/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

>>61184723

It's explained in the last 2 comments.
How is it dangerous? You need root privileges to start system services. If someone is in a position to start or edit those files for you, there is no need to "exploit" this.
It's also explained what happens when the username is non existent and when it's "invalid".

I downloaded a Windows iso, used dd to burn it to a usb drive, but it won't launch, even when the bios recognises there's a usb drive in.

I have Linux installed, could it be because of that? Should I format the drive first?

I wanted to have Windows and Linux but installed Linux first.

>>61184992
>>>/g/sqt

>>61184982
> don't expect the service to execute as root
> it executes as root
You have no idea of the variety of jobs that init is tasked to handle. If you honestly can't imagine that being exploited you need to learn more security. You need to be defensive, always.

> 3.426 User Name

> A string that is used to identify a user; see also User Database. To be portable across systems conforming to IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, the value is composed of characters from the portable filename character set. The hyphen should not be used as the first character of a portable user name.


> 3.276 Portable Filename Character Set

> The set of characters from which portable filenames are constructed.

> A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y
> Z a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z 0 1 2 3
> 4 5 6 7 8 9 . _ -

> The last three characters are the period, underscore, and hyphen characters, respectively.

why shouldn't i install ubuntu?

>>61185346
they put ads in the motd.

why cant i set execute bit for files with umask?

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>tfw fell for a windows meme because pajeets keep forcing "muh just werks"
fug, even gentoo "just werked" better

>>61185370
You can. Also, files don't have umask. Your shell does as the default perms for new files.

>>61185522
But if umask only applies to terminal how do i set umask for dekstop? I am tired of having to chmod 700 my torrented porn files manually all the time

>>61185578
Not sure, it might inherit for process groups or something, but you should search the web of no-one else here pops up.

How do i create a proper snapshot in lvm? Normaly a snapshot only saves incremental changes, so if i delete the system partition i won't be able to restore shit from the snapshot. I would like to take a full snapshot of the root so that a year later when i delete the / partition i will be able to easily restore it to the state it was right when i took the snapshot

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What are some cool terminal commands?

>>61185924
cat

Apart from gentoo, why should I bother switching to Linux now that systemd has ruined everything?

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Getting a new laptop and I'm already depressed af about all the configuration problems. Wonder what windows feels like after all these years.

>>61185979
cat is for concatenating files. Concating a file with nothing is wasting a process.

What is systemd?

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>>61185924

mpv --vo=fbdev:fb_path=/dev/fb0 /path/to/video

>>61186005
>>>/r/eddit
>>61186040
You set up dotfiles once and carry them with you.
>>61186077
An alternative to diversity and flexibility.
>>61186083
>>61185924

mpv avdevice://lavfi:life=s=683x384:mold=10:r=60:ratio=0.1:death_color=#330033:life_color=#990033,scale=1366x768:flags=16 --fullscreen

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So I rebooted a while ago and noticed my sound stopped working in firefox, still works everywhere else on my system just not firefox. I'm on firefox 54.

I did some googling and apparently Mozilla dropped support for Alsa in 52 which is what I use, not pulse.

Is this really what's causing my sound to drop, I just find it unlikely that I would not have noticed until now on version 54?

>>61186096
But what does it do that makes you think it's the Devil.
I'm a computer illiterate, so please be gentle.

>>61186105
some distros compiled firefox with alsa support even after 52 maybve yours stopped doing that now

>>61186040
It's da best as all always. I don't even install drivers anymore with windows, i just plop it onto the pc and everything works out of the box

>>61186113

>Starting with version 54, Firefox uses PulseAudio for audio playback and capture. For sound to work, you need to install the pulseaudio package.

FUCKING WHY.

Why does Mozilla just try to ruin everything, what fucking reason is there to stop supporting alsa.

>>61186137
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1345661#c83

>>61186066
Catenating, actually.

>>61186200
kittynating

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>>61186196
>ctrl+f gnu
>phrase not found

not lunix related, but this is cool
eu's are attacking companies such as google microsoft facebook etc
google already got rekt with a €2.42bn fine
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/06/27/google_record_antitrust_fine_europe/
will at the end the gubbermint save us from the botnet?

>>61186389
>google already got rekt with a €2.42bn fine
>google
>€2.42bn fine
>rekt

Oh man, i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but thats meager change for google

>>61186137

Learn programming and maintain it yourself.

>>61186487

Too late, I installed pulse. Was a lot less painful than I thought it would be.

>>61186511
I've read there's "apulse" which somehow trolls programs into thinking they are using pulse while its actually alsa. Just in case (didn't try it myself).

why is systemd a meme now?

