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Sounds like it will be the Windows 11 of the Linux world.

Why Loan Cannon - why?

If the class can be done remotely, then maybe the textbooks can be accessed online as well? This seems like mall cop bull dookey....

I always wondered why I never received a notification on a new post. I enabled notifications in the user panel, but that was only step one as I figured out this morning. At the bottom of the forums is a checkbox for notifications. I clicked it and was informed I was now subscribed to the forum. Did ...

I haven't bought anything Intel since the Pentium 100. Its been all AMD since.

That was a trip back in time. My first computer forum. The off topic portion could get intense.

I've been retired since June 2018. We do a lot of camping and my online presence is done through Samsung phone and tablet. So I really don't visit the forums much. I spend more time on Youtube watching ...

I don't get out much either. My first two camping trips this year were canceled due to the campground being underwater... Then my diesel truck broke down to the tune of ~$5500. I loved being a forum rat, but time is limited now. Imagine being retired and having time issues. :) That's what grandkids ...

It wasn't that they were removed - they were invisible! They still worked even though they couldn't be seen. Just had to hover until the right one was covered. Just doing it blind. Was blind, but now I see.

Fixed TB just now. I have no clue how I hid the titlebar to begin with. Just goes to show I can break anything....

Everything else has normal behavior. Looking around, I accidentally saw Titlebar and clicked it. All buttons are back in Firefox. Now I have to do the same and find it in Thunderbird....

Just noticed the Min, Max, and Close buttons are invisible on Firefox and Thunderbird. They still work, but you can't see them, and they are spaced closer together. I can't seem to find anything in settings. Maybe this is now natural behavior?

I can use the taskbar but I'm a creature of habit. Why ...

Fixed!
I reinstalled the old binary and simply did a symlink from libFLAC.so.14 to libFLAC.so.12. I need to just pay attention. It first complained about no libFLAC.so.12. My bright idea about rebuilding led to my grief.

Thanks!

I was going to play some extremetuxracer, but it errored out. It couldn't find libFLAC.so.12. I tried to rebuild it, but then it said no OpenGL libraries found.

I found this after the command:

root@darkstar:/home/michael# ls /usr/include/GL
freeglut.h freeglut_ucall.h glew.h glut.h glxext.h ...

I'm on 6.14.0 with the nouveau driver. All is well for my little needs. It is the distro kernel. Just wanted to see if the open source driver would be good. I'm getting lazy also.

This will be my favorite reply to knuckle heads.

I did not like the 2004 ending. Their problems could have been fixed easier than wiping out their whole knowledge base. That was such a letdown.

"Guardrails in place to address ethical concerns." What does that mean? They believe this computer will gain sentience and ask for a body? Voting rights? Maybe it quotes Descartes - "i think, therefore I am".

Been watching Battlestar Galactica clips.....

I had some tires on my pop-up camper that were 17 years old. Tread looked great! I was bringing it home last October and one exploded. Dry rot caught up with me. I only use that camper once a year during fall break. I have a regular pull behind big camper for her and I. That one was for the ...

Yep. The key bindings in System-Settings said it was Meta+Print. I found out that Meta is also known as the Windows Key. But it works just using the PrtScrn key. This was the first time I ever looked at key bindings. Probably won't ever have to look again...

You nailed it G! All is well in the universe once again. I would've been another day or so tracking that.

I tried to run spectacle from a terminal and I got:

spectacle: error while loading shared libraries: libOpenCL.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

That's why the shortcut doesn't work. That's an Nvidia library? Rats.... Got some searching to do. I don't want to go ...

The Spectacle app that KDE uses works through the start menu. I got my screen grab that way. PrtScrn had always worked for years through KDE and Spectacle. I'm wondering if the keyboard has just gone bad. I've been banging on this one for over ten years. Keyboards are not super expensive, so I'll ...

PrtScrn button no longer works in current KDE. I have used it for years and now it is gone. Can't find a solution in Google, and no search has been fruitful. Any ideas?

I just noticed that the Scroll Lock button isn't working either.....All other buttons seem to be working fine. This is an old ...

KPatience is a great game. I've won 10,084 games on Freecell. I know there are at least 8 games unsolvable on Freecell, but I haven't ran into them yet. Sometimes, I have found myself trying to find the right path but not quite making it. I rarely use the hint since it seems like cheating a bit. I ...

Grogan wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 8:39 pm Those games would probably work fine with nouveau. That's old opengl.

You were right. Those old games do just fine on nouveau as well as the Kpatience games. Probably won't do nvidia drivers until I get a new rig with a much newer card. May give amd a whirl this time.

You are absolutely correct. The only gaming I do is on old recompiles of Cube, and 2 versions of Saurbraten. I figure I need those drivers for that. ToxRacer and Tuxcart also for the grandkids. But they are getting older...

I'm actually a bit sorry about that outburst, thinking about it later, but I found him pretty insulting in this video.

If nobody stupid ever uses the computer, Windows 7 is fine for running existing software. The fact that it gets no updates is a bonus.


Less chance for breakage. I really don't ...

Still on 6.12x series. Nvidia won't compile for me....

I rarely correct someone, simply because sometimes the reaction is really severe. Which is why I never discuss politics - even with like-minded folks. It ain't worth it.

Zema Bus wrote: Mon Dec 30, 2024 7:44 am I wouldn't have been surprised since that's the sort of thing he did to John McCain, criticized him for getting captured in North Korea and then, after he died, mocking his permanent disabilities resulting from the torture he endured.

John McCain was shot down over North Vietnam.

I still build kernels occasionally, but I confess to being lazy at times. The last kernel I did was 6.6.1. About time to dust myself off and do it.