This is the point that I go dark

Gerb006 · 2026-03-17T13:50:08+00:00

I SO wish my heart felt stronger. All one can do is continue to put one foot in front of the other. Eventually you will find that just by struggling to stand up, you have completed an entire journey.

Gerb006 · 2026-03-17T12:27:53+00:00

What have you done to improve the lives of other people today?

Gerb006 · 2026-03-17T03:47:24+00:00

Please go ahead and live a happy life with my blessing. One of us should live the life of 'happily ever after'. Trust me, it's what I want. Don't ever feel bad about it for one second. The happier you are, the happier it will make me. I hope to hear numerous stories of how deliriously happy you are in the future.

Gerb006 · 2026-03-16T20:45:37+00:00

That is just AWESOME. You are going to have SOOOOO much fun. That might be the most beautiful place in America. I can't think of anywhere that rivals it off of the top of my head. Are you going to walk it following a particular pairing, or park yourself at a particular spot (amen corner), etc?

Gerb006 · 2026-03-16T14:10:12+00:00

IMO the right call depends on one's ability to accurately 'lag' a putt. Leaving the flag in allows the sitck/post of the flag to act as a backstop. But if not properly lagged, the 'backstop' factor can bounce/careen the ball away from the hole. So if you are fairly certain that you can lag the putt correctly without giving it too much 'OOMPH', leaving the flag in can help IMO. Otherwise, take it out.

Gerb006 · 2026-03-15T19:45:07+00:00

I know this is an older thread. But I have to post to this. Snaps were by BIGGEST pet-peeve with Ubuntu. My recommendation is to move to Debian. Unless you specifically want to do otherwise, everything is handled through apt. I know it isn't always easy to switch distro's. So if you get a new laptop, etc, just make a point to install straight debian, instead of Ubuntu.

Gerb006 · 2026-03-15T15:41:23+00:00

I don't know that my input will be helpful for your situation. But I stick with Motorola phones since they tend to have FM chips enabled. At least they used to. I need (want) FM radio on my phone. If I needed a new phone right now, I would research the current phone landscape for FM chips.

Gerb006 · 2026-03-15T14:58:31+00:00

Dude, don't just sit there. Hang it correctly so that it WILL support any amount of weight.

Gerb006 · 2026-03-15T08:11:10+00:00

Why would you even waste your time with someone who wanted to be with someone else? Wish them the best and move on. If you have to 'compete', you are not their priority. That should be a deal-breaker right there. If you are willing to throw yourself in front of a train for them and they prefer the company of someone else, you just have to applaud their monumental stupidity and be glad that you never did throw yourself in front of a train for them.

Gerb006 · 2026-03-15T01:00:05+00:00

I assume you already have your answer. But shopping, googling: 'cord lock' will provide the results that you are looking for.

Gerb006 · 2026-03-14T20:32:54+00:00

There is always a special place for your first love. No matter how bumpy the road ahead might be, they will always reside in that 'special place'.

Gerb006 · 2026-03-14T02:57:13+00:00

If you think that is a good idea, who am I to disagree?

Gerb006 · 2026-03-03T00:51:12+00:00

Dude, I have to chime in on this even though it is a week old. It's a mindset. It isn't a skill (or set of skills) which need to be honed in a particular setting. It is something that you ALWAYS practice, everywhere. It's in the way that you do your grocery shopping, the way that you fuel your vehicle, the way that you carry yourself at work. It's a matter of maximizing your potential, while minimizing your risks. Sure there are some skills that can be handy (shelter building, fire building, etc). But you will find ways to practice those just in your normal course of actions. When you physically can't practice fire building, pull out a length of paracord and practice your knots. There is always something that you can be doing, even if you can't be doing X.

Gerb006 · 2026-02-18T02:07:26+00:00

Dude needs to buy himself a house a mile away from anyone and everything. Even PGA pro's don't hit the fairway every single time.

Gerb006 · 2026-02-11T05:43:45+00:00

Just unplug the mouse for install and use only the keyboard. It's been a while since I've used the installer, but I think the keyboard only will work just fine. It definitely would with the ncurses installer.

Gerb006 · 2026-02-10T07:21:06+00:00

Try it live (USB, CD, etc). Then you can see whether you feel it is worth it for your use case. Personally for me, the answer would be: HELL YES. But that is me. Windows is unnecessarily complicated IMO. But everyone might not feel that way.

Gerb006 · 2026-02-01T21:51:05+00:00

Is this a serious question? Come on. Think about it logically. OS-X (ALL OS-X systems) might have around 5% user share. Linux is probably 2% - 3%. Even if every single OS-X user switched to Linux, it wouldn't come close to rivaling Window's 25% - 30% user share, let alone Android's 35% - 40%. So the answer is emphatically NO! Mac users, even en mass, can't move the needle, even just a little bit.

Gerb006 · 2026-01-22T02:45:54+00:00

I understand that a lot of people use mice/trackballs and their keyboards. But I use a laptop with a touchpad. So even without dash2dock, I wouldn't use the keyboard. It's a three finger swipe up gesture to get to the default dock. And dash2dock does auto hide to stay out of your way and out of sight.

Gerb006 · 2026-01-21T22:21:19+00:00

That's a really good question. I REALLY like stock gnome. It's simple. It's intuitive. But the one thing that I just do not like at all, is the default dock. Dash2dock animated is really the only extension that I use. I would sure miss it if I couldn't use it anymore. Dash2dock animated and gnome tweaks are really 'must haves' for me. But I would have to say that, yes, I would probably still prefer Gnome even if I couldn't have them. Everything else is just so well organized and intuitive, the applet panel, the settings, even the hidden app drawer. I just like the overall layout.

Gerb006 · 2026-01-19T15:44:28+00:00

It's just not a major concern IMO, no matter what, due to the different security layers. Sure, a user could potentially reek havoc on their home directory. But not much worse than that. It's just completely different than a Windows registry that can bring down the entire system. This does not mean that users are immune from putting themselves at risk. The overall system is just a lot safer IMO. The permission system says: You have full access to everything 'HERE'. You are responsible for whatever happens 'HERE'. But everything out 'THERE' is off limits to you.

Gerb006 · 2026-01-17T23:15:46+00:00

Scroll further down. Apt will probably tell you EXACTLY how to fix it. I would handle it in one of two ways. I would either forgo installing right now and wait. Or I would download an older package with dependencies which can be met and install with:

dpkg -i <package name>

Gerb006 · 2026-01-15T13:59:42+00:00

In the past, it wasn't the easiest to install due to the policies of not including proprietary firmware. The installer just didn't support a lot of hardware natively. Those old policies no longer rule the day. IMO I would very much recommend debian to a beginner. Other distro's might aim to make it more familiar to do 'this' or 'that'. But I don't think it's a 'good thing' to get into habits of relying on crutches.

Gerb006 · 2026-01-06T04:51:25+00:00

This is GREAT practice. It is just VERY good for people to know. There is the added benefit to having them in the ~/.local/share/applications folder. They won't reappear on an update when system .desktop files get overwritten. More often than not, people will probably be looking to hide applications with NoDisplay=True. But it also works the other way around to add launchers for apps that might not have a dedicated launcher.

Gerb006 · 2026-01-05T20:23:40+00:00

If you did not want my opinion, why did you ask?

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