>>61186530
>>>/r/abbits

>>61186530
I'm just a user without any detailed technical insights about any "botnets", security problems, or whatever, but here my 2cents why I dislike systemd:

- it makes redhat too powerful
- its acceptance as de-facto standard and developers acting like it already is, makes programs start depending on it, which will ultimativly result in systemd being the actual standard, but imho programs should just run, whatever init you're using

why systemd is a meme
- poettering is funny
- she wants the system's D.
- talking about technical things you barely understand is cool

>>61186389
>€2.42bn
How much is this in fucking cash?
>what is a cool terminal command to convert currency?

>>61186389
This fine is pure bullshit.
>own a company
>work hard and earn my way to the top
>use MY SEARCH ENGINE which i made and own to preffer my products in search results, because again i own the search engine and i pay for its maintenance and give it out to poeple for free, they can use some shitty bing if they want
and those cunts dare to fine them? i hope eu gets fucking nuked

>>61186806
>feeling compassion to multibillion dollar american corporations which turned ruining the planet and it's inhabitants into a joint venture

>>61184992
Bump.

>>61186655

>- it makes redhat too powerful
It's free software, idiot.

>- its acceptance as de-facto standard and developers acting like it already is, makes programs start depending on it, which will ultimativly result in systemd being the actual standard, but imho programs should just run, whatever init you're using
None of the "user-facing" programs that I use depend on it. Most certainly neither do yours.

>>61186947
>It's free software, idiot.
that's irrelevant if there are no viable alternatives

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>>61186806
Google isn't just a search engine. It may have started as one, but today the search engine is just a part of a complete advertising system selling our souls. I couldn't care less when they loose some sheckles.

>>61186975

Once there's a "need" for an alternative, one will show up.
It's free software. If you don't find a free alternative, write one yourself. But you can't, because you have no skills and you are entitled and demanding other people use things you like. That's a symptom of autism.

>>61186137
to comply with the latest systemd-userspaced/systemd-kerneld standards

does vaapi enabled chromium accelerate netflix streams?

>>61187012
being "free software" isn't an ultimative "okay", please let it go and think out of the box

months back I had the same opinions, but srsly you need to follow systemd development and how systemd developers act, why distros adpot systemd and who the people are who adopt it

>>61187141
>>>/g/sqt

>>61186137
Are you complaining about bloat in a modern web browser?

This is what they do.

>>61187147

Nice conspiracy theories.

>>61186137
>FUCKING WHY.
multichannel and duplex support

>>61186698
the euro is slightly more than the dollar, but since americans isn't taught math, just assume it is the same.

>>61187181
How so? Just use your brain. You don' bite the hand feeding you (which is RedHat), so you adpot everything its presenting you. If the community likes or dislikes it, is not important. Look at the Debian voting. The majority of the community didn't want it, some didn't know what systemd is and what it does, some others approved it. Yet systemd came to Debian. Same with other distros. This just shows how much of too powerful RedHat already is.

I just updated Xubuntu to 17.04 and now it boots to a black screen, what do

>>61187253

Doesn't affect me at all. It's free software. It's also convenient and I don't have to trade in convenience for proprietary software.

>>61187272
>It's free software
*explodes*

>>61187141
>netflix

kill yourself back to facebook/lebbit

>>61187256
stop using xnoobuntu.

install debian or debuan with task-xfce-desktop

>>61187324
not helpful

>>61187357
Lifetime is important. Doing a fast-forward in order to save time is indeed helpful.

>>61187357
>>>/sqt/ is this way
>>>/askubuntu/ is that way

>>61187141
why does it matter not like you're going to get more than 720p

battery life.
it's for a laptop.

when even freetards arent united with an opinion about systemd, I don't know what to do
isn't there some, whater, wiki where I can read unbiased, informative stuff about systemd in order to make my own opinion?

>>61187428
Should last a bit, I'd say.
Especially for a laptop.

>>61187434

Why do you need to have an opinion on things you don't understand? If you truly "needed" to have an opinion, you'd be smart enough to research it on your own.
But no, you want to be spoonfed information which you then blindly adapt just to have an opinion on something technical that you can parrot to feel smart in online technology discussions.

>>61187493
this post doesn't help much
you could aswell just not post

Hi /fglt/

I'm trying to make a python script run from anywhere on my system, I'm assuming I would use bashrc but I'm not sure exactly what I need to do

I've got the .py file in my ~/bin folder, what would I use so the system would recignize it as a command?

