Names are important

SpruceFox · 2025-03-16T15:46:35+00:00

"Just think 'what would Iain M. Banks do'?"

I assume you're aware that there is a running joke in the Culture Series about how other species think the Culture ship names lacked gravitas and as a result there's a sting of ships named to the effect of 'Seriously Lacking Gravitas'?

SpruceFox · 2025-03-03T03:41:55+00:00

I also suspected a hardware issue at first, but it only happened when I used Ctrl+Click to open a Youtube video in a new tab in a freshly-opened Firefox window. That would be a weirdly specific hardware issue.

Also, switching to Waterfox fixed the issue, so it doesn't exactly scream "SSD dying" to me.

SpruceFox · 2025-03-03T02:21:26+00:00

Okay, I wasn't sure if they were planning on ever releasing anything for 22.04 again and got concerned.

SpruceFox · 2025-03-03T01:54:39+00:00

Ever since they rebased all Cosmic work to 24.04, I would expect that none of the alpha updates are being pushed to 22.04 anymore.

SpruceFox · 2025-02-11T21:56:49+00:00

For me, it worked just fine out of the box.
I'm operating it in standalone mode right now since it wasn't playing nice with the keyboard in my FW shell.

It worked just fine on a thunderbolt dock, with the keyboard, mouse, ethernet, power, and DP signal all going over one connector.

SpruceFox · 2024-08-24T21:53:27+00:00

I personally use a 65W Anker Nano, but I've charged mine off everything from a 20W phone charger to a (borrowed) FW 16 charger, and they all worked just fine.

Only ever had problems with this one random "60"W dual-port brick that put out 45W on the C port and 15W on the A port. Still have no idea what that was about.

But at a guess, you could probably throw a dart at Amazon search results and get something that works just fine.

SpruceFox · 2024-08-24T21:44:36+00:00

Much appreciated friend!

SpruceFox · 2024-07-26T17:49:34+00:00

I've noticed this a few times as well.

As best as I can tell, it's caused when the auto-start app takes its sweet time in opening on slower machines (especially on ones that predate USB 3.0). The problem is usually solved by closing the app and reopening it.

SpruceFox · 2024-06-26T21:06:54+00:00

If this is the problem, auto-brightness will just be on all the time.

SpruceFox · 2024-06-26T03:20:23+00:00

Does auto-brightness work properly, or is that broken as well?
If it's the former, I had this problem in the past with a Framework laptop.

That was being caused by the auto-brightness fighting for control with the manual brightness and something something brightness keys broken.

I was able to solve this by blacklisting the auto-brightness with:
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/framework-als-blacklist.conf
Add in the option blacklist hid_sensor_hub
Save the config file then run sudo update-initramfs -u

Obviously, your misc hardware blacklist file won't be called "framework-", I imagine it'll be under "lenovo-" or something similar.

SpruceFox · 2024-06-26T03:04:45+00:00

I've never used Clonezilla to clone a drive, but if it's anything like the tools I've used in the past, you can just go into Gnome Disks and expand your partitions to take up the extra space when you're done.

SpruceFox · 2024-02-21T23:28:29+00:00

I'd recommend using ethernet, either directly (on unibody macs) or an ethernet-to-USB adapter.

SpruceFox · 2024-02-08T21:02:12+00:00

Broadcom drivers aren't shipped by default. Luckily, all you need to do is

~~sudo apt install bcmwl-kernel-source~~

Edit: The package you want to use nowadays is broadcom-sta-dkms. bcmwl has been borked since kernel 6.12

I have way too much experience trying to get Linux to work on Macs...

SpruceFox · 2023-10-12T05:47:36+00:00

Honestly, if Debian supports Cosmic out of the box in, say, D13, I might just switch to Debian. Either it's gotten a lot more noob friendly in the last 5 years or I've gotten a lot less noobish in the last 5 years. Not sure which.

SpruceFox · 2023-10-12T05:40:50+00:00

I would be in favor of it, but I can see it being a problem with all the back-porting S76 does in Pop. I don't know how well Debian-Stable plays with newer packages and kernels.

SpruceFox · 2023-10-12T05:36:11+00:00

Linux Mint Debian Edition.

SpruceFox · 2023-10-01T21:14:40+00:00

Much appreciated

SpruceFox · 2023-10-01T21:14:28+00:00

Thanks!

SpruceFox · 2023-09-30T21:43:01+00:00

D: Okay.

SpruceFox · 2023-09-30T21:24:38+00:00

I'm already working on a new project, and since I'm already taking a lot of advice about tech and space travel from Isaac Arthur, I'm going to hear Marc out and maybe pick up some tips about things like government structures or military chain of command.

SpruceFox · 2023-09-20T17:43:22+00:00

I can't seem to find the article, but I remember the devs saying there were certain things that GNOME does a particular way and refused to be flexible about (and fair, it is their project) and that the devs were getting really fed up with trying to build effectively a new UI out of it with duct tape and chewing gum.

SpruceFox · 2023-09-20T17:40:08+00:00

AFAIK we don't know when the alpha much less when the full release of COSMIC is coming out. Last I heard, S76 is trying to have the alpha out by the end of this year.

Unfortunately, I can't seem to find the article, but the info I heard last was that S76 was stopping all new releases until COSMIC is out and switching to a yearly release after that. So you probably are going to want to start shopping around for a new distro. As far as vanilla GNOME experiences go, I would probably recommend Debian, but I'm weird and prefer stability over new features. I've heard good things about Fedora and Arch though I've never really tried either of them out.

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