-cant-connect-to-wifi-issue-in-debian-9-and-other-debian-based-linux.html
1. Open this file:
sudo gedit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf
2. add these 2 lines and save:
[device]
wifi.scan-rand-mac-address=no
3. Restart Network Manage
I tried Wicd instead of Network-manager, it's the same result.
I reinstalled the ath9k driver (it's a dongle bought from technoethic which
still works as far as I can tell).
What else could I try ?
Thank you.
lswh gives driver=ath9k_htc driverversion=4.14.67-gnu firmware=1.4, things
like that.
I changed the Wi-Fi channel on my ISP's modem.
It seems pretty stable for now. No error messages, no disconnections I could
witness.
Hopefully it stays that way.
I'll get back to you if it gets wobbly agai
You used Fedora 28, which comes with Gnome Shell (not considering the spins,
akin to Trisquel mini)? That's far from minimal or lightweight.
Anyway, not many solutions :
either learn how to make a minimal install (best solution, there must be a
tutorial around the web), or maybe easier, insta
I just now got an idea of the meaning of Metroid's name.
Underground android, huh. At leas it does sound nice.
Yours does sound nice as well, definitely.
As for the meaning, you can play with words having hex(a) as a prefix for
further ideas. It can represent obstacles based on the number 6 as
I have no idea, but it's definitely the same thing as turning a disk off form
gnome-disks (or gonome-disks-utility, or whatever the earlier name was).
I have written a script for that, but since it's supported in Nautilus and
it's not THAT space or resource-heavy (as far as I know), I don't u
Though the safe removal of disk is available without installing nautilus-wipe
(on my Trisquel install at least).
Great point, didn't think about that. I mean maybe such a wiki distro is
worth a try, but I'd definitely wouldn't use it as my main distro.
Now, linking this to politics (not a great move I suspect, but the analogy
intrigues me), Trisquel/Debian can be compared to some kind of mild
benevole
The option of opening a .rar without the CLI would be nice indeed. Some other
options (didn't try any of these):
https://superuser.com/questions/110681/is-there-a-free-ubuntu-unrar-gui
By the way, it's getting hard to read. Is there a way to make an online poll
somehow?
I enjoy it nonethe
I do have one, with one line being "Retirer le volume sans risque".
Oh, wait, not on a file, but on the disk name in the sidebar on the left. My
mistake.
Well, It does unmount, but doesn't go all the way (the disk is still on),
because I'm " not authorized to perform operation"...
Well, kee
I see that the functionality is listed in the specs, but even after
installing unar (an extra step one has to be aware of?), I can't make it work
:/
I'll look further into it.
meet.jit.si is OK, but unreliable:
It worked fine once, and not at all another one.
That was a fine way to make free software unattractive to the person I was
trying to reach. The first time made an impression though, but the second
impression was more impactful.
As for Jitsi itself, when it
Hey I remember Crunchbang had in the openbox menu entries for, say Libo, and
it could be installed from there.
I thought this was rather nice. It was easily installable, but not installed
yet.
The Openbox menu (I gotta find a way to integrate it to i3wm, I like it this
much) isn't updated
Ah, I see.
OTOH I'm pretty sure that safely removing a disk in Nautilus/Caja is about
unmounting, but also turning the disk off, so that it stops spinning (see
udisks --detach here
https://askubuntu.com/questions/532586/what-is-the-command-line-equivalent-of-safely-remove-drive).
Only unm
What about this? Not new, sure, but there's plenty of power potential, and at
least the board itself is rather affordable.
Just so you know, I noticed that after the drive being plugged for a while,
the option for safely removing the drive disappears :(
Gotta go through gnome-disks to stop the disks from spinning for a while
after unmounting. I suppose this should be a bug report to whoever keeps
taking care of
A different USB issue, pasted from one of my older posts:
Personally, I found out that a USB external audio card being plugged in on
boot prevented Libreboot from starting up on an X200 (docked, at least).
I need to unplug it, and plug it back before unlocking the drive the second
time (you kn
It sounds much easier indeed.
As for security (for the overly paranoid),
if someone reflashes the CPU (assuming he can have full access for a long
time, like when stealing it), as long as your drive is encrypted, I don't see
any advantage in allowing re-flashing through hardware only.
I supp
have a look here: https://libreboot.org/docs/hcl/
As for configuration, it's as good as you can afford.
Can it be re-flashed the SW method afterwards? By default, yes, but I think
you can prevent it.
Yes, that's what I tried to say, if the CPU is re-flashed, it doesn't give
you access to the HDD or SSD if encrypted.