Even better if I could shorten it so I could type 1 word and it would run the script + specific options

>>61187428
powertop
>>61187434
"biased" good talk about devuan, which explains most of the problems without memes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMvyOGawNwo

>>61187540
set it to executable

chmod +x meme.py

also make sure ~/bin is in your PATH (use full path like /home/anon/bin/ just to be sure)

>>61187594
That works perfectly, thankyou

>>61187540
There are 2 things:

- Is the file executable?
If not, chmod +x file

- Is ~/bin in your PATH?
You PATH is a variable which holds all directries which can contain executables you can run from the cli. If ~/bin is not part (you can verify with running: echo $PATH) put a line into your bashrc:
export PATH="$PATH:~/bin"

>>61187594
Is there any advantage to using the full path to your home directory instead of a tilde? I've always thought that a tilde was better, since it allows scripts/configurations to be compatible across systems

>>61187651
$HOME > ~ > full path

>>61187641
It's better to use ~/.profile instead of ~/.bashrc, since then your PATH variable isn't tied to a particular instance of a shell.

>tfw wanted to change owner and group of some files in a directory so i did
sudo chown -R anon:poop .
>tfw . is on the keyboard right next to / and i actually accidentaly did
sudo chown -R anon:poop /

It's over. It's all broken. All that remains is for me to put myselfs out of my misery ;_;

I hope that cunt who designed the keyboard layout in a way this retarded will burn in hell for all eternity

>>61185924
neofetch | tac
fortune | cowsay | tac

>>61187434
1. Those who have something against freedom are the tards.
2. All the anti systemd shit you see here is paid shills spreading fud and the occasional useful idiot.

>>61188386
t. red hat shill

>>61184920
WHEN YOU WERE HERE BEFORE

>>61188386
The community doesn't need to shill something. The only entity with the need to make payed posts are companies who would otherwise lose money: eg. Red Hat

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can someone give me a quick rundown on the systemd controversity?

>>61188501
Have you tried search engines?

>>61188501
>perfectly fine working system
>systemd appears
>shits on fire

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I'm running systemd on Devuan. What now?

>>61188630
here is your (You) now piss off

>>61188630
Would be cool to change your init on other distros aswell, right?

>>61188655
systemd is not an init system
people need to stop thinking systemd is an in system
systemd is not an init system

>>61188665
What is systemd?

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>>61188787
the fuck

Is there a better way to do this?

echo "Actual: $(($(($(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_now)*100))/$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_full)))%"
echo "Design: $(($(($(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_now)*100))/$(cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT1/charge_full_design)))%"

https://ma.ttias.be/giving-perspective-systemds-usernames-start-digit-get-root-privileges-bug/

>>61188933
You have one $(()) too much.
You can drop the cat and use < instead.

Jessie, Ascii, or Ceres?

How do i encrypt a file with a password? I want something like encrypted harddrive but for a single file

>>61189388
password protected archives

>>61188933
Sure is.

upower -e

to get a list of devices

upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0 | awk 'NR==19 {print $2}; NR==20 {print $2}'

Then just dress it however you want.

>>61189388
gpg

>>61189665
>gnu gpg
>gnu
nope

Why do 3.5" drives still get used these days? Don't 2.5" drives do everything now? What do people need other than SATA

>>61188454

Yes, Red Hat has to run marketing campaigns on here. Yes, people on here usually run companies which pay for support. Yes, that's totally the target audience of RHEL.

>>61189722
What the hell, kid

>>61188239
Linux doesn't have a cntrl +z command for this

Hahahaha you hobos and your free to shit os

>>61189917
wtf you are right
installing systemd as we speak

>>61189889
/sqt/

>>61186806
alphabet stockholder detected

>>61189722
this is the worst meme

>>61190036
I don't understand this post.

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>>61189722
>goes to GNU+Linux general thread
>complains about GNU

>>61187493
What was the point of this post? He asked for some resources on information and you just told him to look for it himself. Why did you even bother typing that up?

>>61188239
>tfw
I'm just happy I'm not the only one who has done this.

>>61188239
I accidently did something simliar some years back. Can't remember correctly, but I think it was chmod +x .* or something. Anyway, I somehow managed it to make the command run on "." and ".." aswell, which ended up with the current and one level above all directires and files chmodded executable. Hurray.

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neofetch or screenfetch?

Wondering if I could get a second opinion on this. I've used Arch, Debian, and will be trying out Fedora at some point. I'll be using one of these on my school laptop since windows 7 sucks but I'm undecided as to which I'd rather use. I like Arch's bleeding edge software and the AUR but people here say it's unstable and it'll break on me at some point when running an update (hasn't happened to me yet on my other machine, but I like to be careful). Debian is stable and easy to install but it seems like a lot of it's packages aren't kept up at all.
Fedora seems like a balance of bleeding edge software while still being a stable system but I don't know how small it is in comparison to the above two.

