merompetehla @ merompetehla @lemmy.ml Posts 42Comments 32Joined 10 mo. ago
what ffmpeg command do I need to cut a portion of a larger mkv file and bind the 2 resulting files into 1?
is there any way to increase the size of my /var directory under debian 12.7? (flatpak related)
I now use debian 12.7 with audacity 3.5.1. Why does audacity record everything much louder than with ubuntu 23.10, including background noise?
is there any way to make debian 12.7 open new tabs instead of new windows each time I download something with firefox?
what exactly am I doing adding deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian sid main to my etc/apt/sources.list? trying to install newest yt-dlp on debian 12.6
You point your main active network interface gateway to a tor gateway or proxy.
Am I doing that editing the privoxy config file with this line?
'forward-socks5t / 127.0.0.1:9050 .'
I now set up tor for firefox manually using https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Tor-with-Firefox. If the edited privoxy cofig file is the right way to go, didn't I just double torify?
how does carburetor work? Do I simply activate it and that means all my traffic goes through tor? just like that? even if I open a terminal and sudo apt update, flatpak or yt-dlp something?
what debian 12.5 compatible music jukeboxes can handle 100k flac/orbis/ogg/m4a directories?
how come a m4a file doesn't loop when I configure vlc to do exactly that? OS: Debian 12.5
thanks for posting such a detailed answer.
about the different debian versions: I don't know which one I should try first:
I found debian mac 12.5 netinst https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/bt-cd/ and I'm giving it a try.
Shouldn't that work, I'll try one of the live cds https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/bt-hybrid/
I paste the links to check if I have the right version
Incidentally, the data size difference is so surprising: 0.66 GB (debian mac netinst) against 3.17 GB (debian live). Can I have something in between?
I'm trying to lspci > /sdc1 lspci.txt on recovery mode. What am I doing wrong? + help installing broadcom BCM4360 802.11ac network controller on debian
in short, I should install debian gnome or kde
model is a MacBook Pro, Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz, model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13" with an embedded SSD
Incidentally, I got the notebook as a present, got rid of mac OS and installed xubuntu 23.10 on it. Some mac OS users mean this company deliberately slows down old computers so users feel compelled to buy something newer. Can it be that’s why this notebook is so slow? I didn’t do anything fancy to install xubuntu, just used the whole space to install from a usb stick so I wonder if some residual software is still present.
this notebook has an embedded SSD.
Some mac OS users mean this company deliberately slows down old computers so users feel compelled to buy something newer. Can it be that’s why this notebook is so slow? I didn’t do anything fancy to install xubuntu, just used the whole space to install from a usb stick so I wonder if some residual software is still present.
yes. This MacBook Pro, Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz, model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13" has an embedded apple SSD.
I'm not going to spend any money upgrading any part of this notebook: not much bang for my buck and the model is most probably not supported anymore.
If the Mac has a Retina display
yes, model is a MacBook Pro, Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz, model A1502 (EMC 2875), Retina Mid-2014 13"
Incidentally, I got the notebook as a present, got rid of mac OS and installed xubuntu 23.10 on it. Some mac OS users mean this company deliberately slows down old computers so users feel compelled to buy something newer. Can it be that's why this notebook is so slow? I didn't do anything fancy to install xubuntu, just used the whole space to install from a usb stick so I wonder if some residual software is still present.
makes sense, but I don't understand why LMDE is marked as 6 when the newest stable debian is 12.5 (same applies to linux mint and ubuntu, now at 24.4) shouldn't it be LMDE 12 or 12.5?
However, if you want XFCE, is there a reason you don’t want to use Linux Mint 21.3 with XFCE?
I'm still unsure about the differences: LMDE is based on debian, the OS I now use the most, whereas LM (linux mint) is based on ubuntu. Several posters have argued that LMDE, like debian, is barebones, whereas LM is ideal for an end user with not much idea about linux, but my main issue is speed: I don't want the notebook to be painfully slow: this is a notebook with an Intel Core i5-4278U @ 2.60GHz (2 cores, 4 threads) with 8 GB RAM and installing and upgrading on xubuntu 23.10 was already really, painfully slow.
I either save on resources using a lightweight DE like xfce or using a barebones OS like LMDE
I also want to future proof it as much as possible, which would mean using the OS/DE that uses less resources.
If you allow me, may I ask you where this interest to FreeBSD stems from?
the wikipedia linux article with the linux development tree
do you think that FreeBSD will be less of a hassle compared to “other more niche linux OSs”?
I have no idea
thanks, I found LMDE
Linux Mint Edge Edition
is Edge a desktop environment or a system that lets you use other DEs later? I'm partial to xfce.
I thought every DE gets the same kernel patches.
It’s unclear why you think that more frequent updates would be an advantage.
kernels: I forgot the command to compare both but ubuntu/canonical releases kernel upgrades more often than debian. To a newbie like me this means ubuntu/canonical reacts to security flaws and fixes stability bugs that get discovered faster than debian. Updated hardware support is also a plus.
is there really a reason to switch?
just considering my options
thanks
thanks, now I know how to play with mpv.
However, each time I close the program, changes I made to those settings are lost. Is this how mpv works?
that command returns
GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
GLX_MESA_copy_sub_buffer, GLX_MESA_query_renderer, GLX_MESA_swap_control,
Extended renderer info (GLX_MESA_query_renderer):
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa Intel(R) HD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
will do, thanks