Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

2025-07-20 Thread Bret Busby
e " did not know that exists... "The more we know, the more we know the little we know"... .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: please delete me from your mailing lists

2025-07-20 Thread Bret Busby
bian.org/debian-user/ " Simple, but (should be) effective. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/7/25 00:04, Andy Smith wrote: Hello, On Thu, Jul 10, 2025 at 11:50:41PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 10/7/25 23:10, Andy Smith wrote: I'm telling you how things are Those are the words that are problematic - "I am the absolute authority and the absolute expert regardi

Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here

2025-07-10 Thread Bret Busby
On 10/7/25 23:10, Andy Smith wrote: I'm telling you how things are Those are the words that are problematic - "I am the absolute authority and the absolute expert regarding what is happening..." .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: readers running debian

2025-07-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/7/25 17:10, Bret Busby wrote: On 3/7/25 15:08, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 03.07.2025 09:35, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Thu, Jul 03, 2025 at 08:25:27AM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote: On 03.07.2025 04:47,fxkl4...@protonmail.com  wrote: i'm looking for a reader for pdf&

Re: readers running debian

2025-07-03 Thread Bret Busby
gt;>>> are there any running debian or other linux based distributions " " "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by Pan Books, 1992 " .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: OT - The impossibility of impossibility - Re: OT- Relativistic mechanics and such - was - Re: tbird problem

2025-06-07 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/6/25 21:05, Alain D D Williams wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 08:32:55PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: You could not reach the speed of light Ah, yes, ... and man can never fly... We are bound by the laws of physics, just because you really, really, really want to dodge round them does not

Re: OT - The impossibility of impossibility - Re: OT- Relativistic mechanics and such - was - Re: tbird problem

2025-06-07 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/6/25 21:05, Alain D D Williams wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 08:32:55PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: You could not reach the speed of light Ah, yes, ... and man can never fly... We are bound by the laws of physics, just because you really, really, really want to dodge round them does not

OT - The impossibility of impossibility - Re: OT- Relativistic mechanics and such - was - Re: tbird problem

2025-06-07 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/6/25 18:56, Alain D D Williams wrote: On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 06:14:55PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: According to the Doppler theory (I believe it was - this is from some decades ago), if you would be travelling toward a set of traffic lights, at the speed of light, You could not reach the

Re: OT- Relativistic mechanics and such - was - Re: tbird problem

2025-06-07 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/6/25 19:42, Thomas Schmitt wrote: (There is a Nobel prize waiting for those who can explain why the Higgs bosons jostle so much around fast moving objects of non-zero rest mass ...) That seems like a mutiny by Higgs' bosun... ;) .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: OT- Relativistic mechanics and such - was - Re: tbird problem

2025-06-07 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/6/25 18:14, Bret Busby wrote: On 7/6/25 17:26, gene heskett wrote: On 6/7/25 02:52, Bret Busby wrote: It is all relative... Yes it is, but you would be amazed at the supposedly intelligent people who will argue the a 5 foot long low uhf band klystron amplifier as used until the 1985

OT- Relativistic mechanics and such - was - Re: tbird problem

2025-06-07 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/6/25 17:26, gene heskett wrote: On 6/7/25 02:52, Bret Busby wrote: It is all relative... Yes it is, but you would be amazed at the supposedly intelligent people who will argue the a 5 foot long low uhf band klystron amplifier as used until the 1985 time frame, is immune to E=MV2 math

Re: tbird problem

2025-06-06 Thread Bret Busby
understand hundred of commands that didn't exist when I started. Go ahead, sit for the CET test. That will test your intimate knowledge of Albert Einsteins work, among other things. Ask me something about electronics, or relativity, I can still do that. It is all relative... .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: tbird problem

2025-06-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/6/25 06:47, Andy Smith wrote: Hi, On Sat, Jun 07, 2025 at 06:03:59AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: This has been mentioned before - you have not explained why you have not tried it. Someone even did the google search for you, and, posted the link. I do not know how far you expect people to

