[-] merompetehla@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

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?

[-] merompetehla@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

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.

[-] merompetehla@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

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)

[-] merompetehla@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

will do, thanks

[-] merompetehla@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

thanks for the input

[-] merompetehla@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

thanks, this worked

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by merompetehla@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I'm on partition disks, configuring LVM on a computer with 2 drives: /dev/nvme01 is the device I want to install in, SCSI2 is a storage HDD I do not want to format, I need the data.

What bugs me is 'the partition tables of the following devices are changed': both drives.

Am I going to lose data in the second drive, SCSI2, if I proceed? Should I physically remove the second drive instead?

ETA: thanks for your input

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submitted 5 months ago by merompetehla@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

long time xubuntu user, now on 24.04.

debian comes with embedded programs like libreoffice, which I use, but versions are very old and I like using the newest versions available. with debian 12.5 I could use flatpak to get the newest version, but could I then get rid of the pre installed old version?

debian's default graphics look also prehistoric. Can I change that installing other styles? (that's what they're called in xubuntu: adwaita, greybird...)

with debian you are asked to choose the environment: xfce, mate... how troublesome is to change those after installation?

Surprising that debian 12.5 is 0.7 GiB large, whereas the xubuntu 24.04 is 4 GiB. This doesn't mean that xubuntu has bloatware, but simply much more pre installed packages, right?

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by merompetehla@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

os: xubuntu 24.04

firewall: ufw

torrent program: transmission

On transmission I opened port 51401

On a terminal I executed sudo ufw allow 51401, which opens both tcp and udp ports for both ipv4 and ipv6. This is called forwarding, right?

I'm following https://github.com/transmission/transmission/blob/main/docs/Port-Forwarding-Guide.md but apparently I still don't get it

ETA: thanks for your input, issue has been solved

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by merompetehla@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I found out that xubuntu spams users including me, which to me is a no go.

I'm looking for a linux based ad free distro that lets me work with libreoffice, vlc, tbb, transmission, okular, pdfarranger, hexchat, gimp and ocr.

I'm going to use it to edit text, watch movies, download multimedia, chat and edit audio with audacity.

it's not going to be a server and I'd like to work with the terminal as much as possible. At the same time, I'm a newbie.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by merompetehla@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

this never happened before, it's also not happening ion my backup computer (same OS, xubuntu 24.04).

Message: get more security updates through ubuntu pro with esm-apps enabled, learn more about ubuntu pro

How do I get rid of it.

Ubuntu never advertised itself so blatantly.

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submitted 6 months ago by merompetehla@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

commands are:

iptables -I INPUT -p tcp --dport 3389 -j ACCEPT > to open only that tcp port

sudo ufw enable transmission > to open the whole program

being a newbie I'd say it's safer to only open a determined port with iptables. What do you think?

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submitted 6 months ago by merompetehla@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I'm trying to open a port for transmission but before I get to know either of the 2 options I'd like to know what you recommend and why.

OS is xubuntu 24.04

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by merompetehla@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

I sometimes write in German and French, which means non ASCII characters.

I don´t know if I just need to edit keyboard preferences to a different kind of keyboard (like US international) or if I must install whole language packages. I wouldn´t mind having the dictionaries and autocorrect for libreoffice, but after selecting the languages it also downloaded help guides in these languages and several regional variants of English (za, gi, ca...), which I don´t need.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by merompetehla@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

or is copying the bookmarks as a html file the only way?

ETA: thank you for your input, problem solved.

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submitted 6 months ago by merompetehla@lemmy.ml to c/firefox@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16193001

due to reasons I only have my tbb/ff bookmarks saved as jsonlz4 files, 10 backups.

Ideally, I could recover all those including the structure, but Id settle for the urls (and hopefully the names).

thanks

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by merompetehla@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

due to reasons I only have my tbb/ff bookmarks saved as jsonlz4 files, 10 backups.

Ideally, I could recover all those including the structure, but Id settle for the urls (and hopefully the names).

thanks

ETA: thank you for your input. Problem solved.

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by merompetehla@lemmy.ml to c/linux@lemmy.ml

upgrading xubuntu to 24.04, fresh install, but I'd like to copy the output of both dpkg -l and history to a usb stick.

About history: will it copy all commands I executed on all tabs? I work with several tabs simultaneously.

ETA: thank you for all your input, problem has been solved.

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