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[Member marcelocripe]

Some devices or programs start working after pulseaudio is installed.

Namida12, I am returning here to correct some information from May 05, 2022.
The experiences I had with pulseaudio were not good. On 7 computers that I tested, on 3 computers the sound worked perfectly with pulseaudio in the programs that the audio didn’t work, but it was only before restarting antiX, after restarting, antiX was silent, there was no sound, not even in the browser Firefox ESR web browser and not an MP3 video or audio file. On the other 4 computers the sound worked perfectly with pulseaudio in the programs that the audio didn’t work, so my experience was traumatic with pulseaudio and I don’t have confidence in this solution.

Is there any way to poll antiX-21 users, to find someone who successfully uses an external webcam for the Google Meet you say you need for conferencing with family? If so, you could ask which make & model of webcam they’re using. If it’s different, then you could test that alternate webcam. If it’s the same logitech as yours, then you could inquire for the details of their setup.

We could create several topics, where each topic reports the Hardware that works well with antiX, both for Webcam and for other Hardwares, such as: Bluetooth, Video Card, Sound Card, Ethernet or Wi-Fi Network Card, etc.

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Some devices or programs start working after pulseaudio is installed.

Namida12, eu estou retornando aqui para corrigir algumas a informações do dia 05 de maio de 2022.
As experiências que eu tive com o pulseaudio não foram boas. Em 7 computadores que testei, em 3 computadores o som funcionou perfeitamente com o pulseaudio nos programas que o áudio não funcionava, mas foi só até antes de reiniciar o antiX, depois da reinicialização, o antiX ficou mudo, não havia som, nem no navegador de internet Firefox ESR e nem em um arquivo de vídeo ou de áudio MP3. Nos outros 4 computadores o som funcionou perfeitamente com o pulseaudio nos programas que o áudio não funcionava, por tanto, a minha experiência foi traumática com o pulseaudio e eu não possuo confiança nesta solução.

Is there any way to poll antiX-21 users, to find someone who successfully uses an external webcam for the Google Meet you say you need for conferencing with family? If so, you could ask which make & model of webcam they’re using. If it’s different, then you could test that alternate webcam. If it’s the same logitech as yours, then you could inquire for the details of their setup.

Nós poderíamos criar vários tópicos, onde cada tópico relata o Hardware que fuciona bem com o antiX, tanto para Webcam quanto para outros Hardwares, como por exemplo: Bluetooth, Placa de Vídeo, Placa de Som, Placa de Rede Ethernet ou Wi-Fi, etc.

[Member andyprough]

ModdIt wrote:

Thanks andyprough , nice howto,
will have a go at building next rainy day. And while doing so see if i can find the option for switching to native
alsa.

I have also noticed that self builds are often lighter and faster than the universal binarys. Out of interest
what did you build on and build time. My I5 box is pretty powerful but took all night to build a
stripped down firefox, after that I started using libreWolf or UngoogledChromium where Palemoon is rejected by sites.

I built it on a 4-year-old i7, but I only gave it 1 core. It did take about 3 hours to build. Next time I will probably give it 2 cores, it should hopefully build in less than 2 hours.

[Member ModdIt]

Thanks andyprough , nice howto,
will have a go at building next rainy day. And while doing so see if i can find the option for switching to native
alsa.

I have also noticed that self builds are often lighter and faster than the universal binarys. Out of interest
what did you build on and build time. My I5 box is pretty powerful but took all night to build a
stripped down firefox, after that I started using libreWolf or UngoogledChromium where Palemoon is rejected by sites.

[Member Robin]

You could try to use »barrier«, in case you have a second PC nearby:

https://www.linux-bibel-oesterreich.at/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=215

This tool will allow you to share mouse and keyboard among different OS. Implies you are able to install it in the first place, so you probably need a keyboard directly connected beforehand…

(When using firefox you’ll need to install Traduzir Paginas Web by Felipe PS to read the Austrian page in English language — or try google translate)

chefmyklove wrote:

Is there a software keyboard hiding somewhere in the package?