>>61190313
>Debian is stable and easy to install but it seems like a lot of it's packages aren't kept up at all.

check deb-multimedia.org mozilla.debian.net and generic debian packports if any of them have new versions of software you need.

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>>61184920
I use that same thinkpad.

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https://redhat.corpmerchandise.com/ProductDetail.aspx?pid=200680&st=csus_TopSeller

Who are "they"?

>>61190517
the botnet bots

>>61190517
The FSF is selling these things too and they are actually useful if you don't want to actually fuck with your hardware.

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>>61190517

>>61190550
Is your chinkpad covered with tinfoil too?

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>>61190617
>tinfoil
Covering your webcam is probably the most normie thing to do out of the whole range of opsec things you can do.
I'm a med student and literally never seen a laptop without it covered (I actually pay attention to this cause I find it funny).
All my colleagues, the lecturers' private laptops, the laptops at the hospitals, even the one we have in our ambulances.
And all that despite being used or owned by one of the most technically clueless people I've met in my life.

Hell even the kike overlord Zuckerberg has his private laptop taped.

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>>61190550
c u t e

Is there a WM that's like dwm but smaller and lighter?

if you're using linux then you don't have to cover your webcam because shit doesn't work anyway

>>61191030
as in tiling/dynamic?

no.

Besides, how on earth can you go "lighter" if dwm has like 2000 lines of code and is one of the most featureless window managers out there that doesn't even implement configuration files because muh lightness.

>>61191031
Your fault for buying nonstandard chinese garbage lol

>>61191047
It's a bit of pain to compile every time I make a change on my machine. I might switch to cwm or twm.

>>61191107
awesomewm is a fork of dwm with extensions

Is 2bwm any good?

How do I switch to linux-hardened?

>>61191296
Also I'm using Arch.

>>61191296
show it a video of alizee

$ sudo apt install texlive*

pray for me lads

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is NUT the usual tool used for interfacing with a UPS?

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If anyone is coming from Windows 10 and wondering "how do I get something just as GPU-accelerated on Linux?", try GNOME on Wayland. It's snappier AND lighter weight than Windows on the same hardware, even with LUKS encryption, just like how GNOME 2.x ran rings around Vista. GNOME uses Wayland by default on Fedora and Arch Linux, and that change will eventually make its way down to the slower-moving distros.

>>61191582
IIRC some of those conflict. You could have just gone for the texlive-full metapackage.

>>61191809
wayland is fucking shit. Can't even play a youtube video without stuttering like shit

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Any recommendations for a distro to use on a portable Linux USB?

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>>61191834
Sounds like you're just using a shitty Wayland environment m8. Firefox and Chrom* both play high def youtube back at 60fps without a hitch, even shit like Bad Apple which is notoriously glitchy on slow browsers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkgK8eUdpAo

>>61191875
Literally any of them. Install it to a >=16GB drive as if you were installing to an internal disk.

>>61191876
I've used wayland on all the different DE on all different distros and they are all shit. Try playing this video and tell me it doesn't stutter https://youtu.be/lCCae9B-50A

>>61191931
Smooth as silk. The fuck are you running on, a Pentium 4 with integrated graphics?

>>61191939
acer c720

>>61191946
How much other stuff are you running in the background? That thing's clocked at less than 2GHz so serious multitasking bogs it down.

>>61191996
nothing

>>61192011
You say that, but I don't believe you. GNOME or KDE all by themselves have a bunch of background processes. KDE in particular chews CPU and disk I/O with its Baloo indexing, which will cause video playback to stutter on slower systems like the C720. Have you tried a really minimal Wayland environment like Sway?

I just want a light distro to run on my old laptop. Do you guys have any recommendations?

>>61192092
>Wayland environment like Sway
yes. still shit

>>61192099
Any.

>>61191875
puppy for toasters
ubuntu and derivs for a "full" desktop OS with persistency OOB
debian for a "full" desktop if you prefer debian over ubuntu
devuan mini live if you don't need much, just a basic tty system
gentoo live dvd writte on USB if you need to/want to try out many-many things including multiple DEs and dozens of WMs
slax for a modular system made especially for portable systems

>>61192099
debian with a WM or mate/xfce/lxde

What distro would run well on my craptop: 2 GB, 1.9 GHz, Intel Celeron?
I don't do much stuff, just surf the internet, watch videos and practice [spoiler]python[/spoiler]. Also I don't want it to look like ass. Tried ubuntu for a while but the performance goes to shit when I open may pages in firefox

Hey /g/, I'm looking for a lightweight distro for my old chinkpad. Any recommendations?

