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Re: What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space?

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Post by hiq » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 7:57 PM UTC

Animats wrote: post #233

30367286 wrote: post #199

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On what laptops does sleep/hibernate work correctly when you close the lid, with Mint? Seriously, swear to fucking god, every time someone says “oh Linux just works”, the next comment is “oh? I tried that distro on the recommended hardware and had trouble with…” Next response is ALWAYS: “Oh yeah that’s broken but I don’t use that feature.” Usually about hibernate. As in, apparently everyone using a laptop plugged int…

On what laptops does sleep/hibernate work correctly when you close the lid, with Mint? If anyone knows how to get XUbuntu 18.04 LTS to not shut down with the lid closed and power on, please let me know. I have a subnotebook that sits in a cabinet to run something, and since a recent "upgrade", it won't stay alive. Looking with Google produces at least five articles on this, all contradictory and none of which work. T…

Is the relevant configuration file logind.conf, or another one? Whenever I had such issues it was always the one file I had to change.

Re: What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space?

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Post by trelane » Fri, Apr 01, 2022, 8:56 PM UTC

dralley wrote: post #283

trelane wrote: post #274

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My experience with ThinkPads has been terrible. I've lost faith in ThinkPads. Too bad we can't get working Linux hardware at work. Fortunately, I can buy my personal hardware from whomever I wish, and it certainly will not be Lenovo.

I agree that the quality of the hardware has gone downhill (weak hinges, getting more fragile every year, keyboard quality) but running Linux has been fine. No real complaints.

> running Linux has been fine

That has _very_ much not been my and some colleagues' experience.

Re: What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space?

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Post by jannikarndt » Sat, Apr 02, 2022, 8:21 PM UTC

Uuhhh these contain the "custom" Siri responses. For example look at

  ~/Library/Trial/v6/AssetStore/assets/82/623873afd8fba430d4f4a45e/content/dialog/SocialConversation.catfamily/dalAprilFoolsSiri.cat

_params.cat.bin has the description:

  category: Social
  description: For when users say 'April fools' to Siri without any other words.
  listenafterspeaking: false
  readyforloc: true
  subcategory: Daily Rituals

and `en.cat.bin` and all the localisations (en-za.cat.bin, en-sg.cat.bin, …) contain some logic when to run and the answers, such as

  It's April 2nd. April Fools!  If you want to play some tricks of your own, say, 'Tell me an April Fools prank.'

Re: What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space?

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Post by philjohn » Sun, Apr 03, 2022, 12:54 PM UTC

c22 wrote: post #236

philjohn wrote: post #234

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> One thing I did do while I was building that first linux pc, and for every computer I've bought or built since then, was a tiny bit of research on driver compatibility. Just something as simple as typing ' linux compatability' into google And that's the reason you don't have problems - you're going for hardware/laptops that are well supported in Linux. Do you expect mom and pop to do the same? Versus buying somethi…

I dunno, my dad spent 6 months researching his new truck.

I would guess that truck is a much larger outlay than a laptop?

And is your dad a Truck person? He may have enjoyed the research process (heck, I enjoy researching tech purchases).

Re: What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space?

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Post by teknopaul » Mon, Apr 04, 2022, 11:52 AM UTC

black_puppydog wrote: post #248

Animats wrote: post #231

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I find it crazy people have apps running on their Macs and windows desktops that they can't even find out what it is doing, let alone how it works. Have you looked at a Linux syslog lately? This is 20.04 LTS on desktop. It does a lot on its own. Probably too much. Mar 31 00:33:18 Nagle-LTS whoopsie[1278]: [00:33:17] Cannot reach: https://daisy.ubuntu.com Since the system was idle at the time, why did it need to conta…

> There's a lot happening behind the scenes. Hopefully none of it is hostile or contains backdoors. One wonders. No, one doesn't wonder. one googles that, then there's an answer. That's exactly the root's point here.

And as demonstrated, a lot in the logs to guide your search, nothing shown is behind the scenes.

Personally I disable snap but I know what it does and why it is useful.