Re: tbird problem

2025-06-06 Thread Bret Busby
google search for you, and, posted the link. I do not know how far you expect people to go, to do for you what you need to do. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastfetch https://github.com/fastfetch-cli/fastfetch .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: tbird problem

2025-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
ch - that will show the relevant system information for the interface. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: tbird problem

2025-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
On 4/6/25 06:43, Bret Busby wrote: On 4/6/25 05:29, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Jun 03, 2025 at 22:05:33 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: On 03/06/2025 21:27, gene heskett wrote: I'm using tbird 139, and it has grown vertically to expect the full screen of 1040 lines, meaning the bottom 2

Re: tbird problem

2025-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
where on a window. Now you can move the window anywhere. Hold down Alt then right-click anywhere on a window. Now you can resize the window. Source: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/156435/how-can-i-make-windows-easier-to-resize-in-xfce If it's not XFCE, Methinks it is... .. Bret

Re: clip on / flip up reading glasses

2025-06-03 Thread Bret Busby
1.5x may be Scooter) In the USA, for flip ups, are these https://rx-safety.com/shop/master-safety-glasses/safety-readers-bifocals/clip-on-magnifiers/clip-on-magnifying-reading-glasses/ .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Okular PDF viewer

2025-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
his a known bug? Or is it a feature? Thanks for mentioning atril. It's very fast, and DOES land on the correct page. Have you tried evince? It is in Debian stable and it is simple and basic and it works well. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
On 3/6/25 03:44, Richard Owlett wrote: If RETIREMENT isn't for learning, "What use is it?" I believe that the whole of life is an education, for people willing to learn. "The more we know, the more we know the little we know." .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
erely suggesting something that I had found helpful, that might not occur to everyone - using reading glasses had not occurred to me, as being necessary, until the recommendation from the optometrist. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: PDF viewer for elderly

2025-06-02 Thread Bret Busby
t magnification for you) are available in varying magnifications, from 1.5x to about 3.0x magnification, and, using such spectacles, can make a significant difference, when reading ridiculously small fonts. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Is support for AMD Ryzen solid nowadays or should I stay with Intel?

2025-06-01 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/6/25 06:08, Nicholas Geovanis wrote: On Sun, Jun 1, 2025, 4:51 PM Bret Busby <mailto:b...@busby.net>> wrote: On 2/6/25 05:35, nsrx...@bruttocarattere.org <mailto:nsrx...@bruttocarattere.org> wrote: >> Perhaps, you should have specified which pa

Re: Is support for AMD Ryzen solid nowadays or should I stay with Intel?

2025-06-01 Thread Bret Busby
On 2/6/25 05:50, Darac Marjal wrote: On 01/06/2025 22:11, Bret Busby wrote: On 2/6/25 04:18, Chris Green wrote: Marco Moock wrote: On 01.06.2025 12:30 Uhr Chris Green wrote: Up until now I have always stayed with Intel CPU and Intel Graphics because of the solid Linux support but the

Re: Is support for AMD Ryzen solid nowadays or should I stay with Intel?

2025-06-01 Thread Bret Busby
tion, cannot be reasonably expected to occur. If you find that offensive, then perhaps, you should learn some problem solving skills. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Is support for AMD Ryzen solid nowadays or should I stay with Intel?

