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Maybe some of you have examples of things that you did to attack the clutter, or at least put and end to its growth. Absolutely. I stopped caring about it. I think that is a reasonable approach. To elaborate, could keep just a very small percentage of things, or have a reasonably effective way of s...

This is nothing digital-specific. If you always put your keys in the same place you never have to search for where you put them. Some of my difficulty is that there are kind of multiple places for things. For example, investments and taxes intersect. So, I'd have separate folders for those but the ...

I am starting to feel overwhelmed with my digital life. I have programs installed outside of the main repository, I have virtual machines, I have previous computers that I used before going full blown Linux. This might not be so Linux specific but I'm feeling like I have files and configurations all...

So, please cease the vague political posturing and explain in concise detail what a VPN can do for the average user. Inquiring minds want to know. When you don't want your ISP/ a big tech company/ the website owner knowing your every move. Examples: You want to be hired by one of these places & you...

The operating system and a VPN are two very different things. Whether or not you need a VPN has nothing to do with what operating system you use. I respectfully disagree. The two do have some relationship. Some operating systems are probably very not private. Perhaps the software on them compounds ...

Show us the output of command groups which will need to show that you, as user belong to vboxsf. See https://askubuntu.com/questions/984588/how-to-add-an-existing-user-to-an-existing-user-group-and-verify-it-is-added for info about how to add users to groups. When you say that I need to be part of ...

I have a lot of papers that I would like to scan. I was having some problems with my current printer so I recently purchased an HP Envy Photo 7855, which is an all-in-one printer. I am unhappy with the file size when I create a scan using the web interface. I am using these settings: 1- black (not c...

The bidirectional clipboard is not working Host is Linux Mint 19.1 Cinnamon Guest is Linux Mint 19.1 Mate Another guest that I have installed in VirtualBox (on the same host) is Windows 10. In that virtual machine, bidirectional clipboard DOES work. I do have guest editions installed on both virtual...

When I try to drag the dialogue box up, once I release the mouse, it repositions to where it started. Did you try holding down the Alt key while dragging the dialogue box? That's what's supposed to do what you're trying to do. Also, is that full screen mode as Neil says? (As opposed to an active wi...

I am trying to set it to higher resolutions but I don't think it's working. I think that right now I have it set to 1920x1080 (this is the virtualscreen1 setting in virtual box). The reason that I say that I *think* that that's what it's set to is because the icon indicating that that's the one sele...

In the past, I have tried to adjust the resolution the way in which you would do it if it was not a virtual machine. Later, I realized that there is some way to do it using the virtual machine software (Oracle). I guess I am supposed to do it through the Oracle virtual machine software? When I drag ...

Sorry, but I cannot tell what's missing from the tiny screenshot. It looks like a complete Windows desktop. Could it be that you have VirtualBox in full screen mode? If so, the VirtualBox control panel will be a drop down menu at the top rather than across the bottom of the VM window. Thanks and so...

Part of the virtualbox display area is cut off. How do I get to the button that's available at the bottom of the dialogue box (in the Windows virtual machine).

You're fine on both accounts. the amd64 tag tells apt to only use the 64bit version. Omitting that tag on a 64bit system will still install the 64bit version. and 19.1 is built on bionic. Ok, I knew it was based on Bionic. I used Bionic for a very short while before this. I miss the large "X" butto...

I am seeing here https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads That I am to run this command for Debian based Linux distributions: deb [arch=amd64] https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian <mydist> contrib 1. When I ran the command, I didn't put "[arch=amd64]" at the beginning. I was foll...

Ah yes, since that's the cdrom, if your installation is working well and connected to the internet. It is indeed safe to remove that line if you want. But it doesn't hurt to leave it commented out. Maybe first remove it from the Update Manager GUI (it's not currently checked off as enabled and ther...

Thanks. Looks like it's actually commented out. I didn't notice before but when I expand xed (text editor) to be very wide, it shows on the previous line, which is commented out. #deb cdrom:[Linux Mint 19.1 _Tessa_ - Release amd64 20181217]/ bionic contrib main non-free Also, in update manager GUI, ...

I see this line in my sources.list file (etc/apt/source.list): bionic contrib main non-free What does that mean/ what's it for? I remember that when I installed Linux Mint, it asked the question if I want to install non-free software. I think that I answered yes to that question but I don't remember...

I'm not sure why you need to uninstall it at all but why not create a system snapshot using Timeshift to roll back to once you're done with the printer? Seems easier than setting up an entire VM just for that. But then you have to remember not to make any other changes to your computer (or otherwis...

I am installing Linux Mint Mate 19.1 64 bit as a guest on a Linux Mint Cinnamon 19.1 64 bit host. My motivation for this is that I want to install some a printer and not have to worry about figuring out how to uninstall it later. I have done a lot of searches and viewed a lot of instructional materi...