Package on hold (was: Disable upgrades on grub)

2025-05-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> echo "PKGNAME hold" | sudo dpkg --set-selections > is that the same as apt-mark hold PKGNAME Reminds me that I wish we could add a comment describing why it's on hold (or alternatively, provide a config file where we can write which package should be held, using a format that allows comments).

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

2025-05-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 4) You want to rewrite not only the WIKI CONTENT, but the WIKI ENGINE too. I really appreciate your constructive contributions, thank you. Stefan

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

2025-05-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
Greg Wooledge [2025-05-20 16:49:28] wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2025 at 16:38:16 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> In contrast my proposition means that when a new release happens we just >> get a new set of pages, which start empty (this part can be done fully >> automatical

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

2025-05-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
Jonathan Dowland [2025-05-20 18:48:27] wrote: > On Tue May 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM BST, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>> FWIW I didn't find "keep it up to date" useful feedback. >> Here's my view: replace each current page with a list of "per Debian >> ver

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

2025-05-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> FWIW I didn't find "keep it up to date" useful feedback. Here's my view: replace each current page with a list of "per Debian version" pages. So, when someone edits a page, they don't edit the "DebianBootstrap" page, but the "DebianBootstrap/trixie" page. The "DebianBootstrap" page would presu

Re: Arch Wiki (was Re: "Tips"?)

2025-05-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
Jonathan Dowland [2025-05-15 09:52:23] wrote: > On Wed May 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM BST, Dan Ritter wrote: >> I don't think anyone at the Arch project or the Debian project >> would say that Arch is based on Debian. > ACK >> It is certainly the case that their documentation is good, and >> although not

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> What's the "embedded" CO2 usage of a nuclear reactor, I wonder. And don't forget the energy that will be needed to dismantle it! Stefan

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> * If a new machine is genuinely more efficient (and we keep being >told that they are!), The capacity of laptop batteries has been stable around 50-100Wh for decades, so the detailed and concrete data about potential improvement in efficiency is readily available in the form measurement of

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> installing any even remotely current release of Debian (or any other > kind of *nix) on hardware over a decade old probably doesn't have much > practical benefit, and is more of an exercise in seeing > what's possible. Hmm... FWIW, here are the computers I use on a regular basis: - Thinkpad X30

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> the entire argument about keeping antique hardware in operation on > ecological grounds makes no sense except in a hypothetical world where > only two machines exist. Clearly, there's a limit beyond which it doesn't make any sense any more, but it usually makes sense to keep operating old electr

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-08 Thread Stefan Monnier
> older machines are also normally using a lot more electricity than > something small and more recent might use. While that's obviously good, that doesn't necessarily justify buying a new machine from an ecological perspective: AFAIK the embedded energy in a laptop (i.e. the energy that was nec

Re: Request for Snapdragon X Plus Support and Development for ASUS Q5507QA-S15 Laptop

2025-05-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
Reza Bojnordi [2025-05-06 09:53:54] wrote: > I hope this message finds you well. I am reaching out to inquire about the > possibility of enhanced support and development for the Snapdragon X Plus > processor, specifically for my laptop model, the ASUS Q5507QA-S15. There's arch/arm64/boot/dts/

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> If you want to connect a machine that old to the Internet today, I > suspect it might be possible to build a modern kernel that will run on > it (which would be a starting point) but it would take a lot of fine > tuning of the build configuration. As a reality-check: OpenWRT currently require

Re: Debian on a VERY OLD hardware?

2025-05-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Is it possible to install Debian on a VERY VERY OLD hardware? The answer is "yes", but it depends what you mean by "Debian" and more importantly it depends what you want to do with it. Stefan

Re: Internet connection in rescue mode

2025-05-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> What lesson is that? My guess: don't run code downloaded from random web sites, including (or especially?) for those sites that belong to large companies which care only about their bottom line and not their users. Stefan

Re: Different Debian for different users

2025-04-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> That's the kind of solution I was hoping someone has developed enough to >> iron out those major security issues (e.g. letting GDM do the chroot >> before it changes its UID to that of the user). > See RootDirectory in systemd.exec(5). It can be set for specific users > through user@.service.d d

Re: Different Debian for different users

2025-04-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Is there some way to setup a machine such that one user can login into it >> and see a Debian stable system, while another user can log into it (in >> another vty) and get, say, a Debian sid system? > When you say "while" you mean "at the same time"? That's what I meant by "another vty", yes.

