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Frederic

@Frederic@beehaw.org

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Frederic,

Reboot your router/DHCP server

Frederic,

Ubuntu is Debian anyway. Why not installing MX (based on Debian too) with XFCE, it is the best experience I have had.

I come from good old LFS from the 90s and for me, a distro is just a kernel with some GNU utils, a window manager, and a way to get packages (which is about the only diff between “distro”)

How to fool a laptop into thinking a monitor is connected?

Hello! I converted an old laptop with a broken screen into a home server, and it all works well except for one thing: when I reboot it (via ssh), if no screen is connected, it will get stuck and refuse to boot. as soon as I connect an HDMI monitor, the fans will start spinning and it will start booting as usual. Then I can...

Frederic,

This, EDID dummy plug, $2 on aliexpress

Frederic,

In Québec in 1998 during the ice storm, we missed power for 5 weeks. They derailled train to bring them at some place to plug their big diesel generators on the city power system.

Yes they were driving train on the asphalt road, I’m sure you can find pic and videos or it.

Frederic,

LMDE, MX, Ubuntu etc are based on Debian. Mint is based on Ubuntu, so Debian. Chimera/Endeavour are based on Arch, etc.

In the linux world, you have a linux kernel, systemd or init, a bunch of gnu utils, a window system like X or Wayland, whatever DE you want (Xfce, gnome, kde, name it) and a packaging system (apt, yum, pacman), but for me, it’s all the same.

If you want something different, try a BSD distro then? FreeBSD, OpenBSD, GhostBSD, etc

Frederic,

Hibernation or suspend? 2 different things. For hibernation you need a swap space at least the size of your RAM, and then the laptop is powered off after this.

For suspend, in your dmesg, see if you have:

ACPI: PM: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)

if you have S3 your laptop should lost only a few percent.

do a:

cat /sys/power/mem_sleep

what does it says?

New CPU/BIOS/PC/Laptop only support something called “s0 idle” meaning it is like a cellphone, everything is running, and each drivers/components/os should enter low power themselves, if they do not, well, your battery is draining.

S3 means “suspend to RAM”, only RAM is powered and everything else is off, your laptop can stay like this for days. I don’t know who decided that this is bad and your laptop should be like your cellphone, always running?!?

Suspension on my laptop (closing the lid) causes Wifi to not be available. (kbin.social)

Hi, this is a long lasting problem that I didn't really manage to fix when I started using linux (Mint, Cinnamon). But now that I've been using it regularly for half a year and I have more experience in fiddling around, I'm trying to get it resolved....

Frederic, (edited )

You need to unload your wifi module before suspend.

Without systemd it’s easy:

create a file /etc/pm/config.d/config containing:


<span style="color:#323232;">HOOK_BLACKLIST="wireless"
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SUSPEND_MODULES=”NAME_OF_YOUR_WIFI_MODULE”
</span><span style="color:#323232;">SUSPEND_MODULES=”wl”
</span>

With systemd try this

create a file /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/fix-wifi.sh containing (fuck this editor, replace the “##” with “&&”) :


<span style="color:#323232;">#!/bin/bash
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ "$1" = "post" ] ## exec /usr/sbin/modprobe NAME_OF_YOUR_WIFI_MODULE
</span><span style="color:#323232;">[ "$1" = "pre" ] ## exec /usr/sbin/modprobe -r NAME_OF_YOUR_WIFI_MODULE
</span><span style="color:#323232;">exit 0
</span>

and make it executable with chmod 755 /usr/lib/systemd/system-sleep/fix-wifi.sh

Frederic,

what? suspend works flawlessly for years

Frederic,

Why use flatpak?

Frederic, (edited )

After using ext4 for yyyeeeaaaarrrrrsss, when I upgraded my MX21 to MX23 I used btrfs, with subvolumes, especially for easy backup/snapshot/timeshift.

Just at install, super easy, create a small ext4 boot partition on the SSD, then a big LUKS partition, format with btrfs, create subvolumes for / /home /var /swap and that’s it. No hassle with sizing correctly.

btrfs seems pretty stable. I see no diff in performance compared to ext4 because my application are not that dependant to FS speed, and with SSD anyway?

oh yeah, built-in compression too!

Does `cp -v` print out the file name when it starts copying it or when it's done?

So if I had a cp -v operation fail, is the last file name it printed out the last successful file copy, or is it the failed partially copied file? If you had to ensure all files are copied correctly without overwriting anything, would deleting the last filename that was printed from the destination folder delete the partially...

Frederic,

I think the one being currently copied? take a look at github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/…/cp.c :)

What distro would you recommend for a 32-bit old Acer One laptop? (kbin.social)

It's an old model (Acer One D257) Processor is Intel Atom. Memory is 1GB DDR3 with 320 GB of HDD. I currently Have MX 21 running on it, but I need to reinstall because I forgot the root password. Since I'm reinstalling the OS, I thought I'd ask here for recommendations for an OS that makes the most of this oldie.

Frederic,

yeah MX21 32bits is what I would install, or AntiX.

Can’t you boot on a USB key and reset the root password on your HD partition?

Frederic,

ah tabarnak…

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    Frederic,

    oh no, explain this then www.top500.org/lists/top500/list/2023/11/

    Frederic,

    Title bullshit, we have multicore machine for years, I can guarantee you this had about no impact else people running Xeon or Threadripper would have saw it at first try 15 years ago.

    This looks like to have an impact on the scheduler but not on how many cores are used.

    Frederic,

    less than $500? There’s literally tons of them

    For instance www.amazon.com/…/B0B82N3WM5

    Frederic,

    antiX should be ok, it’s very light

    Frederic,

    I still have my HP Mini311, it has a 11.6" screen, 1366x768, discrete GPU, can decode 1080p in hardware and output on tv via HDMI. In 2009 it was a beast!

    I changed the 2.4bg with a 2.4/5n wifi, upgraded to 3GB of ddr3 ram, SSD, overclocked to 2GHz, and installed MX Linux on it, works perfect.

    Frederic,

    I always had chance installing Linux on Dell Latitude laptops. MX Linux works flawlessly, everything.

    Frederic,

    I’m using lcdproc on a 20x4 characters display, it’s enough to see cpu, load, mem, Network, etc

    Frederic,

    https://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/4e2c3f8c-d511-4ace-9806-f3d31c737aad.webphttps://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/0b39aaf9-a292-449d-8c4e-c87f380db571.webphttps://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/c3582e3b-396d-4382-9f5f-1f8ebad67d35.webphttps://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/0648ceda-0341-491c-901d-1a66f9fefc9f.webphttps://beehaw.org/pictrs/image/135f1877-a56d-4a1c-891a-aea63f0a3451.webp

    Frederic,

    I think it’s more because of the margin, say manuf a car for 30k and sell it 32k, compared to manuf a truck for 40k and sell it 60k+…

    I live in a suburbia and there is a couple of lifted F250 trucks that are only used to go to Costco, which haven’t tow anything (no hitch anyway), and never saw a grain of dust anyway.

    :-(

    Frederic,

    Some companies like GM collects and gives/sales your genetic information and sexual life, to 3rd parties.

    Frederic,

    Well, there is no more cars at some dealers, only SUV and trucks

    Frederic,

    Why not good old Australia?

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