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williwaw

One thing to keep in mind, especially with ChatGPT, is that it was "trained" on datasets ONLY up through 2022!
Governor didn't join the Forum til late 2022, so some of those LLMs will not have records of current postings!
Some of the newer AI bots are being allowed to access the internet/www to ...

williwaw

You said:
does user governor discuss politics on the puppy linux forum?

ChatGPT said:
User "Governor" on the Puppy Linux forum, like many members, typically focuses on technical and software-related topics. The Puppy Linux community, in general, keeps its discussions centered around Linux and ...

williwaw

DOSUser123 wrote: Wed Apr 16, 2025 8:01 pm
instead of deleting the "a little humor" thread maybe we shouldve just deleted the political posts and locked it

but having topics "just dissapear" is so much easier and succinct

williwaw

Easyos has appi, an appimage package manager. Apps in easyos can be installed to run as their own user rather than root. Check the repo for librewolf and perhaps request it be added to the repo if not already present.
or ask here
https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=13511
if librewolf is not ...

williwaw

@williwaw I've got a long thread going now on that engine on www.madmodder.net, if you're interested, but not a video yet.

Nice you were able to get No. 83 back after so long. The pics with the blurry con rod in the project logs section illustrate the motion better than a vid. Excellent ...

williwaw

just of the top of my head,
should you find a config for ranger that works for the console, but not in X, then maybe an alternative ranger config could be called by /root/.xinitrc when X is launched

williwaw

these directories are owned by root, so anything that has root privileges can write.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if your browser runs as spot and has a vulnerability that allows a remote attack to write an arbitrary file, the attacker can write /home/spot (which is owned by spot), therefore ...

williwaw

hope you can post a video when you get in spinning!
it looks like a rewarding project.

dd-ing the partition retained the permission complexities

if I understand correctly, you managed to dd the partition on to an existing disk without disturbing the windows install?
can you share the command?

williwaw

I don't see /initrd/pup_ro1? I see others I can identify, like pup_a, pup_ro2,3,4,y, z, etc...those correspond to various sfses loaded at boot time, but no pup_ro1? This is in S15Pup32 22.12 250402...could it be that using the kernel parameter "nocopy" prevents a pup_ro1 being populated?

In ...

williwaw

If I understand what's being said correctly, if you're running all in ram, but you download, install a package, the package can still write to the save through the layered filesystem, just because you don't tell it to save what's in ram doesn't mean you can't write to it. You just have to know ...

williwaw

dimkr wrote: Wed Apr 09, 2025 7:56 pm
Here's a little experiment for you.

yes, an eye opener.

Can a remaster (that includes the additional apps that one would normally keep in a save) be utilized to effect the security presumed above?
ie. the "benefit" of operating in pupmode 13 without saving?

williwaw

I'm confused looking at this.
I thought that using PUPMODE 13 and not saving was a protection.
Then always starting with this when doing any setting changes, but not after this has been up and then only saving for this was the way the protection would continue.

It looks like there is quite a lot ...

williwaw

Dimkr

I am following your comments about security fixes for puppy (fossa) in another thread, and am curious how often security fixes for bookworm are applied to vanilladpup 10.0.x ?

It;s easy enough to download the latest build from git hub and move savefolders between frugal installs, but the ...

williwaw

So the plan for Greenland and the rest of North America was hatched by Canadians in the 40's?

technate-of-america.jpg

Of course, I wouldn't presume it not to be.
Didn't the POTUS before Trump pioneer the use of drones to kill US citizens and others by utilizing NSA "Skynet" cell phone data ...

williwaw

viewtopic.php?f=33&t=126

williwaw

This is, at its very essence all of this is foundational in the US constitution which supports greed in its Bill of Rights as to WHO are to be considered Human vs who is NOT.

a very odd interpretation of the rights protecting people from whatever isms du jour are being served up by those in ...

williwaw

I agree with you Clarity. The underlying problem is quite simple, really: greed.

Until some later date when the figureheads expressing the "opposite side" of the dialectic are allowed back at the helm, and the reaction is reversed. All the while moving the same direction, total central ...

williwaw

Might be easier to just install UExtract, now at uextract-4.14, https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=3263#p3263 . AFAICT, jakeSFR last updated it in July 2024, but remains active discuss any questions or issues.

Hi Mike

tried out the latest UEextract, and like it better than xarchiver ...

williwaw

The majority of these "issues" have to do with user friendliness and common sense (from my point of view) but experienced users think everything is fine just the way it is, so I will endeavor to keep myself quiet.

I think you will find "issues" with any collection of apps. As for myself, there ...

williwaw

I lost most of my computer enthusiasm in 2005. The best and coolest thing I ever experienced in computing was ASCII Assembler. You could write a batch script and include an executable program inside the batch in ASCII format, which you would echo into a .com file, line by line. You would then run ...

williwaw

a new laptop with windows 10. When that crashed very badly, I decided I just couldn't take windows anymore, and eventually ended up here.

I am not sure I understand. Earlier you stated
When I was an computer enthusiast,
but surely you must have been using windows enthusiastically just ...

williwaw

Governor wrote: Fri Mar 21, 2025 8:40 am
Microsoft killed DOS, and I gave it all up in 2005........................ It took me two years to get to this point with first fossapup and now bookworm,

so you have been using something like mac all these years... or?
just curious if fossapup is your first go around with Linux?

williwaw

Hi Dima,

Vanilla Dpup 10.0.70

(right click context menu selection of) pExtract on a .gz fails as follows....

: Screenshot.png (187.46 KiB) Viewed 481 times

xarchiver works OK

williwaw

Search for a string that will take a long time searching. Grab the window with the mouse and drag it around. This is a bug. . But no one cares, so why bother?

lol..
let make a comparision to the car sale you mentioned above....

1. go for a test drive out on the interstate and put the pedal ...

williwaw

double post

williwaw

I don't know where you got that mount_img.gz from -- perhaps it has a false ".gz" and all you need to do is rename the script to mount_img (and set it as executable)
-- that is quite common practice when uploading files on this forum.

Hi Barry

I attached it to https://forum.puppylinux.com ...

williwaw

:roll:
If You’re a Help Vampire…
Now you know. Stop. Of course, it’s not just that easy, or nobody would ever be a Help Vampire at all.

Before you ask a question in a community, try to find the answer elsewhere. This way you help yourself by stretching your mind and research abilities, and you ...

williwaw

things seem to be changing at https://www.smokey01.com

perhaps @radky has notifications turned on when he is "mentioned"

williwaw

Governor wrote: Sun Mar 16, 2025 1:56 pm
This has not been explained to me.

help vampires

williwaw

https://bkhome.org/news/202502/easyos-s ... eased.html
https://bkhome.org/news/202503/easyos-d ... eased.html

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