My attempt to leave Windows before being forced to upgrade to Win-Ad-11 went into round 2. My old Laptop used for YouTube mainly already is running Mint for a while now.
Since yesterday my 8 year old PC also has been installed anew with Mint. Its purpose is to be used for live streaming. Need to check how to mount the NTFS disks (raid 0) and compile the driver for the capture card.
Also I will verify next weeks whether I can use it for my job before migrating the main PC.
Today's head-scratcher in #linuxmint and #emacs. Hope someone can help me understand this. I've got both W10 and LM installed on my machine. While in LM, using dired in emacs, I can navigate through all of my linux directories. However, the file manager in LM shows a Windows directory, and I can see and access a lot of my W10 files (though not my Documents folder). Why is that? And how can I access all my Windows documents in LM? TIA!
Tonight's #linuxmint conundrum. Cannot connect my Logitech MX Keys keyboard via bluetooth. Or actually, it connects and disconnects repeatedly. Have tried using the BT Manager and also bluetoothctl. Madly googling but nothing working so far. Otherwise, I'm loving LM.
Hi 😀 da mein #linuxmint auf allen rechnern individualisiert / optimiert wunderbar aber dadurch langweilig, seit jahren funktioniert...
habe ich einen blick auf das thema #smartwatch geworfen.
da ich kein sporttreibender selbstopimierer bin, war hauptsächlich der technische aspekt interessant.
bisher erschien mir die laufzeit der uhren zu gering.
nun bin ich aber durch zufall auf die #garmin#fenix#titan#sapphier#solar gestossen. die prognostizierte laufzeit beeindruckte.
auch die ein und andere gesundheits funktion war auch interessant. und sollte ohne app funktonieren.
kurzerhand gekauft 😀
nach tagen der konfiguration / anpassung / optimierung direkt auf der uhr oder per #mobilapp#garmin_connect ,
suchte ich mir per garmin #IQ-Shop ein für mich ansprechendes #display (#ziffernblatt) das ich mit den für
mich relevanten daten bestückte..
alles fein :-)
nun kommts.... ich habe in meinem profil
"was nur per App oder Cloud funktioniert, gehört dir nicht" stehen.
die Uhr schien mir mit den wichtigen funktonen, ohne #app und garmin anbindung zu funktionieren.
da ich zuhause meine #mobil#daten deaktiviere und nachts das wlan auf dem mobil abschalte, (alles automatisch per App)
erwachte ich morgens.... ohne mein neues ziffernblatt...
die uhr erwartet eine datenanbindung an den IQ-Shop. davon war in keinem beitrag in irgend einer form die rede. #zwangsverbindug für ein kostenloses addon?
nee #garmin !
das ist einfach nur schlecht gemacht.
Warum es mich so wurmt und ich euch #Windows-User*innen so vehement darauf aufmerksam mache, dass #Windows11 zur #AdWare verkommt?
(#Microsoft will Werbung auf Betriebssystem-Ebene einblenden, wo die mE absolut nichts zu suchen hat!)
Beispiel:
Du nutzt Deinen Computer um ein persönliches #Tagebuch zu schreiben.
Du vertraust dem Gerät deine persönlichsten, intimsten Gedanken an, die keine andere Person etwas angehen sollen.
Doch dann zeigt Dir Windows genau dazu passende Werbung an.
>> Wie würde sich das für Dich anfühlen? <<
Der Umstieg zu #Linux ist wirklich nicht kompliziert und selbst "Oma Erna" kann damit perfekt zurechtkommen!
Et bien ce week-end j'ai sauté le pas ! J'ai trouvé un bon portable #Lenovo qui tourne maintenant sous #LinuxMint comme un charme ! J'ai récupéré mes fichiers, mes polices et go la mise en page sous logiciels libres ! Bye-bye l'iMac, tu auras bien servi ! (Et c'est mon ado2 qui est trés contente !)