Re: Different Debian for different users

2025-04-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The first way that I can think of is extremely hack-ish. > > Install stable normally, then install sid in a chroot using debootstrap. > Add the desired user accounts to the sid system. > > Next, write a little C program that executes a command like > > chroot /sid /bin/su - getenv("LOGNAME")

Re: Different Debian for different users

2025-04-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Is there some way to setup a machine such that one user can login into it >> and see a Debian stable system, while another user can log into it (in >> another vty) and get, say, a Debian sid system? >> I don't really want different VMs. > Why don't you want to go down the VMs road? > Just trying

Re: Different Debian for different users

2025-04-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
> How would you run both the Debian Stable and Debian Sid kernels at the same > time without virtualization? I don't need the kernels to be different (in my experience, Debian stable works just fine with a Debian sid kernel, and the reverse is also true most of the time). Stefan

Different Debian for different users

2025-04-25 Thread Stefan Monnier
The recent discussion around Xpra reminded me of something much more limited that I've often wanted: Is there some way to setup a machine such that one user can login into it and see a Debian stable system, while another user can log into it (in another vty) and get, say, a Debian sid system? I d

Re: Problem with VLC H 264 after having installed ISPY package

2025-04-18 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> The ispy software is something well known, which is available for >> Windows, Mac and Linux. It drives several well known "spy cameras", >> that is, cameras that spy anything unusual in your garden when there >> is no-one at home. If you google search "ispy", you get several pages >> of answers

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Since the sender has no knowledge of what MUA (or browser) any receiver > is using there's no way to know how to configure whatever they're using. There's only one user of interest here (the idiot requesting a specific color) and the OP has presumably received an email from that guy so they can

Re: Colored e-mail without using \e[3;91m HTML \e[0m

2025-04-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Looking at > https://framalistes.org/sympa/arc/ospo.onramp/2025-03/msg1.html as > an example, it appears your text may become blue if you precede your > message with and follow it with > Yeah, making it a link might render it blue. If you do that, I think it'd be worthwhile to make it a va

Re: Debian

2025-04-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Worse than that, if this is the original netgear "firmware", I have no idea > how close to a normal debian system it ever was, what the actual hardware > is, or whether that hardware is supported by debian itself (vs only with > netgear modifications). A quick google suggests that the netgear > m

Re: Limiting attack surface for Debian sshd

2025-04-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> My laptop has one to two handful of these, depending on what I'm >> currently playing with. > I taking a class at the local library; my laptop has avahi and cups > ports open .. which I'm not thrilled about but I like the zero-conf > printing ability. Why do you need cups ports open to print? I

Re: Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

2025-04-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
Greg Wooledge [2025-04-09 15:41:05] wrote: > On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 19:15:31 +, Matt Timpson wrote: >> I'd also like to know what "numpy" is and what is does. > apt-cache show python3-numpy > or do a Google/Duckduckgo/Bing search for it. My N°1 search engine nowadays is Wikipedia (protected f

Re: Can you help me run Box64 on my Raspberry Pi 5?

2025-04-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> And also check this link: > https://pi-apps.io/install-app/install-box64-on-linux-arm-device/[1] You may also want to just `apt install box64` since according to https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/box64 it's in Debian testing. Stefan

Re: When an external disk is connected, the wireless mouse works by being connected from a shorter distance.

2025-04-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I have done after rebooting and didn't see anything, well dmesg, is that the > same as the kernel log? > I assumed that if the system was frozen nothing would be written. Keep > meaning to organise it so I can ssh into it if it happens. Is > very infrequent. Oh, wait: is it the whole system that

Re: When an external disk is connected, the wireless mouse works by being connected from a shorter distance.