>>61186137
>>61186105
No one uses ALSA anymore
Welcome to [current year]

>>61192099
>>61192185
>>61192143
stop installing lignux on your old trashtops; run it as main system!

>>61192198
ya oss is way better

>>61192212
>wanting a facebook machine with audio support at all
computers are made for computing

>>61192212
cat /dev/urandom > /dev/dsp
>only oss things

>>61192198
>No one uses ALSA anymore
everyone does because pulseaudio runs on top of it you dumb dumb

Is there any app for Linux similar to windows lightshot?

>>61192207
But I'm doing that and runs like ass

>>61192335
there are shitload of screenshooters

>>61186137
Raw ALSA blows chunks compared to PulseAudio (especially PulseAudio using JACK as the output), Mac CoreAudio, and Windows ASIO.

So when will Stallman get an actual job at programming instead of living off the FSF? He hasn't had one for decades, has he?

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>>61192276
useless use of cat

aplay /dev/urandom[/xode]

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Day 2 of using Linux, was kinda yearnin for some gaymin. how does Morrowind run in Wine?

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>>61192536
wrong image

>>61192455
Listen, burrito brains, I don't have time to listen to this trash.

>>61192536
look an edgy teen

>>61192335
just install oh-my-screenshot from arch play

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf6KE1QzuR0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXDZWGTiQHY

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>>61192576
I'm sorry. I posted a rude image in a friendly thread. Please forgive me

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>>61188348
echo longcat | rev

>>61192536
Fine. But openmw runs natively.

sorry if stupid question, I'm pretty new to this android shit
does anyone know where termux is getting its packages from? it seems to use apt, so is everything from debian available?

>>61193026
Cherry picked, obviously. https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/tree/master/packages

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>>61184920
I'm trying to learn C better so I'm taking a looking at how libcs are implemented. Which libc should I take a look at? I've been parsing through glibc but frankly understand very little although the comments are pretty great.

>>61192894
Do I need the regular morrowind files to run OpenMW?

so is hhkb pro 2 the pinnacle of keyboards for loonix?
would cost more than most of my other peripherals, but i do want some extra motivation to pick up emacs.

>>61193166

Do it. If you can afford it get Type-S

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>>61193166
>pinnacle of keyboards for loonix
If you're going to use a hacked together OS, why not use a hacked together keyboard?

At least ergodox won't give you carpal tunnel syndrome from emacs.

>>61193141
Yep

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>>61193193
was under the impression you could mod that later on. was gonna get the non silent one and do it after if it bothered me enough.
>>61193197
was actually going to get this one from crowdsupply, but they keep pushing the date back, now it is an august launch. who know though, don't have that much cash to put down 400 bucks on just 2 keyboards.

>>61193247
>was actually going to get this one from crowdsupply, but they keep pushing the date back, now it is an august launch. who know though, don't have that much cash to put down 400 bucks on just 2 keyboards.
Making it yourself drops the price considerably. Have you tried looking for used ones? I'm sure that at least some people who bought into this thing ended up not liking it.

>>61193263
i just said it was not out yet.

>>61193281
I'd wait if I was you in all honesty, simply out of curiosity.

Plus, you'll get a truckload of e-peen points on /g/ for owning one.

>>61193304
yeah the hhkb isn't going anywhere i guess.
just hope it turns out well for the project.

>>61184920

is shampoo and condition not "free"

fucking christ this guy needs to sort himself out

>>61192455
>>61193339
show some respect you damn worms.

>>61186976
>>61186895

So tell me how it's ruining our lives?

Advertising is evil? Do explain.

>>61193397
Monopolies are evil.

>>61193397
>>61193425
But yeah, advertising too.
World would much improve if we genocided all the marketing people.

>>61193425

In so far as they are monopolies.

What makes something a monopoly is when the entity is unjustly using force to maintain its standing as a market producer.

That unjust force is the opposite of what entrepreneurs do.

I agree with you.

>>61189357
Ascii and Ceres are both pretty great, have Ceres on my desktop

And essentially there are things Google is doing that I am aware of as "bad," namely cooperating with the NSA, CIA, FBI, etc.

Advertising and marketing are just a way to make money. What makes it any more evil than your daughters setting up a lemonade stand, then realizing they can really make money if they get serious and eventually making their own lemonade company and having a legacy they can pass down to their own kids as well as provide for you in your old age, etc.

lol

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>>61191796

if anyone is interested, yeah NIT seems the way to go - fairly painless setup on server and very painless on clients. Pfsense and FreeNas have readily available packages for it and simple configs.