I believe there is no virtual keyboard installed by default in antiX.
But you could try to install one of the packages florence or xvkbd.
Both are present in antiX 21 and 19 for many architectures.

Again, difficult without a working keyboard plugged. You can always do without a mouse, but mostly never without keyboard.

Windows is like a submarine. Open a window and serious problems will start.

[Moderator Brian Masinick]

more information at search link Linux nomodeset

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[Member ModdIt]

Adding the instructions for UngoogledChromium which I use a lot.
Extensions are now installable but @chrome store blocked by monopoly playing google.
I have u Block origin installed, download unpack, install unpacked extension as developer. Downloaded from: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/releases.
Download zip for chrome.

Search chrome://about/ for a full list of settings and features.
Pls check following are enabled.
Enable Canvas image data fingerprint deception
Enable Canvas::measureText() fingerprint deception
Enable get*ClientRects() fingerprint deception

If you suffer crashes disable graphics acceleration. Keep an eye on cache size which is a problem with ALL chrome based browsers.

I use below code in my .desktop-session/startup file, no more gigabyte size cache, bybye supercooky tracking function of website startup graphics cache.
OT, can be modified to do same for Firefox LibreWolf, Palemeoon. Moving entire cache to temp can be problematic as some applications misuse the area to
save settings.

#Moves chromium cache to temp.  Thanks to xecure. 
#First line only needed if chromium cache exists in home
[ -d "$HOME/.cache/chromium" ] && rm -rf $HOME/.cache/chromium
mkdir -p /tmp/herold/.cache/chromium && ln -sf /tmp/herold/.cache/chromium /home/herold/.cache/chromium
mkdir -p /tmp/herold/.cache/chromium/Default && ln -sf /tmp/herold/.cache/chromium/Default /home/herold/.cache/chromium/Default

Project page https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium-debian
Available for 64 Bit Bullseye and Sid from supported OBS repositorys.

Install on Debian Bullseye.

# echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ungoogled_chromium/Debian_Bullseye/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home-ungoogled_chromium.list > /dev/null
# curl -s 'https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ungoogled_chromium/Debian_Bullseye/Release.key' | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home-ungoogled_chromium.gpg > /dev/null
# sudo apt update
# sudo apt install -y ungoogled-chromium

Install on Debian Sid.

# echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ungoogled_chromium/Debian_Sid/ /' | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/home-ungoogled_chromium.list > /dev/null
# curl -s 'https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ungoogled_chromium/Debian_Sid/Release.key' | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/home-ungoogled_chromium.gpg > /dev/null
# sudo apt update
# sudo apt install -y ungoogled-chromium

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

I don’t know if (or for how long) the use of a different browser will enable you to read or access any Web page content. If it IS possible and all you need to see is plain text, then the dillo Web browser is perfect for that.

If you can get some content with dillo, you can attempt to use Palemoon. This browser is similar in feature set to the Firefox browser, but is simpler and it consumes fewer resources.

You can try Google Chrome or Chromium if you wish, but these browsers and Firefox do consume more resources and are likely to be unable to perform on crippled hardware or systems with limited resources.

Other ideas from people with superior knowledge and ideas are certainly welcome.

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[Moderator Brian Masinick]

Firefox 99 is in the final stages of testing; here are the milestones leading up to the release, and the beginning of Firefox 100 (which is already under development in Firefox Nightly).

1) Firefox 99.0B8 was released on Thursday, March 24.
2) Firefox 99 “Go to Build” is planned for Monday, March 28. (in the Beta build, this is Firefox 99.0B9)
3) Firefox 100 soft code freeze is the last day of March, next Thursday, March 31.
4) The “string freeze” for the next release is the following day, April 1 (a.k.a. “April Fools Day” – so you may see some “jokes” about various software projects on that day, be careful what you read on April 1; it MAY be a JOKE!
5) Firefox 99.0 “Go Live” is on Tuesday, April 5; this is the Firefox 99.0 RELEASE and Firefox 100 will also be in full BETA test.