2025-04-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I occasionally have the wireless mouse and the USB keyboard freeze with > XFCE/Bookworm when plug in a (powered) external disk to a USB port. I've > ordered a powered USB hub and will see if it stops happening. Assuming the external USB disk is indeed using its own power, this suggests the prob

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-04-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> This looks strange for me, as I would think, the AP on the computer > would also need some processing time for recognition, correction and > routing to the host. Try it! If you notice an important performance penalty, *then* come back with the numbers and the details of your setup, so someone c

Re: OT: Connect two computers with linux with wlan, but without any router

2025-03-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> You need to make one PC an access point. I think most guides are > yes, I already am aware of this, but this I wanted to avoid. It will > be then again a new hop, which causes delay (and I suppose, > a software router is sklower than a hardware device). No, if one of the PCs is the AP, then c

VPN over TLS (was: site-to-site VPN with credential prompts?)

2025-03-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I was once sitting at a $(DAYJOB) where they blocked everything but > 443 (and 80). I tunneled ssh over socat (with TLS, so that the handshake > didn't look suspect, in case their firewall sniffed that). Reminds me: I have an OpenVPN running on port 443, specifically to minimize the chances that

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-03-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
Stefan Monnier [2025-03-19 17:34:07] wrote: >> In essence, what you are asking is "how can I re-share an NFS share >> that I'm mounting as a client, to another client". >> To the best of my knowledge, this is not possible. >> >> However, what *is* p

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-03-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Exporting a nfs mounted location is possible via nfs-ganesha Oh nice! Looks like this is a similar tool to unfs3, just more recent and still actively developed. Thanks, Stefan

Re: recursively share NFS

2025-03-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In essence, what you are asking is "how can I re-share an NFS share > that I'm mounting as a client, to another client". > To the best of my knowledge, this is not possible. > > However, what *is* possible, because I've done it, is to mount an NFS > share and then share that via Samba. I assume

Re: [SOLVED] Re: macchanger - will not change MAC at boot

2025-03-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > the desired goal is, that my original MAC will never appear after boot. As >> > dpkg-reconfigure macchanger claims this to do, in real it does not. >> Seems we've been through this before in 2022 (sorry that it's Google Groups >> which I thought was defunct but anyway): >> https://groups.googl

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> besides rsync, do you know any other software/service for increment backup? > I use borg. It stores files in its own archive format with > deduplication and compression. 4 backups of 32G /+/home of my old > netbook created every month stored in ~11GB backup directory. > Slower than rsync, eat

Re: Could you recommend me a mature fuse filesystem which uses a single file as backing storage, and could self-growing?

2025-03-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> visible for Windows. The awful part is that, > I need to run a commercial software on > the Windows system of that device, and that > commercial software frequently performs > full-disk scan 'for the sake of user security'. If at all possible, you might be better off turning the Windows part int

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Yes, it has `bup prune-older`. > I must admit I don't use it, but I'd expect it to be fairly > costly/slow. The thing I do use and like very much is `bup get` which transfers backups between two repositories. I use it for off-site backups, and compared to my previous Rsync based backups (where

Re: increment backup of home dir

2025-03-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
Jonathan Dowland [2025-03-14 22:03:21] wrote: > On Fri Mar 14, 2025 at 9:14 PM GMT, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I use Bup, which provides a fairly similar featureset to Borg (tho >> doesn't support encryption yet). AFAIK the main difference is that >> instead of its own ar

Re: Problem with /var

2025-03-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
Maureen Thomas [2025-03-06 20:24:36] wrote: > I am running Debian 12 fulled updated. I keep getting a message saying that > my /var is almost full. What can I safely delete to make more room for it. Depends on all kinds of things. Questions that come to mind: - Why do you have a separate /var

Re: web browser recommendation

2025-03-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I do have uBlock Origin installed and working in the browsers as well. > Getting used to this and then using my phone on mobile data is a jarring > experience! I don't understand. Why don't you install uBlock Origin on your phone? Stefan "using uMatrix on his phone"

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I thought the whole point of running the SMART tests was to detect > a failing disk, so color me confused. If we knew how to detect a failing (as opposed to failed) disk, then things would be easy. SMART is an attempt to provide relevant information, but that's all. AFAIK, it's still "the best

Re: Proposal for a Yearly Stable Release Cycle for Educational Institutions

2025-03-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I am writing to propose the creation of a new Debian branch that > offers a stable release every year, as opposed to the current 5-year > cycle. This would be particularly beneficial for educational > institutions, where a balance between stability and up-to-date > software is crucial. As menti

