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Well ChromeOS is officially the worst operating system I have ever seen in my life, worse even than Windows 8 and 10. It has almost no programs and no way to install any. Whoever made this sorry thing should be publicly flogged and banned from touching a computer for the rest of their lives.

Pretty sure it's Intel, since there's a sticker on it that says so. I'm not sure how to check since there's no terminal emulator and I'm not sure if it's actually shutting down completely when it does so - there's no boot screen where you can poke around. edit I tried logging into a gmail account an...

Doesn't appear that there's a terminal emulator. How does one install or run a program on a chromebook? I need to sha256sum the Mint image and burn it to a flash drive.

You're right, I found the half-remembered post I was looking for on 7chan's Thrifty Living stickied thread. The author described rooting old Android devices and installing AOSP compiled with SEAndroid, then selling them on Craigslist instead of getting a real job. It's a shame there isn't a good Lin...

Haven't read the papers you link to at this point but the question that is the topic I am inclined to answer with "perhaps not unlike https://www.rust-lang.org/en-US/ ". Certainly I feel that that a newer systems programming language needs newer and more ingrained parallelism support as perhaps the...

I recently read this paper (PDF warning) which is a response to this paper (again, PDF warning) and various criticisms of C. After reading both of them, I found myself with a lot of questions. 1. What would a language that does C's job better than C look like? 2. How can you make a language more com...

I want to root my phone but I'm not sure what exactly would replace the operating system. What software and drivers are needed to send and receive texts and calls? What role does my service provider play in this, if any? If I root my phone can my service provider still identify my phone such that I ...

Also how do I switch from the navigation pane on the left to the current folder?

And is it possible to change the Mate open file dialog to always start in my home folder or the last opened folder and not with a list of recent documents?

I'm a Java programmer by training, trying to teach myself C. I currently use medit and compile programs manually. What are my options for debugging a C program and inspecting the state of variables at various times?

I should explain that my facebook accounts are disabled quickly because during the last election I spent a lot of time forcefully debating people. I assume that my identity as a user of Linux Mint on a 64-bit architecture running Pale Moon with a specific list of add-ons gives me away very fast. I n...

Every time I make a facebook account it is disabled within a few days. I need to contact people via facebook who have no other means of contact. 1. Is there an add-on which allows me to specify the exact user agent for specific sites? 2. Is there an add-on to block facebook widgets on other sites so...

What open source CAD software exists? What are the merits of each? Which have online tutorials/courses?

I mean how can I change the text string for the date?

How do I change the date and time format for the mate clock applet?

LMDE2 64-bit, Mate edition.

My brother-in-law lives in our garage and I can't kick him out (yet). He refuses to contribute anything to the household. All he does is sit in the garage and play games on the internet. What can I do to ban his devices from our wireless network, throttle his connection, make his connection less rel...

Why is pulseaudio the only process that's high priority?

Yeah I remembered to do that after it crashed, but the crash is the uh more interesting problem.

LMDE2, Mate, 64-bit.

LMDE2, Mate, 64-bit.
Caja 1.18.3

I usually disable sound preview, but I didn't this time. I moused over a music file, causing the preview to start. It's been looping ever since.

MintBean wrote:Your requirements are really niche, plus Mint is defined as being targeted at desktops and laptops, not tablets so again your use case is niche.

I said I use laptops, not tablets. This is a touchpad:

http://i.imgur.com/keIPeGS.jpg