2025-06-01 Thread Bret Busby
d whether support is provided. "So once you do know what the question actually is, you'll know what the answer means." - Deep Thought, Chapter 28 of Book 1 of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy In Four Parts", written by Douglas Adams, published by

Re: Solutions to notify desktop users of new Debian releases

2025-05-31 Thread Bret Busby
ave a more ready-made solution to solve this need? If not, that's not a big problem—I just want to stay close to the state-of-the-art. Thanks I do not understand why a subscription to the announce list (https://www.debian.org/MailingLists/debian-announce) would not suffice. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-05 Thread Bret Busby
32, 1x USB 2.0 The ram is going to be your biggest issue. Potato will definitely work, and can boot from floppy if you can find one. What is Potato? Is that about 3.0, or 3.1? Would it still be supported with security patches? If not, would it not be unsafe to use to connect to the Internet

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-04-04 Thread Bret Busby
videos, you are best using yt-dlp. Search for it. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Documentation for NetworkManager 1.30.0 -- Where?

2025-04-02 Thread Bret Busby
ows the Mate desktop to be v1.26.0-1 . .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Documentation for NetworkManager 1.30.0 -- Where?

2025-04-02 Thread Bret Busby
error. I have questions about enabling/disabling WiFi. To ask in intelligently I must be familiar with the documentation. Where do I find it? TIA Two things that you might want to try. 1. Ask the questions here. 2. view https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/plucky/en/man8/NetworkManager.8.html

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-04-01 Thread Bret Busby
my ad blockers, has updated in the last couple of days, so, it could be a retaliatory strike from youtube, which I believe is owned by one of president donald duck's mates, in his reign of nastiness. So, I believe that the use of yt-dlp is the only solution. It still works (at present). ..

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/3/25 01:57, Bret Busby wrote: On 7/3/25 01:32, songbird wrote:    i currently use firefox and have mostly been ok with it.    would like to try something else.    currently running testing.    any that have any filtering capabilities?  yt and a few other sites are intolerable without a

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-08 Thread Bret Busby
in an indefinite loop, until the web page is closed... .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox adds a controversial ToS

2025-03-08 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/3/25 02:22, Richmond wrote: Where is Iceweasel? Over there... .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-06 Thread Bret Busby
this https://vivaldi.com/ .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: two separate GPUs

2025-02-23 Thread Bret Busby
U's, and a runny nose to go with it. Do you have a tissue? Achoo! Achoo!" ;) -- .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview (solved)

2025-02-15 Thread Bret Busby
quot;Open with" in a menu, thence, to select Evince to open the file. If you are trying top access the file through some other method, I have no idea of what you are trying to do, or, why. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview

2025-02-14 Thread Bret Busby
it is the old proverb - "You never know, unless you try". .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox

2025-02-11 Thread Bret Busby
would not access the wunderground web site with Firefox. Too destructive. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox

2025-02-09 Thread Bret Busby
ed by your motherboard. Those are simply my opinions. Oh, and, a dedicated Firefox mailing list exists, as has, I believe, been previously mentioned on this mailing list. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Sorry for spamming the list

2025-02-06 Thread Bret Busby
On 7/2/25 05:20, Russell Stinnett wrote: So, again, I apologize for the spam. I don't know of another way to test it. Stop it, or you will go blind... .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

2025-01-31 Thread Bret Busby
u for that info. # apt -t bookworm-backports install yt-dlp youtubedl-gui And now I can successfully download videos from YouTube, either from command line or GUI. yt-dlp --version 2025.01.15 What does yours show? (also, I note, for me to try next time, --write-auto-subs) .. Bret Busby Arm

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

2025-01-31 Thread Bret Busby
On 31/1/25 16:24, George at Clug wrote: On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 18:57 Bret Busby wrote: On 31/1/25 14:50, George at Clug wrote: Does anyone use Firefox to watch DRM protected Video content? Is it normal for DRM to display lots of ads whenever Firefox is loaded? I did enable DRM once, a

Re: Firefox and Video DRM

2025-01-30 Thread Bret Busby
nload the videos, and, watch the videos with your preference of video viewer? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Zoom

2025-01-30 Thread Bret Busby
On 31/1/25 05:16, George at Clug wrote: Bret, Thanks for replying. On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 07:31 Bret Busby wrote: On 31/1/25 04:05, George at Clug wrote: On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 01:11 Bret Busby wrote: On 30/1/25 17:44, D MacDougall wrote: On 1/29/25 21:20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On

