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it is night and my screen is changing from red to normal every 2-3 seconds. You are not the only one. I installed Redshift on my wife's computer and she complained about the same thing and told me to uninstall it. And I agree with the geolocation being unnecessary. There has to be a better way of d...

There is a very common scam used "against" store cashiers which works in a similar way and cashiers are explicitly taught to detect it and not fall for it. I forget the exact details but it is similar in that the customer gives the cashier a bill and then changes his mind and gives her som...

One thing you can try is removing the video card and using the onboard video and see if that is stable. If it is stable then you know the problem is with the video, if still unstable then your video card is not the problem.

I have restarted the system several times and now sbd2 mountpoint shows as "/" which is what I expect and /run/timeshift does not even exist. I still do not understand what happened or why. I understand Timeshift takes a "snapshot" of the system and keeps it somewhere but why wou...

I now have the old 500GB HDD with LM18 and the new 240GB SSD with LM20 and I can boot into one or the other. Everything seems to work fine ... until I find: ~$ lsblk -o name,mountpoint,label,size,fstype,uuid,partuuid | egrep -v "^loop" NAME MOUNTPOINT LABEL SIZE FSTYPE sda 465,8G ├─sda1 /b...

With MS-Windows, in the worst of cases, you could usually tinker with some key in the Registry and put things the way you wanted them. I am sure there is some file somewhere in LM which contains the secret key to deleting the odious star. The question is where. BTW, I just now realized the meaning o...

I assume we are all familiar with the missing dollar riddle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_dollar_riddle I just had a similar real-life situation. I am simplifying the story a lot so it was easier to get confused than it may seem now. But still... With a credit card I was paying monthly for s...

root home and user home are different homes. One is up the street from the other but sometimes are mistaken for each other.

I don't understand why they would at least not give the user the option to delete it.

If it were up to me I would also get rid of "Home" and leave only "File System". I mean, if you display the root file system then Home is right there.

Here you go.

Right under the client min protocol = NT1 line add its server counterpart: server min protocol = NT1 Alright! Wonderful! That did the trick! I will bookmark this thread because I know I will have to refer to it in the future. I truly appreciate all the help you have given me over the years I have b...

Mint 18 and 19 has SMB1 enabled of the server side whereas Mint 20 does not. But I am not having any problem getting Windows shares. The problem is getting Samba shares from Windows. In my searches I did read about the SMB1 issue and added a line to conf which did not solve the problem. net usersha...

With LM18 and LM19,after some initial difficulty I did manage to get Samba working in both directions. Now I have installed LM20.1 and from the LM machine it can access the shares on WinXP (only by IP address or machine name but good enough) but not in the other direction. The WinXP machine can ping...

I went to another forum and it turned out to be extremely simple and it's done.

One of those rare instances where things turn out to be much simpler than expected because normally it is the other way around.

It's supposed to be standard , but there's nothing preventing the incorrect use of a .zip extension, or using the term "zip" to mean something else. Regardless, 7-Zip uses the correct zip standard when it's selected. I do not agree with this characterization because programs and files are...

I have it set to NOT apply updates automatically so I have to apply them manually and I do this whenever is convenient for me. Why would this not work for you? This MAY work for my personal machine, but I'll give you a few reasons why I'm looking for a different /more autonomous/ solution: - it tra...

Well, that was easier than I thought! I didn't even know what I was doing!
Best of luck with Linux Mint and please mark the thread as [solved] in the title.

As you can see "ZIP" is a very loose standard with many versions and implementations and each with their own glitches and bugs. Many formats are like that. They are supposed to be universally valid but in fact they all have their glitches. Right now I am dealing with a TIFF image that prin...

Sorry, I posted my edit to my earlier post after you posted. This thread seems to deal with your same issue: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=53&t=321761 have a look. If you google linux driver "0bda:8179" or linux driver RTL8188EUS you will find many people who have experi...

Have you tried Administration - Driver Manager? -- Never mind. Please post the output of lsusb Your machine has three network adapters: Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Device-2: Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 3168NGW [Stone Peak] driver: iwlwifi v: kernel Device-3: Real...