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

  • Asahi Cinnamon
  • 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.

  • 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.

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    Lightburn laser cutting software is killing linux support.
  • 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.

  • The Official Teaser Trailer for Star Trek: Section 31 Is Here
  • 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?

  • Biden rejects growing pressure to abandon his campaign, vows to stay 'to the end'
  • 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.

  • Rivian says no plans to produce vehicles with VW after media report on early talks
  • This, and it's a really smart decision for both, VW has been struggling on the software side, and Rivian is already offering custom software solutions to fleet buyers of their step vans, so now their software people get more work, and Rivian gets more money.

  • Kamala Harris Could Win This Election. Let Her.
  • I'm not real sure how she is on policies, I rarely see anything about her in the news, but even if she's not great now, the bigger question is can she learn, and this would be a good proving ground for that.

  • Kamala Harris Could Win This Election. Let Her.
  • While I am concerned with Biden's performance, but a debate really has little to do with his actual job, so I'm not real worried about his performance. That said, it prolly wouldn't be a bad idea to get her more involved, let her flex her skills in front of voters and such, that way if he does need to step down before or after the election, the voters know his replacement already, and what she can do.

  • Anyone here on a 2nd hand EV? What has the buying/ ownership experience been like so far?
  • Do remember that those were designed from the start to have active cooling, the Leaf wasn't, in fact it's a great example of a lack of foresight between the lack of active cooling and the Chademo plug.

  • GM claims its new Chevy Bolt EV will be the most affordable on the market by 2025
  • What's the difference between pedantic and accurate? Mine was good enough, and yours was accurate.

  • Anyone here on a 2nd hand EV? What has the buying/ ownership experience been like so far?
  • Cost isn't the only factor to adding a cooling loop, there's a good chance that they'd have to make room in the pack for the cooling system, which means either a bigger pack or a less powerful pack. As to cost, have to engineer the radiating, plumbing, plumbing mounting, computer controls for the cooling system, and of course the radiator needs good airflow which might require a redesign of the front end, and the charger port is there, so that might need moving which requires more engineering. It snowballs easily.

    I actually agree, we leased our Leaf because we wanted an inexpensive electric car, and this was at the height of the Bolt battery mess, so that really only left the Leaf, but we weren't dumb enough to buy it, use it during it's best years, then give it back and let it be someone else's problem.

  • Anyone here on a 2nd hand EV? What has the buying/ ownership experience been like so far?
  • Possible, unlikely though below the level that would make any ICE vehicle an insurance write off too, so no real reason to worry about that unless you plan on regularly driving through flooded roads

  • Anyone here on a 2nd hand EV? What has the buying/ ownership experience been like so far?
  • I think much of the Leaf's lack of innovation was due to price, the goal was for it to be an everyday car in looks, operation and price, and that last one means it'd never be very profitable, at least not for a long time, so updates just weren't feasible. A good question is how does the Arriya compare to other brands EVs, since that's their newest most modern vehicle.

  • GM claims its new Chevy Bolt EV will be the most affordable on the market by 2025
  • Not real surprising, as I understand, all their electric vehicles are basically variants on the same vehicle, whether you're talking a BrightDrop van, Silverado electric, Equinox EV or the upcoming Bolt, economies of scale and all that.

  • Jeep is launching a $25,000 EV in the US ‘very soon’ to revamp the rugged SUV brand
  • With the catalog of products they have to base it on, I have no doubts they can do it, but I do have doubts to reliability and Jeepness, it'll prolly just be another cheap electric crossover that could be mistaken for any other out there

  • Kia is testing an electric pickup in the US that looks like a Ford F-150 Lightning
  • Could I get a practical truck? I'm a courier, I need seating for one, good cargo capacity and good range. I'd buy a Maverick if'n they offered it in a extended cab, I mean with how many plants make that chassis, I can't see why they can't offer an extended cab targeted at the business market.

  • Updating permissions on Firefox for Android
  • Especially as it's easy to do on the desktop

  • Updating permissions on Firefox for Android
  • Try a reboot afterwards?

  • Updating permissions on Firefox for Android
  • See other comments, you accept through the notification. I've been around Android since before that was something you could do, so I tend to forget about it. Now if only I could get NTFY to stop notifying me that it's running...

  • 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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    Funny old YouTube video

    Have to give the person who created this credit for his scene choices, they did a great job of mining Star Trek's cheesieness.

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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 can) bookmarks toolbar makes it easy to get to your bookmarks without them taking up space. Unfortunately, it's far too buggy to use.

    I do wonder, how many of it's features are available in the config? While the vertical toolbar and built in syncable notes obviously aren't, what about hiding the bookmarks toolbar? Moving the toolbar and tab bar around? Multiple tab rows? Are their extensions to add some of this?

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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, recalls@social.xcetera.biz rather than it's original form which was as a subsection of news@social.xcetera.biz

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    Millions of furniture tip kits recalled over plastic that can break
    www.firstalert4.com Millions of furniture tip kits recalled over plastic that can break

    The Consumer Product Safety Commission issued a recall Thursday because the plastic zip ties included in the kits can “become brittle or weak” and break.

    Millions of furniture tip kits recalled over plastic that can break
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    Ready-to-eat charcuterie meat sampler sold at Sam's Club recalled due to salmonella concerns
    abcnews.go.com Ready-to-eat charcuterie meat sampler sold at Sam's Club recalled due to salmonella concerns

    A Busseto Foods sampler containing cured charcuterie meats has been recalled due to salmonella concerns. The samplers were sold at Sam's Club locations in several states.

    Ready-to-eat charcuterie meat sampler sold at Sam's Club recalled due to salmonella concerns
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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 indicate what's selected, it seems to refresh the screen every time I press one of the arrow keys. Well, it all works now aside from some minor ACPI errors on boot, weird ones, but it works, so I'll prolly use it for a few days to see how well it works in basic use, and decide after that what I want to do with it.

    Weirdly the other unit, a POSIFLEX doesn't work, while it was my installing unit originally as it happily booted from a USB stick, it's failing with an error that there's no operating system once installed. I don't think GRUB is launching, but I'm not sure why, and it has an odd and very simplistic BIOS, fixing it may mean finding how to launch the real BIOS. One of these units will likely wind up taking over running my laser engraver, while the computer I have on that is better specced, there's something wrong with it and always has been, so might as well replace it.

    Lastly the printer... Not sure what to do with this, any suggestions?

    EDIT Wound up with a block of text, put a couple extra lines in to break it up

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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 does work fine.

    So, in the end, without the customization, there's not much point to it, you get a status bar at the bottom of the window that seems to be little more than a waste of space. Sure, I like the Thunderbird like toolbar on the side, and having random pics from my wallpapers folder show up as the launch page background is cool, but... Well, I could live without those, assuming I can't find extensions to add them to FireFox.

    Sadly, this gets a thumbs down from me. Any of y'all try it?

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    Drive a Honda or Acura? Over 2.5 million cars are under recall due to fuel pump defect
    www.firstalert4.com Drive a Honda or Acura? Over 2.5 million cars are under recall due to fuel pump defect

    If the fuel pump module doesn’t work, the car’s engine may not start or can stall while driving, the NHTSA said, increasing crash and injury risks.

    Drive a Honda or Acura? Over 2.5 million cars are under recall due to fuel pump defect
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