The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

Elysian said:
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IT LIVES! (but for real this time)
The reason ELILO wasn't working was I was a big dumb dumb and didn't make an efi partition at the beginning of the drive before I ran the installer. Now it works fine!
And after the sudden forboding Jet Engine Noise of Doom the BIOS told me my CPU was idling at 80 degrees celsius so I reapplied my thermal paste and now it's back to normal and hasn't made any more strange noises.
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Welcome aboard, fellow Slacker.
 
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I found this old GNOME themed skin for MPlayer and the preview image is the bestworst thing I've ever seen:

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jONALD said:
making it multilib is easy.
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You don't even have to make Slackware multilib to do vidya anymore. Steam runs without it if you use Conty and you don't need it for WINE either:
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Elysian said:
I found this old GNOME themed skin for MPlayer and the preview image is the bestworst thing I've ever seen:
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2000's and naked women being the norm in software skins and wallpapers. Classic.

Anyways, I was recently thinking about whether or not Linux would have a viable alternative for two pieces of closed source software I rely on to tune my PC. Fan Control for custom CPU/GPU/case fan curves and MSi Afterburner for overclocking/undervolting.

Fan controlling software would need to have the ability to link whichever fan curve to whichever sensor, so for example depending on whether or not the CPU or the GPU is the hottest at any given moment, the case fans would spin up appropriately to the hottest component, and have the hysteresis/reaction time options to make the fan ramping smoother. So not a strict "instant reaction fan curve for one thing only and nothing more" type of adjustment like in MSi Afterburner or UEFI settings.

OC/UV software would need to work on Nvidia, give me the ability to adjust the voltage curve as undervolting necessitates bumping it all up before cutting it off at a desired voltage/frequency point, or at the very least do the OC/UV process this way for me so that I only set the voltage, frequency, it adjust it all for me, and then I can run a stability test to make sure it works and that it's stable.

I'm sure there are plenty of alternatives for Rivatuner Statistics Server, but a stat overlay is easier to pull off right compared to fan curve adjustment and GPU OC/UV, which is more crucial.
 
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WhiteNight said:
The earliest Ubuntu release (2004) included some wallpaper semi-nudes (mostly in the calendar app), to some controversy.

A few examples:
Briefly the splash screen:
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Full collection can be found here: https://geekfeminism.fandom.com/wiki/Ubuntu_Warty_visual_theme/Image_archive
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Crazy, just think, that black chick with the great tits is at minimum 21 years older than she was at the time those photos were taken.
 
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This isn't new. But this is the reason, when I do use a VPN, I just pay for mullvad. Using a free proxy or VPN, that you don't know the owner of. Just isn't a good idea.

You can say, well you have to trust mullvad. For me I do at least trust them, enough for normal traffic. More than any of the other VPN providers. Maybe proton could be ok, but I don't use them. But if you wanted to actually try to completely obscure everything you should use something like tor at that point anyway.
 
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Zeftax said:
I spent most of yesterday and some of today reading through this article on forth: https://ratfactor.com/forth/the_programming_language_that_writes_itself.html
When it comes to linux-specific stuff, does anyone here use KDE Baloo? I've felt the need for a tag-based FS for some time now, and while this is just a search tool, it looks like it would work nicely, I haven't tried it yet though.
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I personally use fd for searching the file system. That and ripgrep. I could use find. But fd, is really fast, and has sensible defaults. You need to set it up to search hidden files if you want that though. And you can make a file that tells me what to ignore when searching.

ripgrep is basically like the silver searcher more or less (from what I can tell, though I haven't used the silver searcher much) or grep. But I just use it as an easy way to find lines in files.

Not sure it will meet your needs though.

I've been looking for a nice way to read stuff like pdf'd and other documents from the terminal. So far, less seems to be the only thing for PDFs that works well in it. Not sure if there is something for xml documents that does all the formatting correctly
 
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Max Free said:
Awesome. Does that mean I have to re-learn every single terminal command again?
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Idk. It might be like busy box. Where it's the same command basically.

Idk why they feel the need to redo things that have worked perfectly fine for 20+ years. Not every needs to be redone. Not every piece of code written in C is going to be unsafe. At this point it's just going to keep happening it seems.

I blame Hector Martin and his tranny friends.
 
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What do they mean when they say that they shove Rust into the Linux Kernel, so that it "supports" it? What's that supposed to mean? Isn't it just simply compiling ELF binaries like C/C++?

I personally don't trust the Rust community. They had some weird CoC nonsense for their project and I think they also prohibit anyone to even call it "Rust" if they don't agree to those? Instead demanding them to just call it 'R', or is my memory fucking with me?
 
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