The Linux Thread - The Autist's OS of Choice

[analrapist]

To answer your question, yes, I like Guix, but it inspires a lot of hate in me. Other package managers seem extremely limited by comparison (seriously, requiring root just to upgrade *your user's* packages?), but to be fair, I haven't done much comparing recently.

As someone who was shocked by how much Gentoo "just works", you make Guix sound like Gentoo for masochists. Given how many times I've written my own Linux distro, I am now more committed to eventually running it.

 

[Celebrate Nite]

And now, a public service announcement:

 

[Akerman]

Kind of ridiculous how you have to set a window rule on KWin just to get OSD volume notification to be near the bottom of the screen like on Windows. The default placement of it is almost at the middle of the screen, super inconvenient esp for games. I was able to do it with this rule. Tweaked it a bit for my monitor resolution. It does limit the OSD notification to your primary monitor but I am fine with that personally.

I was also able to port this plasmoid from KDE 4 to KDE 6 over the weekend as I've been trying to learn QML and I've found porting to be a good way to learn in general:


Its a little steampunk clock widget on the desktop with some fun animations.

 

[Hakase Shinonome]

Its a little steampunk clock widget on the desktop with some fun animations.

Widgets were so much fun in the Win7 days, too bad Microjeet saw no fun in them and removed them in the same Windows version. I want my desktop to actually be of some use other than the z=0 of my monitor.

 

[Mikoyan]

Widgets were so much fun in the Win7 days, too bad Microjeet saw no fun in them and removed them in the same Windows version. I want my desktop to actually be of some use other than the z=0 of my monitor.

This is why I was so hyped for Active Desktop back in the day but holy fuck we did not have enough CPU to cash that check.

 

[snotang]

As someone who was shocked by how much Gentoo "just works", you make Guix sound like Gentoo for masochists. Given how many times I've written my own Linux distro, I am now more committed to eventually running it.

I get the sense that any $DISTRIBUTION I use would immediately become "$DISTRIBUTION for masochists". My usage is not particularly typical. At least with Guix I get the sense that there is progress being made.

 

[Orcinus Orca]

The instructions are here:

https://community.torproject.org/relay/setup/bridge/debian-ubuntu/

Assuming that it is publicly available, you would definitely want to set up the Tor repos to get semi-up-to-date versions of Tor stuff. That's here:

https://support.torproject.org/little-t-tor/getting-started/installing/#debian-ubuntu

(But you would replace the 'DISTRIBUTION' in the sources.list with the equivalent Ubuntu version for your version of Linux Mint, not whatever Mint calls its variant of Ubuntu internally- i.e. 'noble' for the latst version)

What do I type in place of ORPort and ServerTransportListenAddr?

 

[Orcinus Orca]

Anyone know how to troubleshoot this?

 

[CeeTee]

That is surprising. I took most of them for typical centre-left/left types.

nah most of them are the anticapilatist type, anywhere i go, at the conferences, lug, any major events here, i get anti AI, anti capitalist, very feminist, and woke for the younger generation, discourse

 

[SchizoDaemon]

nah most of them are the anticapilatist type, anywhere i go, at the conferences, lug, any major events here, i get anti AI, anti capitalist, very feminist, and woke for the younger generation, discourse

If they are young, that is pretty normal tbh. If/when they get a job the quickly changes. I was a total shit-lib lefty until I worked for myself.

 

[Mikoyan]

Anyone know how to troubleshoot this?

It's right there, you're not able to bind to 0.0.0.0, i.e. all IP addresses on the box, and on a low port to boot. You could bind to a specific one or you have permissions problems. What might be doing that varies. apparmor, selinux, binary capabilities... (Or 443 is already taken as it often is, or....)

 

[acid_ra1n]

Widgets were so much fun in the Win7 days, too bad Microjeet saw no fun in them and removed them in the same Windows version. I want my desktop to actually be of some use other than the z=0 of my monitor.

I think part of the reason was people kept doomposting about how they were a security nightmare and instead of fixing them they just removed them entirely

 

[Hakase Shinonome]

instead of fixing [it] they just removed [it] entirely

t. Microjeet.

 

[the rat]

I think part of the reason was people kept doomposting about how they were a security nightmare and instead of fixing them they just removed them entirely

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/w8cookbook/desktop-gadgets-removed
Removed because "security reasons", actually removed because being replaced by live tiles.

same Windows version.

*Next version (Win 8), 7 still has desktop gadgets, the online services are just either offline now or the API being used was deprecated.

This is why I was so hyped for Active Desktop back in the day but holy fuck we did not have enough CPU to cash that check.

Don't let Nathan from ToastyTech hear you say that, that guy has a hatred for anything Internet Explorer that burns so bright you could light half of America with it. Classic page I highly recommend checking it out: http://toastytech.com/evil/

 

[SchizoDaemon]

Don't let Nathan from ToastyTech hear you say that, that guy has a hatred for anything Internet Explorer that burns so bright you could light half of America with it. Classic page I highly recommend checking it out: http://toastytech.com/evil/

IE made me a better programmer. IE6 was such a POS that it forced you to render the page in your head. I learned many dark arts during that time period.

 

[Betonhaus]

Hypothetically, but if Microsoft gets new management and goes "fuck it" and releases a version of Windows so stripped down that you can use it headless or even port KDE and Cinnamon to it (but still using the NT kernel and having full support for window apps) would anyone here try it?

 

[SchizoDaemon]

Hypothetically, but if Microsoft gets new management and goes "fuck it" and releases a version of Windows so stripped down that you can use it headless or even port KDE and Cinnamon to it (but still using the NT kernel and having full support for window apps) would anyone here try it?

No. They will just rug-pull you later.

 

[Rust Troony]

Hypothetically, but if Microsoft gets new management and goes "fuck it" and releases a version of Windows so stripped down that you can use it headless or even port KDE and Cinnamon to it (but still using the NT kernel and having full support for window apps) would anyone here try it?

No. Just give us the source code of windows 7 and leave.

 

[Orcinus Orca]

Hypothetically, but if Microsoft gets new management and goes "fuck it" and releases a version of Windows so stripped down that you can use it headless or even port KDE and Cinnamon to it (but still using the NT kernel and having full support for window apps) would anyone here try it?

Fuck it. Yes.

Anyways, I decided to boot tails OS onto my computer, for OPSEC reasons.

 

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Hypothetically, but if Microsoft gets new management and goes "fuck it" and releases a version of Windows so stripped down that you can use it headless

Windows Server Nano exists, and yet..

Anyone know how to troubleshoot this?

As @Mikoyan points out, there's a very good chance that you already have some other server software you've installed bound to :443. If you run

ss -telp

it should give you a list of ports that processes on the server are listening with, and enough details about the environment of those processes to track them back to what they are.

Alternatively, it might be some security measure, or, you might have configured some part of the overall tor infrastructure to listen on the same port that obfsproxy needs. Might be best to uninstall obfsproxy and tor and loop back to it later.