[14:48] @KMyers So are there any after-christmas chromebook deals? [15:22] Not sure [17:49] Hello from slackware+ [17:50] I just got the nvidia driver installed so the screen resolution is alright- now I've got to figure out how to get a boot screen or maybe live with a usb stick boot for a while, the uefi/efi/gpt world scares me still. [17:50] Maybe I'll install grub [18:22] 2019 will be the year of Linux on the Desktop. [18:28] haha [18:44] I can't seem to get google chrome or chromium to run though [18:44] Maybe I'll fall back to Debian [18:46] What happens when you try to run it? [18:47] Hm. [18:47] I tried building a newer nss but I think I had trouble with that too [18:47] Seems not to be the first thing that went wrong either [18:47] Maybe bs up an /etc/machine-id first [18:47] I have not done enough with Slackware to offer much advice. [18:48] @RazPi, Seems logical. Just create a 32 char GUID and stick it in there [18:48] I din't even consider a guid [18:49] I was writing "thisismymachineidsongitisntverylong" [18:49] It looks like that is only used for playing DRM protected content so I don't thing that it will fix the browser [18:49] Well I'll want that eventually, xD good to know, I chose chrome so I could netflix [18:53] Honestly I would go with Debian or Ubuntu as it will be easier to get the movidius working on that. I don't believe slack is supported so it would require a lot of hacking around to get it to work [18:53] oh that's an interesting point [18:53] to be fair, slack is already that [18:54] Ubuntu is technically the only supported distribution but I am able to get it working on Debian with the addition of 2 lines to the install.sh file [19:01] I'm going to try and build mozilla-nss from source first [19:05] I don't know how I feel about there being like 20 build systems [19:05] autotools, cmake, scons, ninja [19:05] and so on [19:12] Is there a way to add a folder of lib's to a system in a way that's easy to clean up? [19:12] I see suggestions of using a bunch of ln's but I don't think that's easy to clean up [19:13] Add libs to your libs path [19:13] what's the libs path variable? [19:13] my LD_LIBRARY_PATH seems to be empty [19:13] LD_LIBRARY_PATH [19:15] Man ldconfig [19:15] Ldconfig is another way to load a lib path [19:17] annnd that was it [19:17] I had to build nss, which meant I had to install gyp and install ninja, and then add nss to the library path [19:17] Ldconfig or ld lib path? [19:17] I just did a simple LD_LIBRARY_PATH, I'll need to do something about making it stick [19:17] I actually don't know where to place this and how to add it permanently [19:17] its sort of just sitting in tmp atm [19:18] 😢 It won't even connect to the internet [19:18] ERROR:cert_verify_proc_nss.cc(974)] CERT_PKIXVerifyCert for www.netflix.com failed err=-5992 [19:19] ldconfig or add LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/path-to/my/libs/; to /etc/profile [19:19] This is very helpful thank you! [19:20] You're welcome! I knew that all that time and money I put into Linux certs would pay off one day :D [19:20] XD [20:02] TIL that the grandson of the guy who designed the character art for Monopoly also wrote Bash [20:05] Link? [20:13] Discovered it through wikipedia, sec [20:13] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Fox_(computer_programmer) [20:27] What the heck is a desbian desktop environment :O [20:27] I can select it separately from xfce and gnome [20:27] i'm afraid to ask [20:30] I'm considering installing budgie for the desktop [20:36] n/m I'll go for KDE for now [21:15] Well I installed the nvidia drivers, set up hardware acceleration, but I've got some screen tearing everywhere [21:15] scrolling in chrome, netflix in chrome, etc. [21:16] ah, might've been the kde compositor [21:17] weird.. can't get it to change, maybe trying xfce next to see if its kde [21:32] annnd.. fixed [21:32] KDE's compositor was causng screen tearing. [21:32] and here I am back at xfce [21:32] As always. [22:36] so the kindle i got from the grid has a cracked screen [23:08] d'oh [23:15] Ouch [23:25] @KMyers I think there's something to your stories about using linux to get away from windows [23:25] I've spent all day messing with the same type of config errors as I do for work but somehow they stress me out less on linux [23:26] Yeh... No regrets but it did not do what I planned in the first place [23:26] haha [23:26] Also it turns out I may need to either reinstall windows on a smaller drive or get a 500gb ssd [23:26] My nvme was 500gb [23:26] I gotta get away from xfce though, been using it too long [23:27] a lot of the CUDA libraries seem to expect 18.04 so I may have to standardize on that until dig through the .deb's and unpack them and see what they're made of [23:28] I think it's just a tar archive with some config text [23:28] Slackbuilds had a file that actually extracted from a .deb [23:28] I saw one at best buy for about 74, is this one better? let me look [23:29] https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-860-evo-500gb-internal-sata-solid-state-drive-for-laptops/6178650.p?skuId=6178650 [23:29] n/m same price [23:29] @KMyers This worth it? https://www.bestbuy.com/site/sandisk-ultra-512gb-internal-sata-solid-state-drive-for-laptops/5969506.p?skuId=5969506 [23:30] Seems like more memory for a cheaper price [23:30] If it was 1TB I might do it since a spinning disk is crap with Windows. [23:31] I am partial to Samsung but you can't go wrong either way [23:31] It looks like it was twice as expensive before so might be a decent quality [23:31] I'll give it a run