EXTRA:
Just found this post that outlines the initial efforts/hacks, to port Rockbox to the iPod.
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Excellent morning news.
ROMs to turn portable-mp3-players libre.
Great project, congrats to devs on the 4.0 milestone!
[Currently listening with Rockbox on 512GB iPod]
1·3 months agotoothbrush mentioned above that the limits may apply if you use Limesurvey’s hardware.
No limits if you self-host.
The limit you reached seems to be at odds with the Limesurvey docs.
I haven’t used Limesurvey recently to know if it works at large scale without restrictions, maybe someone else can weigh in.
How are you defining ‘large scale surveys’?
There were no scale restrictions on V1 when I used it, how is V2 restricted?
From the Limesurvey features page:
LimeSurvey 2.x currently offers:
Unlimited number of surveys at the same time
Unlimited number of questions in a survey (only limited by your database)
Unlimited number of participants to a survey
5·3 months agoThe same car mod term in the 50s was ‘hotrodding’.
People are mentioning ‘OOM Killer’ which may have similar features, I have not tried it out.
I’ve had this on previous laptops, and gave up on using Sleep mode, just used full shutdown every time.
Once fully frozen, it’s not really able to be saved.
Is it a full freeze? Press CAPS-LOCK or NUM-LOCK to see if the hardware is still responding.
If it is, it might just be a DE freeze. Try to SSH into into your frozen device, from another PC or phone.
Or press CTRL-ALT-F7 to see if you can switch to a terminal and login.
Once in, use ps -ef, or top to see and kill what might be causing a freeze.
Turn on auto-save in LibreOffice(you usually only lose a sentence or 3 words with this on).
Investigate IDEs with auto-backup or an autosaved change-history.
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To diagnose whether you have bad RAM, boot from a LiveUSB distro and use it for a day or week.
If no freezes, reinstall a fresh OS.
If it still freezes, get new RAM, or replace whole PC/laptop.
It is an incredible solo-effort, with largely simplistic features.
As a usable OS, it’s a fever-dream curiosity.
Trisquel is a fully ‘Free as in freedom’ distro.
Zero telemetry now or in the future.
Ubuntu based, so large FLOSS package repository.
Mate UI, simple user friendly layout.
* You will need hardware that works with fully free hardware drivers (for printer, WiFi, GPU etc). Drivers with binary-blobs are not included, due to potential security risks or spyware.
Test your hardware with a bootable USB.
Fully free distro list
If you know how to source hardware that uses fully-free drivers, they are worth a look.
Guix and Parabola also look interesting.
You probably didn’t even know it’s pronounced Jimp too!!
/s
That’s what my favourite font uses, behold MULI !
Reject pixel-graphics, install aalib
;^)
I remember when Ubuntu was released, and I still have one of the first or second release Ubuntu shipit CDs.
Ubuntu was good at marketing and they were good at making things ‘just work’.
It was often the recommended choice of starter-distro due to hardware compatibility.
I’ve installed and admin’ed Ubuntu on 20 PCs in a small office setting, and it provides a decent user experience.
I would not personally use Ubuntu.
My daily driver now is Trisquel GNU/Linux, which is Ubuntu with all non-free packages(and binary blobs) removed.
If you are at the stage where you know how to source hardware that works with FLOSS-drivers, try out a fully-free FSF approved distro.
https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.en.html
Clean, with zero corporate fluff.
Revolution OS(2001) was maybe the earliest documentary about Free Software.
This was great to view at LinuxConf2001, seeing many of the names you’d only read about previously.
Warning: It interviews various people discussed in this thread, but also contains plenty of Stallman being right.
Games: xbill, koules, and quake1 prerelease test(8 or 16 player multi)
Crafting XFree86 config lines to get a monitor working(no auto-detect for resolution modes)
Sharing tips, on how to solve all these issues, with others at Linux User Groups(LUGs)