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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • I built my current PC using one of those PCPartPicker guides, and I’m very happy with it.

    The only issue I had was the video driver. I use the Linux Mint Long Term Support version, and the kernel didn’t have a recent enough driver for my card. I just needed to switch to the latest kernel and it was good to go. I actually had no idea how to troubleshoot it, and went to the LM forum to ask for help. I was reading through the guide on what info to supply with help requests and realised that the example fault and solution were the exact ones I was facing!


  • However, since I almost know nothing , I’m afraid to do things wrong and get a malware, spyware or break security measures of OS.

    That right there is the traditional way to learn linux.

    My advice is to make a disk image of Mint installed and configured the way you like it, then just reimage the laptop every time you break it.



  • On the day we were set to move, we discovered the house we’d been renting had a roach problem when we moved the fridge and hundreds of them scurried away. The movers told us they couldn’t legally shift our stuff in that condition, but if we took care of it they’d come back on the weekend for us. (That was a long weekend, so we gave them a five-star rating and would have made it six if we could.)

    After fumigating and slashing the fabric on the base of every piece of furniture to check with bugs, we were ready. There was torrential rain that day, and even though I put matting down to help our feet grip on the steps, my wife slipped and bruised her hip so badly the marks were still there six weeks later. I wanted to postpone the move and take to the emergency room, but she refused. We were moving that day, even if it killed her!

    Oh, and we had no internet because the ISP accidentally sent our router to another city and wouldn’t give us a replacement until they found the first one.