KISSmyOS

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KISSmyOS,

Don’t compress your images to 70% jpg!!!
HDD space is essentially free, just get more. With a 70% quality jpg, you lose the ability to crop, edit or blow up your images. It basically limits you to looking at them on a screen. And even there, you’ll get jarring artifacts in dark areas.

KISSmyOS,

Yeah OK, but only in one of these trucks can I safely text and drive.

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.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

The only distro I could get to boot on my old Acer One was MX Linux.
It had the rare combination of 32bit UEFI support (cause the Acer supports neither 64bit UEFI nor legacy BIOS) and the necessary firmware out of the box.

But after upgrading it to the current release, it broke again. And then I threw the netbook away cause I have better things to do with my time.

How to solve this boot error message? (lemmy.world)

I’m on debian 11, this error doesn’t show up every time, but once it appear I need more that one reboot and it will fix automatically without doing nothing, don’t know the reason why (just read that can be kernel dependent). What I want to avoid is that maybe it’s just a warning of somethink that will cause a pc break in...

KISSmyOS,

I wouldn’t assume a failing disk either.
But every time there’s an error you can’t pin on something you just did, a full backup should be the first thing you do as a matter of principle.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

By default, your grub menu should show up every time you boot.
If it doesn’t, boot your PC and do:
sudo nano /etc/default/grub
You need these lines:
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu

Every line starting with:
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT
should be commented out like so:
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT

Then run sudo update-grub and reboot.

What this does:

  • sets a countdown of 10 seconds before grub boots the kernel
  • tells grub to show the boot menu during that countdown
  • doesn’t use a hidden countdown that waits for a button press to show the menu

In the grub menu, select advanced options and there you should be able to select an older kernel to boot.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I think the newer kernel should work after reinstallation.
If it doesn’t and you want to stay with the older one:

apt list --installed linux-image*

There should be a package with a specific version number in its name. For example, the standard kernel for Debian 11 is:
linux-image-5.10.0-26-amd64

Uninstall the linux-image-… package you don’t want to keep.
Also uninstall linux-image-amd64 which is the meta-package that pulls in the newest kernel version. Without it, you won’t get new kernel versions in upgrades.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

In the grub menu, choose advanced options and then choose an older kernel to boot into.
If that boots fine, remove and reinstall the newest installed kernel and run sudo update-grub.
That should be the easiest way to fix the most possible causes of this error.

Edit: Now would be a very good time to back up all your data to an external drive. This might be a sign of your hard drive failing.

KISSmyOS,

You should switch to rolling release memes, yours are outdated.

KISSmyOS,

uninstall gnome-clocks (it doesn’t remove the standard clock in your panel)

KISSmyOS,

Arch has been more of a “just works” distro for me than OpenSUSE Tumbleweed, Debian and Fedora.
Arch Installation nowadays goes like this:


<span style="color:#323232;">iwctl  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">device list  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">station *device* scan  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">station *device* get-networks  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">station *device* connect *SSID*  
</span><span style="color:#323232;">archinstall
</span>

And you only need the first 5 lines if you’re installing from wifi.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

I’ll stick with my guiding principle “do whatever crackheads aren’t doing”.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

Just read the Wiki!

Best Linux Distro for a tablet?

Been wanting to put Linux on my Surface Pro 7, but when i tried it with Ubuntu, it didn’t work as well as I’d like. I used the Surface driver kernel, but Ubuntu wasn’t really good with touch. It couldn’t give a pop up keyboard (only showed up when logging into my account, but never beyond that). Sometimes it wouldn’t...

KISSmyOS,

Fedora. It is the flagship distro for Gnome, and Gnome is the best desktop for tablets and convertibles.

KISSmyOS,

I’ll take a foldable solar panel, a tablet PC with its entire storage full of porn, and the dog.
Everything else I need I’ll trade in exchange for a half hour in my dog-guarded porn booth.

KISSmyOS,

“Stability” is probably the most mis-used word in the Linux world.
It means that how your system looks and behaves doesn’t change, which is really important for servers, especially in business, where you want to plan any change in advance before you commit to it.
Arch is not stable in this sense. It constantly changes, and those changes can come up on short notice with any upgrade.

But when people read that Arch isn’t stable, they think the system can break at any time.
I’d say this hasn’t been the case for at least 10 years now. If you RTFN (read the fucking news) and use the AUR sensibly, Arch has become a really boring system, regarding breakage.

KISSmyOS,

This firefox hasn’t crashed. It behaves as expected on Slackware.

KISSmyOS, (edited )

Big Parma is already doing it:
businessinsider.com/edible-microchips-on-parmigia…

KISSmyOS, (edited )

Life(lengthening )hack: Office chairs aren’t stepladders.

KISSmyOS,

I bet Jämtland gets bullied by all the others:
“You forgot what a cross looks like? Saint Philip never liked you.”

KISSmyOS,

Debian: “Stop complaining, she calls me Old Ubuntu.”

KISSmyOS,

oof, that was aggressively cringe.

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    KISSmyOS,

    Wait, it’s already Debian December?
    I thought it was still Arch Autumn!
    Oh well, here I go reinstalling again…

    Why didn't anyone remind me the dual booting exists?

    I was talking to my dad yesterday and he talked about how he dual booted windows and Linux in his college days. I immediately left to download Ubuntu, I feel so dumb for forgetting it’s an option. I literally only use windows so I can play Fortnite with friends. PSA: you can have both Linux and Windows, or you can use a vm in...

    KISSmyOS, (edited )

    Most people forget you can also run a Linux VM inside Windows if all the other options don’t work for you.
    It protects your private data from virusses, doesn’t let Microsoft’s telemetry spy on your usage and browsing, and gives you more control.
    Just limit what you do in Windows to what needs it running natively and do everything else inside the VM.

    KISSmyOS, (edited )

    First, make sure your VM has access to the internet, for example with ping 8.8.8.8
    Then do sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

    The file should include a line that is exactly this:
    deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali-rolling main contrib non-free non-free-firmware
    (or it could have kali-last-snapshot in place of kali-rolling)
    If not, replace everything in the file with the line above and save the file with Ctrl+O, then close the editor with Ctrl+X
    Then run:

    
<span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt update   
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt dist-upgrade   
</span><span style="color:#323232;">sudo apt install hcxtools
</span>
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