Computer Thread

curious2garden said:
I still run Fedora on my firewall/router and am pleased with it but it's what I know. My work machine is an iMac (with 16 gigs of ram LOL). I mostly run Windows via a virtual environment these days when I need to run them. But for checking if it's a virtualization issue or my coding on certain issues I have laptops I run Windows natively on.
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You're light years away from me with da skillz. I'm the very definition of an end user. They're like here see if you can check your email or if you can fuck this up. I do a pretty good job sometimes. You already know I'm an Ubuntu fanboy for the ease of use. Do not like Unity one bit though and have been using Mate, which is based on Gnome2, since they changed. I may give Fedora cOre another run. It's been bout 8 years. I imagine they have a live CD?
 
curious2garden said:
I still run Fedora on my firewall/router and am pleased with it but it's what I know. My work machine is an iMac (with 16 gigs of ram LOL). I mostly run Windows via a virtual environment these days when I need to run them. But for checking if it's a virtualization issue or my coding on certain issues I have laptops I run Windows natively on.
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Fedora? You're a yum girl?

Debian and Ubuntu here. Ive been an aptitude dude for nearly 2 decades. And a mac guy for nearly a decade.

My philosophy is, if it only runs on Windows, I likely don't need it.

I had a laptop that ran Windows last year. Until I shot it with a 50 cal.
 
neosapien said:
You're light years away from me with da skillz. I'm the very definition of an end user. They're like here see if you can check your email or if you can fuck this up. I do a pretty good job sometimes. You already know I'm an Ubuntu fanboy for the ease of use. Do not like Unity one bit though and have been using Mate, which is based on Gnome2, since they changed. I may give Fedora cOre another run. It's been bout 8 years. I imagine they have a live CD?
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https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/
The live image is the first option

see4 said:
Fedora? You're a yum girl?

Debian and Ubuntu here. Ive been an aptitude dude for nearly 2 decades. And a mac guy for nearly a decade.

My philosophy is, if it only runs on Windows, I likely don't need it.

I had a laptop that ran Windows last year. Until I shot it with a 50 cal.
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LOL So you're an apt guy. That is not surprising. I started on Fedora when it was Redhat 5.2. I've been a yum girl for a very long time. Imagine my distress a couple distros ago when they changed yum to dnf ha ha so disoriented.
 
curious2garden said:
https://getfedora.org/en/workstation/download/
The live image is the first option


LOL So you're an apt guy. That is not surprising. I started on Fedora when it was Redhat 5.2. I've been a yum girl for a very long time. Imagine my distress a couple distros ago when they changed yum to dnf ha ha so disoriented.
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How's the community support with Fedora? I've found that I can get pretty much everything for Debian and if not, compiling from source is pretty straight forward.

I've been into making containers out of everything, which is nice because I can easily dump them in an Ubuntu Kubernetes for cloud distribution. And afaik, the core kernel for distros like Fedora and Ubuntu are different.

Why did Fedora decide to go with dnf over yum? Are you still sourcing from rpm binaries?
 
see4 said:
How's the community support with Fedora? I've found that I can get pretty much everything for Debian and if not, compiling from source is pretty straight forward.

I've been into making containers out of everything, which is nice because I can easily dump them in an Ubuntu Kubernetes for cloud distribution. And afaik, the core kernel for distros like Fedora and Ubuntu are different.

Why did Fedora decide to go with dnf over yum? Are you still sourcing from rpm binaries?
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The community support has been good although I haven't really been using it much recently. If I remember correctly the kernels have some small differences but pretty similar, things like number of supported CPUs and timer differences and non uniform memory differences. They are still using RPMs and DNF is supposed to be the next version of Yellow Dog and was supposed to improve on performance and memory issues.
 
I'm sure that many of you are a tad annoyed by various sites, especially newspapers, automatically playing videos when you open a page whether you actually want to see the bollocks or not, it certainly gets on my nerves.

If so, here are some things to do if using Chrome or Chromium (Linux version), or any other browser based on Chromium.

First, download the "Disable HTML5 Autoplay" addon for Chrome, which will at least stop many things from playing.

Second, make sure you have AdBlockPlus and Flashcontrol installed. One way that sites have used to get around the HTML5 block is to use animated gifs, and a right click on the gif brings up a nice "block element" option in AdBlockPlus which does what it says, and there is no more unwanted animated nonsense with these images, they simply don't appear. Flashcontrol does what it says, you choose if flash elements are played on a site or not.

Third, and I know this is on a site for Apple users but t works for all versions of chrome, follow the instructions here:- How to Stop Autoplay Video in Chrome

Result, all the flashing and annoying crap on sites such as the Daily Mail (one of the worst I have come across) is stopped dead in it's tracks.

I'm working on how to stop the extra "pop up" video windows that appear when you scroll down pages, will add to this thread when I have the answer as I'm sure many of you can't stand that crap as well.
 
Further to the above




Firefox users

In the address bar type about:config.

That will bring up the gubbins of firefox and how it works.

In the search bar search for media.autoplay.enabled which will more than likely be set to "True".

Right click on that entry and then click "toggle" and it will set to "False" and that should stop all videos autoplaying.

Tested on the same Daily Mail website with a "satisfactory" result, no videos autoplay.


Now just to work on these pesky popup video players that all these sites like.
 
Ya dancer, the annoying "popup" video crap on websites is GONE, and it's so simple in Chrome.

Look at the address bar, and you will see a little icon before the "http" which will say "view site information" when you hover the mouse pointer over it. Click on that and you will see an option that says "site settings".

Click on that and you see a list of options for that site only, look for "Javascript" and you will see it says "Allow".

Click on "Allow", a drop down menu will appear and change that to "Block".

Reload the offending page, scroll up and down to your heart's content, no more popup video garbage.

Follow this for any and all sites doing this, each one must be blocked individually or you may lose something you don't want to if you block all Javascript.

Will get back to you regarding Firefox
 
Firefox Users

Install the "NoScript" addon. ALL javascript will be blocked. Add exceptions as necessary by clicking on the NoScript icon and changing what you wish changed from "Untrusted" to "Trusted".

Simple as that.
 
Fubard said:
I did say that, the Chrome one is in the link 4 posts back from yours
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You mentioned Firefox's flag not Chrome's and you didn't mention ScriptSafe. Some people don't like to use Add Ons when there is a native solution within the browser itself.

Edit: Yes I see the flag now it's in that link off this site, not trying to offend you just trying to make it concise.
 
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curious2garden said:
You mentioned Firefox's flag not Chrome's and you didn't mention ScriptSafe. Some people don't like to use Add Ons when there is a native solution within the browser itself.

Edit: Yes I see the flag now it's in that link off this site, not trying to offend you just trying to make it concise.
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Better when instructions are given, makes it more biff-proof.

Oh, and methods for specifically blocking on a site by site basis is better than blocking all and then adding exceptions, for the reason I said.
 
I need help.

I have an older computer and it doesn't have any operating system that is currently working. I still have the monitor and keyboard and tower. And I really don't want to buy the whole package again, but would love to up grade the system so I could use it again. Can someone point me in the right direction. Links, YT videos, something , I really don't know much about computers.
 
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