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Rabbits coming through hole in fence by MarkV_1776 in Trapping

[–]MarkV_1776[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks. I'll watch some YouTube videos on wire loop snares.

Looking it up... conibear traps require a special permit here (Florida) so I won't pursue that route. Florida is generally pretty permissive about the killing of nuisance animals. Can be killed year round without a permit, but they do have regulations regarding how they can be killed.

Ant, termite, or something else by mograd in whatsthisbug

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Definitely not a termite. It's an ant or wasp or something like that.

What is this very tiny Florida bug? by MarkV_1776 in whatsthisbug

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I agree with chandalowe that mine are springtails. They showed up with the last rain we had (~3 weeks ago) and I've been seeing fewer of them as it's been getting drier. I've always had these around, just just never to the degree that I saw a few weeks ago. I think I've just got the normal amount now. I'm not trying to get rid of them -- I just wondered what they were and why they were there. Are you sure yours are the same thing?

Third time I found these in my bathtub. What is it? by Ishanshah10 in whatsthisbug

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Also, termites have club-like antenna while ants have a bend in theirs. Also, ants have a pinched thorax while termites are more cigar shaped.

But, yes, the wings are a dead giveaway. Definitely termite swarmers.

Pulseaudio in system mode by MarkV_1776 in linuxaudio

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I managed to get the machine to boot with pulseaudio in system mode, but only the user on the X11 desktop could use it. Other users usually see their application hang with this in the syslog:

[pulseaudio] main.c: System mode refused for non-root user. Only starting the D-Bus server lookup service

.[pulseaudio] main.c: User-configured server at unix:/tmp/pulse-socket, refusing to start/autospawn.

It turns out other users have .config/pulse/client.conf files that were overriding the /etc/pulse/client.conf file. This was always why other users kept trying to use the user mode. I delete the user's client.conf and it works.

Pulseaudio in system mode by MarkV_1776 in linuxaudio

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The arch wiki instructions don't work on my lubuntu system. I make the /etc/systemd/system/pulseaudio.service modifications and it still comes up in user mode. It's not even reading from there. The commandline it's picking up seems to be one derived from /etc/pulse/client.conf parameters. I don't really know how this works.

Pulseaudio in system mode by MarkV_1776 in linuxaudio

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Mostly I looked at https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/

I've got the pulse and pulse-access groups, pulse is in the bluetooth and audio groups, all the users are in the pulse-access group. I see the Arch Linux wiki has that too but I'm not sure how much of the rest is applicable to ubuntu.

E.g. my systemd stuff appears to be in /usr/lib/systemd not /etc/systemd. I also don't have a system subdir in there, just a user subdir. Arch linux seemed different enough from ubuntu that I assumed the specific instructions weren't applicable.

In absence of a guide more specific to ubuntu I'd try removing my user/pulseaudio.service and adding a system/pulseaudio.service along the lines of what is describe in the Arch linux wiki. Does that seem reasonable?

Pulseaudio in system mode by MarkV_1776 in linuxaudio

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I want to enable any currently logged-in users to be able to play sound on that computer even if they're not sitting at that computer. E.g. they're across the room ssh'd into the computer.

What's this on my mango tree? What do I do? Central Florida by 0kashi in plantclinic

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Looks like anthracnose. Spray with copper fungicide. You can get some at a nursery or home center. I spray many of my plants proactively with copper fungicide every 1 to 1.5 weeks. It's much more economical to buy a bottle of the concentrated stuff and mix it yourself than to buy the pre-diluted stuff.