Look at this calendar, and switch between March and April to see the work; if there are any changes to these dates, they will be minor and slight; this calendar has been pretty solid:
https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/embed?src=bW96aWxsYS5jb21fZGJxODRhbnI5aTh0Y25taGFiYXRzdHY1Y29AZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ

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[Member 4technik]

Hi,
thkanks you for reply!

I really don’t have it in Antix. But I don’t know, if is it is necesarry.

 apt-cache policy pulseaudio-utils
pulseaudio-utils:
  Instalovaná verze: (žádná)
  Kandidát:          14.2-2.0nosystemd1
  Tabulka verzí:
     14.2-2.0nosystemd1 500
        500 http://mirror.karneval.cz/pub/linux/mxlinux-packages/antix/bullseye bullseye/nosystemd i386 Packages
     14.2-2 500
        500 http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian bullseye/main i386 Packages

If pipewire will not be ready to play sound in chromium. I will have to return pulse audio and repair alsa.
Thanks for links. (The second link I tried (before reinstall AntiX last week) with partly success – more info bellow.

I would like give chance for pipewire yet.

1. YES
2. I appear that is posible change sound with function keys on netbook or in alsamixer in system center
Only volume icon isn’t on bar near clocks. But it isn’t big problem for me if is it possible by fn keys.
3. OK
4. YES, but momentally i know only about chromium problems. Before I changed pulse to pipewire
videos worked, but in youtube didn’t work sound in youtube. Now if i in chromium run something web
with video and I click enable on sound icon, video hangs and don’t work too.
I like chromium, because in Seamonkey isn’t possible run youtube, there isn’t google translater, or login to other google aps too. Firefox ESR still consume very much cpu and ram.
It’s a pity , it isn’ possible use in Chromium full synchronize (i read that it google blocked before year)
and Chrome for x86 isn’t 🙁

A) I am not sure, that I installed pavucontrol and “pavucontrol” command in terminal don’t exist.

B) Ok, I give chance for pipewire yet

C) Before clean install AntiX 21 I tried reinstall(last week) ALSA/Pulseaudio and video worked with audio in Chromium. But sometime Chromium with more tabs turned off often. It wasn’t stable for me. So I tried reinstall Antix.
So now I am sure, that audio and video problems are at least in audio software/drivers 🙁

What do you suggest? Install Pavucontrol first? (apt install Pavucontrol?)

Thank you

[Member ModdIt]

Another reason not to install firefox from mozilla download site is the unique identifier for every download.
Seems moz has now admitted but claims the function is acceptable users can turn off the telemetry, without
explaining how to do so without starting the browser.
Disconnect from network, start the browser turn off telemetry and all the other pinging tracking functions
through about:config. Delete the hidden extensions in Browser Features folder Ensure pigbender (Pingsender)
cashorter (crashreporter) uplater (updater) are correctly named or sadly they will not function as mozilla
intended. Crashreporter can upload a complete memory dump.
Delete all the waiting pings and telemetry in your firefox profile, make the folders read only.
Reconnect to internet and restart firefox. watch conky, better your network traffic directly if you have more
than just a router query you have missed something.

Best method, use the version provided by the distribution or
install and use LibreWolf It is firefox without the privacy concerns.

There is a uuid and extremely exact install time in every install, the uuid is same for all users when the distro
version is used. The install time and google analytics data along with font enumeration IP Geolocation Sensor data
are almost certainly more than enough enough to uniquely id an individual.

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Ok, this started here https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/noob-to-linux-antix-command-m0re/ but I felt starting a more recent discussion would be appropriate.
At first I installed firefox and discovered it had no sound and didn’t just update.
PPC explained in the other thread how to open firefox with sound using something like:
$apulse firefox
However, sybok made a good point about updates. Also, I still had to use an icon on the desktop to get sound.
To get rid of the installed firefox I used:
$ sudo apt-get purge firefox

To get rid of firefox-esr is answered here:

[Member Girafenaine]

Hello antiX fellows,

It’s good that LibreWolf is now easier to install and update with a repo. I find it a good browser. Even if ungoogled-chromium is an interesting idea, it still depends on development effort from Google engineers. I want not to depend from such efforts. Librewolf is Firefox with privacy minded configuration and fits my needs and hopes. The Librewolf team has interesting ideas and is dedicated to the project.

