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Jerry Bindle: May 16, 2003

current desktop linux status: pressed a hot key that used to bring up a gnome file explorer window. now it resets (crashes?) the X Windows session.

# ? Jan 13, 2016 20:39

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# ? Jun 13, 2024 05:13

computer toucher: Jan 8, 2012

Wheany posted:

Then again, do you really want to read documentation that was halfassedly translated in 2006 by a bored AMK student and hasn't been updated since?

absolutely not, so why leave that one word there to taunt me?

# ? Jan 13, 2016 21:38

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

linux is freedom

http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/01/david_fry_ohio_resident_who_ha.html#incart_river_home_pop posted:

David Fry, a 27-year-old Ohio resident who has posted "#Pray4ISIS" to his Google+ page, is among those involved in the militant standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Burns.

Fry, who has also made a website supporting the standoff, said in an interview Tuesday night that he is not a supporter of the Islamic State. He characterized his Google+ page � which also includes the hashtag "#HitlerWasRight" and phrase "obama needs to be hung after being found guilty for TREASON!!" � as him "ranting off" and being facetious and sarcastic at times.

"The media is blowing this up and making me look like a bad guy, but I was just being sarcastic," he said. "I was being very offensive. That was the goal, to be very offensive."

Some posts � including those using the hashtags "#BombIsrael" and "#Pray4ISIS" � were deleted from the page Tuesday night.

Fry, who lives near Cincinnati, said he's at the refuge primarily because he thinks the world is beginning to fall apart � morally and physically � and that something needs to be done about it. He said he's concerned about the environment, particularly the health of the Pacific Ocean and its wildlife.

He said he has been at the refuge for about five days, as of Tuesday night, and plans to stay as long as he can.

David Fry of Ohio says he plans to stay at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge as long as he can.

"I felt like this was a good place to maybe make a change for America," he said.

Fry has a criminal record that includes convictions for possession of drugs and possession of marijuana drug paraphernalia, and having an insufficient number of life jackets while, he said, floating on a river in an inflatable raft.

Videos of him burning papers from a collection agency requesting payment of unpaid court debt are on a YouTube account in his name and another YouTube account with the username DefendYourBase.

The video from the latter account is included on a website that Fry said he put together using a personal computer while at the refuge.

He also has been on a computer at the refuge, he said, using a flash drive with the Linux Mint operating system on it. He said he doesn't have access to government data and isn't using the computer's operating system.

He said his goal for the website, defendyourbase.net, is to give people a single source where they can follow the developments at the refuge.

The website includes videos, including some from the refuge, "news feeds" and a "list of serious injustice." It also links to a page where visitors can purchase a novel, "Only by Blood and Suffering: Regaining Lost Freedom," by Robert "LaVoy" Finicum � a Northern Arizona rancher who is among those at the refuge.

# ? Jan 13, 2016 21:40

Rooney McNibnug: Sep 2, 2008; "Life always hopes. When a definite object cannot be outlined, the indomitable spirit of hope still impels the living mass to move toward something--something that shall somehow be better."

the mint militia

# ? Jan 13, 2016 22:19

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

he tried to access government data but libreoffice couldnt open the files

# ? Jan 13, 2016 22:21

Rooney McNibnug: Sep 2, 2008; "Life always hopes. When a definite object cannot be outlined, the indomitable spirit of hope still impels the living mass to move toward something--something that shall somehow be better."

whois defendyourbase.net

quote:

Registrant Name: Gabriel WorldOfTanks
Registrant Organization:
Registrant Street: 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Registrant City: Washington DC
Registrant State/Province: VA
Registrant Postal Code: 20500

its me, im President Gabriel WorldOfTanks

# ? Jan 13, 2016 22:26

goatsestretchgoals: Jun 4, 2011

1600 pennsylvania avenue
washington dc va

e: he even hosed that up, the part thats still dc is on the maryland side

# ? Jan 13, 2016 22:27

ahmeni: May 1, 2005; It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.; Grimey Drawer

has anyone made a kde version of fedora yet because lol at using ubuntu but I'd like a sane distro start rather than the weird clump you get with a groupinstall

# ? Jan 13, 2016 22:50

theultimo: Aug 2, 2004; An RSS feed bot who makes questionable purchasing decisions.; Pillbug

ahmeni posted:

has anyone made a kde version of fedora yet because lol at using ubuntu but I'd like a sane distro start rather than the weird clump you get with a groupinstall

https://spins.fedoraproject.org/kde/

# ? Jan 13, 2016 22:52

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

is that their bespoke artisanal window server that's totally not a clone of the NeXT & OS X window server, but is also somehow different than the bespoke artisanal window server that's totally not a clone of the NeXT & OS X window server to which the entire rest of the Linux world is switching?