Thats everything in the rack setup for graceful shutdown, most nice.

>>61193397
No data, no ads. The data is what Google needs and in order to get data they track every step of everyone, while selling it as "feature".

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>>61193425
This.

um I want to remove the intel X driver and it wants to remove the whole desktop? WTF?

$ sudo apt-get remove xserver-xorg-video-intel
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
libxvmc1
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
lubuntu-core lubuntu-desktop xserver-xorg-video-intel
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 3 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
After this operation, 3,317 kB disk space will be freed.

fell for the opensuse meme on a spare server i had, what a pain it was to get it going. have to relearn certain actions when ubungu was ezpz.

>>61193847
>lubuntu-core lubuntu-desktop
These are most likely metapackages, you can safely remove them.

If you don't want, just mark them as "installed manually" since they were.

apt-get install lubuntu-core lubuntu-desktop

Then you can remove the xserver* package

>>61194049
> you can safely remove them
Except that next time you do autoremove most of your graphical applications will be removed.

Which one of these WM should I use:
dwm
cwm
stumpwm
exwm
2bwm
9wm

>>61194349
The one you like the most, stop trying to seek approval for every action you make

>>61194349
all incompatible with wayland

>>61184992
Use Google my dude

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>>61194759
Please behave. This is a friendly thread.

>>61184992
Winusb.

>>61193247
Get a Mistel Barocco. Only $100-140 and it's the same board (sans mods). Made by ducky too, so it's not some no name board

>>61193223
OpenMW works fantastic, thank you!

>>61193140
You'll probably learn more from trying to implement your own from scratch.

>>61184992
>I downloaded a Windows iso, used dd to burn it to a usb drive, but it won't launch, even when the bios recognises there's a usb drive in.
How this works is different between BIOS booting and EFI booting. Under BIOS, the USB drive needs to have a proper bootloader in sector 0, which ISOs won't have (they traditionally boot in a different fashion). You *can* install a custom Grub image onto such a USB drive to make it boot Windows, but making that kind of image is not exactly an entry-level topic.
Under EFI, I'm not entirely sure, but I think the EFI firmware only looks for FAT filesystems, not ISO9660. If that is the problem, you'll need to reformat the USB drive with FAT and copy the files from the ISO image, not dd it over.

>I have Linux installed, could it be because of that? Should I format the drive first?
No, the BIOS won't care what's on your hard drive when it tries to boot from a USB drive.

>I wanted to have Windows and Linux but installed Linux first.
It's definitely easier to install Windows first, since if you have Linux on there first, Windows will override the bootloader when you install it afterwards, and you'll need to use a live system to restore Grub. If you haven't done anything with your Linux system yet, it might be easier to just install Windows over it, and then reinstalled Linux.

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>>61195103
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>61195401
r.i.p. tay

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>Hates proprietary software
>Uses a distro like ubuntu, debian, or arch linux that's full of proprietary software

>>61195448
who are you quoting

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>>61195448
>hates trojans and viruses
>disables windows updates

>>61195497
>Update windows and become part of a microsoft botnet
>Don't update and become part of a russian or chinese botnet

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$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=1024 oflag=dsync
1024+0 records in
1024+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 9.26011 s, 116 MB/s

$ dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1G count=1 oflag=dsync
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
1073741824 bytes (1.1 GB, 1.0 GiB) copied, 2.55744 s, 420 MB/s

>116MB/s vs 420MB/s
Can someone explain this? What are my actual SSD write speeds? 116 MB/s is slow as fuck, my SATA2 HDDs cam reach ~105 MB/s writing zeroes over USB 3.0 - but 1MiB block sizes are still larger than the average file. This would mean that my write performance is on average even worst than 116MB/s? What kind of a shitty meme are SSDs anyway?

>>61195448

~$ vrms 
                Non-free packages installed on X220

intel-microcode                     Processor microcode firmware for Intel CPUs
libfdk-aac1                         Fraunhofer FDK AAC Codec Library - runtime files
manpages-posix                      Manual pages about using POSIX system

                Contrib packages installed on X220

iucode-tool                         Intel processor microcode tool

  3 non-free packages, 0.2% of 1548 installed packages.
  1 contrib packages, 0.1% of 1548 installed packages.

It doesn't detect Steam, but I don't use it anyway.

>>61195525
use hdparm

>>61195563
It's literally the same thing. oflag=dysnc waits for writes to disk, so accurate performance measure.

>>61195525
Another situation where pv comes in handy.

$ pv /dev/zero > /dev/null
10.1GB 0:00:04 [2.69GB/s] [     <=>                                                                ]

Is using dd /dev/null or /dev/zero really an effective data shredding method?