I am now used to the AppImage. Together with firejail, AppImage lets me have a “sandboxed” app which I find useful for a browser. A browser is a special app, able to run some random javascript, and open to the wild wild net. I like to run my browser in a sandbox in order to protect the computer, system and data on it. The only drawback with AppImage is the updating, but as I wrote in this thread I use a little script to automatical updates so that’s all fine. Thanks to firejail, you can configure a sandbox and even use a network sandbox (own network stack just for the app, with no ability to see or change what is going on your other connections). And I use a VPN in this sandbox… so quite a strong protection for classical privacy and security threats.

@anamesa : about your “strange” issue with AppImages not being run outside your main partition, I guess it’s about the way other partitions are mounted on your filesystems. You can check in /etc/fstab the options used to mount partitions. You need to add “exec” options in order to be able to run programs from a partition (actually it depends on other options. For instance “user” option makes “noexec” be a default option, and you have to add “exec”).

Girafenaine

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Girafenaine
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Antix 19 - Fluxbox - Live USB stick and frugal / MX 19 - Fluxbox - Dell XPS 7590

Dear, my daughter has an (not so much) old MacBook Air early 2014, 4 Gram.
She cannot upgrade its OS because all the MacOS supported by that Mac are too old.
I’m trying to convince her to test Antix, that my wife and me are using on a daily basis.
In order to let her to make some test, I tried to install Antix 21, full, 64 bit, no runit, on an external USB-HD.

The problem, that needs a crystal sphere, is the following:

– the installed system, after update, when I start using Firefox esr on the google home page, freezes. The same phenomenon with Chromium in another page, a bit more “heavy”.
The same problem applies with all the DE and with both the kernels.

Please note that:
– when I tested the live on the Macbook air, all is ok: I can navigate multiple pages, also complicated ones;
– I did a memory test, that lasted about 150′, and no problems were reported.
– I tried to re-intall antix other 2 times, with the very same result.

I dont know where to investigate

Any help will be appreciated, many thanks in advance!
m

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• This topic was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by madibi.

Since my old 32bits HP laptop that had antiX 21 on it is currently down, I decided, this weekend to try antiX 64bits, for the very first time on real hardware and I installed it on my old (and very underpowered netbook). I’ll relate my experience here, like if it was the first time I tried to install antiX:

*Creating the live boot media – I downloaded the Linux version I wanted (antiX 21 64bits full) and tried to use the live USB creator – it refused constantly (I unmounted the thumb-drive, I rebooted, etc…) to let me create a live device with persistence (on antiX 19.X, 64 bits)- I gave up and then created the live USB in a couple of minutes… Weird…

*Booting the live media – as always, this worked like a charm. I noticed this: on the GRUB boot menu we can select twice the language we want to use- on the Select Kernel menu and on the Select Boot options – now, selecting the language on the first menu also applies to the second menu- Nice! – but has a tiny bug – the – Fx options are displayed in English on the second menu, and only updated to pt when I select the language again

*Live media performance – for those that never tested antiX in live USB (at least usb 2.0) mode – trust me- you will be fooled into thinking you are running a system already installed on your hard drive – everything just works smoothly and fast (it even seems a tiny bit faster than running the installed version on my hard drive- because my drive is so crappy)