Re: filesystem damage

2025-03-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
> So.  This time, while the backup was in process, I mounted /home > read-only to check something out.  Apparently that's not good enough to > keep the filesystem intact, Indeed, with ext4 (and maybe other journaled filesystems as well), even if you mount read-only the system starts by (re)playing

Re: fstrim for LUKS2 encyrypted LVM

2025-02-21 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> That was 2+ years ago, and 2T's were brand new. With a lot of emphasis on the "+" I guess, since I bought my first 2½" 2TB HDD in 2012. Stefan

Re: no package management tool

2025-02-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
Charles Curley [2025-02-20 14:12:10] wrote: > On Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:27:31 +0100 > Yassine Chaouche wrote: >> >> in order to close as many security holes as possible, >> > Oh, that's a very charitable way to look at it. 🙂 >> That was my honest opinion but now I feel gullible :) >> I don't see

Re: no package management tool

2025-02-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I can only imagine the manufacturer wants the installation to be minimal Agreed. > in order to close as many security holes as possible, Oh, that's a very charitable way to look at it. 🙂 Stefan

Re: libvirt / KVM in Intel i5-4590

2025-02-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Sorry for any inconvenience. Calling an LVM volume group kvm is > a really stupid idea. > > This creates a > /dev/kvm so kvm cannot work. Oh, that was clever! I recently started preferring `/dev/mapper/-` over the (admittedly) prettier `/dev//`, just because it lets me use TAB completion when

Cross-DE uses (was: fonts printing too thin from qpdfview)

2025-02-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Xpdf prints show a font that is a little too thick, and xpdf offers none of > the printer's options (e.g. double-sided printing). I don't try Evince > (Gnome) or Okular (KDE) because I run the fvwm window manager. FWIW, I think these should work regardless of your window manager (e.g. I'm using

Re: Firefox

2025-02-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
> PS 32GB RAM, and it still locks up to the point that a hardware button > reboot is necessary. That's up there in the inexcusable abuse range. You can mostly fix this problem by imposing a maximum to the amount of RAM used by a process. E.g. you can add a file `/etc/security/limits.d/10-mylimits

Re: no space left on device

2025-02-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Jan 13 19:46:06 eagle ntfs-3g[4262]: No free mft record for $MFT: No >> space left on device > Hmm, MFT too small? A quick search showed me this (from a forum): AFAIK the MFT is implemented as a "normal" file; it can grow as needed like any other file. So, as long as there's room on the disk, i

Re: Are Debian packages updated within a release?

2025-01-17 Thread Stefan Monnier
> That is why the rolling release method is superior to the old model > used by others. Yes, and for the same reason non-rolling release distributions of GNU/Linux don't exist. Actually, for that same fundamental reason, there is only one GNU/Linux distribution (the one that "is superior").

Re: Monitoring a single process

2025-01-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
Thank you for all your answers, this pointed me to tools I was not aware of and to options I was not aware of in tools I knew. `lsof` seems able to give me a lot of info, but has so many options that I haven't yet found a way to give me something more or less useful. But at least I now know that i

Re: A warning about rsync in stable: it became broken 3 days ago, is now fixed

2025-01-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Why use 3 year old rsync? If you can't answer this question, then you probably will be better served with Debian testing, Debian unstable, or even some other distribution than Debian stable. Stefan

Re: NVME - slower speed with deactivated UEFI?

2025-01-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>Now I heard of, that a NVME drive will only get to full speed, if UEFI is >>activated in BIOS. Is this correct? > No, at least for linux; I can't speak to windows. +1 Stefan

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Is it some kind of NVMe temp garbage overhead? No, it's a problem at the ntfs-3g level, not the NVMe level. > Possibly. I haven't been following the thread very attentively and have no > particular expertise, but maybe you are running to an issue similar to > the one described in the link bel

Re: no space left on device

2025-01-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
> After running for several hours, it refused to continue due to "no space > left on device". > I've confirmed the problem trying to save a text file there, same error. Hmm... I don't see anything amiss in the data you sent, so I'm afraid I don't know what's going on. Have you tried to delete on

