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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Does nobody use info?

    So much more in depth than any manpage.

    Granted it doesn’t contain every app installed, but it gives very detailed and very verbose explanations, examplea, options, use cases, caveats, warnings, etc, for all of the most essential commands and functions

    $ info
    

    In the program these are basic commands :

    -I # sets searching to always case insensitive -very necessary (upper case I)
    
    / # search for pattern
    
    n # search forward
    N # search back
    

    You can also search from command line using

    Info -k [pattern]
    

  • Just set up a windows *spits rig for a family member because old. My god the insanity of it all. From untoggling shit to stop ms *spits from spying and toggling other shit to stop ms *spits from spying, and dealing with uefi settings to get it to a level of security without allowing ms *spits to lock it down cost me a full day.

    Then I had to deal with the ridiculousness that is their permission system to let them browse their own files from a different hard drive.

    I love that it also sets up the first user as a full admin and I had to create another account and lock down all the stupid crap that would allow them to destroy everything.

    Just the initial booting was longer than it would have taken me to install and fully set up the mint distro I had ready to install on my USB stick (for the use case they’d be using)

    I was going to set up a server so they could access stuff and watch free stuff on their TV with the old PC, but that will have to wait for another visit.

    Even I was astounded at the length of time it took. I was expecting stupidity but ms *spits has taken it way too far.

    (I did install without any account at all though, and did manage to get full GUI desktop environment Ubuntu running in wsl though, so that was fun - for me)











  • This is exactly how I got into Linux .

    Had some… Life troubles.

    Started over.

    Needed computer.

    Local community employment/outreach/social support place had a volunteer run computer place in the basement (they also had a bike place, and a cafe or two, and some apartments, and they were the best community org ever…).

    100$

    I bought 2 over a couple years.

    I’m pretty sure they had xubuntu.

    Over 10 years later I still have both. And I just put mint 23xfce on one and use it as my living room media player - dvi to HDMI projector.

    I have no need for a lot of stuff. I make work what I can. And I keep it working as long as I can however I can.



  • I got a pixel 9 for $240 CAD via carrier promotion in Canada.

    I held out getting a new phone as long as I could and they offered a new pixel 9 for $5 per month for 24 months

    Not to trade in after 24.

    It’s mine. For 5$ a month.

    When I received it I didn’t turn it on for a week.

    Read as much as I could to decide that Google would only ever see the single boot to enable developer mode and enable OEM unlock to flash graphenos.

    It seemed intimidating, but the process to install is very smooth.


  • You don’t need to click to start if you go to settings > start up apps > click the add button and type proton-vpn as the command and name and click OK. Proton will be added to your autostart folder and you can toggle on/off if you don’t want it to run on boot.

    Some of the window group applets (where your open apps show up on your panel) also allow you to add an app via the right click menu by selecting ‘add to autostart’

    You can also add to autostart by right clicking on the app in the mint application (start)menu.

    Using the proton instructions to add the network manager Wireguard integration script will even allow you to use the option to autoconnect to VPN in the network setting.