Stop feeding the trolls ( Was: Re: stopping mass surveillance)

2022-12-13 Thread Henning Follmann
On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 07:40:07AM +, Andy Smith wrote: > Hello, > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 01:06:10AM +0100, > operation.privacyenforcem...@secure.mailbox.org wrote: > > I have an idea to stop mass surveillance, hamper it, make routing of traffic > > invisible. This is treated as impossible

Re: sleep on a low-usage NAS ?

2022-12-13 Thread Dan Ritter
jeremy ardley wrote: > I have just converted a qnap TS-212 NAS from the vendor software to a stock > Debian 10. (Armel) > > I notice immediately that the NAS never spins down its disks when idle - as > it used to with the vendor software. > > The NAS is used maybe once per day to take backups vi

Re: t-bird vs filters to sort msgs

2022-12-13 Thread gene heskett
On 12/12/22 23:41, David Wright wrote: On Mon 12 Dec 2022 at 14:11:38 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: There is a terrible echo in here, mbox is a pita I'd druther not have to deal with. Some of the screwups I've had are probably directly blamable on tbird using mbox for its database. You don't ha

Re: sleep on a low-usage NAS ?

2022-12-13 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I need advice on what else I can do to keep the device with disks unspun for > most of the day, yet still be available almost immediately when other > clients on the LAN need some NAS services. IIUC your disk spins down mostly as you want it, but it needlessly spins up every once in a while and

Independent menu system

2022-12-13 Thread paulf
Folks: I prefer to run i3wm, but it has no native menu system. Like Openbox, GNOME, Plasma, etc. Does anyone know of a menu system/program which reads *.desktop files, and can supply categorized menus, but doesn't insist on being run under a non-i3wm desktop environment? Paul -- Paul M. Foster

Re: Independent menu system

2022-12-13 Thread Jeremy Hendricks
Maybe try running just the XFCE 4 panel On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 7:09 PM wrote: > Folks: > > I prefer to run i3wm, but it has no native menu system. Like Openbox, > GNOME, Plasma, etc. Does anyone know of a menu system/program which > reads *.desktop files, and can supply categorized menus, but d

Re: Independent menu system

2022-12-13 Thread Gareth Evans
> On 14 Dec 2022, at 00:09, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > [...] > Does anyone know of a menu system/program which > reads *.desktop files, and can supply categorized menus, but doesn't > insist on being run under a non-i3wm desktop environment? Hi Paul, fbpanel might be worth a look htt

Re: Independent menu system

2022-12-13 Thread paulf
On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 19:10:21 -0500 Jeremy Hendricks wrote: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 7:09 PM wrote: > > > Folks: > > > > I prefer to run i3wm, but it has no native menu system. Like > > Openbox, GNOME, Plasma, etc. Does anyone know of a menu > > system/program which reads *.desktop files, and c

How to investigate sudden shutdown?

2022-12-13 Thread Tobias Diekershoff
Hey everyone, perhaps someone of you can help me with tool / log file I have not investigated so far. I have a Thinkpad with Debian Bullseye on it, running KDE/Plasma as main desktop environment and from time to time it just turn off without prior indication to do so. It it not particular warm be

Re: Independent menu system

2022-12-13 Thread Michel Verdier
Le 14 décembre 2022 paulf a écrit : > I prefer to run i3wm, but it has no native menu system. Like Openbox, > GNOME, Plasma, etc. Does anyone know of a menu system/program which > reads *.desktop files, and can supply categorized menus, but doesn't > insist on being run under a non-i3wm desktop en