*Installing – hum… A couple of problems here – everything would be fine and dandy if I select the option to install to the entire hard-drive (and delete all other partitions/ Operating systems- but I wanted to keep my backup system- Windows 7, with Word – just in case- I haven’t needed it in the last couple of years, but you never know…)
So I choose the (default) option to keep the existing partitions – and boy – this does look scary – for a user that does not know a lot about partitions (and most of us do not)- it’s like looking at a complex excel spreadsheet displaying lots of detailed information about a subject I know nothing about- what the hell! I just want to install an OS, not apply to an advanced informatics degree!… So I studied every option – and discovered that my old Linux partition, conveniently called by the guy that installed it (antiX-19) is where I should place my system – hum… I heard that Linux does not have a c: drive, all my stuff is kept in my home – so let me select to use that partition as my “home”… and I have one partition called Swap – let me mark to use that as Swap too – Damn- an error complaining that the partition should be at least XXgb? But that partition is 45gb! So I found out, the hard way that the partition where you install antiX can’t be formatted as “Home”, it has to be “root”- weird- why didn’t the installer just warn me that I need to create a “root” partition!!!
-the rest of the install process is a breeze – even in this crappy netbook it’s not just simple, it’s fast – I reached 95% in about 5 minutes or so… and got an error: it could not install something called Grub! It says I can take care of that from live media. I waited for 5 minutes more but nothing – no HD activity – the installer is working, I can click the buttons, move back, etc… But it’s just open, doing nothing- what am I supposed to do? I rebooted… as expected, I got an error saying no grub is found and nothing more- so I boot from the live USB- there should be an easy to see way to recover that Grub thing, right? Nope. So I ran the installer again, exact same settings, same same computer- 95%, 96%, 97%, 98%, 99%… I began to chew my nails… 100% Success!! What the hell, I did nothing different an now it works?

*Booting my new installed Operating System
-Damn- this thing may look like the poor, long forgotten twin brother of Windows 98, but is as fast as the wind!
-On the Control Center thingie is something that says “Update” – let me try – we should always keep our system up to date, right? I’ll bet it will take ages and some 50% of my hard drive… What? The update is almost 300mb but it will just take a couple mb of disk space? What sorcery is this? After some minutes of staring to some strange text running past by me on a black screen I see the best sight I ever got in my computer life – a simple window telling me that my Update was finished- no multiple reboots needed, nothing – everything is just ready to be used- has Windows been bs me all my life with that overcomplicated update process?
-Is there a way to make this thing look a bit more like… hummm… it was made in the XXI century? I read about something called Ft10-transformation on the forum – let me check that out- hum… It’s not in the “App store”… Oh! It’s in this complicated other app store, called Synaptic – it took me some 10 minutes to figure out how to install something – it has so many options! Ok. I installed it- everything just looks the same – do I have to run something? I use that app finder thingie and see I have a quazzilion of stuff saying FT10 – let me try this that says “enable FT10″… Ok, one config window, another one… I bet this will take hours… What? More sorcery? This now looks even better than Windows 10? Who is the guy that created this? I want to tell Microsoft to hire him and bring Windows back from the dark side… hum… dark ages!

-Some stuff like the browser, the office suite and some menu entries are not in my language!!! Help!!! Wait… when I searched for “language” on this new handy menu I got a hit- hooo! I just selected to “localize” my system and now, after some more black window thingies, everything now speaks my language- just half a dozen menu entries are still in English, and that file finder thingie (searchmonkey- are they kinding me? Why does this Linux thing have such weird names for apps? Couldn’t it be just “search” or “file search”?)… Now,, why does not this Language thingie part of the install process? that would be sweet!

*Installing applications- I need to install some apps – a faster browser, a more up to date Office suit, Java… let me use that handy little “app store” – I selected some 20 apps and clicked install – ok- I get that black window thingie again- boy Linux has some kind of kink with black windows? – and it says it’s done. No, I don’t want to install anything else…
What? Why did only a couple of my apps get installed???
Let me try installing one by one – man… This sucks… Let me select again, and install, one at a time (is this the dark ages?): palemoon browser (I’ve hear it light, it should run on my crappy netbook), ungoogled chromium browser (this should be nice- I don’t want google snooping all around, I just want to use the free stuff they allow me to use, he he he!!!), pulseaudio (I think Linux has some sound problems without it, sometimes)… and I need Java for work… some nice casual games, like Patience, for my free time and… SuperTuxKart? I heard it’s like that SuperMarioKart I never played when I was a kid because I was too broke to have a gaming console…
I do love e-books, so Calibre should be handy… and non-free codecs should be handy… CUPS and HP stuff for my printer at work… Ok, I think I’m good.