Hello les fedigens ! Je m'adresse tout particulièrement aux #geeks#Linux. Je dois changer mon hdd de partitions de données, j'en profite pour faire une réinstallation totale. Fidèle à #Ubuntu depuis 2007, je voudrais changer, j'aime pas snap et cie. Pour ne pas être trop dépaysé, je pensais à #debian, ou #LinuxMint, kekchose de solide, pas prise de tête, à jour, sous #gnome. Pour un laptop gamer de 10 ans d'âge. Usage : Steam, astrophoto, internet...
Votre avis, autre #distro à conseiller ?
I started out on the fediverse arooooound...I wanna say 2017/18 mebbe? My big start in social media was MySpace. Before that, I had a LiveJournal (which I miss mightily with all my heart). My very first computer was a Gateway PC, back when they shipped them to you in those awesome cow spot pattern boxes. I am trying to de-google my life.
I'm #ADHD and suffer from #dysthymia. I'm currently unmedicated. I can be damned moody at times, so there's your warning.
Religiously/spiritually speaking, I'm complicated. That will be a long post, when I get around to writing it. My general rule is: I have my thing. It's not everybody's thing, and that's cool. Not everybody's thing is my thing, and that's cool. Just don't be a wanker towards those whose thing ain't your thing. OM 🕉
I'm 57 years old and have come to the conclusion that we never truly appreciate the decades we grew up in until we hit middle age.
I'm single and childless, hence my user tag: TheLastOfHisName.
Obligatory yearly toot about #FOSS so I can stay on #Fosstodon 🎉
I saw the other day that German state Schleswig-Holstein is going to switch to fully #FOSS. Which is great and hope it works out for them.
Having set up a fully (F)OSS (desktops, apps, servers, etc) IT env for a large non-profit, might I suggest proper enterprise support instead of a lone coffee-addicted sysadmin who tries to keep systems together with hopes, prayers and duct tape? 🥲
That is not to say that everything was bad. Users liked working with #LinuxMint (still my fav distro), #RocketChat and #NextCloud were popular as well. Zimbra as a mailserver was ok, there were a few complaints about the scheduling tool. #Jitsi worked well, at times. I'm trying to remember the other apps that we used.
We had in-house servers with I believe #Proxmox and #Ubuntu vm's on top, managed by #Ansible. That all worked really well. One or 2 Windows VM's for legacy apps.
Just bought a #DELL 3190 laptop, new for $150 (11.6" screen, 64GB eMMC). It's fully supported on #Linux, and even if it has a Celeron N4120 CPU and only 4 GB of RAM, it'll work fine with #Mint, or #XFCE (and #Gnome/ #KDE if you don't mind some minor lag). Not opening too many browser tabs will ensure that the swap file won't get used too often.
If you're on a tight budget this is a good option, as it also has great battery life too at 10 hours with Linux.
I thought #LinuxMint was previously based on #Ubuntu then switched to #Debian (or planned to at least), but doesn't seem like that's the case since I just read news of upcoming Mint release and that's based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. Unless I'm confusing Mint with the other newbie#Linux distro of choice, #PopOS, which often happens.
Anybody know how financially stable #LinuxMint is? I am considering recommending it to people like my mom as support for #Windows 10 winds down, but looking at their sponsors page looks like they only bring in between $3k and $4k per month. That's not a lot of money for several developers to maintain an entire operating system. What happens if they lose one of the 2-3 big sponsors they have? Does the whole project cave or just stop getting timely #security updates?
" In Ubuntu 24.04, Thunderbird was moved to a Snap.
Since we don’t want to ship with Snaps we had to choose between removing Thunderbird from the default software selection or packaging it. We decided to package it.
Thunderbird will continue to be available in Linux Mint 22 as a native .deb package."
One of the helper applications I've discovered recently is Autokey, which accomplishes two important tasks.
First it makes the entry of frequently used phrases quicker.
Secondly it lets me set up keyboard shortcuts for symbols as an alternative to remembering their hex codes.
You can create your own shortcuts, and mine are simple and similar. Typing anz and adding ' to the end immediately outputs Aotearoa New Zealand. Typing 1/4 and adding ' gives me ¼. Etc.