gortbrown

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by gortbrown to c/plan9
 

I installed 9front on an old Dell Inspiron laptop, but I can't seem to get it to boot. I checked, and it looks like the files to allow it to boot are present on the drive, the partition is marked as active, and secure boot is off. I've also tried in both legacy and uefi boot modes. Is there something that might have gone wrong somewhere, or is it most likely related to the hardware I'm trying to run it on? Any help is appreciated, and I'm happy to answer questions :)

Edit: I figured it out. My drive wasn't formatted as MBR, and the installer wasn't asking if I wanted to format it since it wasn't an empty drive, so I formatted it correctly before installing. I also chose cwfs instead of hjfs. These changes made it so I could boot

[–] gortbrown 3 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the heads up, didn't know this!

[–] gortbrown 1 points 2 months ago

I used to self host some stuff on an old 2011 iMac. Worked fine, actually

 

I got a LoRa hat for Raspberry Pi and my Pi 3 is broken, so I'm wondering if anyone has tried it on a Pi 2. I don't see it mentioned on the site and whenever I try installing meshtasticd it fails because of dependencies (not sure if that has anything to do with the Pi, but figured I'd bring it up in case.)

[–] gortbrown 2 points 3 months ago

I second this. I have a Framework (which is even one they've said they're trying to support) and it's been getting better, but still a bit janky

[–] gortbrown 3 points 3 months ago

I started with a distro of FreeBSD called GhostBSD. It works pretty well out of the box, and is a good starting point for someone who's just starting out with FreeBSD. NomadBSD is also a good option if you don't mind running it from an external drive.

[–] gortbrown 2 points 4 months ago

Kinda, yeah! These kinda remind me of some of the icon packs I used on my jailbroken iPod Touch!

[–] gortbrown 2 points 5 months ago

He want's to do the same thing he did with the Teslas that spell S3XY. He's going to buy Facebook and call it S, Reddit and call it 3, and LinkedIn and call it Y.

[–] gortbrown 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

I honestly just did nix-env -i flatpak then rebooted, so I'm not sure...

Edit: Did it the configuration.nix way to make sure everything was in the path, and it works now. Thanks!

[–] gortbrown 1 points 6 months ago

It's the XFCE one. Not Whisker Menu, but the default one.

[–] gortbrown 1 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Yes, I did restart afterwards, and unfortunately it didn't work.

 

I believe I solved this problem before, but I can't find the solution again. I have some Flatpaks installed on my NixOS system, but they aren't showing up in the app menu. Does anyone know what might be causing this or how to fix it?

[–] gortbrown 2 points 6 months ago

That's why I never got why TPUSA people go around "debating" people on college campuses. They never actually want a debate, they just want to tell you you're wrong.

[–] gortbrown 2 points 6 months ago

You might be able to find a super lightweight desktop distro out there (I think Damn Small Linux can run on those specs?) or you could repurpose it as a basic server of some sort like you mentioned. Unless you wanted to invest in some cheap old ram to throw in there and maybe make it a bit faster, then I think those would be your best options.

[–] gortbrown 3 points 7 months ago

I've been using it on my Fedora laptop for the past week or so and it's really nice, even in alpha 1! Can't wait to see how it turns out fully finished!

 

Not sure if this is the place to ask, I recently moved to OKC for an internship and was looking into the local 2600 meetings, since I finally live in a city that has them. I found where they meet in the latest issue, but that's about all I know. I don't know any times or days or anything. I've tried looking around on the web, but also haven't found much. Does anyone know how I could go about finding any of that info out?

 

I saw that the FreeBSD Foundation announced it was working with Framework to certify their laptops to be able to run FreeBSD out of the box. I am currently running GhostBSD (FreeBSD-based for anyone who is unfamiliar) and was wondering some things about reporting bugs.

  1. Do I just report them to the normal Bugzilla tracker? Or is there somewhere else I should report bugs?
  2. Is it a problem that I'm running GhostBSD instead of normal FreeBSD? I know it is based on FreeBSD Stable, but I wanted to check in case it would be different enough that I should be reporting elsewhere.
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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by gortbrown to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
 

I have been a member of my current Mastodon instance for a few years now, and I absolutely love the community there. But recently, I found a Firefish instance that I am thinking of maybe switching over to, because I like Firefish so far, and the community there is also really awesome. I figure with migrating followers, I can still be a part of both communities from the new account (especially since I mainly stay in my following feed and don't really browse the local feed.)

I'm still holding off on migrating for a bit until the honeymoon phase wears off, but if I do end up doing it, is there anything I need to/should do beyond just going through the migration process and transferring the data over? Like is there some sort of courtesy post I should make on my Mastodon instance saying I am moving over? Or am I just overthinking everything?

 

My boss is trying to add page numbers to a Microsoft Word document, and for some reason the numbers are showing up sideways. I have no idea what is causing it, and if I try to copy the text to a new document with normal page number orientation, they will turn sideways. Any ideas as to why this might be happening?

 

I am fairly new to OpenBSD, and for some reason when I install it on my laptop it doesn't show any boot option. My computer will just say there's nothing to boot, and going into the boot options menu there's nothing. Any idea why this might be happening?

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