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Debian 12 stopped working. It said something about you have read access not write access. I restarted the computer. And now debian 12 does not work. I cannot determine if the hdd or debian 12 is corrupt. The system is full hdd encrypted. Starting the computer displays the please unlock message. Ente...

debian 12

Can you configure w3m to socks5 127,0,0,1 9150
and proxy_dns such that all w3m internet
data goes over tor? Thank you.

apt install pulseaudio pipewire{,-pulse}- wireplumber- Did that. Pulseaudio was not already installed. Pulseaudio got installed and a bunch of packages got uninstalled. Audio error stayed. reinstall the pipewire, pipewire-pulse & wireplumber packages. Did that. Audio error stayed. While audio e...

audio not working. command aplay -l returns **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: CX20585 Analog [CX20585 Analog] Subdevices: 0/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ...

inxi inxi is not installed. Is there an option getting the audio data without installing additional software? The audio error is not computer specific. Debian 12 is installed on an usb memory stick. On another computer the same audio error occurs. The same audio error occurs on both lxde and mate. ...

debian 12 Watching youtube or other video streams, sound stops every other minute. Volume control -> configuration -> profile. Selecting off and then selecting analog stereo duplex will start audio again. Shortly after audio disappears again. Selecting off and then selecting analog stereo duplex wil...

with the expert install I did get asked if I want to include non-free firmware. Can you in detail write how you navigated the menu during installation and thereby excluded non free software? include non-free firmware. Is microcode and firmware not two different matters? Libreboot does not consider ...

blocking the relevant kernel module(s) That is likely to complicated for me. Once the system is installed it After installation identifying non free firmware packages and then uninstall them sounds more viable. Followed by deleting non free firmware repositories from the sources list. vrms https://...

debian-12.0.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso when installing how can you avoid getting non free software on the pc, in particular the non free firmware matter? If you install on a pc which does not require non free software and you delete non free firmware from the sources list after installation, you know that th...

debian 11

sudo apt install torsocks returns
The following NEW packages will be installed:
runit-helper tor tor-geoipdb torsocks

How do I stop tor from being installed? Because
I want to use torbrowser. Thank you.

debian 11 Suggestions on how you can update freshclam over torbrowser? Command line sudo proxychains freshclam returns ERROR: Incorrect argument format for option HTTPProxyPort ERROR: Can't open/parse the config file /etc/clamav/freshclam.conf File /etc/proxychains.conf is edited to socks5 127.0.0.1...

good VPN service

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=inSh_pmEQlM
At 8.15.

deb-src lines are for compiling software

When? If you download the source code of a program in
order to compile it, then deb-src repositories are
required?

why one would use Tor for Debian updates?

https://bits.debian.org/tag/tor.html

This issue I have encountered on several debian versions about several programs. Using the mate desktop. Have you too? In system -> prefenrences -> look and feel -> appearance you may set the font sizes. If set to about 14 then in some programs a window that gets opened does not fit on the screen. N...

Debian does offer Onion services: I set the debian onion update links in the sources.list. Then ran sudo apt --option Acquire::HTTP::Proxy="socks5h://127.0.0.1:9150" update sudo apt --option Acquire::HTTP::Proxy="socks5h://127.0.0.1:9150" upgrade by torsource software. One of th...

debian 11
proxychains v3.1

proxychains.conf file default socks setting
is socks4 127.0.0.1 9050
Is socks5 not what you should select? Or about various programs
you should select socks4 over socks5?
You cannot have both socks4 and socks 5
enabled in the proxychains.conf
file?
Thanks.

debian 11 ufw ufw is installed and enabled. My perception is, any program installed, ufw gives it permission to access the internet. I want that no program accesses the internet without getting a permission. How is that done? Is there a program having a graphical user interface, such that you can gr...

Debian does offer Onion services I edited sources.list to deb tor+http://2s4yqjx5ul6okpp3f2gaunr2syex5jgbfpfvhxxbbjwnrsvbk5v3qbid.onion/debian bullseye main deb tor+http://2s4yqjx5ul6okpp3f2gaunr2syex5jgbfpfvhxxbbjwnrsvbk5v3qbid.onion/debian bullseye-updates main deb tor+http://5ajw6aqf3ep7sijnscdz...

make sense to install tor Tor in the repository is not the newest. I have compiled newest tor source on the computer. Not installed it. I can run it. But tor browser has an update option in the menu. I know how to set an exit node on tor browser. Not on tor source program. If required and available...

have a file called 10periodic?

No. There is a file named 50unattended-upgrades.

thought Gnome used unattended-upgrades

Package unattended-upgrades 2.8 is installed.

package apt-config-auto-update installed?

Package apt-config-auto-update is not installed.