Have a look at this then:
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001380.htm
Most likely, the X or T60 are less powerful than the others (older CPUs
mainly).
Frankly, that's overkill. It's wasted effort.
Encryption is enough, who cares if some ninja re-flashes my machine with some
fake Libreboot, that would maybe record my passphrase or something?
It's extremely unlikely such a scenario can happen.
Plus, if we're talking about workstations, if the
It looks like it's the cheapest compatible case I can find
(http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811854018&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-PCPartPicker,%20LLC-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=),
which costs just as much as the case :(
2 fans inclu
I see. But even in that case, having access with a Live USB wouldn't change
much, right? But sure, that way, they won't be using it at all.
I'm not in a situation where I have to defend myself all the time, at all
costs. As long as I don't have a proprietary BIOS, anything beyond disk
encryption and maybe stuff like grsec and the like is overkill.
So I don't see the point nor do I have the need for a GRUB password. It would
be
Got it, thanks.
It seems there is free software fan control (for GPU), but it seems it
depends on the owned hardware.
See here https://askubuntu.com/questions/22108/how-to-control-fan-speed
It should be mostly about the motherboard, and the GPU fan.
but what to look for? Is knowing that nouveau supports the GP
Is there a specific kind of CMOS to pick? If the BIOS chip is new, would I be
able to boot, or do I need to install from a floppy disk the proprietary BIOS
first?
I got my mobo without both of these. Man this is getting messy...
Any help really appreciated...
I'll have to rewrite what I said a bit.
People use free software for different reasons.
- Not having arbitrary limitations is one.
- privacy from companies and from governments in case they start going
insane, like in Turkey.
And in all this, some need more power, in order to compute as they
Seafile is supposedly better than both (faster file transfer), but
Own/Nextcloud's interface is said to be better because there are interfaces
developped for calendar, email and such.
Liberating software is no trivial task.
As for loosened rules, non-free is non-free, there's no way around it.
It's up to the user to decide if compromise is an option, and to which
extent/in which conditions. I personally will stay with free software.
Mass adoption can't be achieved when the
I definitely think Debian as a base would be potentially better, simply based
on the fact that there's one less intermediary layer (whatever Ubuntu adds),
which potentially means less things to fix.
But I'm more worried about the little bugs I encounter sometimes on Trisquel
(I have yet to ex
Oh, but it's already considered that way regarding Debian.
It's just that for new or inexperienced users, it's possible to install
non-free firmware by accident. Hence Debian as a whole being suggested to
experienced users preferably.
But we're splitting hair here. Yes, in theory, Trisquel c
OK, so loosened in this specific way, as in:
- letting non-free suggestion be (I guess this won't pass, but for users in
the know, it's manageable. Until you want to install it for a newbie I
suppose).
- What else?
Yeah, I see what you mean now.
But then what's the point of Trisquel if it's
Ok, on #libreboot, no one is able to answer me, besides the the info that
this board has not been fully tested yet.
Lilos posted a thread (closed now, very practical) about several issues, like
not being able to boot with 2 CPUs, USB keyboard not working, the PC not
booting from the GPU ("
I get your point, and I agree that having so many GNU/Linux distros is a
waste of resources when most fail to function properly.
As for the idea that no compromise is needed because of the link you posted,
I'll answer you with this one https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
(updated
From the link you posted (from Alberto):
While the FSF does not include Debian on this list because the Debian project
provides a repository of nonfree software, the FSF does acknowledge that
Debian's main repository, which by default is the only place packages come
from, is completely free.
Yes, that's what I meant ;)
The work of software liberation could as well be done for Debian (which is a
better idea since it's already upstream).
In theory, using Debian's repo shouldn't change Trisquel's goals.
And yet, as long as the non-free repos exist, and as long as Debian makes
non-
Me neither.
Judging from the FAQ, I'd need to create a SIP account.
The steps should be manageable for me, but not for say my parents.
Also I'm not sure I can remotely control another PC with Ring, but Jitsi has
that (with minor issues here and there, but acceptable).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband_over_power_lines
These are boxes that one can plug in, uh, "those electricity holes in the
walls that provide electrical current",
and that have an Ethernet output over power lines.
Basically, one can plug this near the box, plug the Ethernet cable from
Again with that polling feature:
one simple (albeit rough) way to do it is to post one software per post so
that it can be upvoted (or not, or even downvote it if you really, REALLY
hate a specific program. I mean like really hate it).
It seems they can also receive firmware updates to make'em speedier. I doubt
it's free software...
My internet box has a router integrated (probably like most boxes), but I can
put it in bridge mode and use the modem only (and use a libre router).
