Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

On Fri, 9 May 2025 16:43:45 - (UTC) Greg wrote: > > What's the "embedded" CO2 usage of a nuclear reactor, I wonder. > Big power plants are obviously great consumers of power themselves, some of the greatest probably. More notoriously, they'll usually need lots of power to power up, nothing

Re: Does "secure" old-stable kernel exist with required intel GPU support

On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 15:25:31 -0400 Felix Miata wrote: > 0 upgraded, 48 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. > Need to get 6,874 kB of archives. > After this operation, 23.0 MB of additional disk space will be used. > Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n > Abort. > # > :~( Yes, I'm gettin

Re: web browser recommendation

On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 11:15:12 -0400 Ken Burns wrote: > Key point: "(if the user opts-in to them)". If the user (myself > included) clicks the readily displayed option to opt out, then you > get very effective ad blocking, combined with exceptional privacy. > Yes, and since privacy is a huge field

Re: Cookies in Links Web Browser

On Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:52:38 -0800 David Hoff Jr wrote: > I have a fresh install on Debian 12 with all updates. I am trying > to use Links web browser to access the dailycaller.com web site but am > being blocked. A message says to enable cookies which I have tried > using "links -enable-cookies

Re: Systemctl masked/disabled/etc

Hi, looks like I'm the only one yet as I take it, he wasn't asking about meanings of, or differences between states but rather worries about defaults he may have inadvertently changed. This is about what is essential or required for system operation. > Is there any point to worrying about what's

Re: info is not dead

On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 11:13:47 -0500 Nate Bargmann wrote: > where some nice formatting is done in the GUI Emacs version. The > stand alone GNU info browser is rather obtuse. I found a much better > option to be the independent pinfo (Debian package of the same name) > browser which provides navig

Re: Password managers

On Mon, 13 Nov 2023 21:58:17 -0500 wrote: >As it happens, pass(1) appeared to be precisely what I was looking for. >My original code stores all passwords in a single file, whereas pass >stores each password in a separate file. In addition, I don't need pass >in order to decode the password files.

Re: No Books in print on Systemd?

On Sat, 18 May 2019 23:11:42 -0400 Kenneth Parker wrote: > Did also see the following two: > >> > >> * How Linux Works, 2nd Edition (Paperback); Brian Ward; 2015.. > >> Incidentally references systemd as one of the many topics covered. > >> > > > I'll look, but this will, likely not have the det