Re: Zoom

2025-01-30 Thread Bret Busby
On 31/1/25 04:05, George at Clug wrote: On Friday, 31-01-2025 at 01:11 Bret Busby wrote: On 30/1/25 17:44, D MacDougall wrote: On 1/29/25 21:20, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2025 at 12:28:55PM -0800, Donald MacDougall wrote: I've been using Zoom from the beginning of the C

Re: Zoom

2025-01-30 Thread Bret Busby
o record and transmit back to the car manufacturer's headquarters, such material as upskirt videos and photographs, for the pleasure of the world's richest pervert. Who needs or wants privacy and security, anyway? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Zoom

2025-01-29 Thread Bret Busby
ions of it), and, I understand that jitsi is (or was) regarded as less sinister and ominous than zoom. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Hugh Problem with Firefox and Debian 12

2025-01-26 Thread Bret Busby
lease help me out. Moe Maybe consider this https://librewolf.net/ ? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-25 Thread Bret Busby
On 26/1/25 00:33, Greg wrote: On 2025-01-25, Bret Busby wrote: Someone has already claimed ownership of the first of the two; about bucketing the CIA. OT. relevant to thread, curtsy sue .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-25 Thread Bret Busby
misuse, has not yet been claimed... .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Alpine - remote pinerc

2025-01-25 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/1/25 17:48, Tim Woodall wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2025, Roger Price wrote: On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote: "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0" This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pinerc added as a joke by a As there clearl

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-25 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/1/25 11:34, Will Mengarini wrote: On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 06:12:30AM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: In viewing the full header of the above message (to try to find which country or timezone, is the origin of the message sent to the mailing list, for an extraneous reason), I observed a weird

Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/1/25 07:36, Charles Curley wrote: On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 23:31:44 +0100 (CET) Roger Price wrote: On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote: "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0" This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pinerc added as a joke b

Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/1/25 06:31, Roger Price wrote: On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote: "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0" This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pinerc added as a joke by a friend many years ago. I am a long time pine user, and it has be

Re: List under surveillance? [WAS Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked]

2025-01-24 Thread Bret Busby
rnment" :-< "Just because we are paranoid, does not mean they are not out to get us..." {;-{)} .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Supplemental report

2025-01-24 Thread Bret Busby
On 25/1/25 06:31, Roger Price wrote: On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Bret Busby wrote: "X-Message-Flag Supplemental report sent to reaper.nsa.gov. rc=0" This comes from a customized-hdrs entry in my .pinerc added as a joke by a friend many years ago. I am a long time pine user, and it has be

Re: Debian 12 VLC leaves system sounds blocked

2025-01-24 Thread Bret Busby
mply under surveillance by the NSA? Thank you in anticipation. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: [SOLVED] Re: British English has disappeared

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
vernment"? Help me tie my shoelaces"? If a person interested in the thread, from the wording of the Subject field, reads the messages in the thread, then, the person will see the message where the original poster advises that the problem is solved. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
he web server to see if it should notify you of things. (or continually doing unauthorised things to your computer, with its activities making unauthorised use of your computer, like stealing processing time) .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
from .25% to over 100% on different youtube processes.  Not sure why it would need to do that on an idle tab. On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM David Wright <mailto:deb...@lionunicorn.co.uk>> wrote: On Tue 14 Jan 2025 at 00:49:49 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > I generally work o

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/1/25 01:35, poc...@homemail.com wrote: Sent: Monday, January 13, 2025 at 10:03 AM From: "Bret Busby" To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: What is going on with firefox On 13/1/25 22:26, Daniel Harris wrote: Hello I am a very long time happy firefox user using deb

