I’ve sailed the seven seas traveled to different countries for old pimsler cd rips and just talked to people because I can’t be arsed to leave my house

They’re very fun chatting along with alone on my commutes

I have a need for more Scottish accents in the movies I get recommended :<

Reading is underrated. Definitely read a book often, front to back. I only made it through two books this year after over 10 years without, and… it was definitely harder than I remembered ;^.
Paradox Hotel by Rob Hart was a fun sci fi ish romp :u

You won’t believe how exasperated I am evry fucking day working for a boss with shit for brains reading comprehension - but I digress

Tl;dr, bc linux is based

I got a steam deck when it came out. The desktop side was really cool, and all my games ran great on it.

Soon after, I finally bought my (former) dream pc case & decided with my next pc build I wanted linux because… it felt like the cool thing to do. With the steam deck, linux seemed just cool-new and easy to use. I couldn’t imagine not being able to solve any problems on a well-established distro with just patience and google-fu.

So I had mint and two flavors of fedora on flash drives and couldn’t for the life of me figure out how to enlarge my cursor on either fedora version. On mint cinnamon, I found the setting right away. I’ve been on mint since and haven’t looked back.

Pretty rarely, I get the question, why tf are you using linux? My answer is pretty much “cause I think it’s based? Plus I get to learn more about computers along the way anytime something doesn’t work.”

Toxic coworkers

Does the laptop have any Fn key perhaps? In case all your F keys are set to media keys.

The stars! They are not in position!

I used to be able to point to ling’s cars as a holdout of fun web page design, but they’ve changed v.v

https://web.archive.org/web/20110108151026/https://www.lingscars.com/

Me, finding out this exists after buying a used sff HP pc and wondering why it won’t display out to any new monitor unless I unplug and plug the power cord: 💀

Luckily (or not so luckily), I was able to turn off the HP “security feature” from the bios. The pc came from a former school fleet of sff pcs

Wdym by mobile?

I almost went into the low voltage field, but realized with a bit of job shadowing that my commutes could be unpaid and unpredictable between changing jobsites. I guess that depends on the employer, and goes for any construction-related trade.

I remember hearing somewhere, and believe, “a person can do a bad thing, but that doesn’t make them a bad person.”

Know where can I find a breakdown of the symbolism behind the intro?
For me, it’s hard to watch. I feel like I got bungeed down into the deepest depths of the bottomless Uncanny Valley, coming back up covered in oily black ooze, but I look down at its just my hands, my clothes, my normal skin. I think I’d appreciate it more if I knew what and why what was going on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HY-2mMcq9Y

Wish I knew where to watch this documentary. I remember it being a fun watch

Where did you download krita from?

*glances over at my newpipe subscription list*

Yeah, I think you’re right

Were you able to move on from the interim fix with “safe graphics” btw?

I’m stopping by only at this time cause I came in from your “get better at [arch]” post.

Have you checked if your BIOS has some proprietary stuff that restricts it to use only particular hardware? If nah, ignore me, my bad.
Not the same situation but similar - I bought a former school desktop pc & had blank display issues. The pc wouldn’t accept using a different hdmi cable other than the first one I’d ever booted it up with - and even then, it would hang on the mobo logo. No one said turning off secure boot was a fix, but suggested it often enough that I checked the bios anyway. Lo and behold, there were multiple proprietary “security” features (not secure boot) in the bios that only allowed the pc to connect to approved devices or networks. Makes sense for a school/business. I didn’t care to find out how to whitelist “approved devices”, so I just turned off all the BIOS’s fancy security features.

rm -rf /
make computer faster

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Hypnospace outlawwww https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQwQnsarYsY

IS THIS Love Advice From the Great Duke of Hell??

(it’s a webcomic, I loved the story)

TLDR, scroll down to the script. Make a .sh file, allow it to run as a program, set it as your default program to open whatever filetype

Navigate to the appropriate/your favorite folder to store portable applications. Make the below script as a new file called WhateverYouWant.sh
Fellow newbies, the .sh is important.
Then set this .sh file’s permissions to allow executing this file as a Program; may differ by distro.

#!/bin/bash

# Script to set a windows application (that runs through WINE) as the default to open PDF files:

# PURPOSE: To convert Linux-style filename to Windows-style
# to pass as an argument to wine when starting PDF XChange Viewer
Filename="z:"${1//\//\\}

# Assuming you use the default installation folder for PDF
# XChange Viewer in Wine
App='eval wine "C:\Program Files\Filepath\To\Your\PDFXEdit.exe" "'$Filename'"'
$App

# Adapted originally from:
# http://sodeve.net/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/
# Archive.org'd at: \https://web.archive.org/web/20160918205551/http://sodeve.net/2007/12/foxit-reader-on-ubuntu-linux-through-wine/
# Additional credit in 2024:
# https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=153092
# https://web.archive.org/web/20150213210206/http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?pid=173574#p173574
# https://web.archive.org/web/20150213210203/http://www.fsavard.com/flow/2009/03/pdf-annotation-under-linux-with-wine-and-pdf-xchange-viewer/

You can also check the appropriate windows-formatted filepath with Winetricks, using its built in windows File Explorer, finding your .exe, and copying the path starting from "C:".
[Edit: the default install folder in the script would normally be C:\Program Files, my bad. I downloaded the portable version and shoved it wherever, so my filepath looks like “C:\users\Froggy\Documents\PDFXchange test01\PDFXEdit.exe”]

Mint Cinnamon 21:

• right click your shell script file, Properties > Permissions > check on “Allow executing file as program”.
• Then find a PDF file (or whatever filetype), right click, Open With > ‘Other Application…’ > browse for this .sh file you just made.
• After selecting this .sh file, be sure to select “Set as default” before clicking OK.

I could not tell you for the life of me why this didn’t work with a .desktop file on Mint 21.

I spent the past few hours down the wrong rabbit holes with .desktop and exec=wine ‘filepaths’ and just about died of asphyxiation from absolutely nothing happening. I’ve been wanting to do the same thing too for a while, but decided that right before bedtime was the perfect time to look it up.
[Edit: I figured out spacing in the script. Also moved the Mint specific instructions down the comment for flow clarity]