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BLizgreat! · 2019-11-06 15:10:14

^ Hey, hope you're doing well Ratcheer. Yep would come with the territory, though sure it can be setup so that it's quick, painless and automagically done in background. Mentioned only ever read about it. Has been on the 2-dork list for a long time, dunno if I'll ever even get around to trying it anyway. Is a cool idea in my view. Atm expanding on my sysctl.conf tweaks. Trying out diff kernel parameters and related gnu/Nix dorkery.

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BLizgreat! · 2019-11-06 15:52:12

More nonsense on the above, built into gnu/Nix, someone can set fallback dns servers etc. That's what the "options timeout:1" above does, if the first dns server in my resolv.conf file fails, it quickly falls back to the second ... 8.8.4.4 there. Which is does anyway w or w/o the timeout thing, am only lowering how long it waits somewhat. Just saying, local dns, oops no good, OS shifts gears and checks the next.

Also am just stashing this here. Have yet to implement some of these on Buster, still dorking with my daily driver 32bit Stretch install. Also DO NOT apply these in an arbitrary fashion. without doing your research. I use and like these for my system and my particular situation atm.

# Lowering swappiness
vm.swappiness=10
# Cache pressure
vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50
# Other vm tweaks. dirty_ratio was 20% and dirty_background_ratio was 10, I cut these 1/2 10/5% instead.
vm.dirty_ratio =10
vm.dirty_background_ratio=5
# Min amount of RAM to keep unoccupied for apps-etc use, default on 4gb-sys was 41mbs(value is in KB's)and 2x default here.
vm.min_free_kbytes=83968
# Disable slow start for idle connections.
net.ipv4.tcp_slow_start_after_idle=0
# Enable tcp fast open, changed from the default of 1.
net.ipv4.tcp_fastopen = 3
## Here's where you choose congestion control algo. Veno is supposedly designed for lossy wireless connections.
net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control=veno
## This would enable the BBR congestion algo, # the above if you do.
#net.core.default_qdisc = fq
#net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control = bbr
# This detects dead TCP connections after 60secs, keepalive timeout kinda thing.
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_time = 60
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_intvl = 10
net.ipv4.tcp_keepalive_probes = 6

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dolly · 2019-11-06 18:19:50

Why does nearly all new forum members refrain from writing introductory posts?

BLizgreat! · 2019-11-06 18:57:31

^ Too busy watching dirty stuff online, you know how geeks are. Well make that the male of da human specie in general are.

Honestly dunno, just another thing about online gnu/Nix forums and their communities. Crunchbang only had several thousand registered users, whereas I'm sure the userbase was in the 10's of thousands if not pushing 100k or more. Take a distro like Linux Mint, one of the most popular in the world, seen somewhat credible estimates putting the userbase in the several millions. Don't quote me but think it was like 7 million or more. However it has ...

Total members 121122

Think many a techie is somewhat anti-social. Which to an extent includes myself. I like tech, it's 100% dependable, EVERY TIME, provided someone learns what they're doing a system will never let you down. May break but will even sometimes tell somebody what's not working with it's POST code beeps for help. Very unlike many living breathing human type creatures. Ahhh dear, gnu/Linux and old crusty laptop, you never argue with me, chastise me, try 2 steal from or betray me, never say clearly retarded things to me ... etc etc. I WUV YOU !!!

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BLizgreat! · 2019-11-06 23:24:31

^ LMFrigginAO !!!

hhh · 2019-11-08 02:14:53

Well, they did have to use the new banner.

I like that the layout places Community before The Project if you're scanning left-to right, that's a cool presentation. We're not new, we're not flashy, we're not elitist, just see if you think all these people are right about this OS.

But "we're not flashy"... This design makes me miss everyone having Flash homepages. Gradients. Rounded big buttons to click on. ANYTHING!!!

Debian... take a look at the Internet, would you?

http://cloudsovercuba.com/

That said, this mock-up is pure Debian. Debian Bug Reports, Debian Mailing Lists, etc... Debian has never even heard of CSS, apparently. I have to applaud their steadfast adherence in their web-presence to the philosophy of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." and "Keep it simple, stupid."

glittersloth · 2019-11-08 04:13:40

You don't need bloated animated electurd javascript or whatever to make sites pretty. Proper formatting, colour palette and typography go a long way.