So, since the modem and the BCL can't be avoided (but the router can be), at
least they don't imply using non-free software on our PCs.
But th
Hi, thank you lilos!
When you say "Old problems are fixed", you mean Libreboot fixed the problems
you had initially, and that all that remains is the 30s boot lag?
***
About Coreboot:
So I take the source from here (https://www.coreboot.org/downloads.html), and
not the blobs, right?
Any
Jitsi is both a teamviewer and a skype replacement, with encryption.
I made both features work, but the setup is not straightforward, and not
consistent/reliable.
First, there's no simple how-to.
You basically need to download it, check with gpg,
then install it.
Next, you need 2 xmpp account
Thanks for making me discover Jaaa and Japa.
I second the vlc plugin for Jack.
But I would avoid mixing pulseaudio with Jack.
As for the "Entrée", so there is the mic input. To me it's normal, I mean I
don't expect to see anything else.
But I'm no expert at this.
Hopefully with the vlc plugin
Much appreciated, thanks again lilos.
Saying it's a fraud is a bit harsh.
Yahoo! and Facebook are both unethical companies anyway.
And I'd avoid Google as much as possible as well.
SIP, I don't know about it.
Jitsi is way beyond Pidgin when it comes to replacing both Skype (video chat)
and Teamviewer (remote assistance), with enc
Curious about installing jitsi meet (encryption makes the browser, or even
Facebook accounts if it worked a non-issue, besides an ethical one),
I just finished the install, which asked for my fqdn hostname.
So I went in /etc/hosts and picked the name of my computer.
Then it asked for a signed ss
EDIT: I ended up typing https://myhostname, and then I basically accepted the
untrusted self-signed certificate I generated.
It seems to work, meaning I reach a grey blank page. Same result with the
demo jitsi meet URL, so, it's most likely something on my browser. I need
some more testing.
Since I'm a bit less tired (and defeatist as a consequence), I want to give
it a try.
I don't understand all the intricacies, but localhost shouldn't be able to
communicate with the outside world.
So no surprise it doesn't work.
Feel free to participate, else don't hold your breath, I'm gonna
It was "Random Agent Spoofer". I had to change the settings and tried again,
and it worked.
Jitsi at work is manageable, but my connection was horrible, so as I could
see the shared screen, I couldn't interact with it this time. Still worth it.
According to the libreboot page, this config doesn't have the issue (no idea
where to configure this):
https://review.coreboot.org/cgit/board-status.git/tree/asus/kfsn4-dre/4.0-10101-g039edeb/2015-06-27T03:59:16Z/config.txt?id=055f5df4e000a97453dfad6c91c2d06ea22b8545
If you pay attention, the answer was already written above.
It's about Jitsi Meet installed on my computer (not relying on Jitsi's
servers). Plain Jitsi works, although the setup is annoying.
The cool thing about a self-hosted Jitsi Meet is that it's very easy to set
up a video talk.I'm not
Bad planning led to this: I can fit 2 fans+heatsinks (over the 2 CPUs), but
those who fit are super noisy (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKWhB15Pm4E).
Some quiter fans+heatsinks exist, but one barely fits, and if I want to fit 2
of these, I can only put a fan on each side (one blowing air f
I have no idea. You might have luck checking on h-node.
I see, so with 6 cores, I'd have plenty.
It's definitely going to be a desktop system, nothing with many VMs or
simultaneous connections.
Besides having an empty CPU spot feeling itchy,
I'll probably go with the "1 CPU, 1 quiet fan/heatsink" (gotta check the
measurements again).
If I reall
Thanks a lot uboot, very interesting!
What Heather wrote. It's just fully tweaked for max anonymity. Of course, for
example if you connect to a mail account you created while not being
anonymous, then you're not anonymous anymore.
So the only difficulty is the behavior of the user online.
Else it's nothing special. But that also
It's not for anonymity (not as fine-tuned as Tails), but for maximum
security.
I'd love to make parts of my OS completely unavailable from the web though,
or even from other parts of my OS, though it seems it takes some time to get
used to the way Qubes work.
But I'm not sure I need this mu
Space between lines. Remove them and it will disappear (though the text will
lose the line spacing obviously).
This too comes from The Simpsons.
I'll just add this option here if someone has the same issue:
I decided to try a silent heatsink+fan, and for the second CPU a noisy one
(much much cheaper).
That's a Noctua http://noctua.at/en/nh-u12do-a3/specification
and a Dynatron F661.
Because I found out I can disable a CPU at will:
eith
Yes, 50dBA must be very loud. It seems anything more than 20 is considered
loud.
