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For all those missing leafpad you may like l3afpad

https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/l3afpad

I just cloned my 80GB drive to a 160GB drive then resized in to the extra space with gparted. I then swapped the drives keep the 80GB as backup. Then I found a 500GB drive in a dodgy external usb hub and cloned that and resized it as well. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb status=progress Where sda is the ...

This is the machine I've been using today. The wife's. She likes it. She's used to windows so thinks the speed is fine :-) Added another hard drive and wanted to get the data off it. Slow to start, slow to browse but very usable otherwise and I hate slow machines. People install bloat. simple as tha...

For the life of me I couldn't remember the name of the program but knew it was on my old D2 hard drive. Then I though I'd just open the case of the Mrs old Dell blow me if I hadn't left the drive inside when I swapped it. Anyway I found it and here's the source if it helps. Also a fork that does Ala...

Augie77 spacefm (zzzfm) also offer this in the menu. However I think you're confusing your self. The DE or WM is imaterial. Many file managers offer this option. Perhaps via a menu or some setting. But why not make things simple and open a terminal as root and start what ever filemanager you're usin...

I didn't have a computer until about 2000. The oldest file I have that I currently use is my xorg.conf for my ppc imac 333mhz. From 2007. If you want to embarrass me search the forum. :mrgreen: I just looked and was amazed by the amount of views. Can that be correct? Views: 124563 https://archive.or...

It's DRM'd so it's working just as expected. "Digital Restrictions Management" The more you accept it the worse it will get. Just imagine when what would happen if Microsoft had put DRM on bios or uefi on all the computers they sold. You wouldn't be running anything but what ever they allo...

wmtimer was the lowest memory use that I could find. coming in at 4MB in ps_mem.py alarm-clock-applet was 25MB for comparison. I spent quite a bit of time trying to find a low resource small gui alarm. That was not built in either Rust or Go. Crazy you have to go back over 20 years to find some thing.

I agree. Why is it that hard to install something as simple as a clock with a few basic features. It's damn nigh impossible with out installing crap loads of bloat. The only way seems to be to dig back to older applications where size and speed was more of a concern. Anything newer that is not to fa...

Not in Debian but you might like peaclock
https://github.com/octobanana/peaclock

The nicest timer is utimer. I always install it. I'll give you the slackware link as the slackbuild may come in handy
https://www.slackbuilds.org/repository/ ... sc/utimer/

If you don’t care or don’t care enough to see why you might, don’t worry about it. As for memory footprint and speed relevance, or significance I suspect you know as well as me that this was a major “selling point of systemd” back in the day. If it’s relevant now I don’t know or care. It’s not why I...

If you want Xorg just start Xorg Don't use a display manager and don't install something like Gnome I've not used a display manager with any regularity for the past 15 years or so. You even don't need a Xsession or xinit file. The order is something like this. Heaviest to lightest. 1. Display manage...

This is what I use. sox -t alsa sysdefault:CARD=A900 ./record.wav silence 1 0.1 5% 1 2.0 5% Run arecord -L to get the name of the mic you want to use. This is a better way as hw1 might change it's card on reboot unless you've previously set your card loading order. Wav gave me the best results while...

@CwF My bike is a very early model late 1985 one of the first 900 built. I believe all the RXs were carb and fuel injection appeared quit a bit later. @Donald Very fast bike, crap handling and brakes. If I had to keep just one it would be the Moto Guzzi. Like my computing choices it offers the most ...

That made me LOL Back to bikes. I have 7 motor bikes. Even my newest is an old design (2019 Royal Enfield GT 535) it's easy to work on because like my computers I want control. Most new bikes are slaveware on 2 wheels. Aside from the Enfield I have a: KZ 550 bobber 1980ish Honda vf 500 1984 GPZ1000R...

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https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manu ... d_Hardware

https://pine64.org/devices/

You may have to sort the wheat from the chaf

I don't want to side track the thread but re spacefm take a look at zzzfm. I've been using it for a while on a few systems with out issue
https://gitlab.com/antix-contribs/zzzfm

I don't use sudo on any of my systems. Never have. I've always used su or su - The one place I do use doas is in my .bashrc file things like this alias ps='doas ps_mem.py ' sudo is a complex HGV doas is a simple bicycle I get professionals need sudo but for single user systems like mine I don't need...

I admit to being a hoarder :mrgreen: Good https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_K750 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_W810 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Hero Fantastic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900 https://i.postimg.cc/grxQzHwv/ericson-k750-810-HTC-nokia-n900.png http...

The last thing wanted here or any other distro are disgruntled Windows users. We already have WSL, free-desktop bollox, and generally to much corporate interfering. Because of it even users asking why they can't put files on their desktop. (you can tell the ex Windows users by icons on the desktop.)...