Edit:
Then again, what do I know? These days, I rate a site's "aesthetique" based on the numbers in the badges on top of the uBO, POOP, Decentraleyes, ClearURLs and CanvasBlocker extension icons in my browser toolbar. The lower the numbers, the prettier the site, in my eyes.

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damo · 2019-11-08 05:21:09

glittersloth wrote:

You don't need bloated animated electurd javascript or whatever to make sites pretty. Proper formatting, colour palette and typography go a long way.
Edit:
Then again, what do I know? These days, I rate a site's "aesthetique" based on the numbers in the badges on top of the uBO, POOP, Decentraleyes, ClearURLs and CanvasBlocker extension icons in my browser toolbar. The lower the numbers, the prettier the site, in my eyes.

Exactly. And everything stays in the same place without being slippery and slithering about.

johnraff · 2019-11-08 05:54:32

damo wrote:

... everything stays in the same place ...

Yes, yes.

clusterF · 2019-11-08 13:55:56

The mockup https://debian-newhomepage.larjona.net/ seems user friendly, I like it.

What of the slide of the calamares installer for debian? Is that in the pipeline?

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nore · 2019-11-08 16:30:59

Ok, two columns in that mockup represent dual nature of Debian, but spaces between icons and text do not scale down nicely. Narrow your window and see what happens. You have to go deep down before two columns become one.

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nore · 2019-11-08 16:41:28

Never write a caption or link called "more" with three dots in it. If there's something relevant behind it, tell me, what it is, don't try to tease me. Website is not a strip act. Designers of today seem to be afraid of long lists.

BLizgreat! · 2019-11-08 18:52:07

Ok well update: Success, switched over to using networkd + wpa_supplicant to handle wireless interface. Working fine, saving RAM which of course pleases me greatly. No loss in speed, though have yet to settle on an easy means of dealing with this should I take this old lappy mobile, there are several good possibilities to do so. Atm this old thing doesn't leave the apartment so am not overly concerned at this point in time.

PS, was going to write a BL specific tute on it but am tired and don't have BL onboard (kickbutt though this distro may be-is.) However am just going to link to the post about the sucker. Deb-fan is yours truly on that forum.

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ohnonot · 2019-11-09 05:17:53

New proposed look for debian.org: https://old.reddit.com/r/debian/comment … _november/. Direct link: https://debian-newhomepage.larjona.net/
General feedback seems negative. I'd say rightly so.

Rightly so.
It will take more than a "revamp" to untangle the labyrinth that is debian.org.
Not that some sane CSS/HTML redesign couldn't help, but what I'm seeing is neither here nor there.

But yeah, let's call it WIP.
Check back in two years, when it goes from testing to stable

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glittersloth · 2019-11-09 15:29:37

https://gitstorage.com/
Saw the cute thing spinning about , then I took a look at the price

Sector11 · 2019-11-09 17:03:31

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07B424N1Q

https://www.amazon.de/s?k=GitStorage&ref=bl_dp_s_web_0

€ and $ are the same ??????

damo · 2019-11-09 17:32:42

So it is basically a RasPi, running Debian, with some software pre-installed? Which you can get for £30-40 in the UK

ohnonot · 2019-11-09 18:20:43

Sector11 wrote:

€ and $ are the same ??????

Hooray and thanks to the Orange Baby!
Buy American while it lasts!

BLizgreat! · 2019-11-10 07:25:27

Another zombie related question. Although I should've posted this sooner, as Halloween has already come and gone ... oh well. Anyway, aren't zombies kinda self regulating ? I mean, they eat people, so if they kill somebody, then eat them. No new zombies or really messed up zombies, like missing arms and legs and stuff. How's a poor zombie with no arms supposed to grab anybody and one missing a leg, give much of a chase ?

Or they eat brains specifically in some stories. Well again ... if they eat the persons brains, how can they become zombified ? As everyone knows ya got to hit em in the head/brain to kill these things. Alright, whoever wants to can ponder this. One of many things which make me go hmmmmmm ?

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beaker · 2019-11-10 07:38:07

^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfm7cOJfOjk

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