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by thx-1138
Wed Nov 03, 2021 2:27 am
Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
Topic: Life of Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 extended to a decade
Replies: 4
Views: 2162

Re: Life of Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 extended to a decade

LM 18 has no such luck due to some incompatibility. ...in case it helps / you're still interested in ESM for Mint 18, i still have such in a spare partition as a playground of sorts, and did such yesterday mainly out of curiosity... Indeed, there appear to exist a few gotchas in order to get ESM up...
by thx-1138
Sat Jul 10, 2021 3:17 pm
Forum: Open Chat
Topic: Bit coin mining and climate change.
Replies: 14
Views: 1341

Re: Bit coin mining and climate change.

Also, I think it's something which (by no means exclusively , of course) appeals to millennials and younger, and what that tells me is a lot of the driving force behind this whole thing is people who are not really invested in the status quo (in many ways, not just financially) and think maybe they...
by thx-1138
Mon Jun 28, 2021 5:15 pm
Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
Topic: Why is it dangerous to go on using an LM 18.3 after EOL?
Replies: 32
Views: 2774

Re: Why is it dangerous to go on using an LM 18.3 after EOL?

Please, convince me that and why what I am doing is dangerous. Explain to me, please, what precisely is dangerous. Give me examples perhaps. Why should I assume that using this LM 18.1 in June 2021, 2 months after the end of its supported life, for e-mailing with Thunderbird 78.11.0 and surfing the...
by thx-1138
Sat Jun 26, 2021 3:21 pm
Forum: Chat about Linux
Topic: The Worst Linux Advice
Replies: 71
Views: 6146

Re: The Worst Linux Advice

By the way, every time you're leave the home row to venture off into mouse land, you're drastically slowing down your typing; this is especially problematic when editing text. ...you'll likely already be aware of it's existence, but in case you didn't, pretty sure you'll find it handy to have aroun...
by thx-1138
Fri Jun 25, 2021 11:50 am
Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
Topic: Will Linux Mint ever support wayland?
Replies: 50
Views: 32825

Re: Will Linux Mint ever support wayland?

...can assure you at least that many Mint users will take the global sentiment it expresses to be all they need to go from "new isn't always better" to "new never is better" or, worse still and regrettably much more standard still, to the full inversion "old is always bette...
by thx-1138
Thu Jun 24, 2021 7:28 am
Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
Topic: Will Linux Mint ever support wayland?
Replies: 50
Views: 32825

Re: Mint 20.2 Beta

Xorg is insecure, so anyone concerned about security should be pushing for Wayland. You can demonstrate some of that insecurity using this: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sakaki/Sakaki%27s_EFI_Install_Guide/Sandboxing_the_Firefox_Browser_with_Firejail#Demonstrating_the_X11_Vulnerability If all r...
by thx-1138
Thu Jun 03, 2021 12:00 pm
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Firefox 89.0 update last night and ugh!!!
Replies: 149
Views: 14209

Re: Firefox 89.0 update last night and ugh!!!

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"Trending repositories today"
(i wonder why...ehmm, not really) :mrgreen:

https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix
by thx-1138
Fri Sep 25, 2020 2:05 pm
Forum: Hardware Support
Topic: Lenovo V15-IIL Touchpad and WiFi Not Working
Replies: 5
Views: 2900

Re: Lenovo V15-IIL Touchpad and WiFi Not Working

...there are some partial solutions in the accompanying Ubuntu's bug report,
either via manually overriding the dsdt tables, or even simpler, via a test-kernel.
Regardless, if you don't feel like fiddling around, it shouldn't take much time anymore for such to work.
by thx-1138
Fri Sep 25, 2020 1:44 pm
Forum: Chat about Linux
Topic: RTL8723BS, no wifi, but bluetooth works
Replies: 19
Views: 2795

Re: RTL8723BS, no wifi, but bluetooth works

Any help is very welcome ...as far as i'm aware, RTL8723BS-based wifi has never worked under the SW1-011 model specifically. It has worked with other 'similar' Aspire models in the past though (eg. with manually respinned kernels like Linuxium etc). File a bug report if you want my humble opinion. ...
by thx-1138
Wed Sep 23, 2020 9:35 pm
Forum: Chat about Linux
Topic: AMD seems to be getting its Linux kernel act together
Replies: 4
Views: 578

Re: AMD seems to be getting its Linux kernel act together

...even cooler / extra interesting, is that besides core kernel driver support above, some days later on,
the very same AMD dev, was also kind enough to further add in advance the required pci ids for lm-sensors support.
by thx-1138
Sat Aug 29, 2020 10:06 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Firefox 80.0 and Hardware Acceleration
Replies: 12
Views: 4677

Re: Firefox 80.0 and Hardware Acceleration

smurphos wrote: Sat Aug 29, 2020 3:01 am And yes - I'm getting repeated video playback errors at 1080p in youtube.