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
could have been longer. A problem that can occur, is when the javascript in some web sites, keeps consuming resources, until the resources are swamped by javascript gunk. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/1/25 00:33, Bret Busby wrote: On 14/1/25 00:19, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/1/25 23:55, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 13 Jan 2025 14:26 +, from mail.dhar...@googlemail.com (Daniel Harris): Come on firefox devs Probably not many of those on the debian-user mailing list; and even if

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 14/1/25 00:19, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/1/25 23:55, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 13 Jan 2025 14:26 +, from mail.dhar...@googlemail.com (Daniel Harris): Come on firefox devs Probably not many of those on the debian-user mailing list; and even if there are, a post to an unrelated

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
n, such as Firefox, on an operating system list, such as this, may seem inappropriate, with such queries and posts, being more appropriately addressed to lists dedicated to each particular application, it might be that it is not necessarily, that simple. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/1/25 23:03, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/1/25 22:26, Daniel Harris wrote: Hello I am a very long time happy firefox user using debian stable, but what on earth is going on with firefox lately.  It is terrible.  So slow and why is it not possible to have 2 separate instances anymore. So

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-13 Thread Bret Busby
are the other specifications of your computer? If you are running an 80386 with 32MB of RAM, firefox will probably be a bit slow. Statements like in the post above, are like complaining that your back hurts, with no other information. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Fwd: Ubuntu 24.10 failing download [Re: fail message dirmanager]

2024-12-24 Thread Bret Busby
sal of the person to act appropriately, despite repeated referrals to the Ubuntu users list, is annoying. Of course, we could always open this list up to solving BSD problems, too... .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Very frustrating help and support on all channels -----------Fwd: fail message dirmanager

2024-12-23 Thread Bret Busby
file. From where? How are you trying to download it? Also, this is not a Ubuntu list. https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-13 Thread Bret Busby
but, that now has a different effect in Firefox. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/12/24 06:08, Van Snyder wrote: On Fri, 2024-12-13 at 05:41 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/12/24 05:36, Van Snyder wrote: On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:26 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk <mailto:debian-u...@howorth.org.uk> wrote: Van Snyder mailto:van.sny...@sbcglobal.net> <ma

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Bret Busby
On 13/12/24 05:41, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/12/24 05:36, Van Snyder wrote: On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 12:26 +, debian-u...@howorth.org.uk wrote: Van Snyder <mailto:van.sny...@sbcglobal.net>> wrote: After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets really slow. The mo

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Bret Busby
herboard. Both RAM sockets have 4 GB installed, but dmidecode says only one is working. Hmmm. If you install and run fastfetch, what does that show for the RAM? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Bret Busby
anticipation (that does not mean that I will repost, without your permission). .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Bret Busby
, lets the user choose which viewer and configurations of the viewer, to enhance the viewing. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-12 Thread Bret Busby
8-core i7 with 32 GB that had been under my desk; they expected me to get by with my home antique. I retired eighteen months later. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Bret Busby
Graphics, the maximum memory speed supported is 1666 MHz * Go to GIGABYTE's website for the latest memory support list." .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Bret Busby
lient-side processing. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/12/24 06:01, Van Snyder wrote: On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 05:32 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: The symptom remains that if I kill firefox and restart it, things run a lot faster for a few hours, and then bog down again. I believe that 4GB of RAM is now not enough for web browsing, especially with

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 12/12/24 05:25, Van Snyder wrote: On Thu, 2024-12-12 at 04:33 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: After Firefox has been running for a few days my Debian 12.5 gets really slow. The mouse jerks when it works at all. It takes a minute or two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Bret Busby
sing the computer to not feel well, and "fall over". .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Bret Busby
n for tracking users and selling their personal information. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Bret Busby
at I want to do, I run "Web" It all depends on what you want to accomplish. I am currently running about 139 windows of Firefox, each with multiple tabs. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: restart lasts maybe a minute till next freeze

