The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[Hamsteroid]

My Nigger in Chris, I was one of the poor bastards who spent the tail end of the 90's re-coding 70's COBOL to meet the Y2K requirements and the only recognition I get is either "that was a hoax" or "yeah, people panicked but nothing happened".

Thank you for your service, even though it was a hoax and it never happened but it should have

People don't fight. At least, 99.5% don't.
They look at the shiny colors and play Farmville and say 'hi' to Grandma.

Bread and circuses is a millennia old tradition for a reason. As long as life is merely "not good" rather than "bad", no one is willing to risk today's conveniences for a better tomorrow. Unfortunately, it takes exceptional individuals or relentless autists like Null to break free from that glue trap of comfort.

 

[HalHalliday]

As for your latter point, yeah, you've got me there.

I didn't not get you. I'm just fucking sad, man. For the fear of "high tech, low life" we will have low tech and low life.

 

[SCV]

I use this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/anubis-bypass/
The source is here and it's ridiculously simple: https://gitlab.com/zipdox/anubis-bypass

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You can't make this shit up. This amazing piece of software written by a brave T&H woman that every FOSS project is relying on to protect themselves form the heckin' AI scrapers can be completely bypassed by... reloading the page the moment it loads.

HOW THE FUCK IS THE ENTIRE FOSS ECOSYSTEM BUYING INTO THIS TROON'S GARBAGE HOLY FUCKING SHIT THIS IS BEYOND USELESS

Just tried this and it actually works

 

[Ferryman]

I didn't not get you. I'm just fucking sad, man. For the fear of "high tech, low life" we will have low tech and low life.

C'mon man, don't let em get you down, that's exactly what they want! The only way we're truly fucked is if we think we're fucked. As long as there's a will there will always be a way.

 

[BABANGUIDE64]

Sup. Is there a software for dynamic wallpaper, which renders not just static images or videos but whatever graphical app you wish?
i.e. I want a cellular automaton to run as a wallpaper. Is it possible?
Can the finished graphical apps be used as desktop backgrounds or screensavers or even as start up splash screens without changes in their code or by some other graphical application? I want that

 

[Betonhaus]

Sup. Is there a software for dynamic wallpaper, which renders not just static images or videos but whatever graphical app you wish?
i.e. I want a cellular automaton to run as a wallpaper. Is it possible?
Can the finished graphical apps be used as desktop backgrounds or screensavers or even as start up splash screens without changes in their code or by some other graphical application? I want that

Like a Linux version of wallpaper engine?

 

[Susanna]

Sup. Is there a software for dynamic wallpaper, which renders not just static images or videos but whatever graphical app you wish?
i.e. I want a cellular automaton to run as a wallpaper. Is it possible?
Can the finished graphical apps be used as desktop backgrounds or screensavers or even as start up splash screens without changes in their code or by some other graphical application? I want that

If you can write your cellular automaton using shadertoy.com, you can use the KDE Shader Wallpaper plugin to use it as your wallpaper or Lock Screen background, which is effectively the same as a screensaver.

 

[Ferryman]

I can't help, but see what's being posted on modern reddit. And knowing about that. It makes a lot of sense. It's a stream of pure propaganda at this point, and any time there is something you think both sides you support. You see astroturfed posts, saying why it's heckin problematic. Or pushing rage bait posts, made from out of context video, or quotes. Or are just obviously wrong. But they get the most engagement. It's a perfect platform to sow division. It happens in basically any of the big subreddits, that aren't about some niche hobby.

Exact same thing happening on /g/. Literally every single thread except ye olde lisp general are completely unusable. 99.99% of the board is comprised of slide threads at any point in time. Even the fastfetch thread is always full of pedophiles or tranny chasers with dicks on their screen. No cancer r*ddit might seriously be better than /g/ right now. Grim!

 

[prollyanotherlurker]

Don't do the very thing that make others want to call it out where it's "inappropriate" (tit-for-tat).

It was a retarded decision. And them adding the tranny screenshot is obviously them trying to show people that, the dei thing in the readme, didn't mean what they think it means. And they are trying to pander enough to them to make people let it go.

Because dei means 2 different things effectively depending on where you are politically. On the right, it means choosing to promote some races, basically everything but white straight people, disregard any meritocracy.

For people on the left, they think dei is good because it just helps black people and gay people. So they think people that are against dei hate black people and gay people.

And some people that are against dei might hate anyone but straight white people, that isn't necessarily the case, and it's more about just being pro meritocracy. And not specifically excluding people. But that isn't what they take it to mean. They see it as posting "no niggers and trannies".