Re: What is going on with firefox

2025-01-14 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> If that fails, it's time to stop and restart FF. I usually clean the >>> sqlite DBs by going to my FF profile directory and running this (buried >>> in a larger cleanup script): >> A browser, like Windows or any other non-operating system, has to be >> rebooted from time to time. >> The ritual

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-10 Thread Stefan Monnier
I used to hold on dearly to the "1024-based" view, and it's only now that I realize that I don't actually care about it any more. I think what happened is that internally many things care about power-of-2 sizes for technical reasons (there are very good reason why mass storage block sizes are alwa

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> For example...let's take the 18B drive discussed earlier. That's > 18TB or 16TiB. Annoying, but ok. Now that's also 18000MB but 16763MiB. And > it's 1800MB or 17166137MiB. So if you have a display in MB and you want > to know the value in TB you move the decimal 6 places. But if y

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> That would be for KB, but Tera is the third power of that. So it's about > three times 2.35%, if you throw away the higher order terms (we physicists > are cheap, like that ;-) I think you meant 4th power, but what's a factor 1024 between friends. Stefan

Re: Mass storage sizes

2025-01-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Merchants insist on decimal only because their cash registers have no > buttons for hex digits. > > 0xA exp 0xC is 0xE8d4A51000 > 0x2 exp 0x28 is0x100 > 0x100 / 0xE8d4A51000 = ~ 0x1.197D938 > > So it's 0x19.8 per 0x100 loss for us hard working programmers when the > scroo

Mass storage sizes (was: /dev/serial/by-id)

2025-01-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> 8 TB is not that big. I have a external 18 TB drive. It is 18 TB in name > only though! After fromating it with ext4 it only had 15TB of usuable > space. 18TB "on paper" is usually 18 * 1000^4 bytes, so if you convert this into "computer units" is ~16.37 * 1024^4 bytes. If you then make an ext4

Monitoring a single process

2025-01-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
Is there a tool somewhere that lets me monitor a single process? Something I'd run, passing it a PID and which would display a regularly refreshed status of what the process is doing: MB/s read from the filesystem, MB/s written to the filesystem, maybe even with more detail (actual file name(s) ac

Re: laptop for debian 12

2025-01-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
> M.2 SSD Drive: 250GB NVME SSD One more thing to consider: if you look at the current price of SSDs, you'll see that price per GB is significantly higher for drives <500GB. The better "bang for buck" is between 500GB and 2TB nowadays. [ This said, personally, I can't find much use for sizes

Re: laptop for debian 12

2025-01-01 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Memory: 8GB I live quite happily with 8GB of RAM in several of my machines, but that's for machines which I've owned for more than 10 years already, so I think it's OK for a new machine only if you can later bump it to 16GB, otherwise the machine will probably be painful to use in 5-10 years

Re: How can I test the graphics card?

2024-12-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
> "Your card is only supported by the 340 legacy drivers series, which > is only available up to buster." For such old hardware you're probably better off *not* using the proprietary driver. Stefan

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

2024-12-31 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I've never used Debian's installer on those boards, and don't even know >> if Debian officially "supports" them. > So how do you install Debian on those ARM boards? Put some image on > whatever storage they have? Sometimes I used cloned another system, and other times I used Debootstrap running

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

2024-12-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
Anssi Saari [2024-12-30 18:16:25] wrote: > Stefan Monnier writes: >> FWIW, I've been using ARM-based SBCs for more than 10 years (4 different >> boards, I'm ashamed to say) and have used Debian on all of them. So no: >> you don't need Armbian to make use o

Re: synaptic workalike that WILL run on sudo with wayland.

2024-12-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Armbian is *NOT* Debian They do things differently there. Some of their [...] > Then you are missing out on the many things a pi clone can do on 5% of an > amd64's power budget. Granted the amd64 can do it 20x faster, ignoring that > the pi clone is fast enough. Debian seems to treat the arm64'

Re: Bash expression to detect dying RAID devices

2024-12-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> File /proc/mdstat indicates a dying RAID device with an output section such > as > > md3 : active raid1 sdg6[0] >871885632 blocks super 1.0 [2/1] [U_] >bitmap: 4/7 pages [16KB], 65536KB chunk > > Note the [U-]. I can't see a "[U-]", only a "[U_]" Stefan

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Ahem, well, it is of course no SSD, just a harddrive with SATA port. > And I got this one from a heritage. Oohhh. big disappointment! Stefan

Re: Boot from USB?