>>61195525
sequential i/o != random i/o

>>61195587
<your dd sommand> status=progress
Boom

>>61195595
using dd with /dev/zero sure as shit is :^)

>>61195601
fuck you, dare you trying to replace my pv!

>>61195587
/dev/null is a virtual device, not a measure of performance you idiot. You need to actually write to the disk synchronously to accurately measure.
>>61195597
Isn't writing in 1MB blocksizes still sequential?

>>61195606
Does /dev/zero ever end with supplying zeros?

>>61195646
>post comfy command example
>get called an idiot
why life ;_;

>>61195692
Anon, you're too weak for 4chan.

>>61195659
why should it

keep cat -v /dev/zero running for a while and watch

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>>61195448
>debian
>full of proprietary software
Why would you explicitly go and enable the non-free repo if you don't want non-free software?

>>61195659
/dev/zero ends where you end.

This reminds me of a stupid question.

Is there a way to activly generate MORE entropy for /dev/random?

>>61195744
>>61195728
Or if there is nothing left to zero

someone pls dump his questionmark moe folder

>>61195755
Yes, just use /dev/urandom, because it's just as secure in practice.

>>61195773
>someone please dump all his bloody hard collected rare pepes

>>61195755
Yes, hwrng

https://shop.fsf.org/storage-devices/neug-usb-true-random-number-generator

>>61195785
Nothing in computers can be completely random

>>61195755
move ur mouse around like your on acid

>>61195793
It's an entropy generator. It doesn't replace /dev/random, it's adds to it.

>>61195802
But it is not completely random.It is impossible for computers to be achieve complete randomness

What would be a good use for /dev/random or /dev/urandom?

>>61195821
not when combined with things like hardware temperature, >>61195801 mouse moves, etc

>>61195821
Generating keys for encryption
Generating passwords
Playing some rad music

>>61195833
>>61195818

>>61195821
>/dev/urandom
isnt that botnet already, from tinfoil p.o.v., when it's generated from the cpu?

>>61195833
https://engineering.mit.edu/engage/ask-an-engineer/can-a-computer-generate-a-truly-random-number/

>>61195851
urandom isn't complelty generated; it mixes /random with generated randomness when there is no entroy.

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I love you all.

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what's a good image minimal image viewer/organizer? sxiv doesn't let me delete files or shit like that.

>>61195818
Jesus fucking Christ, did you even read how that device is supposed to work?

A hardware generator collects entropy by measuring random things like ambient temperature, noise generated by electrical components and atmospheric noise from radiowaves etc etc.

>>61195880
>sxiv doesn't let me delete files or shit like that.
Pretty sure you just need do add an delete action. Any minimal image viewer works like that. In case you're really that lazy, use feh, which has a delete hotkey.

>>61195894
And yet it is still not 100% completely random.The computer is still responsible for the core computation

>>61195818
Learn you some quantum theory mang. Tunelling is rife, RIFE!, in small feature size semiconductors these days. They have to do extra work to double check shit. There is probably a deadalive cat in your CPU right now hidden in a microcode box.

>>61195897
does feh let you browse in a gallery mode with thumbnails? sxiv doesn't let you change directories either, I just start select everything to browse through them.

How do I add a delete action to sxiv?

>>61195785
There is also http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/ to feed your entropy pool.

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>>61195924
God almighty save me from retards like this guy
Random means not generated by a deterministic algorithm.

Radio noise is not generated by an algorithm.
Ambient temperature is not generated by an algorithm.
Space radiation is not generated by an algorithm.
Noise in electrical components is not generated by an algorithm.

The goddamn article you posted in an attempt to be a smartass even says that.

>>61195924
Nothing in the whole universe is completely random. It is all deterministic. The point is making it complex enough that nubbins can't figure shit out.

>>61185346
Just get Debian with your choice of DE.
Gnome or MATE has a feel liek Ubuntu, Cinnamon for Mint, or just get Bunsenlabs linux for Openbox

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>>61195879
Thanks for reminding.

>>61185924
sed is fucking nice for glitching images.

convert in.jpg bmp:- | sed 's/x/07/g' | convert bmp:- out.jpg

>>61195879
4u

>>61195975
>Thanks for reminding.
should go to >>61195880

>>61195897
also reminds me that I stopped using feh because it can't even play GIFs, it'd be great if there was an image organizer with webm support.

>>61195975
why would I want to have broken pictures?

>>61185517
drivers tho

>>61186487
linux users irl

>>61193397
Collecting metadata is their money maker, and collecting metadata means violating your privacy as much as possible.

