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Anonymous 12/24/2023 (Sun) 12:21:03 No. 337 [Reply]

What linux distro should I use? Help me out, friends, I'm so confused.

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Anonymous 02/12/2025 (Wed) 21:58:00 No. 1087

>>1085 how bad my privacy is on windows now? I already don't have the schizo level of privacy, but I still try to use things like ungoogled chromium. I disabled all the telemetry, deleted edge and copilot etc.

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Anonymous 02/12/2025 (Wed) 22:16:04 No. 1088

>>1087 >how bad my privacy is on windows now? Not bad really, only it would take them exactly one click to enter your system because all mass market proprietary software is backdoored, and the backdoors are coordinated by you know what government. I'm not sure linux in a panacea but it seems since linux is used exclusively in privacy conscious scenarios, it is more expensive to enter a linux machine. Though if you use your usual systemd with gnome/kde, you don't win much, since all of them are designed as malware as well. If you think open source cannot be openly malware you're dead wrong. Simply make unnecessarily complex and over engineered """solution""" and call your backdoors """"zero day RCEs"""" and chill. Since moving away from systemd is not possible and since it seems Linus is going to be deposed in upcoming years, I doubt you win anything by switching to linux. I'll probably keep some kernel tarballs just in case, but I think software freedom is doomed and unless something happens with the world, we will not be able to own our own system anymore.

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Anonymous 02/12/2025 (Wed) 22:18:26 No. 1089

>moving away from systemd is not possible Though if somebody replaces elogind and udev in a functional manner and presents clean software at the same time, please ping me. t. devuan user

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Anonymous 02/12/2025 (Wed) 23:31:19 No. 1094

>>1087 depends on your threat level. for the majority of people what you're doing is fine. if your threat level is something more casual like "i want to stop companies from selling my data for algorithms" then you can still do that to a satisfying degree on an LTSC install with disabling scripts. using trusted, open source software (like ungoogled chromium/librewolf, libreoffice, krita) and healthy amounts of caution online will be a good effort. if you want to go even further you can use invidious, nitter, and other alternative frontends for data hogging sites. the hikarin above me is correct in the sense that you can't really hide from the government, but that is not within most people's threat level (including mine).

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Anonymous 02/13/2025 (Thu) 06:25:32 No. 1096

>>1088 >>1094 thanks for the elaborate response anons.

Anonymous 01/25/2025 (Sat) 23:43:21 No. 1053 [Reply]

You know those programs with in-terminal GUIS (e.g alsamixer), how does that work?

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Anonymous 01/26/2025 (Sun) 00:05:38 No. 1054

Somehow.

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Anonymous 01/28/2025 (Tue) 13:52:05 No. 1055

>>1053 it's called TUI, in principle you can make one just using your terminal's protocol. there are libraries like pdcurses, termbox2, crossterm or ncurses that include utility functions and add a compatibility layer so you don't have to learn the different terminal protocols. and then there are higher level libraries that even come with widgets and multi-platform input handling like tuibox, libtickit*, libvaxis or ratatui* these last two don't depend on any curses emulator and use their own, significantly less bloated, stacks there is also imtui if you want a terminal backend for imgui *: c **: zig ***: rust

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Anonymous 01/29/2025 (Wed) 14:28:17 No. 1056

I think I dreamed about programming something like this in C Weird

Rate my Rice! Anonymous 12/15/2024 (Sun) 05:55:49 No. 959 [Reply]

Finished my rice a while ago, but Syrno said I should post it and then stole my fastfetch config, so here we are! Dotfiles available upon request!

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Anonymous 12/16/2024 (Mon) 15:19:01 No. 966

How much time did it take to finish? Great rice btw.

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Anonymous 12/16/2024 (Mon) 16:39:14 No. 967

>>966 Ngl it only took me about a week after installing hyprland for the first time to get the bulk of it done. But tbf, i had been using kde for the better part of a year before switching.

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Anonymous 01/04/2025 (Sat) 04:35:35 No. 1004

hyperland is a waste of cpu usage and too much desktop effects

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Anonymous 01/04/2025 (Sat) 23:54:39 No. 1011

It has no soul tbh, very bland. looks like any other rice. 5/10

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Anonymous 01/07/2025 (Tue) 18:45:50 No. 1025

>>959 looks very well done very sleek too. though i am more a fan of skeuomorphism but hey, that is just me i guess

Your fortune: (YOU ARE BANNED)

Anonymous 11/03/2024 (Sun) 22:32:51 No. 898 [Reply]

While reinstalling my system I accidentally tarballed /srv/http outside of chroot, then deleted my old data, now have to rewrite the website i was working on from zero

Your fortune: (YOU ARE BANNED)

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Anonymous 11/04/2024 (Mon) 08:13:35 No. 899

I once unpacked an entire system outside of chroot, rewriting my current one and breaking everything.