2024-12-16 Thread Stefan Monnier
> No problem for me, as I still only have one single 3,5" SSD. Really? A 3½" SSD? Where did you find such a beast? I'm curious to know the make/model. Also curious what made you choose to buy such a thing instead of the more common 2½" SSDs. Stefan

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I call this "memory leakage". I don't know if actual code bugs, or the > sloppy way Firefox allocates and frees memory. As far as I know, all > browsers suffer from this. If you find one which doesn't, let us know. It doesn't have to be a leak in the browser's code. It can also be a leak in the

Re: directories I can't get rid of

2024-12-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Yes .cache/doc is a mountpoint for steam Wow, that sounds philosophically quite wrong. Stefan

Re: Firefox alternatives?

2024-12-11 Thread Stefan Monnier
> two for wndows to close or top. At the moment, Firefox has 19 processes > running. Memory is half full, and swap is about 10% used. When I kill > Firefox and restart, things go back to normal for a few hours. > What alternatives that aren't such pigs do you recommend? FWIW, it's not necessarily

Re: Squid on Debian 12 not staring via systemd

2024-12-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Is anyone running Squid on Debian 12? I installed it but I can not get it > to start via systemd. FWIW, I'm running Squid on Debian 12, yes. I don't know if I start it via systemd, but it's started at boot presumably by systemd and `systemctl status squid` gives mean sane output. [ and it does s

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
> As I understand it the slots in the M2 SSD connector can tell whether > it's SATA or NVMe or both. I have an M2 SSD which I believe will work > either with a SATA connection or with NVMe, and it has two slots in > its connector. IIUC the M.2 slot into which you insert the SSD can support either

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> "M.2 => NVMe" (the implication is currently true in the other >> direction, tho, AFAIK). > Not at all. We have many servers with U.2 and U.3 format disks, > which look like classic 2.5" SSDs but use NVMe PCIe connections. Aha! Thanks for setting me straight! Stefan

Re: From SSD to NVME

2024-12-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> That is a SATA SSD, not an NVMe. > Interesting, thanks. Apparently either it was misrepresented to me, or I > misremembered. That explains some stuff. The switch from SATA to the NVMe interface/protocol happened basically at the same time as the switch from the 2.5" (and mini-pcie) to the M.2

Re: why do errors stop during backup

2024-12-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> i have an old pci analog video capture card that uses bttv >> it fills the log with timeout errors, 1 or 2 per minute >> bttv: 2: timeout: drop=725178 irq=4905870/4927747, risc=2014e424, bits: HSYNC >> each night i run a backup with rsync >> during that backup time there are no bttv errors >> th

Re: Trying to configure hibernate / resume

2024-12-03 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> > The answer seems to be to install with LVM and encryption. That ensures >> > that the swap area is encrypted and *cannot* be messed with while the >> > device is hibernated (which is the rationale for Secure Boot not allowing >> > hibernation to a "naked" swap partition). >> How does UEFI know

Re: Trying to configure hibernate / resume

2024-11-30 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The answer seems to be to install with LVM and encryption. That ensures > that the swap area is encrypted and *cannot* be messed with while the > device is hibernated (which is the rationale for Secure Boot not allowing > hibernation to a "naked" swap partition). How does UEFI know about Debian'

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I am frustrated that I cannot perceive any performance improvements in > CPUs since the 4th Gen i7s. This is likely due to the software I use > does not gain any perceptible improvement from running on > a faster CPU? Not really, it's simply that, since the end of [Dennard scaling](https://en.wi

Re: Linux on a Laptop shipped with Windows 11 in S-mode

2024-11-24 Thread Stefan Monnier
> a CPU that is less than the performance of an i5. Side note: such a description is not very useful because a 10 year old i7 can be significantly less powerful than a recent i3. Stefan

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I guess that depends. I remember having a cheap or free trial VPS for a > month with just 512 MB. Git ran out of RAM trying to check out the Linux I can confirm that even 1GB of RAM is not really sufficient to use a Git repository that tracks the Linux kernel (I've so far been able to do it on m

