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by oswaldkelso
2024-03-19 08:55
Forum: General Questions
Topic: display clock recommendations
Replies: 4
Views: 86

Re: display clock recommendations

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...
by oswaldkelso
2024-03-19 00:11
Forum: General Questions
Topic: display clock recommendations
Replies: 4
Views: 86

Re: display clock recommendations

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/
by oswaldkelso
2024-03-10 22:35
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: [Derivatives][Unofficial Respin] MX-23.2 KDE 'init-diversity' Edition
Replies: 7
Views: 491

Re: [Derivatives][Unofficial Respin] MX-23.2 KDE 'init-diversity' Edition

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...
by oswaldkelso
2024-03-09 21:34
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: Pure xorg session
Replies: 15
Views: 656

Re: Pure xorg session

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...
by oswaldkelso
2024-03-09 20:12
Forum: General Questions
Topic: [Solved] SOX not recording
Replies: 5
Views: 219

Re: [Software] SOX not recording

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...
by oswaldkelso
2024-02-29 10:39
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: [Discussion] Psychoanalysing proponents of two wheels
Replies: 33
Views: 1361

Re: [Discussion] Psychoanalysing proponents of two wheels

@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 ...
by oswaldkelso
2024-02-29 01:34
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: [Discussion] Psychoanalysing proponents of two wheels
Replies: 33
Views: 1361

Re: [Discussion] Psychoanalyzing Windows adherents

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...
by oswaldkelso
2024-02-10 15:37
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: my labwc experiment :)
Replies: 10
Views: 737

Re: my labwc experiment :)

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
by oswaldkelso
2024-02-01 22:53
Forum: General Debian
Topic: [Discussion] Why Debian still uses sudo instead of doas?
Replies: 35
Views: 2155

Re: [Discussion] Why Debian still uses sudo instead of doas?

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...
by oswaldkelso
2024-01-29 21:06
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: [Off-Topic] Tech nostalgia
Replies: 25
Views: 1525

Re: [Off-Topic] Tech nostalgia

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...
by oswaldkelso
2024-01-25 21:08
Forum: Beginners Questions
Topic: Should I recommend Debian to a friend who has no Linux experience?
Replies: 44
Views: 2718

Re: Should I recommend Debian to a friend who has no Linux experience?

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.)...
by oswaldkelso
2024-01-17 17:58
Forum: General Questions
Topic: Debian fully supported laptop?
Replies: 10
Views: 9103

Re: Debian fully supported laptop?

If you want new and cheap a pinebook and no blobs
https://www.pine64.org/pinebook/
by oswaldkelso
2024-01-13 08:41
Forum: General Questions
Topic: [Software] More than 1GB for Flatpak Firefox??
Replies: 12
Views: 21120

Re: [Software] More than 1GB for Flatpak Firefox??

There are other issues apart from size and space consumed. It's the windofication of gnu/linux. Imagine you have 20 applications like firefox all with their own version of the same library. We find a bug in that library and all 20 need updated even though the library it's self might be very small. F...
by oswaldkelso
2024-01-07 18:07
Forum: Beginners Questions
Topic: [Installation] Overly optimistic hardware requirements?
Replies: 21
Views: 14530

Re: [Installation] Overly optimistic hardware requirements?

GDM = Gnome display manager (the gui interface you login to) You don't need one but Gnome is a desktop environment so provides all the bell n whistles it thinks you need. It's renowned as being bloated, buggy (and plain bonkers IMHO). Re the memory: You basically need more ram, cpu, and gpu the bigg...
by oswaldkelso
2024-01-05 13:34
Forum: Off-Topic
Topic: Traumatized By MS Windows 11 - I need a hug :)
Replies: 35
Views: 24644

Re: Traumatized By MS Windows 11 - I need a hug :)

If it's not packaged by Debian why should you trust their .deb? This is like windows users that just install any .exe package from some website on the internet then wonder why their system is even more compromised than it is already by running "Windows" TM Distrusted sources are just that....
by oswaldkelso
2023-12-03 13:53
Forum: Hardware
Topic: 4gb ram on 32bit system
Replies: 8
Views: 1480

Re: 4gb ram on 32bit system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_GB_barrier

Linux or certain versions of Windows Server and macOS that allow use of Physical Address Extension (PAE) mode on x86 to access more than 4 GiB of RAM.
by oswaldkelso
2023-11-19 16:38
Forum: Hardware
Topic: [Solved] Can't use microphone after removing PulseAudio
Replies: 10
Views: 2228

Re: Can't use microphone after removing PulseAudio

I meant check all your devices one at a time like so ffmpeg -f alsa -i usbstream:CARD=HDMI -t 30 1out.wav ffmpeg -f alsa -i hw:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 -t 30 2out.wav ffmpeg -f alsa -i default:CARD=PCH -t 30 3out.wav ffmpeg -f alsa -i usbstream:CARD=PCH -t 30 4out.wav ffmpeg -f alsa -i usbstream:CARD=ThinkPad...
by oswaldkelso
2023-11-15 16:09
Forum: Graphical Environments & Desktops
Topic: Video starts lagging after some time (old MacBook)
Replies: 10
Views: 1589

Re: Video starts lagging after some time (old MacBook)

He/She's using i915 I checked my 2012 MBP and it's the same driver. I would check the wiki and read any tips for close but not identical machines as there's lots of tips in there. https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Apple inxi shows my machine to be a 8.2 but I suspect the OPs is later as I h...