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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 20:59:01 JST 
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@Suiseiseki @EdBoatConnoisseur look what a lovely monitor I was able to got for around $15, it's the perfect size for what I need, except for... it stopped working!
When I plugged it in, a little blue light appeared on the power buttom, bottom right, and later it began working, but with blinking (not the right term probably) vertical lines all over; since I didn't know the maximum resolution (XFCE would let me change to 1080p) I only tried the "classical" old ones, 1024x768, 800x600, etc.
Because I didn't know what to do, I tried to power it off, it took some time until I realized it was neccesary to maintain the power button.
And it never powered on again. I tried 2 different VGA cables and 2 plugs to connect different.
I was told the DVI->VGA adaptor that I have might be harming the monitor (the motherboard has a HDMI and a DVI output for 2 monitors), and these monitors have VGA input.
Please help me guys, tell me things to try before saying that it's dead....
I'm so tired of this.... -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 17-Nov-2025 20:42:10 JST
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@Suiseiseki @EdBoatConnoisseur both abandoned me... -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Sunday, 02-Nov-2025 00:12:57 JST
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@Suiseiseki @EdBoatConnoisseur I'm not used to try to repair some PC parts -or rather, I'm only used trying to repair very very few computer parts, like networking related stuff, cables, switches and some old networking cards (yes I'm old).
The monitor I'm trying to replace *should* be cheap to replace, although for now I didn't have luck; although I'm getting used to work and do everything else using a single monitor, I miss a second monitor to have *something* playing, since I don't own a TV.
One question though, I still have plugged in both to the power and to the DVI port (although the monitor it's a VGA it connects via an adapter I bough), and by chance I booted up a new distro called KAoS (nevermind the name, it was just because it came with the latest Ladybird and I wanted to try it); the point is that it detected that I had two monitors. I thought the DVI port would shown something is connected, so I tried disconnecting the monitor from the power, and it detected there was no second monitor anymore. I plugged in the monitor to the electricity again, and it recognized it.
It's me being ignorant, or if the monitor stopped working it shouldn't be recognized at all, connected or not?
About the SSD disks bandwidth (or speed?), I was using the wrong device because I forgot I changed the SATA cables position:
$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sda | grep -i 'SATA'
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
168 SATA_Phy_Error_Count 0x0012 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
199 SATA_CRC_Error_Count 0x0032 100 100 000 Old_age Always - 0
okasion@tictac:~
$ sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdb | grep -i 'SATA'
SATA Version is: SATA 3.2, 6.0 Gb/s (current: 6.0 Gb/s)
It seems both SATA disks have the same bandwidth.
Last question, is this 6.0gb/s bandwidth or speed?
PS: sharing this picture from when I still had no table to put the monitor on my left (so it was on the right) because it's best one that shows it.
Thanks in advance for the replies gentleman. -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 01-Nov-2025 23:01:31 JST
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@Suiseiseki I read it all yesterday, but since I didn't reply, I wanted to thank you for your usual help suiseiseki; I'll continue using sleep mode then.
I have one more question, as my cousin told me "all SATA disks from the last 5 years are SATA III", how likely is this true? I thought I should be able to check this with smartctl but cannot find the attribute. -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 29-Oct-2025 20:48:48 JST
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Good morning, today it's Tuesday, and I keep getting hardware issues related to different things; you see, I use two monitors, the first one, a HDMI LED from 2 years ago, and a VGA to DVI (via an adapter) LCD from 13 years ago (it was the one my dad used, not a bad monitor believe me). It always worked fine as second monitor, for years. The last time it worked was yesterday night that I decided to use the sleep mode from MX Linux for the first time (instead of shutting down the PC); I got used to not reboot the computer on Linux unless there was a kernel upgrade.
This morning, after waking up the computer pressing a key, the second monitor didn't do anything. I tried what I think should be an easy way to know if it's working, disconnect and connect the power cable. Nothing, not even the searching signal or no signal or the little blue light on the power button.
I found many results of this problem happening, but not going to sleep mode literally killing the monitor. I don't know what else to do.
Now 3 hardware components in some way or another stopped being usable after erasing Windows 11 and going back to Linux. I really wish it would be a skill issue.
I also find extremely strange and I doubt it's a coincidence that the last time the monitor worked was before going sleep mode. -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 28-Oct-2025 18:19:38 JST
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@Suiseiseki @takao @ube wait, so Darwin was UNIX free to download at the time? or this was before Apple paid for this license you say? I'm just curious if you know why they stopped giving it away, although maybe just was Apple being Apple. -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 27-Oct-2025 20:40:45 JST
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sorry to beat a dead horse (?) but did you know this @Suiseiseki ? have you seen this in action and how it affects the whole system? because it's crazy I haven't read a single article on it before myself. It worked though, the hate was so strong and the throttling so bad that I wiped the entire disc with Mint Linux (now with MX Linux because is the best Linux). -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 25-Oct-2025 19:16:33 JST
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I am installing Linux right now. I can't believe nobody talked about this, or I never heard anyone. It sounds so dumb and horrible for desktop PC users...
