eugenia Now • 100%
There's nothing you can do with that one I think, for two reasons:
- MrChromeBox's firmware doesn't support this model. That's the guy's site that tells you how to unlock the bootloader and install the new firmware on it, that allows you to then install another OS.
- It only has 2 GB of RAM. For a better online experience with any modern Linux, you need a minimum of 4 GB. You could install though something like Kodi, or librelec, or some game emulation distro instead of a desktop OS. But without #1, you can't do that either. That's a landfill laptop AFAIC.
eugenia Now • 100%
Answer is here, it was posted the other day: https://lemmy.ml/post/20903038 Instead of beeping as that script does, you shut the PC down.
eugenia Now • 100%
If you're not going to use graphical browsers, like ff or chrome, then get a DELL 3190 (4 gb ram, 64 gb ssd, 1366x768 res). It cost me just $150 as a refurb. I mean, if you don't want to use it as a modern computer (e.g. aaa gaming, video editing, browser with many tabs etc), then it's the perfect device. Image of it: https://mastodon.social/@eugenialoli/112253289106616207
eugenia Now • 100%
As long as your printer is supported, it's not difficult. The problem is that if you need advanced options, like artists need usually, the options aren't there.
eugenia Now • 100%
It was discussed here before: https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comments/15hgmel/what_did_i_screw_up/
eugenia Now • 100%
It has the latest firmware, I wrote about it in the description of the post...
eugenia Now • 100%
Ok, I managed it by myself after a bit of tinkering. This is the bash script:
#!/bin/bash
while true
do
battery_level=`cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/capacity`
battery_status=`cat /sys/class/power_supply/BAT0/status`
if [ $battery_status = "Discharging" ] && [ $battery_level -lt 21 ];
then
/usr/bin/aplay /home/eugenia/Music/alarm.wav
fi
sleep 120
done
Obviously change the path the .wav audio file to suit yours (I downloaded mine from the internet). Then, save the file (in my case, I named it battery.sh), make the script file executable ( chmod +x battery.sh
via the terminal, or via the file manager).
Then add it to the Startup Applications settings panel on your distro (usually gnome and cinnamon have one). The alarm will sound if the battery reaches below 21%.
eugenia Now • 80%
I'm sure is possible, but I'm actually asking for the exact steps/script, not the general idea. :)
I have installed Linux Mint 22 in a DELL laptop with a buggy ACPI implementation (the kernel complains about it during boot). The laptop hangs if it goes to sleep (I tried various Linux distros/kernel-versions, the result is the same). Because of that, I have disabled SLEEP in the firmware (latest version for that laptop btw). So basically, when you close the lid, nothing happens (it just locks the screen). However, sometimes you might be in a hurry and you close the lid to do something else, and then you forget about it. The result would be for the battery to run dry, which eventually destroys the battery. My question is: what would be the best way to setup an audible alarm if the battery reaches 20%?
eugenia Now • 100%
I use sheet paper to be honest on an Epson printer. I do use Gimp to print, although most of my editing is happening on Photopea in the browser (gimp didn't cut it for me as an editor for my paintings, I needed adjustment layers and Secondary Colors). Then, I export a JPEG, and print from Gimp (because the browser doesn't have all the printing options that gimp has). I use the Debian-Testing rolling release.
eugenia Now • 100%
I was talking about memory usage, not the rest of the stuff. Yes, Fedora uses as much RAM as Ubuntu.
eugenia Now • 100%
Yeah, i hear you. I once installed the new version of snap (and later flatpak) of the gnome ide, and it couldn't find the vala compiler, because it was outside the sandboxing. Totally useless.
And yes, it's bloated. Nothing works with less 1.6 gb of ram. But then again, it's the same on fedora.
eugenia Now • 93%
I don't like snaps (nor flatpaks for that matter, they're too big for my slow internet connection here in my Greek village). But I find it absolutely, 100%, crazy to install gimp and darktable via snaps, and not being able to print (the print option is just not there, because they're snaps and somehow they haven't implemented that for these apps). As an artist who sells prints, this makes the whole distro completely and utterly USELESS to me. Sure, they can be found as deb packages too, but they're older. And Firefox is also sandboxed. And when I installed Chromium from the command line as a deb, it OVERWROTE my wish, and installed Chromium as a snap too.