Ah well hope it works better in Firefox 81...
...supposedly fixed on 81 & later...
(ie. until 82, personally, i'd still wouldn't really expect it to be entirely glitch-free)... :)
by thx-1138
Thu Aug 06, 2020 11:17 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: libreadline7 segfault
Replies: 2
Views: 491

Re: libreadline7 segfault

...This does not happen if '-lhistory' in not used at compile time. ...not a C / C++ programmer myself (ie. certainly not the one to explain the whys & why-nots, and even more when it comes to explicitly specific cases / libs like above), but i still believe such is indeed the expected behavior...
by thx-1138
Wed Aug 05, 2020 2:17 pm
Forum: Open Chat
Topic: Internet for All, a good or bad thing ?
Replies: 80
Views: 6261

Re: Internet for All, a good or bad thing ?

The internet has provided the uneducated and/or unsalvageably stupid with a global echo-chamber to shout their ridiculous conspiracy-theories and/or other utterances of inferiority-complex into, which it is increasingly and practically hard to shield also the inexperienced from, i.e., children, i.e...
by thx-1138
Fri Jul 24, 2020 12:58 pm
Forum: Scripts & Bash
Topic: Why doesn't mkinitramfs compress ramdisks?
Replies: 14
Views: 1645

Re: Why doesn't mkinitramfs compress ramdisks?

...i used a newer version of 7z above, this likely explains at least partially the difference(s). But admittedly i simply got intrigued as to why file was inconclusive in the first place, and i didn't checked such against all the currently available compression types of initramfs, just gz. What's al...
by thx-1138
Fri Jul 24, 2020 10:16 am
Forum: Scripts & Bash
Topic: Why doesn't mkinitramfs compress ramdisks?
Replies: 14
Views: 1645

Re: Why doesn't mkinitramfs compress ramdisks?

...hint: 7za l /boot/initrd* 7-Zip (a) [64] 17.02 : Copyright (c) 1999-2020 Igor Pavlov : 2017-08-28 p7zip Version 17.02 (locale=en_US.UTF-8,Utf16=on,HugeFiles=on,64 bits,4 CPUs x64) Scanning the drive for archives: 1 file, 60406704 bytes (58 MiB) Listing archive: /boot/initrd.img-5.4.49-050449-gene...
by thx-1138
Mon Jul 20, 2020 8:58 am
Forum: Installation & Boot
Topic: Disable Motherboard Manufacturer Splash Screen on Boot (AFTER GRUB)
Replies: 4
Views: 4208

Re: Disable Motherboard Manufacturer Splash Screen on Boot (AFTER GRUB)

...fbcon=nodefer video=efifb:nobgrt hides the silly logo on my Lenovo laptop during the whole booting process.
You'll likely have to experiment a bit with those two, plus removing quiet splash to achieve what you want there.
by thx-1138
Tue Jul 14, 2020 11:42 pm
Forum: Chat about Linux
Topic: The Linux Programming Interface Book
Replies: 11
Views: 1119

Re: The Linux Programming Interface Book

...Post 5999 is where i personally gave up getting upset / annoyed... :) :mrgreen:
by thx-1138
Tue Jul 14, 2020 11:06 pm
Forum: Hardware Support
Topic: Linux Mint 20 - Touchpad completely unresponsive.
Replies: 12
Views: 2283

Re: Linux Mint 20 - Touchpad completely unresponsive.

Apologies if I came off as rude as that wasn't my intention...Sorry for the long reply... Is there any way the solutions could not be working after reboot as I have an external mouse plugged in during that time? Or is there possibly some combination of installing the synaptics drivers and adding th...
by thx-1138
Tue Jul 14, 2020 6:51 pm
Forum: Chat about Linux Mint
Topic: LM 19.3 with FF 78.0.2, I am feeling much safer now :-)
Replies: 6
Views: 894

Re: LM 19.3 with FF 78.0.2, I am feeling much safer now :-)

karlchen wrote: Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:43 pmTurning around slowly seems to have really triggered the magic. :shock:
On LM 19.3: got a kernel update today.
...slowly, yes, no need for cutting edge...but just how slowly? I'd try 5.4.49 -
and likely give some extra battery life to those Zotacs. :wink: :mrgreen:
by thx-1138
Tue Jul 14, 2020 6:29 pm
Forum: Hardware Support
Topic: Linux Mint 20 - Touchpad completely unresponsive.
Replies: 12
Views: 2283

Re: Linux Mint 20 - Touchpad completely unresponsive.

I have tried every "solution" I've been able to find to no avail... Yeah I've tried this all already... ...you should have clarified what you meant by 'every' and 'all'... we're not aware of your exact past actions / familiarity with stuff around. :) Forget the xorg-synaptics thingy for t...

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