You better be sure about using passive cooling. It was about smaller
heatsinks, but reviews said it wasn't cooling at all.
But it might work at this size maybe.
Just in case, I'd make sure that the case airflow
I'm curious, how is that different from using a command like "firejail tor"?
Ah, I see, thank you. It's strange that some profiles aren't installed by
default.
I might have made (another) small mistake : my CPU has a TDP of 137, which
the Noctua cooler supports.
But I can't find any data about the Dynatron.
One thing I will try is to use the second Noctua fan (which I didn't plan to
use since I'm out of space) in front of the Dynatron, as a support
I do. I have a few old consoles I play with.
I don't worry about privacy with these.
On my libre PC, I try to avoid them, but still play two of these : OpenRA,
and OpenXCom.
I think most recent consoles/games (say, past the Wii) bring not much new
besides great graphics. There's probably so
I often am puzzled about user rights:
I understand that there's a root user who has all rights, and is accessed
with sudo.
I understand the normal user, who has limited rights.
Now, I often have problems with external hard disks.
It seems they require root password just to be able to copy fil
Oh, and just to add to the confusion, NOW I can access my encrypted HHD via
sudoed gnome-disks, whereas 10 minutes ago I couldn't. Sure it might have
been a typo onthe passphrase, right? But to make sure, I even copy/pasted it.
My install is messing with me ( •᷄⌓•᷅ )
Really beautiful music :)
Personally I don't mind because I only (rarely) play old stuff.
So if it's safe enough, and cheap enough, I'm OK with it.
A ROM can always be modified to contain malware, so it's still a risk.
So andboxing is the only way to go.
Using old consoles is one way (or a BBB wi
I knew it, it's haunted!
More seriously, that's useful info, thank;)
Will do, thanks for the tip :)
I should also run an extended test : Two types of HHD,and to types of
installs, carefully taking notes. Roughly, my Trisquel install seems to be
the culprit, because I remember the encrypted drive working just fine on a
normal Trisquel install.
The encrypted
if we're still talking about using another Windows PC strictly for gaming, to
me it's not only more complicated, it also uses more resources (VM), and I
really don't see any benefit.
If the cam and mic are your concern, I'd rather tape some paper on the cam,
and some tissue on the mic to da
Oh right, I can see the double-meaning now.
Well, thankfully free-software takes care of what you mean.
Ok first simple test :
a non-encrypted drive in ext4 which I can't safely remove (With Nautilus) on
my install (not authorized to perform operation).
Yet on a normal Trisquel install, while I have to force the action since it
says the drive is busy, it just works.
The disk ID is a weird form
Ok, I just changed ownership of the folder appearing at mount point to "me"
(read & write). Still the same issue :(
I used Thunar/Nautilus opened with sudo to do so.
Well, OP said that it may have security issues, so it's probably not the
safest option. But it looks like a great project, I'm curious.
Well, no surprise here, but I like i3wm. Why? Because:
-it's keyboard driven. I can forget about the mouse for most tasks
- the config file is plain text (with some specific syntax), not a complex
programming language (though it's needed to be aware of hidden space or other
unwanted characters
Short for Original Poster. Used on online message boards and forums.
I did notice that, but I also tried my username (both on owner and group and
in read & write) without success.
It still refuses to safely remove the drive (I still need a sudo gnome-disks
to be able to do it).
But at least this fixed the copy-paste issue I mentioned earlier :)
Basically it's the equivalent of this command that fails without root :
udisks --detach /dev/sdX
But thanks for the idea of maybe mounting as root or not (And for solving the
copy-paste issue !)
Unfortunately, plugdev is listed :/
About mount, I got this:(rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks2)
Sure, I was just saying it was unnecessary from a practical point of view.
Well put :)
My pleasure !
Back for more stupidity on my part...
here's yet another example of bad planning:
I didn't expect my graphic card to be long enough to COVER one of the CPU
slots...
How hard can it be to measure the whole thing before buying extra stuff I'll
never need, like another CPU and another fan/coole
Try ImageMagik, it can be used with Gimp I believe.
I've had good experience using the (marvelous) automation on Photoshop (just
record a sequence of actions, and apply the sequence on a whole folder).
I've never tried ImageMagik yet, but I suspect it isn't as easy to use. But
it seems powe
What time is it? Recycling time!
For my Desktop,
I have a few HDDs of various sizes that I could LVM to make one big drive.
Most likely, the simplest way for now would be to use one big LVM only with
the different HDDs, and split them in half, to leave one part for backup for
Deja-Dup for exa
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