tde-users July 2026

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Telling systemd fdsk to take a hike
by dep 15 Jul '26

15 Jul '26

Greets, everyone, from a place of great anguish. Sat down at the desktop machine last night and to my surprise it was off. I turned it on. As it booted, it found and fixed some orphaned inodes, per usual for a dirty shutdown (no idea what caused the shutdown, btw), and all was well, seemed to be happy, but then it got to where it said: [TIME] Timed out waiting for device dev-sdb1.device - /dev/sdb1. [DEPEND] Dependency failed for mnt-sdb1.mount - /mnt/sdb1. There it sat. It's probably worth mentioning that there is no sdb in the machine. Only a big sda partitioned into several partitions, per usual. After a while I did the c-a-d thing, but instead of rebooting it seemed to continue the boot in progress until it came to: [*** ]Job systemd-fsck@dev-disk-by\x2duuid-f33fcb46[many numbers and letters].service/stop running (4min 5s / no limit) It's not lying about the no limit -- it stayed there, counting, all night. I booted a System Rescue disk from USB. Could find no evidence of anything wrong, though that's not saying much in that I didn't really go poking around lest I *really* break something. So. Anyone know how I can tell the machine to stop looking for stuff that isn't there and just to go ahead and boot? Thanks! dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://ofb.biz/author/dep/

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kmail and "tracking pixels"
by Thierry de Coulon 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

Hello. Just got a mail from a company (Chargemap) that informed that they use tracking pixels in some of their mails. I found some information about blocking such pixels in "mainstream" mail programs (they actually only listed Thunderbird, Gmail and Apple mail). I was just wondering what kmail does. Anyone knows? Thierry

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Darkness - July 2026 version
by Dr. Nikolaus Klepp 07 Jul '26

07 Jul '26

Hi All! July aka Summer 2026 Version is out! Biggest changes: - TDE 14.2.0-DEVELOPMENT - Xlibre 25.2.0 - new background images - kernel 7.1.3 - all specific tweaks are packaged in darkness-tweaks - i386 crossinstaller with kernel 7.0.14 - rpi crossinstaller Notes: - Persistent partition at 3GB when booting the ISO from a USB stick: As long as any future ISO written to the stick is smaller than 3GB the data on the partition is unaffected. - Virtualbox/VMware guest graphics: "modesetting" is used for "VirtualBox GPU". - Laguage: TDE language packs of unused languages are removed when booting from iso, so that translations of missing texts come from english and not from any other language pack - deactivate 3D acceleration on Lenovo X61 / Intel GM965/GL960 - dark theme for OpenSCAD Download: - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706.iso - https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706.iso.sh256 - SHA256: ce1d103cc1fcd343399d04926e60019d7240e66e55bef8d68a00df621eecbd2a Some Images: https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706-0.png https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706-1.png https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706-2.png https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706-3.png https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706-4.png Thumbnails of all wallpapers: https://darkness.klepp.cn/iso/darkness-20260706-wallpapers.png Announcement in Devuan Forum: https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?pid=64578#p64578 Please feel free to download and try .. and post your experience :D Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users(a)trinitydesktop.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave(a)trinitydesktop.org Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@trinitydeskt… -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ...

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