*Testing the system after I set it up with everything I want:
–Network – I set up my Wi-Fi without any problems, I can even access my shared folders!
–Browsing and internet related stuff– Browsing is ok – some sites take ages to load – YouTube only loads fast and with an ok video quality in Chromium, but for everything else I think firefox-esr (most compatibility), seamonkey and palemoon will do just fine. Smtube, already provided out of the box, allows me to stream YouTube videos perfectly, even in higher quality and in full screen, without ads, even on this crummy old computer? Linux, I love you! and an appimage called electronplayer allows me watch streaming services perfectly, like Netflix? and seamonkey e-mail can even be configured to access my Gmail? and this ft10-cloud thingies lets me get cloud drives, like my google drive on my File Manager? Sweet
–Office – the latest office suite, perfectly localized, and running at an acceptable speed on this old machine- great! And I can even open docx documents, without Ms Office? This has to be a scam, right? Nothing can be that good and be for free…
–File compatibility– Audio – my old audio files play great, Pictures, pdfs, everything look ok. Video- very old video files play fine. That HD video I took of my baby girl dancing? It’s… Slow, same as in Windows – let me see if there’s a way around that (hum a guy said to install Xine media player with sudo apt install xine-ui…) What this old beast plays HD video files perfectly with Xine? I could not do that with Windows 7… Again- are this Linux guys into Black magic or what?
–Gaming – I have some light games, like solitaire, chess and soduku, they run great- they are free, without ads and help pass the time, sometimes… Even that supertuxkart is playable in antiX 21, just barely – because it’s kinda of slow – on this video card that shares 8mb of my precious 1 gb of RAM! Even so, I can play an up to date 3d game on this old Windows 7 era netbook that was crappy even when it came out? Sweet!
–Sound – this netbook sound has always been crappy, even in Windows… Let me pull the volume to the max, to amplification to the max, on this pauv thingie I found out on the menu… Oh… My… Godddd…! I can hear everything perfectly – pulseaudio never worked on this computer when I was using antiX 19… This is not sorcery, it’s a miracle!!!
–Video – now… I’ve been trying to keep this light, from a newbie’s point of view, but there is something really wrong with video support – with antiX 21 and my intel video drivers- I can play video files just fine, but a couple of times now, for unknown reasons, when I try to open a video file the video player crashes- if I use the terminal I can see errors with the video driver – both mpv and xine complain about it- if I restart the session, everything just works…

Overall impression:
antix 21, 64bits, particularly with ft10-transformation, pulseaudio, xine media player and up to date applications makes even the cheapest and crappiest 64bits netbook look and feel like a middle range modern netbook running Windows or MacOS – if you have a device with less than 10 years or so- it will literally make your computer fly for most common tasks…
I have only to report, after about half day some random problem that seems to affect the part of the video driver that enables the system to play video files- restarting the session solves that instantly.
After so many problems with pulseaudio it’s a relief seeing, or rather, earing it work perfectly – I can say I never, ever heard such clear sound coming out of those tiny speakers, I though they just could not perform that good!
I give it a 98% rating on this old netbook (100% as soon as I can solve that video problem)- the problem with installing many apps with Package Installer is just a small nuisance !!!

P.

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https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/

Google doesn’t appear to have a calendar quite the same as the one I found for the Nightly, Beta, Release, and Extended Support Release (ESR) versions of Firefox, but I did find a blog from which you can get some useful information, especially if you want to test future, upcoming releases of Google Chrome (or other Google products) and you want to make sure the features you are interested in actually WORK.

(By the way, that’s one reason I have such a high degree of “success” with these various tools, browsers, and editors; over the years I have repeatedly used test software, found and reported a few bugs I wanted to see fixed, and I make sure things continue to work the way I’d like to see, and if I want a different result, I ask for a feature or report a defect, document it as well as I can and explain what results and features I need. It works well for me; I’ve had 3-4 things fixed over the past 25-30 years and I keep on top of them with a few systems; if something regresses, I report that too; being faithful to test, document, explain and report really does HELP!)

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