Does anyone have one of the UniFi UPS units?
If someone has one of the UPS units can you confirm it’s behavior when power is restored? From what I’ve seen / read it does a good job of shutting equipment down but that it can’t / won’t power things back up, even directly attached equipment.
What's a good printer for ASA filament?
Bit of an issue with the site. Hang tight folks.
It’s Time For the People’s House to Bulk Up
This community should be JUMPIN'!
[UPDATE] Bethesda May Shadow Drop The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Remake in April, Reports Claim - IGN
The MAGA revolution is playing with fire
Figures, 30 seconds after I type all of that I figure how the On Screen Keyboard is supposed to work.
At least for me I had to enable the keyboard while in Tablet Mode and then I got a bunch of other options, including the size and layout of the keyboard as well as a “launch when needed” option. I swear, sometimes these things hide themselves from me just so I’ll get frustrated.
I still looking for how to change the scrolling in FF though.
Mint 21 / 22 touchscreen annoyances.
One of my computers is an HP Elitebook X360 1040 G8 (convertible) and I’m happy to report that in Laptop Mode both LM21 and LM22 work perfectly. There’s full control of the normal hardware including the touch screen, good performance, and good battery life. With a couple of exceptions Mint also handles the shift to tablet mode pretty damn well. The keyboard and trackpad are disabled, the keyboard backlight shuts off, and the screen easily changes orientation with rotation. The exceptions though are so fundamental to touch screen use in general though that I feel like I must be missing something?! First and foremost is an on screen keyboard. I know it can be enabled under accessibility settings but when I do that it splashes up a keyboard that permanently fills half the screen. If I close the keyboard window it goes away but I can’t find a way to get it to come back except to unfold the machine and re-enable it again. It may not be possible to make it launch predicatively, although Gnome itself does. [https://help.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/keyboard-osk.html.en] but why isn’t there an icon at the top or bottom of the screen that I can tap to bring it back on demand? The second one is scrolling, especially in Firefox. I know that Grab and Drag is possible because you can do it with the regular Firefox scroll bar but the scroll bar can be difficult to get on because of it’s size and even then the scrolling action is backwards of both iOS and Android. This could could maybe be fixed be enabling gestures but surprisingly gestures don’t have any assignable scroll functionality. I’m really confused by these two issues. They seem so fundamental to how a touchscreen is used, especially the on screen keyboard, that it seems impossible they weren’t addressed year ago. It’s far more probably that I’m missing something obvious, but what?
I tried LMDE "Faye".
I’ve had at least one computer with regular Mint + Cinnamon installed since V19 and it’s always worked well for me. I somehow only learned about LMDE last month and since I’ve previously run Debian I figured I’d give it a shot. I took the drive with my LM22 installation out and installed a brand new 1TB NVME, put LMDE “Faye” on it and YIKES. I’d forgotten how “raw” regular Debian is in nearly everything from Grub to package management and even Cinnamon is somehow less sharp and sort of lackluster on LMDE. The first boot up went okay but trying to swap the nouveau drivers for the Nvidia drivers did not go well at all and somehow ended up with all the fonts and icons broken. I couldn’t figure out how to fix it and decided to simply re-install LMDE from scratch, no big deal. On the 2nd install I started getting AER errors on boot and every time I rebooted I got more of them. At one point the DE locked up entirely and I had to manually power cycle the machine. I couldn’t get to the desktop after because of an endless string of AER errors. In between reboots, while I could still get into the desktop, I was installing updates and while that process was pretty much the same as regular Mint it was also slower, even after changing over to the fastest repositories available. The update manager also didn’t work as well. For instance the first update run said it was complete and wanted a reboot but before I could do that the update manager automatically ran again and it showed me all the updates it had just installed as needing installed again. WTF? After frustrations with the Nvidia drivers, the weirdness of updating, broken desktop environment, and the AER errors I decided to see what would happen if I installed regular LM22. With LM22 on that exact same hardware, including the new NVME, everything works perfectly. No errors, Nvidia drivers installed without issue, updates worked as expected and Cinnamon looks and behaves just like you’d expect. Swapped out the NVME for the original drive that had LM22 on it and it too works just like I’d expect. I’m not running weird-o hardware either; it’s a Gigabyte motherboard and an Intel i5 10700k with 32G of RAM and an Nvidia 2060. No overclocking or performance tweaks. I have no idea what I did wrong, if anything, or why LMDE seems to hate my hardware but for me on that system LMDE is not at parity with regular Linux Mint.
