Barzaria

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Barzaria ,

Hey man, we're living parallel lives. I literally just did this yesterday. The command you're looking for is gdebi. Try gdebi (name of the package's file, uncompressed to a .deb) if you downloaded the .Deb from the website. tic80 will now be a usable command. To uninstall the tic80 command / program you can use apt uninstall tic80. It worked with and without sudo.

Barzaria ,

Heya, if you need pico 8, you might like to try https://tic80.com/ . Tic-80 is a Foss pico-8 like software that has a basic and has some pico to tic conversion scripts that can convert between the formats. Hope this helps!

Barzaria ,

https://tic80.com/

I don't know anything about Linux and the idea of installing it frightens me. Where do I start?

I bought a laptop yesterday, it came pre-installed with Windows 11. I hate win 11 so I switched it down to Windows 10, but then started considering using Linux for total control over the laptop, but here's the thing: I keep seeing memes about how complicated or fucky wucky Linux is to install and run. I love the idea of open...

Barzaria ,

I was once like you. You can do it. I like Linux mint. Here's how to install it:
Go to https://www.linuxmint.com/ and see what it's about. It's friendly, it's very Windows like, it just works.
Go here for the install guide: https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Pick an .iso file and download it.
Go to https://etcher.balena.io/#download-etcher
To download the program that puts .iso files on USB drives. Use the Balena Etcher program to burn the .iso onto a USB thumb drive.
Put your non-redownloadable files with sentimental value in another drive and remove the drive from your computer. Do not skip this step, order another drive if you have to (INB4 new laptop, but don't forget this with your other machines).
Plug in the USB drive that has Linux Mint on it. Power off your computer. Wait 20 seconds. Power on your computer. Mash the F2, F10, F12, and F5 keys until you get to the bios screen, or get to the bios screen if you know some other way. Find the setting that says something like "boot priority" and put USB drive above your C drive. Save and power off. Wait 20 seconds. Power on. Press F12 or whatever key you need to to get to the boot selection screen. Choose the option to boot from the Linux Mint USB drive. This is where you can test drive Linux before installing. Try ctl-alt-t to bust open a terminal. The terminal is your friend, but not required for the install. Close terminal with the command 'exit' or ctl-d or ctl-c ctl-d. Double click the install icon on the desktop. Follow instructions. Choose to delete windows forever from your life and put Linux on the hard drive. Follow instructions, they are no harder than any other wizard you have seen to install software. Reboot. Enjoy. Here are some tips:
The terminal is your friend.
Commands for learning the terminal, because the terminal can teach you to use the terminal (man is short for manual):
man man
man apt
man ls
man cd
man vi
man nano
man less
man pipe
man mkfifo
man rm
apt search game ---> searches for the keyword 'game"
apt update ----> this is how to update your cache. Use it to pull your software updates
apt upgrade ----> this is how to apply the updates to your machine.

---End terminal stuff---
You can use your machine in the normal way too, same as any windows machine. Look around and explore. All the stuff in the software center is free (gratis). There's lots of stuff. No more .exes to get software. Look at www.fsf.org to discover why free software is important.

If you have trouble you can DM me. I will help if I can. Good luck, you got this.

Barzaria ,

Yt-dlp can use user authentication to pull videos as well. The flags are -u (username) and -p (password) . Example:
yt-dlp -u username -p password url-goes-here .
Hope this helps. The more we can rely on programs that we run on our own machines, the better. Even better if it's free software.

Barzaria OP ,

Torrents are p2p and can be encrypted but aren't anonymous. Tribler claims to be tor-like and no trust needed i.e. anonymous.

Barzaria OP ,

I installed in on my machine from the software package manager. It doesn't have the feature to bind to a specific device (this is a must have for me so I can use my VPN without IP address leakage). I read a horror story on hacker news about a person getting fragmented CSAM on their hard drive by running an exit node (running an exit node is trivially easy with the program). Noped out after not being able to bind to tun0. I went to their website, mostly academics polishing research papers from my point of view. Sketchy looking ui, uninstalled.

can nix for gaming pirates lead to easy piracy

nix allows for flakes which are 100% reproducible (ie. you copy paste a flake it would do the intended stuff only) , this make me realize that now we can have flakes for games like do you want inscryption , sure add this flake and this would install all dependencies and lutris etc. and you just have to link us to the...

Barzaria ,

This idea is brilliant! How hard would you say swapping from using apt to learning and swapping to nix be? This is a serious question.

Barzaria ,

Rsync on a scheduled task is dead simple. If your friend can stomach WSL (Windows subsystem for Linux) being on the machine you might try using that. The command is a one liner:

$rsync -r /path/to/source /path/to/backup

and can be automated with cron.

Barzaria ,

Free software!!

Is a plex subscription worth it?

I want to unlock the ability to view content on my mobile device. I can do that with a one-time purchase (payed with google opinion rewards) or with a subscription. I want to unlock the ability for my entire family though, across multiple devices. Do I have to pay the “one-time payment” for every device? If so, the plex...

Barzaria ,

If you use Linux Mint, its a one click install from the software manager GUI and the config happens in a web browser. I use a VPN to connect and play videos from it on my phone. I like it and have it set up everywhere I can.

Barzaria ,

My main bone to pick with Plex is that I believe that free and open source software should be gratis (free as in beer). You’re right about the authentication though. I have mine set up with a simple user name and password over http. I rely on the VPN to limit access to the network through a forwarded port. I don’t really like the idea of authentication being done on someone else’s machine for privacy reasons, which is why I choose jellyfin that runs on my local machine. I’m not currently sharing it, and if I did I would change some of my security practices.

Barzaria ,

GNU/LINUX G’NOW

Barzaria ,

I have some videos I might be interested in sharing on a Jellyfin server, as well as interest in viewing videos on someone else’s shared server. I have a question: What options do you have for hardening security-wise? I have the server hosted on a local machine and don’t wanna get pwned if I can help it.

Barzaria ,

You try’na sell that laptop whenyour get the other one?

Barzaria ,

I second! Let’s see about those scripts!

Barzaria ,

I have this exact use case too. I use Linux Mint with Jellyfin installed from the built in software hub. You cannot find it from the command line because it’s a snap. The software app works and provides one click installation. Clicking on the jellyfin icon in your start menu brings up a browser tab that you can use to configure http access if you want. I use a raspberry pi running pihole and pivpn for a VPN and the wireguard app on my phone to connect to that VPN. This works on my cellphone over the network and allows me to access the jellyfin media via the jellyfin app. I think it works nicely. I have jellyfin media player on the laptops and the streaming works on the lan. I will caution that I haven’t been able to easily set up wireguard on the laptops. I use phone to stream, so this might just be a motivation problem on my part.

websites for torrenting software Megastat and Minitab

Hey guys I am new to life on the high seas. Could someone please point out websites from where I can access torrents for Megastat and Minitab software (Crack versions). These two different software are used in statistics. I am teaching myself business statistics and need access to these software. They are both paid software.

Barzaria ,

Would you be so kind as to explain what DHT nodes are and what a crawler is? I’m new and haven’t heard these terms.

Barzaria ,

Thank you for the in depth reply! That information is very helpful!

Barzaria ,

Apk for alpine Linux stands for Alpine Package Keeper. The command ‘apk’ is used on the command line of an alpine Linux distribution to install programs. The programs are installed based on which repositories you haveselectedd on your system. The android APK stands for Android PacKage. This is an executable type of binary file for an Android device. You can use an Android emulator to play the .apk file on your machine.

Barzaria ,

If you have trouble with your system DM me and I will try to help you.

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