@Frederic@beehaw.org

Frederic

@Frederic@beehaw.org

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Frederic, (edited )

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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?!?

Frederic,

Reboot your router/DHCP server

Is Ubuntu deserving the hate? (lemmy.ml)

Long story short, I have a desktop with Fedora, lovely, fast, sleek and surprisingly reliable for a near rolling distro (it failed me only once back around Fedora 34 or something where it nuked Grub). Tried to install on a 2012 i7 MacBook Air… what a slog!!! Surprisingly Ubuntu runs very smooth on it. I have been bothering all...

Frederic,

Use MX Linux instead, I will never go back to something else

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

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,

AntiX is awesome on old HW, everything works, just don’t load a big website in the browser or it crawls :)

Frederic,

In windows, save the recovery key (to an external USB key for instance), it is a text file. Then in Linux double click the partition in Thunar or your file manager and it will ask you for the key.

Frederic,

Why use flatpak?

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 :)

Frederic,

Pretty sure you can run MX Linux 32bits on 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,

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,

I remember seeing this on TV and was like WTF indeed!!!

Frederic,

Yup, I saw it multiple times, always a strange feeling

Frederic, (edited )

If Windows, use BitLocker.

If Linux, use LUKS but you need to enter the passphrase at boot, you can securely put the key in TPM2 I think (à la Windows) but it may be complicated to setup, or just seal the phrase in TPM2 but if you boot on grub you can break grub and replace init with a shell in boot option and have access to the system I think :-/ but a simple crackhead thief would not understand that.

You can also have the key on a USB key, but if on the server and the server get stolen, it’s useless. You can setup a “anywhereUSB” and have your USB key in another room/place, etc, there is others possibilities.

I wanted to unlock with bluetooth but having the bluetooth HW driver and stack in initramfs was nightmarish a little bit :-/

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”)

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!

Frederic, (edited )

Yes for /boot/efi you’re right but /boot is ext4

Frederic,

EFI with grub

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 )

well, are you sure the script is executed? I don’t know systemd enough :-(

First, do a test in command line modprobe -r iwlwifi

then suspend your laptop, resume it after a few seconds then do

modprobe iwlwifi

and see if wifi is working

Frederic, (edited )

you have to replace the ## with &&

the name should be iwlwifi

Frederic,

what? suspend works flawlessly for years

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,

yes of course

sudo modprobe -r iwlwifi

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