Sup. Is there a software for dynamic wallpaper, which renders not just static images or videos but whatever graphical app you wish?
i.e. I want a cellular automaton to run as a wallpaper. Is it possible?
Can the finished graphical apps be used as desktop backgrounds or screensavers or even as start up splash screens without changes in their code or by some other graphical application? I want that

For Wayland at least there are a few, where you can have gifs play as your wallpaper. I'm sure xorg has some as well. I'll find the ones I'm thinking of and edit this.

So mpvpaper. And swww of the two swww is probably the better option. I'll see if I can find xorg ones.

Looks like xlivebg is an option I found something called komorebi also.

 

[Zeftax]

I think I've read about people somehow using xscreensaver as a wallpaper, but I've never tried it.

 

[analrapist]

I think I've read about people somehow using xscreensaver as a wallpaper, but I've never tried it.

Arch wiki teaches thus: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XScreenSaver#Animated_wallpaper

I haven't used it either.

 

[Froggy Fresh Sextape]

Can't they just allow Microsoft to require ID verified MS accounts and not allow local ones? That would be the easiest thing to do and I doubt MS would have any issues with that.

Yeah, although I doubt MS would really enjoy the sudden need to verify every Brazilian's ID while also not being allowed to use it for marketing.

Based on how it's enforced I would doubt this affects community distros. It's not like the Brazilian government can fine Debian.

 

[ghastlyretard]

Artix, which is the de-faggoted version of Arch

Did I fall for a meme? I tried to install Artix. I figured I'd try to not punish myself and go with the graphical installer. Chose the xfce-OpenRC iso. Upon launching xfce my resolution was 640x480 on my split widescreen. Fixed it and set my primary, and then the mouse reached a quantum state where you could not observe the position or its direction at the same time. When I tried to install onto my NVME SSD, the installer informed me politely that it could not create a second partition on my disk. Now my network adapter doesn't work unless I disable and re-enable it in devmgmt and my mouse is unresponsive despite my keyboard working through the same wireless dongle. I also discovered there's an Artix, France, so how de-fagged could it really be?

What's the recommendation for init system anyway? I went with openrc because I was reading it was older, so I was thinking it would be better supported. I'm not sure I'm really going to notice it though. And on the note of init systems, it seems like the solution for services that would normally required systemd is that you get them out of the Artix repo and add the appropriate init-related addon (i.e. openssh and openssh-openrc). Does that mean anything that runs as a service needs to have a package for the init or it won't work properly? I was kind of figuring it would just be the alternatives would have something that would translate systemd calls to the one you picked.

 

[analrapist]

openrc should be one of the most tested because it's the Gentoo init, maybe it's just local system weirdness? Had zero issues with the s6-mate ISO. Graphical install, the works.

Your experience reminds me of trying the Armbian KDE build recently. All kinds of "was this ever tested?" sense.

I presume you grabbed the Stable ISO? Or what?

 

[Banana Hammock]

The only wallpaper engine-like programs that I was able to find just play a video over your desktop, shortcuts included.

 

[ghastlyretard]

I presume you grabbed the Stable ISO?

Yeah, it was the stable from April. I've been trying to talk myself out of buying a new laptop, but maybe I should give in and make this PC an aquarium.

 

[Betonhaus]

What's the recommendation for init system anyway? I went with openrc because I was reading it was older, so I was thinking it would be better supported.

I've heard runit is popular

 

[ghastlyretard]

Jesus Christ. So the NIC works if I re-enable secure boot but now none of my USB ports operate and I have to remote control the PC from another device. But looking at diskmgmt I think I see why the Artix installer failed. I selected the option to erase the whole disk and let it repartition. I think it tried to put a 3.7TB partition on a MBR partition table.

 

[Frederica Bernkastel]

I was thinking about replacing OpenRC with Dinit, on Gentoo, for fun, but came to realize what a pain it would be.

Does that mean anything that runs as a service needs to have a package for the init or it won't work properly? I was kind of figuring it would just be the alternatives would have something that would translate systemd calls to the one you picked.

Dinit is apparently the closest to Systemd without being it. Even the commands are very systemd like.

 

[Sugriva]

So last night I was trying to solve some weird bug with Retroarch where games would be frozen unless the mouse was moving. Some weird wayland bug. So I switch over to x11, everything works fine, and I notice that this has also fixed my year long issue where everything would stutter if I had my PC connected to my monitor and TV at the same time.

Which leads me to ask: Why the fuck do people use wayland? It seems to be nothing but bugs and issues. There has to be some reason everyone is forcing people to switch to it, right? What does it offer over x11?