2024-12-09 Thread Bret Busby
x27;s webmail facility, until you get your email problem resolved. And, if you want your messages to be respected, and, to obtain assistance, I suggest that you post meaningful messages, instead of the <"expletive deleted"> message above. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: help latest t-bird is crash-o-matic

2024-12-09 Thread Bret Busby
On 9/12/24 23:07, Bret Busby wrote: On 9/12/24 22:53, gene heskett wrote: I don't know if it will last long enough to send this msg. Help plz Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. Why do you not 1. post the query to the Thunderbird email list (at https://groups.io/g/ThunderbirdEmail after subscribi

Re: help latest t-bird is crash-o-matic

2024-12-09 Thread Bret Busby
list, and, 2. include the version number of the Thunderbird that you are using, and, the OS platform version, upon which you are running it? If you are running the latest version of Thunderbird, on Debian 3.0, it might not work very well... .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: seeking new laser printer

2024-12-08 Thread Bret Busby
s for a Xerox laser, and I'm trying to avoid that. Some Reddit posts favor Brother. Thanks. What country? .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-02 Thread Bret Busby
system, and, then create your partitions, and copy data to corresponding partitions. What you are intending to do, reminds me of a movie that I once watched, named Pet Semetary (sic). .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: ot: firefox password manager

2024-11-22 Thread Bret Busby
gin screen is there a way stop this without disabling my password As you are aware that the query is off-topic, perhaps, you might want to subscribe to, and, post the message to, the firefox users mailing list at groups.io . .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Bret Busby
On 11/11/24 22:00, Michael Kjörling wrote: On 11 Nov 2024 21:24 +0800, from b...@busby.net (Bret Busby): Whilst this computer that I am using, has about ten USB sockets (including four on the front), I expect that a similar workstation to this, would be required, or, a proper server, with all

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-11 Thread Bret Busby
th Debian preinstalled... https://laptopwithlinux.com/laptops-with-debian-linux-preinstalled/ https://www.debian.org/distrib/pre-installed .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: OFF TOPIC How can I help a friend remove coPilot?

2024-11-06 Thread Bret Busby
inflatable plastic doll in the movie Flying High). That would deflate the copilot. As Judge Bullingham was likely to say, "Just plain common sense" (or, words to that effect). .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Edge on debian

2024-11-04 Thread Bret Busby
On 5/11/24 04:34, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Nov 05, 2024 at 04:21:07 +0800, Bret Busby wrote: Microsoft Edge is currently based on Chromium (the "Blink" engine); it used to be based on Internet Explorer (the "Trident" engine). Assuming that you're not trying to

Re: Edge on debian

2024-11-04 Thread Bret Busby
On 5/11/24 04:35, Peter Ehlert wrote: On November 4, 2024 12:21:38 PM Bret Busby wrote: On 5/11/24 02:24, Darac Marjal wrote: On 04/11/2024 12:15, Hwa Peer wrote: Hello list, Have you anybody tried MS Edge browser on Debian desktop? I would be happy to hear your viewpoints on this app

Re: Edge on debian

2024-11-04 Thread Bret Busby
e who know, what you're asking is a bit like "Has anyone used File Explorer on Debian" or "Has anyone used Windows Update on Debian". Thanks. I understand google chrome to be spyware and a privacy and security threat. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

Re: Minimalist HTML 4 viewer available?

2024-11-04 Thread Bret Busby
had previously referred. Insofar as I am aware, some or most HTML 5 web browsers do not recognise these frames, to the extent that I had to abandon the use of frames. I had found these frames, to have been quite useful, in the web sites that I had developed and maintained. .. Bret Busb

Re: Minimalist HTML 4 viewer available?

2024-11-04 Thread Bret Busby
t the bolding ( Bold ) has also been deprecated and replaced with strong or something similar. What works and does not work, of what has been deprecated, can also depend on the individual browser, and, what each inmdividual browser will allow or not. .. Bret Busby Armadale West Australia (UTC+0800) ..

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