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Anonymous 11/20/2024 (Wed) 07:47:20 No. 939

Very unfortunate and i am sorry for your loss. here's to a speedy recovery of the progress on your website :3

Your fortune: Good Luck

what hypervisor should i use? Anonymous 10/16/2024 (Wed) 23:04:24 No. 856 [Reply]

i know of Xen, Bhyve (which is like a vmm but with a hypervisor too, but its kinda less capable), or KVM (i don't really like GNU/Linux but ill get over it eventually i guess, im in a love hate relationship rn because distro fragmentation kinda sucks a lot) Xen apparently may or may not work on my current hardware, unfortunately, and i also don't know if ill even benefit from it anyways, since i really don't have a problem with running a host, its 2024, i have enough computational resources for having a resource intense host i would also say NetBSD Virtual Machine Manager is an option but i can't run NetBSD on most of my hardware as a host, and nested virtualization is not really possible on FreeBSD Bhyve iirc, and id rather not do a QEMU/KVM setup just to run NetBSD, it would be really heavy and sluggish for the most part, but idrk

plan 9 also has a virtual machine system, but i don't really have a reason to start a 9fs grid since im broke af and can't buy a bunch of machines, so yeah, idk Hyper-V might be fine, im not opposed to Windows at all, but its gonna take a bit to learn how to use Windows. Solaris 11 is also an option but id rather not depend on having an Oracle account, even if its "free", however if its virtualization is actually good i might just use Solaris as my host, especially since it still supports SPARC (i plan on buying a SPARC machine)

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Anonymous 10/17/2024 (Thu) 02:51:26 No. 858

> what hypervisor should i use? I don't understand what you are trying to do with your hypervisor? I think in most cases, you should be fine with KVM though. I don't see why you would use anything else as it's (except for Xen and Hyper-V maybe) the most capable, stable and best-supported out of your list.

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Anonymous 10/17/2024 (Thu) 06:18:03 No. 859

Don't use them. You don't need them.

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Anonymous 11/18/2024 (Mon) 18:22:07 No. 938

There isn't a "good" hypervisor. Just know what works best for you. I recommend using VirtualBox, I personally use it. It's cross-platform (Windows, MacOS, Linux) and it's free.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads If that's not interesting or useful for you, try using VMware or some other visualization computer software...

Anonymous 11/03/2024 (Sun) 00:34:51 No. 890 [Reply]

Anyone know a free VPN add-on for Firefox with lots of IPs/servers? I only know UrbanVPN.

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Anonymous 11/03/2024 (Sun) 13:31:36 No. 894

>>893 Are you crazy? It's dirty cheap for services they provide. mullvad and ivpn are probably the only ones that are not openly survey your internet activity. You won't find this quality for a cheaper price, ever.

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Anonymous 11/03/2024 (Sun) 14:57:35 No. 895

>>894 Anything that's not free is too expensive for a NEET like me.

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Anonymous 11/03/2024 (Sun) 16:16:08 No. 896

I don't know if this would fit your use case, but whenever I need to access a website as if I'm in another country, I just use Tor and configure it so the exit node is always in the country I want to access the site as. I've been doing this a lot lately to access Niconico as if I'm in Japan, since they recently applied a lot of restrictions to overseas users

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Anonymous 11/03/2024 (Sun) 17:47:58 No. 897

>>895 True enough. Having no money sucks.

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Anonymous 11/05/2024 (Tue) 14:59:27 No. 906

>>895 can relate

Homescreen thread Anonymous 03/13/2024 (Wed) 14:03:34 No. 432 [Reply]

It aint much but its honest work

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Anonymous 05/26/2024 (Sun) 08:04:24 No. 562

>>432 I really like this one, good job! mine is quite bland, my phone's battery doesn't last very long so an AMOLED friendly homescreen helps quite a bit. And to be honest, I'm trying to use my phone less

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Anonymous 05/28/2024 (Tue) 01:21:49 No. 563

>>432 it just werks

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Anonymous 11/04/2024 (Mon) 20:06:08 No. 902

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Anonymous 11/05/2024 (Tue) 10:08:17 No. 904

I should probably switch it. I've been using this for the past two years already

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Anonymous 11/05/2024 (Tue) 10:58:51 No. 905

I wanted new wallpaper and ringtone for my new phone, but nothing seems worthwhile, so I just stick to defaults, which is kinda sad.

ultraviolet proxyyyy Anonymous 10/15/2024 (Tue) 02:51:51 No. 844 [Reply]

need proxi nowe plz (make it ultraviolet pls)

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Anonymous 10/15/2024 (Tue) 06:50:53 No. 845

Only if you're a cute maid.

