waspentalive

waspentalive, 12 days ago (edited 8 days ago)

Even for a home system? Not a fleet of data center servers. I am currently using rsync to backup /home/<<user>>/ to the ssh server. I tend to make a lot of changes to the base Debian/KDE install.

waspentalive, 5 months ago

Whew! Kernel: 6.1.0-16-amd64 and I just recently had a kernel update I think. Debian.

waspentalive, 5 months ago

rhudson@adam:~$ neofetch ,met$$$$$gg. rhudson@adam ,g$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$P. ------------ ,g$$P" “”“Y$$.”. OS: Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) x86_64 ,$$P’ $$$. Host: VivoBook_ASUSLaptop S5402ZA_S5402ZA 1.0 ',$$P ,ggs. $$b: Kernel: 6.1.0-13-amd64 d$$’ ,$P"’ . $$$ Uptime: 59 mins $$P d$’ , $$P Packages: 3393 (dpkg) $$: $$. - ,d$$’ Shell: bash 5.2.15 $$; Y$b._ _,d$P’ Resolution: 2880x1800 Y$$. .“Y$$$$P”’ DE: Plasma 5.27.5 $$b "-._ WM: kwin Y$$ WM Theme: plastik Y$$. Theme: [Plasma], Breeze [GTK2/3] $$b. Icons: [Plasma], breeze-dark [GTK2/3] Y$$b. Terminal: konsole "Y$b._ Terminal Font: IBM 3270 19 “”" CPU: 12th Gen Intel i7-12700H (20) @ 4.600GHz GPU: Intel Alder Lake-P Memory: 3687MiB / 11577MiB This is bookworm.

I have only worked with .txt files and .odt (libre Office files) for the past few days. I have done updates as offered, but I have not installed anything, and I have not edited any system file as far as I can remember (before this morning, see below for a troubleshooting step taken).

And I have played Minecraft and watched Youtube and Freetube.

When I noticed this happening (by trying to launch kpat this morning) I went to look at /etc/profile and added /etc/games to the id=0 part of the path setting and that did not help any so I removed it again. - something is setting the path to SU’s path along the way but I don’t know what.

waspentalive, 5 months ago

I have included this line in my .bash_profile:

export PATH=“$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games”

In the very last line.

My PATH still looks like this:

rhudson@adam:~$ echo $PATH /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin

What could be changing my path after .bash_profile gets its say?

I am also adding it now to the last line of .bashrc

waspentalive, 5 months ago

I have rebooted and now my path seems correct:

rhudson@adam:~$ echo $PATH /home/rhudson/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

I can type “kpat” at the command line and it launches.

But when I click the icon in the task manager it still says it can’t find the program ‘kpat’

waspentalive, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago)

Here is the problem.

I had been running X before last night. I switched to Wayland just before knocking off. When I started again today I was now running Wayland. I just now switched back to X and now my icon for kpat works properly.

Is there some issue with the Icons-Only Task Manager under Wayland?

I was going back to Wayland because it seems important Distros are dropping X. I should be running under Wayland because at some point I will have to. I am back on X for now.

waspentalive, 5 months ago

The issue shows up under Wayland, not X. With X everything is working ok. I have yet to try a different Task Manager under Wayland though.

waspentalive, 5 months ago

I took a moment to swich back to wayland, and tried “Task Manager” (I was using “Icons only Task Manager”) both are showing this issue which is resolved by switching back to X.

waspentalive, 11 months ago

Wayland fixed a strange blinking issue in Minecraft. So now Wayland all the time.

waspentalive, 11 months ago

As fill-in ads are a vector for computer viruses and other malware I for one will NOT be disabling my ad blocker unless YouTube is willing to provide a lifetime subscription to something like Life Lock and make me whole for anything lost to whatever malware arrives as a part of an ad.

Where else can I watch sci-show, Linus-tech-tips, and all the other channels I subscribe to?

waspentalive, 11 months ago

I wrote 3 sentences 3 days ago and still can not login. (Beehaw)

waspentalive, 11 months ago

Personally, I will only be going back to Reddit if I need help with some specific thing and I can't find it in Lemmy anywhere. And only for that thread.

waspentalive, 11 months ago

I use https://ninite.com/ to download an installer/updater for the major packages I can get there - Firefox and Chrome are both available amongst others. But mostly I don't use Windows.

waspentalive, 11 months ago

Yay! Sucess! Will my phone remember this credential now or will I have to enter it next time I return?

waspentalive, 11 months ago

Please can we have a "BuyNothing" or "Freecycle" Comunity? One for each city/region/area would be better but If needed we could have just one where post titles contain the location (SacramentoCA) before anything else. Then sorting / Searching would weed out the unwanted due to distance items.

waspentalive, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

We need an actual Doctor to consult on the effects of eating banknotes on one's system. Who knows even one might give you a serious problem.

https://www.askdrmaxwell.com/2014/05/bacteria-on-money/

Paints a picture of all the nasty substances that can contaminate the bills in your wallet.

waspentalive, 11 months ago

The story of WasPentalive - My normal avatar is a depiction of the R-Pentamino in John Conway's game of life. A 5 cell arrangement that throws off a number gliders in different directions. In one account I was simply PentaLive (Penta = 5 Live=the game of life) but I lost the password to that account at the same time as I no longer had access to the email address I registered. So I had to create a new account - I was Pentalive so I became WASPentalive.

Did I misunderstand the question?