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Mx Phibb

Just a sometimes grey muzzle poking at this net thing

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  • If someone's willing to bankroll him, he could, but I don't think he's real popular right now.

  • Typically no, if there's some payment requirement, then yes until the judgement is settled, but he's basically free to start InfoWars2 if'n he wants... And can find the money.

  • How do I pull those up? Yep, I'm one of those, used the GUI as I don't know how to do it from the terminal, plus I'm immensely forgetful

  • Me too, and it sorta has Wayland support, but it's not real good. I also like Cosmic, I think it has a good future ahead of it.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Adding a user?

    Easy one I hope. LMDE5, trying to add a user. According to various sites I checked, it's easy enough, go to control panel, users and groups, click on add, and fill in the details, and bob's your uncle... Except that it didn't work, still just the one user on the log in screen. Tried giving the new user the same permissions as the current one, no dice, have also rebooted, and nothing. So, either I missed something, or the system isn't behaving, but either way, I could use a hand with this, thanks.

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    Did you hear about the new illusionist and rapper?

    No? Well, keep an eye out for a Poof Daddy show in your town

  • This sabotage is why I keep saying that third parties need to be realistic and stop focusing on the Presidency, instead focus on the jobs that make the laws, the ones that can remove the barriers for third parties while demonstrating why they're the better party.

  • Prolly Lower Decks, though I don't watch it, I'd be rather surprised if'n they don't have the worst technobabble when it'd be funny

  • Mint has a Debian version if'n you want to stay Debian

  • FedEx is so very complicated, FXG isn't union, Federal Express is, IIRC something to do with them being under FAA authority. Not sure about FedEx Freight, FedEx LTL or FedEx Expediting. And that's just part of the mess of the company. As to the name thing, that was started by RPS, FXG's predecessor, and was a single contractor buying a route from RPS, with RPS supplying vans and uniforms much the way Amazon does with their companies, but it's entirely possible that some of those drivers bought multiple routes and formed up their own little company, or that FXG followed in Amazon's footsteps and switched to contracting with companies rather than individuals.

  • Amazon upped it here by hiring courier companies, even helping to found them, with really bad contract deals, rather than hiring individual contractors like companies had before this.

  • Amazon is particularly good at thinking up ways to avoid responsibility, they own no vans, employ no drivers, have no planes nor employ any pilots, and they don't own any tractors and don't employ any truck drivers.

  • Did they change? I worked for them as a sorter before they were FedEx Ground, and at that time it was similar, each driver was a contractor with FXG, but after the lawsuit (dunno what happened with that), and seeing how successful the scam was for Amazon, I wouldn't be surprised if'n they changed.

  • I'm not surprised it won't be an electric Maverick, I don't think they're ready to make a new version, and the current chassis I don't think would work for a BEV, though I'm surprised they haven't made a PHEV version, as the chassis is shared with the Escape IIRC which has a PHEV version or at least had one.

  • I wish they'd make an extended cab version of the Maverick, but I suppose the inability to keep up with demand is a large part of why they haven't.

  • Are you talking why for the user, or why it was developed? The main reason it exists is that System 76 like the Gnome desktop, but didn't like stuff Gnome was doing, so they decided to make their own version from scratch in Rust. For a user, I don't think there's any real compelling reason to use it, especially not right now, unless you love Rust, or have the same feelings about Gnome that S76 did.

  • I've been running it on my Asahi linux for a bit over a week, and while it comes off feeling a bit bare bones, I've had no stability issues despite it being an alpha, in fact all issues I've had are minor, in fact the biggest issues come from Asahi Linux, not Cosmic.

  • Thanks, should've know that was the problem. Meh, no matter, wired is easily an option.

  • I think the browser issues are just Firefox, I suspect it isn't playing nicely with Wayland or they haven't figured it out, as tabs aren't draggable, but there's a move tab menu choice. Also right click doesn't work right, I forgot to mention that, right clicking on a link opens in a new tab and switches you to it, even if'n you don't have that on. As to the keyboard, the layouts section is completely missing in Cinnamon's keyboard menu, and some research online came back that there's no way to change the layout, apparently it was overlooked by the Wayland project.

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    Asahi Cinnamon

    Seeing as how I don't like either Gnome or KDE, though I did give KDE a try, I decided to switch to Cinnamon. Yes, that picture looks odd, I'm short on monitors that'll fit on the space I have left on my desk, so I'm using an old Dell with a 4:3 ration thanks to an HDMI to VGA converter. Some how there's dust in the display though, which is really annoying. Not much to say, if'n you've used Linux Mint, this should look rather familiar, it's just lightly customized at this point, it'll get more, and it works as you'd expect. Yes, this is the X11, and you're supposed to use Wayland. Funny thing about that, this is rock solid, whereas with Wayland I had a bunch of silly problems, can't drag tabs in Firefox, menu glitches, and no keyboard customization. General problems are minor, boot is real slow, I mean real slow, and Sat's update broke wireless, but I'm only feet from my gateway, so wired it is. Overall this works real nice, basically Mint running on an M1 iMac.

