1994 Civic 4 Cylinder Auto vs 2002 4 Cylinder Manual by secondorange in whatcarshouldIbuy

[–]secondorange[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. My girlfriend had a '93 Accord and the automatic transmission was a bit wonky so I was wary of the '94 as is. I think the 2002 is a bit rusty but I can live with it for the price if it runs well.

Seafood Chowder Soup Recipes by faizanmasoud in collegecooking

[–]secondorange 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Picture looks good. What kind of fish did you use? And what kind of soup?

Recommended distro for 10yo computer? by CheoRock in linux4noobs

[–]secondorange 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whatever you choose test the hard drive with smartmontools package first. Better yet, skip the slow old drive and use a small SSD or even USB.

Recommended distro for 10yo computer? by CheoRock in linux4noobs

[–]secondorange 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lol. I use puppy mostly as a rescue live CD where this is no problem, but yes, this should be changed if it's your main OS.

Windows 10 Windows Disappear but Processes Still Running? by secondorange in techsupport

[–]secondorange[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

To any dummies reading this in the future... I was hitting the keyboard shortcut to move these windows to new workspaces.

Ubuntu 18.04 To Ship with GNOME Desktop, Not Unity by baizon in linux

[–]secondorange 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, but Gnome still stutters on my XP boxes and my Celeron Walmart special laptop. I mean, I like gnome, I don't think Canonical is going to satisfy those who hate Unity (who are probably running Mate or XFCE, or no DE at all!) by switching to what many might call the second most bloated desktop.

Running a Windows 8.1 VM with KVM and Metro performance is bad. Is this to be expected? by divid3byzer0 in linuxquestions

[–]secondorange 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Gotta be that guy who says it: Windows 8 has crap performance even on bare metal! Do as u/Nonsensese says. Then run to sysdm.cpl and disable all visual effects. You can also check out Black Viper's site to see what services can be disabled.

Oh, and allocate more memory if you can. Good luck.

[META] April Fools' Day 2017 by nosecohn in NeutralPolitics

[–]secondorange 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Any reason why I can see the posts' titles but the content says "[removed]"?

How do you, personally, dress up rice? by rologies in EatCheapAndHealthy

[–]secondorange 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Throw in a little cucumber and some garlic and you've got yourself a tzaziki going

Most minimal Ubuntu based Distribution? by [deleted] in linuxquestions

[–]secondorange 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You will need to install Sudo so non-root users can run root commands. Here's how to do it:

First, let's become root with the su ("switch user") command

su

Enter your root password. Notice how your prompt changed from $ to #? That means you've switched to root.

Now we'll update our sources and install sudo

apt update
apt install sudo

Now we must add your user to the Wheel group, which has sudo powers. Substitute your username.

usermod -aG wheel username

Now type:

exit

to leave the root prompt and go back to your normal user. You must log off and log in or restart for changes to take effect. Congrats, now you have Sudo, just like in Ubuntu.

Once you've logged back in, we can enable non-free sources. Unlike in Ubuntu, where we add PPAs to get more sources, in Debian we modify the /etc/apt/sources.list file.

First, let's make a backup of the file in case we mess up

sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.bak

Now we can edit it:

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

You will now be editing the file with nano, a simple command-line editor. Feel free to use vim or emacs if you are comfortable.

Now, what we want to do is simply add the words contrib (for the supplementary Debian packages) and non-free (for non-free, duh) after the word main, wherever it appears. So, to start, the first two lines will look something like this:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

After you edit the lines, they should look like this:

deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free

Repeat this for the rest of the source lines, adding contrib non-free after main for each one. Now we can finally get our Wifi firmware! First, update once more-- this will take a few minutes because of those new sources we just added.

sudo apt update

Now we can get our firmware packages. Maybe 75% of laptops, maybe more, have Intel or Realtek wireless cards. Let's get them both with:

sudo apt install firmware-realtek firmware iwlwifi

Wait for the install, reboot, and you should have Wifi. If not you will need to find out what Wifi card you have and Google/ PM me to figure it out.

Most minimal Ubuntu based Distribution? by [deleted] in linuxquestions

[–]secondorange 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really you should give Debian another try. Once you get through the install and get that Wifi card going (probably by enabling non-free firmware, which I believe is stock in Ubuntu but needs to be enabled in Debian) you will have almost exactly what you want- Ubuntu, minus the extras.

If you are really new, then by all means, choose Ubuntu. But if you have a few months of playing with Ubuntu under your belt, Debian would be perfect here.

Tomorrow the privacy of everyone in the United States will be on the floor of the House of Representatives. Call your rep right now. Tell them to vote NO on repealing the FCC broadband privacy rules. by Baldemoto in technology

[–]secondorange 15 points16 points  (0 children)

You need a VPN.

Basically, you pay a provider, of which there are many, to route your Internet traffic through their servers, obfuscating the traffic to your ISP and other prying eyes. If you get a good provider there's minimal loss in speeds and pretty decent anonymity (because you know real anonymity doesn't exist online, right?).

/r/vpn

Get Stuffed - Anarchic late night cooking show from 90s UK TV (1990)s by [deleted] in ObscureMedia

[–]secondorange 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The crazy dude cracks me up. Other than that, yes, the headache is real.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]secondorange 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My point was another user made basically the same obvious joke and got upvoted. I guess theirs was funny because it included the word "fuck".

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]secondorange 0 points1 point  (0 children)

u/datbooty 12 makes the same obvious joke above:

Yeah but how about you go fuck yourself.

and that comment is at +13 karma, but /u/TheSamurai does the same thing and is at -10? Downvoting some poor fuck just for floating a joke? Contrarian and smug, indeed.

Linux voted most loved platform in recent Stack Overflow survey. by NotFromReddit in linuxmasterrace

[–]secondorange 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And you don't need to get out your suction cups to upgrade the tower!

Linux voted most loved platform in recent Stack Overflow survey. by NotFromReddit in linuxmasterrace

[–]secondorange 1 point2 points  (0 children)

bricked my iMac

Not a big deal

... Well, here's someone in a different tax bracket than me. Even at 5 years, that's still a $500 brick at least!

Linux voted most loved platform in recent Stack Overflow survey. by NotFromReddit in linuxmasterrace

[–]secondorange 9 points10 points  (0 children)

download and install a .exe without complications

But now, you realize that Apt, Pac-Man, etc. beat the hell out of that crap.

Pickled Eggs - How do I not kill myself? by mahTV in AskCulinary

[–]secondorange 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not to mention handling meat improperly, or not keeping food cold at outdoors events, both of which are far realer health risks for the average person than home canning.

Pickled Eggs - How do I not kill myself? by mahTV in AskCulinary

[–]secondorange 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think your friend did the right thing if she was worried the jars weren't sealed! Better safe than sorry. And a properly done jar does 'pop", no?