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Anonymous 10/16/2024 (Wed) 14:13:26 No. 853

OP is 200% underage and >>845 is a cp robot that has gained sentience

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Anonymous 10/16/2024 (Wed) 15:03:52 No. 854

>>853 Who's bot you're bot!

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Anonymous 10/17/2024 (Thu) 18:59:25 No. 868

all I asked for was a proxy Jesus lol

Anonymous 08/12/2024 (Mon) 20:01:10 No. 694 [Reply]

What is the main advantage of Gentoo ? In your opinion, what are the main advantages over Debian or Arch-based systems?

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Anonymous 08/12/2024 (Mon) 20:45:37 No. 695

it is source-based. in my experience this means mainly three things: - if something breaks or doesn't compile I can fix it myself without having to search internet forums and such - I can set compilation flags to adapt programs to my needs and environment - it is easier to create and maintain my own packages for the package manager I use it mostly for Recreational Programming, I often browse github for libraries for my projects and most of the time they aren't popular enough to be in the package repository of any distro. with gentoo I can write an ebuild and have the library installed and maintained by the package manager in less than 5 minutes it fits my use-case well but I don't know if I would recommend it to other people. it isn't hard but you need some experience with c/c++ toolchains, autotools and cmake for it to be anything more than just another distro with less support than debian now that I think about it, one notable thing is that gentoo doesn't do stuff behind your back so to speak, so there aren't as many opportunities for things to break unexpectedly. I guess that can be a plus even for inexperienced users

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Anonymous 08/12/2024 (Mon) 20:53:51 No. 696

and yes, I'm too dumb and lazy to learn nix/guix

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Anonymous 08/30/2024 (Fri) 23:56:56 No. 736

>>694 Advantages? No. There is none. I've spent one entire year with Gentoo and three months with Funtoo, and, these two are simply distros for enthusiasts. That's it. Don't get me wrong, Portage is a good package manager, but you'll probably spend a lot of time with it, and it's just not worthy.

Css Pepsi 06/25/2024 (Tue) 20:03:10 No. 624 [Reply]

Hey, does anyone know how I can enter the closed shell system?

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Anonymous 08/25/2024 (Sun) 15:21:13 No. 729

>>728 debian uses binary packages, right? based on my brief experience with debian I would guess you have to first create the packages and then add them to a local repository (this is, a local list of packages) >compile and "install" the package to a $dummy dir (I think cmake has flags to do this, similar to --prefix with ./configure) >mkdir -p $dummy/debian; nano $dummy/debian/control (https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html#debian-binary-package-control-files-debian-control) >dpkg-deb -b $dummy this will create a .deb for $dummy with the files that make install (or cmake install) would normally add to your /usr/local then you create a local repository in the arbitrary dir $lrep >mkdir $lrep >cd $lrep >cp -r dir/with/deb_files/* . >dpkg-scanpackages . > Packages >echo "deb [trusted=yes] file:/path/to/$lrep /" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/lrep.list replace $dummy with the name of your package and $lrep with the name of your local repository (same with /path/to/$lrep). here is an example of a debian control file https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/pkg-basics.en.html#controlfile notice that the only required fields are package, version, architecture, maintainer and description

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Anonymous 08/25/2024 (Sun) 16:49:18 No. 730

>>729 I want git pull, magick.sh, apt install, https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debmake-doc/index.en.html

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Anonymous 08/25/2024 (Sun) 17:05:46 No. 731

>>730 what do you mean?

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Anonymous 08/25/2024 (Sun) 18:32:20 No. 732

>>731 There's so much info about packaging. I want to 1. git pull/wget the source code of the release I want to compile 2. run magick.sh that will make me a package 3. apt install it I could implement all that but I lack mental capacity to comprehend all the documentation right now

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Anonymous 08/25/2024 (Sun) 21:50:02 No. 733

>>732 without getting into source-based packages that sounds easy to automate in a very crude way, you don't really need debmake or debuild, just have a script download and untar the release, compile and install to a prefix, add the debian control file, generate the .deb, move it to your local repository, and update it's metadata the only problem with this approach is dependency detection, but considering you are already compiling the software, I assume you have the dependencies anyways. it is a bad practice but you can list the dependencies later I guess

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