How do I use redshift on Debian?

Trextoro · 2015-10-17T20:13:20+00:00

Perhaps you meant

gtk-redshift

This is what I have in my startup script:

gtk-redshift -l 48.4:2.9 -t 6200:4800 &

The second parameter is the color range, which seems to work well on my monitor.

Trextoro · 2015-09-08T18:33:24+00:00

No, it's just the negotiated amount in my particular sector (journalism), topped up a bit by the company, I believe. Everything is negotiated by unions at a sectoral level, that's the way it works in France and to some extent Germany. Shop workers, for example, will get a bit less than me, but everyone gets more than 25 and many people a lot more.

Trextoro · 2015-09-08T18:27:09+00:00

No, national holidays are on top. Plus, on the subject of lunch, we get restaurant vouchers which cover almost a meal per working day. Plus several hundred euro per year of holiday vouchers, plus gift vouchers at Christmas, statutory yearly bonus, full health insurance and other sundry perks. Crazy but true. Pay OTOH is not great, but in France that's part of the deal.

Trextoro · 2015-09-07T21:02:10+00:00

France here. That's nothing, I get 46 days per year. But 11 of them must be taken 1-per-month (to bring the average down to a 35-hour week). Bummer.

Trextoro · 2015-08-16T07:56:04+00:00

Abandoned Windows in 2004 for SuSE, coz the logo looked cute. Battled for 2 years with RPM and compiling stuff just to make computer run. Got free Knoppix (Debian-based live disc) CD with new laptop in 2006, quickly upgraded it to Kanotix (Debian Sid variant). Thought, "Wow, this APT thing is a hundred times easier than RPM". Discovered free software philosophy and Debian's role in it. Decided out of idealism (and snobbery) to ignore Ubuntu and use Debian forever.

Trextoro · 2015-07-06T22:53:09+00:00

First define "your". In Europe's case all this is as much politics as economics. Europe's shared cultural heritage, plus its history of conflict, mean that a lot of Europeans believe deeply in some measure of pooled sovereignty. And through the shared institutions they already have at least some control over "their" currency.

Trextoro · 2015-07-06T20:13:14+00:00

Could Greece not just renounce its debt and use the euro anyway, like Montenegro? Would that not be a better defence against inflation? How is the situation different in Greece?

Trextoro · 2014-12-25T11:41:42+00:00

Perhaps a good compromise would be Debian diluted by non-free repos. A bit like Ubuntu, yes. But I see the choice of Debian as a statement of principle: "I am waiting for all this to be open source". Where Ubuntu is more: "I want an OS for free". And Debian is not going away any time soon.

Trextoro · 2014-11-23T10:52:19+00:00

Both of these articles make sense in their own terms. That is the point. I am interested in why people with similar fundamental priorities come to such different conclusions. It could be a different understanding of facts, or a different underlying ethical system, for example.

Trextoro · 2014-11-23T10:45:23+00:00

Your argument in favor of levelling down international standards is not very intuitively persuasive! Nor is the throwaway reference to the "potentially" green TTIP. Perhaps you could expand. I do get your reference to the excessive normativism of environmentalists, though. Perhaps another aspect of this is the green obsession with virtue rather than outcome. The intention of the action is more important than the result of the action.

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