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Hi All: I've been asking a lot of questions about privacy lately. But read this: https://www.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/client-identification-mechanisms Now, is it worth it? Is there any real chance? (for privacy) later While I agree we should all try and protect our privacy to whatever ex...

1.) Sandbox your apps that interact with the Internet - especially you browser with firejail 2.) Lock down your router which is much more vulnerable than your linux machine 3.) Forget AV software - they are dangerous - they have admin privileges on your machine and all of the major ones have been ha...

Took that road several years ago and now I am getting ready to uninstall my Windows 10 VM I used to update my Garmin nuvi - that was it. There are so many alternatives to in car navigation these days the Garmin is obsolete, at least in my case.

Partner I've been using Linux for like some 2 years. I don't think the trouble will be gone. For that to happen It would probably take thousands of hours of painful Linux studies. There is just soo much more software for windows. I don't even know why I'm using Linux. Why should I stick to it?? Giv...

as always - - YMMV as each machine is different - for some reason. :mrgreen: what I've always done, is to use an separate /home,, /root,, swap partition(s). & then perform an Clean Installation - - the /root does get overwritten: but the /home files do get updated & also kept intact, as an general ...

OK here are my bullet points
> Dont't change the forum site
> Don't change the Linux Mint main site (OK fix the broken link)

I've just spent 2 days trying to set up simple file sharing between 2 home Linux Mint computers.Yes, I konw, smb.conf is very easy. When you edit it every day and don't forgot what to do when distro have no gksudo. Got GKSU working on 19 a while ago because I like Leafpad and MUST be able to gksudo...

HOOOAH! outstanding -this is exactly the solution that was needed - easy to use and works perfectly. I have been playing with editing the xselcd.service to get different timings to clear the clipboard depending on the task at hand and it cumbersome. This applet is a lot better than having to edit -t...

I would really like to do this - like I guess most folks I to have lost someone close, my brother, to cancer. I have downloaded the .deb packages but they all fail to install - somehow I can see the viewer but I cannot configure FAH all the fields are empty. Any suggestions on how to get this workin...

If you have Cinnamon DE you could try this:
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And just for fun , adding these two hooligans blocks Youtube from serving ads r2---sn-cu-h5oz.googlevideo.comr r5---sn-cu-h5oz.googlevideo.comr You still get an interruption while Youtube shows a static page , whining about how important ad revenue is to them adding those hooligans now, thanks for ...

Call the cops

Firejail is a fine sandboxing application, ideal for your web browsers: https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/sandbox.html You might find this article interesting, that I've written about security in Linux Mint: https://easylinuxtipsproject.blogspot.com/p/security.html Firejail makes a lot of...

I don't know where the OP went because this solves his issue as well as mine in that your solution is automated. Automation is the key element otherwise I have a hot-key which is not the solution. I have several very basic scripts I run in cron just for security/house cleaning - one that cleans out ...

I think it is good advice not to just go and un-install programs that you "think" you don't need. The reason I say think you don't need is because of the "dependency" thing - removing a program you think you don't need may end up removing a shared package or library for something you do need - so un...

Personally I thought the "anti-linux" was a clever touch <sarc.>. Gee who would have thunk the Linux Mint Forum was anti-linux? I also like the "anti-human" aspect as well. I really think the only decent thing to do is for the person who came up with this anti-human, anti-linux password policy shoul...

Thank you so much rene - you are a good teacher. This is perfect I really learned a lot and the and the DISPLAY Environment variable is becoming just a little bit more clear. I set the interval to 60 for now, 10 seconds was a tad too short for me - 600 is over-kill and way too long and makes little ...

You are right the cron approach although automatic is annoying in that if copy near the end of the cycle it is gone too soon - and you have to copy again. The systemd user daemon would be ideal and very slick so I am game. I have the dependencies build-essential and libx11-dev packages installed and...

HOOOOAH!!! rene That works - been trying to solve this for over a year - researched it some and went back to it a few times but but could never figure it out or find an answer. Then the OP brought up the same issue in this tread and BINGO you solved it.

THX much.

It is missing the DISPLAY environment variable when run from cron. Just give it its display directly by adding -d :0 to the xsel command. Still not executing from cron - kicks off but does not clear the clipboard. #!/bin/bash #clear the clipboard, primary and secondary selections echo "Cron ran cle...