# ? Jan 14, 2016 00:01

pram: Jun 10, 2001

desktop linux bad

# ? Jan 14, 2016 00:19

theultimo: Aug 2, 2004; An RSS feed bot who makes questionable purchasing decisions.; Pillbug

pram posted:

desktop linux better then windows 10

Fixed

# ? Jan 14, 2016 00:20

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE: Aug 1, 2004; whoa, what just happened here?; College Slice

theultimo posted:

Fixed

broken clock opsec posted:

one thing i noticed is that linux on the desktop users tend to pretend the rest of the computing world is still in 1995 just so they can feel better about their bad choices

# ? Jan 14, 2016 00:33

The_Franz: Aug 8, 2003

eschaton posted:

is that their bespoke artisanal window server that's totally not a clone of the NeXT & OS X window server, but is also somehow different than the bespoke artisanal window server that's totally not a clone of the NeXT & OS X window server to which the entire rest of the Linux world is switching?

2016 year of wayland on the linux desktop

maybe, if they ever finish nitpicking over the pointer locking protocol

# ? Jan 14, 2016 00:49

Suspicious Dish: Sep 24, 2011; 2020 is the year of linux on the desktop, bro; Fun Shoe

eschaton posted:

is that their bespoke artisanal window server that's totally not a clone of the NeXT & OS X window server, but is also somehow different than the bespoke artisanal window server that's totally not a clone of the NeXT & OS X window server to which the entire rest of the Linux world is switching?

nothing in Wayland is in any way related to the shitshow that is Display PostScript

# ? Jan 14, 2016 01:08

theultimo: Aug 2, 2004; An RSS feed bot who makes questionable purchasing decisions.; Pillbug

Also gently caress Linux steam ffs wine does it better

# ? Jan 14, 2016 01:16

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

theultimo posted:

Also gently caress Linux steam ffs wine does it better

linux steam supports streaming which is pretty awesome

# ? Jan 14, 2016 01:23

Celexi: Nov 25, 2006; Slava Ukraini!

theultimo posted:

Also gently caress Linux steam ffs wine does it better

uhh linux steam is fine, unless you are using some garbage can niche distro XXXXXXx_ELITEHACKERZ_LINUZ_XxXxXX

# ? Jan 14, 2016 01:38

Sapozhnik: Jan 2, 2005; Nap Ghost

Linux Steam doesn't support HiDPI either which is quite amazing given that it's basically a WebKit window with a JavaScript launchDrmedGame() method plumbed into it

# ? Jan 14, 2016 01:58

The_Franz: Aug 8, 2003

steam has hidpi issues on every platform

# ? Jan 14, 2016 02:05

theultimo: Aug 2, 2004; An RSS feed bot who makes questionable purchasing decisions.; Pillbug

Celexi posted:

uhh linux steam is fine, unless you are using some garbage can niche distro XXXXXXx_ELITEHACKERZ_LINUZ_XxXxXX

Oh the ui and stuff is fine, but out of my 1100 or so games only 300 or so have been ported. Wine actually works better in that respect

# ? Jan 14, 2016 03:15

eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

Suspicious Dish posted:

nothing in Wayland is in any way related to the shitshow that is Display PostScript

sure it is, the fundamental model used is the same as what NeXT did for their window server in the 80s and the same as what OS X does for its window server today

the biggest difference between the NeXT & OS X window servers is that the NeXT window server supported server-side rendering via Display PostScript, otherwise the model is pretty similar (and much leaner than the hot garbage that is X because it wasn't a design-by-committee kitchen sink)

contrast this with, say, SunView�dating from the same era as the NeXT design�which had the kernel managing windows as file descriptors

it's just nice to see the rest of the UNIX world finally dragged kicking and screaming into the late 1980s

# ? Jan 14, 2016 04:11

Notorious b.s.d.: Jan 25, 2003; by Reene

theultimo posted:

Oh the ui and stuff is fine, but out of my 1100 or so games only 300 or so have been ported. Wine actually works better in that respect

no poo poo sherlock

wine is freaking awesome

# ? Jan 14, 2016 05:08

theultimo: Aug 2, 2004; An RSS feed bot who makes questionable purchasing decisions.; Pillbug

Notorious b.s.d. posted:

no poo poo sherlock

wine is freaking awesome

I was more shocked it played ffxiii with no issues.

I haven't had a chance to try it in a while, cooped up with rl

# ? Jan 14, 2016 05:12

ahmeni: May 1, 2005; It's one continuous form where hardware and software function in perfect unison, creating a new generation of iPhone that's better by any measure.; Grimey Drawer

theultimo posted:

Oh the ui and stuff is fine, but out of my 1100 or so games only 300 or so have been ported. Wine actually works better in that respect

steam on Linux is for streaming games from your windows machine, any actual porting is incidental

# ? Jan 14, 2016 11:23

Wheany: Mar 17, 2006; Spinya^{ha^{ha^haha}ha}ha_{ha_{ha_haha}ha}ha!; Doctor Rope

computer toucher posted:

absolutely not, so why leave that one word there to taunt me?