Re: debian for limited ram

2024-11-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I got a vps from BF flash sale (vps dot blackfriday) which has only > 512mb ram. for this limited ram what debian release should be better > to install? All Debian releases are generally quite good for limited RAM circumstances. IME the main limit is the RAM used by `apt`, so for machines with

Re: FreedomBox and Nextcloud

2024-11-22 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Hi all. I have installed FreedomBox from stable and on 1st run was sad to > see that Nextcloud isn't included as an app to install on FreedomBox! While FreedomBox is designed to provide easy access only to applications that are part of Debian, and Nextcloud is *not* part of Debian, it so happen

Re: Contributing back: Using grub2 to boot CD-ROM images

2024-11-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> In the past I've used the `grub-imageboot` package for that. > Near as I can tell, somewhere along the line the kernel and initrd are > extracted from the (CD|DVD|diskette) image. IIUC `grub-imageboot`s boot entries boot the ISOs by running the `memdisk` program, passing it the ISO. I don't re

Re: Contributing back: Using grub2 to boot CD-ROM images

2024-11-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The three images I have been working with are recent netinst weekly > builds, a recent Finnix, and the gparted live CD. All three go on their > own partition, in hope that that partition would isolate them from file > system catastrophes. Nice. In the past I've used the `grub-imageboot` package

Re: how avoid blank screen after some time

2024-11-19 Thread Stefan Monnier
> In KDE (and maybe other windowmanagers) the screen is going black after a > while of doing nothing. This is especially annoying, when watching a video in > firefox i.e. from youtube or watching a video in VLC. Blanking seems acceptable if your video is running in some window somewhere, but if

Re: utelnetd

2024-11-15 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> SSHD is packaged and available on Debian. > Timothy, for a console on localhost do you use ssh exclusively? Never > xterm or similar? You authenticate every connection to localhost? Hmm...`xterm` is unrelated: you'd run `telnet` or `ssh` *inside* `xterm`, no *instead of* `xterm`. > Naively,

Re: Multi seat. Was Debian versions

2024-11-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
> With multi-seat (ISTR the term originated at Redhat), people started > to re-invent what a "user session" means. In a confusingly and quite > irritatingly new manner, mind you. So you now (yay!) can have two Gnome > sessions. But you pay the price that a Gnome session is quite a different > beast

Re: Opening a URL with NetSurf from another application

2024-11-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> On 05/11/2024 11:08, Stefan Monnier wrote: >>>> default browser: how would you get it to open a new tab in an existing >>>> window when, e.g. `xdg-open` needs it? Max Nikulin [2024-11-05 23:51:21] wrote: > Is your problem that new window is opened instead o

Re: Opening a URL with NetSurf from another application

2024-11-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
Max Nikulin [2024-11-05 23:04:16] wrote: > On 05/11/2024 11:08, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> But I'd like to be able to send URLs to NetSurf and can't figure out how >> to do it. Am I missing something? Say you'd like to install it as your >> default browser: ho

Re: XOFF (C-s) on ptys works by default

2024-11-05 Thread Stefan Monnier
Nicolas George [2024-11-05 12:11:39] wrote: > Marc SCHAEFER (12024-11-05): >> It could have been handy on a real tty > It is very handy on emulated ttys too. You never had the output of > tcpdump / tail -f /var/log/… / make you wanted to pause to inspect > something? I always use `C-z` for that.

Opening a URL with NetSurf from another application

2024-11-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
Someone mentioned NetSurf recently here and I'm trying it out. It's an interesting "halfway" point between TUI browsers like Lynx/EWW, and monsters like Firefox. But I'd like to be able to send URLs to NetSurf and can't figure out how to do it. Am I missing something? Say you'd like to install i

Re: Minimalist HTML 4 viewer available?

2024-11-04 Thread Stefan Monnier
>>> Frames were current up through HTML 4[7] but are non-conformant in >>> HTML 5[8], although interestingly enough still described[9]. >> Not sure if we're talking about the same "frames", but uMatrix has >> a column dedicated to frames and I see it used fairly frequently for >> captchas and onlin

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