>>61196013
Just use mpv.

For your convenience, here my related setup (mpv.conf):

[media.image]
pause

[extension.bmp]
profile='media.image'

[extension.jpg]
profile='media.image'

[extension.png]
profile='media.image'

[media.loop]
loop-file='inf'

[extension.gif]
profile='media.loop'

[extension.webm]
profile='media.loop'

[media.audio]
display-tags=*

[extension.flac]
profile='media.audio'

[extension.ogg]
profile='media.audio'

[extension.opus]
profile='media.audio'

[extension.mp3]
profile='media.audio'

>>61196049
mpv will let me gallery browse image files?

wtf?

who uses calculate linux?

>>61196059
>gallery
kek, I've lost the "organizer" part, sorry

>>61186137
apulse
or
--disable-pulseaudio

>>61196049
>

display-tags=*

thanks for this

What is the best video editing software for GNU/Linux?

>>61196117
lwks

>>61196117
also bumping this
ffmpeg is cool, but not if you want to work with a gui

>>61196117
cinelerra
openshot

[Intermezzo for 2-5 hours]

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>>61196209

>>61196209
>implying
It's almost 6am, I'm after an all nighter and just finished my quadruple espresso and boy it sure did hit the sweet spot, got me dizzy for a few minutes.

I'm ready for another day of free tech support for fellow neckbeards.

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>>61196289
my nigga

>>61196289
All that caffine will burn eventually

>>61196289
>quadruple espresso
absolute madman

>>61196336
I got 10 cigarettes left and a fully functioning espresso maker with around 1kg of beans. Feeling just fine brah, thinking about trying out dwm. Ideally would like to live a mouse-free life.

>>61196367
dwm is pretty cool I'll admit

>>61194889
yeah looks similar, but very boring. if i'm going to get another kb, i want it to be not as boring.

>>61196367
>mouse-free life.
Why would you force this on your self?
Enjoy remembering 500 keybinds just to move a window 5 pixels

>>61196367
>cigarettes
stop

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>>61196397
top of the line contraband straight from belarus.
1.80USD a pack

>>61196409
Why do you want cancer?

What is the proper way to do usernames and passwords for autofs?
Having plain text passwords in my /etc/ folder cant be good...

[any_name] -fstype=cifs,username=[username],password=[password],[other_options] ://[remote_server]/[remote_share_name]

Setting up a new machine and stopped at resolv.conf. What's an autism approved dns resolver?

>>61196474
dnscrypt+dnssec+opennic

>>61196512
Thanks.

>>61196512
cool, I keep learning everday here
dnscrypt looks pretty useful, ty

>>61196577
Its easy to setup with Unbound.
Check the archwiki

does any ubuntu veteran know how to find packages which were originally installed from an ppa instead of official repos?

i want to either replace them either with the originals or remove if no official package

>>61196704
have a look into ppa-purge (not sure it it actually does what you want, not an ubuntu user)

Why doesn't Canonical do it like Arch where you actually build the stuff you get from the user repos? Installing plain binaries from literally somewhere is just like downloading an install.msi ...

>>61196775
Because a centralized buildsystem is more convenient for the large majority of users and is faster both for the maintainer as well as the end user. Arch lumps development headers with software packages. That's why it's so fucking bloated. Debian-based distros don't

Compiling large software isn't fucking fun, especially when your hardaware isn't up to snuff.

>>61196820
>Arch lumps development headers with software packages.
um that's a good thing. Makes compiling way easier

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>>61196843

>>61196775
What a waste of fucking time.

>>61196870
Welcome to the world of arch users

>>61196857
do you enjoy hunting down 50 different dev packages every time you compile? The end result is the same, arch just makes it easier

Look mom, new thread: >>61196885

>>61196857
>not sure if I should save into xxx or reactions
fuck life

>>61196882
>do you enjoy hunting down 50 different dev packages every time you compile?
Why would I do that if the buildsystem does it for me?

>>61196932
what build system?

>>61196882
>do you enjoy hunting down 50 different dev packages every time you compile?
wat
We have build-deb <package>, which pulls what you need to build a package. Why would you want to bloat up your systemd with build stuff for every lil shit you'll never going to compile anyway?

>>61197005
>systemd
I keep typing this tyoo, why.

>>61197024
anxious subconsciousness
you didn't lvl up to Devuan yet

>>61196029
yeah, sum wifi cards can be proprietary bag of shit, but most of the time just werks

>>61197005
and if the package you want to build isn't in the repo?

>>61196945
Ubuntu buildsystem you nonce

sudo resurrect ded thred
>>61198667