  • Indeed, this would be nice to see. For me, the problem is really that LightBurn is over kill, for a cheap basic machine, you really don't need half of what it offers. Heck, I'd love to see an Android software for lasers, and am surprised that hasn't happened yet.

  • This, it seems like they forgot the original intention as shown in DS9, it's not an official organization nor anything approaching it, it's basically just a long standing group carving hiding in Starfleet justifying doing what they want by pointing to a paragraph in the Constitution... Sovereign Citizens with phasers and photon torpedoes anyone?

  • Apparently one bad performance, a performance that has little to do with the actual job, is enough to get him fired? Yes, yes, I know, he's stumbled, he's not perfect, but is anyone? I find the whole response to be sus as hell, and more than a bit racist. One debate and their willing to dump him? This sounds more like a paid attack on Biden fronted by sell out Democrats than a real response. And the rather noticeable lack of suggesting the VP, a black woman, takes over sounds more than a little bit racist. Why not bring Harris up? Give her a bigger more visible role in the administration and the campaign? Show whether or not she's up for the job? Essential let the American people test drive her as a president.

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    Updating permissions on Firefox for Android

    I'm getting an alert that BitWarden needs a new permission on my devices, but can't figure out how to do that, clicking on the alert simply opens Firefox and I can't find anything in settings or add ons, so how does one do this?

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    Thumbs down on Floorp

    Which is a shame as it's a really nice fork of Firefox. That picture doesn't do it justice, you can see the three row tab bar that expands only if'n there's enough tabs, nor the hide away bookmarks toolbar.

    So why the thumbs down? Well, for starters it ate all my settings, I closed it, realized I'd forgotten to do something, reopened it, and default. If that were it, that wouldn't be so bad, but while installed Firefox wouldn't work, At first it was some minor glitchiness, but when I closed Floorp and went to use Firefox to research the problem and what the solution is, my three home tabs didn't open, and the one tab that didn't showed Tumblr but the browser displayed the Firefox new tab window, as did any other tabs I opened, it was completely unresponsive.

    Really it's a shame, because Floorp is a really nice browser, and the customization is great, not just for eye candy, the vertical Thunderbird like toolbar gives easy access to things you need, the hide away ( like your taskbar c

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    Knock Knock

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    Closing Time

    Y'all might've noticed the lack of posts here. Near as I can tell, this has never successfully Federated beyond Lemmy which kinda defeats the purpose, so I've moved it over to it's own account on Mastodon, [email protected] rather than it's original form which was as a subsection of [email protected]

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    Linux @lemmy.ml
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    Linux Hijinks

    So, like I needed any more projects or any more computers, but I bought a receipt printer and two POS terminals. Both are Celeron J1900 I think at 3Ghz, 128G hard drive and I'm not sure of the memory. All that cost me a whopping $45, so how could I resist? Right now we've got the POSBANK unit working, you can see me updating LMDE 6 on it, and the touch screen does work fine. That was something that worried me and led to me originally trying unsuccessfully to get Endeavour on it, I figured the vast Arch repository would surely have drivers, but that didn't work, so I went with LMDE. Originally the Bank wouldn't boot from USB, so that led to a little bit of creativity to get it installed, but that worked. And then I realized that I'd installed LMDE 5, so I decided to re-install with 6...

    And borked something. That's when I figured out how to boot from USB, had to tweak something in the BIOS. It works fairly well except for an issue with GRUB I've never seen before, it not only doesn't

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    Firefox @lemmy.ml
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    Surfing with Floorp

    floorp.app Floorp

    Floorp is built on Firefox and was built in Japan and is a new browser with excellent privacy & flexibility.

    So, downloaded this a while ago, and decided to give it a try, and.... Well, if'n you asked me last year, I would've given it a thumbs up, but this year, not so much. I'm on LMDE, and it's only available as a FlatPak, with a choice of one.ablaze.floorp V11.4 or Floorp Lightning V11.7. Considering that their site says 11.7 is current, it made sense to switch. Their big claim to fame is the customizability of the browser, and I'd've agreed with you last week when I was running 11.4, I had the bookmark bar at the bottom, and the tab bar under the toolbar. Problem is that yesterday I realized (yeah, dunno how I hadn't noticed for hours) that those were back in the standard FireFox locations, so I went to fix it... Ummm, those customizations seem to be gone. Other problems do seem to be fixed, in the old version, you'd click a link, and nothing would happen for seconds, and then suddenly the new page was there. Some of my log ins don't seem to stick, which is annoying. Over all though, it

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