So, no ubuntu for me. The only advantage it has is that many third party apps (usually commercial ones) that release binary tarballs or appimages have tested with ubuntu and they usually work well (minus davinci resolve). I don't have a big trouble with appimages as they're generally smaller than the kde/gnome frameworks that flatpaks/snaps use, and they're one file-delete away from getting rid of them completely. They're just more straightforward.
eugenia Now • 100%
Debian-Testing (Trixie) is the way to go. It's a rolling release, but it's very stable, because packages end up there after being tested in Sid (their unstable rolling release). Whatever makes it out of Trixie, ends up on the normal Debian. I've been running it since April without any breakages.
eugenia Now • 100%
It's in the debian repos, i installed it, but it doesn't show up in the xfce applet list. As for the gtk/wm themes linked abov, they're not downloadable apparently from the website they're linked.
eugenia Now • 100%
But how do you put the menu bar in the panel? I don't see any such xfce plugin anywhere, neither you're mentioning it. That's the stickiest point trying to emulate Mac.
eugenia Now • 100%
There are various tools (2-3 of them) but they're all different ones and don't work with eachother. Usually, a parent needs an easy to use panel to set screentimes, blocked sites, and which apps are allowed or not (and possibly a checkbox to allow the games subcategory every weekend). But all these tools, while exist, are separate and difficult to either install or make work properly.
I recently did a bug report at Linux Mint to create such an admin panel. While this was a feature request, I presented it as a bug, arguing that because of Mint's unique position as a "home" or "first" distro to new users, its absence is more like a bug. To my surprise, the creator of Mint, while not replying anything additionally, he assigned it a bug status, as if he agreed with the argument. So we might see something like it on Mint, but not for a couple of years yet... By that time you might not need it anymore, but I believe it'll come eventually to Linux too.
eugenia Now • 100%
For DaVinci Resolve, you will need an nvidia gpu, even their amd support is half-ar3ed, and intel doesn't work at all (they don't support it under linux, while they do on windows). So you need to decide if you're going to use resolve, or kdenlive (that works with everything, since it's not really accelerated -- it's slower (their acceleration is buggy)). However, if you're going with nvidia, you will probably experience problems on the everyday desktop. So I'd suggest an amd gpu and cpu possibly.
Alternatively, just get a refurbished Dell laptop, or an older Zenbook. These usually work great with Linux.
eugenia Now • 100%
Yep, I run these, especially since I have a couple of raspberry pis, that you can't do without these.
Painted with Caran D'Ache gouache cakes
Painted with gouache and some watercolors, colored pencils.
Watercolors and colored pencils
Daler Rowney watercolor
Using Daler Rowney watercolors, on a small sketchbook.
Painted with Daler Rowney watercolors.
Painted with LeFranc Bourgeois gouache paints.
Hi! Thank you for Lemmy! So, when I load the page with Chrome, I'm always shown as logged out. I have to refresh the page, and then suddenly I'm logged in. I found that this bug exists only on Chrome, on all OSes (Linux, Windows, and Mac), and it exists both on lemmy.ml, and on lemmy.world. But that's not the weird part. The weird part is that when I reload the page, *half of the times*, the username becomes something like "killingcore" or something like that (it doesn't stay On for very long, so I can't read it well) before it changes to "Eugenia". I don't understand what that username is. Is it some kind of security problem? Or some cache, part of the normal code? It's really weird. I noticed that that weird username happens only on lemmy.ml, not on .world. Edit: I reloaded the page a bunch of times to retest, and what I'm reading is something killthrillrope or something like that. And it changes back to Eugenia almost instantaneously. It happens now once every 4-5 reloads of the page. Edit 2: A few hours later, and it now loads this user for half a second before it loads mine: https://lemmy.ml/u/cypherpunks Not only that, but it loads his dark theme for that half second (my default is light theme).
Eugenia
eugenia@ lemmy.mlEx-technologist, now an artist. My art: http://www.eugenialoli.com I'm also on PixelFed: https://mastodon.social/@EugeniaLoli@pixelfed.social