Because this [thing] has been localized to 36 languages! *

*(in 2006 by bored students and has not been updated since. 1/3 of the localization keys used in the language file are no longer used and 1/3 of the current keys do not have translations in the language file)

# ? Jan 14, 2016 11:42

mike12345: Jul 14, 2008; "Whether the Earth was created in 7 days, or 7 actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries."

The_Franz posted:

steam has hidpi issues on every platform

steam and itunes are probably the apps I hate the most. they both share a bloated feel, and interacting feels like wading through mud

# ? Jan 14, 2016 11:59

Sapozhnik: Jan 2, 2005; Nap Ghost

https://lwn.net/Articles/671171/

KDE's media indexing service runs a captive MySQL server (which gets really fun when MySQL gets upgraded and its on-disk format needs to be migrated)
It defines a gratuitous custom IPC protocol which is some horrible bastardization of IMAP of all things
Yet it still requires clients to do the equivalent of a SELECT * from the data store and do filtering themselves

:psyduck:

this is some TDWTF poo poo right here

# ? Jan 14, 2016 16:29

theultimo: Aug 2, 2004; An RSS feed bot who makes questionable purchasing decisions.; Pillbug

Mr Dog posted:

https://lwn.net/Articles/671171/

KDE's media indexing service runs a captive MySQL server (which gets really fun when MySQL gets upgraded and its on-disk format needs to be migrated)
It defines a gratuitous custom IPC protocol which is some horrible bastardization of IMAP of all things
Yet it still requires clients to do the equivalent of a SELECT * from the data store and do filtering themselves

this is some TDWTF poo poo right here

WONTFIX - works as intended

# ? Jan 14, 2016 16:35

pram: Jun 10, 2001

Mr Dog posted:

https://lwn.net/Articles/671171/

KDE's media indexing service runs a captive MySQL server (which gets really fun when MySQL gets upgraded and its on-disk format needs to be migrated)
It defines a gratuitous custom IPC protocol which is some horrible bastardization of IMAP of all things
Yet it still requires clients to do the equivalent of a SELECT * from the data store and do filtering themselves

this is some TDWTF poo poo right here

quote:

My MySQL is currently borked. I can't be bothered to investigate properly, but I think the reason is that, when I upgraded, the on-disk format changed and I was *supposed* to run some conversion utility.
Now I seem to be in a catch 22 - the MySQL service crashes on start because the disk format is wrong, and the conversion utility won't run because it needs MySQL to be running ...

what the gently caress. lmfao. sqlite has been around for like 15 years now

# ? Jan 14, 2016 16:43

Lysidas: Jul 26, 2002; John Diefenbaker is a madman who thinks he's John Diefenbaker.; Pillbug

yeah i try to excise/disable all of the indexing poo poo from KDE, it is difficult on a distro where everything is compiled ahead of time and linked against that stuff, and apt-get uninstalling stuff like baloo/akonadi wants to take the whole KDE desktop with it

hmm i wonder if theres a gentoo USE flag that could be disabled to omit this stuff when building plasma 5, no way im gonna switch any of my desktop machines to gentoo but now i am curious

# ? Jan 14, 2016 16:47

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003; no meds = f4

kde is supremely ugly

# ? Jan 14, 2016 20:55

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003; no meds = f4

its also got a bad window manager.

# ? Jan 14, 2016 20:55

triple sulk: Sep 17, 2014

Smythe posted:

its also got a bad window manager.

dont sign your posts!!! lol

# ? Jan 14, 2016 20:56

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003; no meds = f4

triple sulk posted:

dont sign your posts!!! lol

i use gnome 3 which is the best window manager. better than all the rest. by a HUGE margin.

# ? Jan 14, 2016 20:57

theultimo: Aug 2, 2004; An RSS feed bot who makes questionable purchasing decisions.; Pillbug

Smythe posted:

i use gnome 3 which is the best window manager. better than all the rest. by a HUGE margin.

You cannot wobby window without a plugin. Fail

# ? Jan 14, 2016 20:58

Smythe: Oct 12, 2003; no meds = f4

1) GNOME 3
2-303) nothing, wide gulf
304) WIndows 10
305) OSX
306) Unity
307-705) nothing
706) KDE

# ? Jan 14, 2016 21:01

BobHoward: Feb 13, 2012; The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull

Smythe posted:

1) GNOME 3
2-303) nothing, wide gulf
304) WIndows 10
305) OSX
306) Unity
307-705) nothing
706) KDE

smythe was wrong

:captainpop:

# ? Jan 14, 2016 21:07

suck my woke dick: Oct 10, 2012; I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!

Put this cum-loving slave on ignore immediately!

Smythe posted:

1) GNOME 3
2-303) nothing, wide gulf
304) WIndows 10
305) OSX
306) Unity
307-705) nothing
706) KDE

source your quotes so we know who to laugh at

# ? Jan 14, 2016 21:08

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# ? Jun 13, 2024 05:13

BobHoward: Feb 13, 2012; The only thing white people deserve is a bullet to their empty skull

i cant believe I just wrote the words smythe was wrong is life even worth living when that just happened

# ? Jan 14, 2016 21:08

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