Gonna copy the important part:
Efficiency Mode stems from their Sustainable Software Initiative (launched ~2021), aiming to cut global carbon emissions from computing by optimizing for energy efficiency. It lowers CPU power draw (via EcoQoS clock throttling and priority demotion), reducing background usage by 14-76% per Microsoft's tests, which translates to less heat/fan noise, longer battery life on laptops, and greener data centers. On desktops, it's more about ecosystem-wide eco-goals than per-box thermals—they want apps to play nice without users tweaking governors manually. -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 23:02:14 JST
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@Suiseiseki @menherahair @coolbean @xaetacore @Zergling_man @fiore oh... so wait, which other kernels GNU supported before Linux or the year 1992 when this ambiguous GPLv2 was introduced? not FreeBSD, and I don't mean it because of the licensing, but I worked more than a decade with it and I know they maintains its own set of utilities, I remember the small but key differences. -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 22:57:27 JST
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@Suiseiseki @menherahair @coolbean @xaetacore @Zergling_man @fiore so many truth bombs... isn't this part about the copyright of the kernel itself ambiguous? I'm asking from total ignorance, but it says:
This kernel is (C) 1991 Linus Torvalds, but all or part of it may be redistributed provided you do the following:
-Full source must be available (and free), if not with the distribution then at least on asking for it.
-Copyright notices must be intact. (In fact, if you distribute only parts of it you may have to add copyrights, as there aren't (C)'s in all files.) Small partial excerpts may be copied without bothering with copyrights.
-You may not distribute this for a fee, not even "handling" costs.
Isn't saying "you may redistribute this provided you comply with this..." and later make a point saying "you may not redistribute this for a fee, not even "handling" costs"
what redistribute even means then?
anyways, I didn't know those boxed Tuxracer were an outlaw thing.
It always surprise me how much you know and how you are willing to answer the doubts of lowlife longbeards here. -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 22:44:48 JST
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@lanodan @a1ba Sorry I'm not trying to be pedantic, but not adding an -a to every definition doesn't means it's feminine... but I'm really bad at this kind of things, I mean what is masculine and feminine nowadays? fuck I shouldn't even tried to reciprocate your statement, sorry, @a1ba please answer this gentleman (or lady) question here if you would be so kind -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 22:32:32 JST
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@lanodan @a1ba "-a" it's not feminine in Spanish. -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 22:27:19 JST
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@Suiseiseki @Zergling_man @coolbean @fiore @menherahair @xaetacore wait, when I was coming back home from the grocery store I remembered this thread and therefore the classic Linux distros being sold in large boxes that came with lots of CDs and thick manuals, wasn't easy, but you could find them even in the town where I was born. The large boxes were usually Red Hat, SuSe or Mandrake(?) Linux. I know they didn't stop selling these because it was against the GPLv2 or whatever, but because everything went digital. These memories led me to also remember that Tuxracer also was sold in boxes, I don't know where I could have seen one IRL, but I would almost swear I did, and a quick Google image search confirms this, though when it comes to legality, I would assume it is the same as the Linux distros, they were both distributing the source code of the game along with the binaries, therefore it was legally ok, right? I ask this because of your statement that Linux was proprietary until 1992.
Oh, I just saw you already replied again... :aaaaaa: -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 21:49:06 JST
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@Suiseiseki @menherahair @coolbean @xaetacore @Zergling_man @fiore I don't believe this, weren't the GNU core libs and tools already integrated in Linux in 1992? I'm almost sure they were, beware, I'm old -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 29-Sep-2025 19:56:47 JST
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@Suiseiseki @menherahair @coolbean @xaetacore @Zergling_man @fiore I can't believe Tuxracer was proprietary all along -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Saturday, 27-Sep-2025 03:37:54 JST
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>me working on LDAP schemas and policies -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Monday, 22-Sep-2025 21:53:13 JST
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Found two *very old* screenshots from when I was a teenager still living with my mother; the first one it's mine, playing Freeciv, like every night for some time, with my, for 10 years or so, best internet friend, Numlock.
I was using Red Hat 9 (the last RH that was free and open).
The second screenshot it's his, from around the same time, I don't know what distribution he was using back then, but I do remember he being a crazy "fan" of everything QT/KDE.
I think in the late 90s/early 2000s, for a few years, the Gnome VS KDE was the only thing we had to make some fun rivalry. Didn't last much though.
I remember Compiz a lot later. Man, Compiz, we were sure that was the future of the desktop; later Beryl ruined things somehow, not only with too many useless plugins, but with a dispute with the Compiz creators... wouldn't surprise me that Beryl was a fork of Compiz.
To think my first Linux was Red Hat 5.2 when I was 15 years old...
mostly used Slackware the following years, from Slackware 7 to 9, it was my main Linux distro. I remember dual booting for many years too, specially with the best Windows, Windows 2000 Professional.
I enjoyed a lot distro hopping too, some distros I remember installing maybe for just a day, were Corel Linux, SuSe Linux, Mandrake Linux, BeOS (not a Linux distro).
Didn't install Gentoo until 2004~ probably, searching for a Slackware replacement.
Those were really good times despite other things going wrong that I had no control over. -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Friday, 19-Sep-2025 05:04:41 JST
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because Alice cares -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Wednesday, 17-Sep-2025 06:18:28 JST
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reimu.ldif and dn: uid=reimu,ou=shrine maiden -
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okasion (anokasion@cawfee.club)'s status on Tuesday, 16-Sep-2025 03:08:00 JST
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