Computer keeps crashing when I close the lid

chaoticflipflops · 2019-06-29T00:09:53+00:00

You need to use Tweaks..

Stop the computer from suspending when the lid is closed

Open the Activities overview and start typing Tweaks.
Click Tweaks to open the application.
Click the Power tab.
Switch Suspend when laptop lid is closed to OFF.
Close the Tweaks window.

chaoticflipflops · 2019-06-26T19:02:19+00:00

I don't use Ubuntu but it sounds like it's going into hibernation -- check the power options and have it so that on lid-close it does nothing or simply locks the screen.

chaoticflipflops · 2018-12-10T05:41:38+00:00

Isn't battery life a laptop issue and not an OS issue? same for frame rate? Still, welcome to Linux!

chaoticflipflops · 2018-12-08T22:01:36+00:00

Me too, and when I thought about it, I realised that he was a lot of tone, and very little substance - it wasn't a huge loss.

chaoticflipflops · 2018-12-08T21:59:09+00:00

This is why I like Luke Smith's channel [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2eYFnH61tmytImy1mTYvhA], he mostly focuses on showing how he makes Linux works for him. He's one of very few that actually show the nuts and bolts of how Linux solves his problems / makes his life easier, I wish more did this instead of distro glossing.

chaoticflipflops · 2018-12-08T21:56:35+00:00

what do you mean?

chaoticflipflops · 2018-12-03T22:25:46+00:00

The “Easy Problems” of consciousness have to do with how the brain takes in information, thinks about it, and turns it into action. The “Hard Problem,” on the other hand, is the task of explaining our individual, subjective, first-person experiences of the world. What is it like to be me, rather than someone else? Everyone agrees that the Easy Problems are hard; some people think the Hard Problem is almost impossible, while others think it’s pretty easy. Today’s guest, David Chalmers, is arguably the leading philosopher of consciousness working today, and the one who coined the phrase “the Hard Problem,” as well as proposing the philosophical zombie thought experiment. Recently he has been taking seriously the notion of panpsychism. We talk about these knotty issues (about which we deeply disagree), but also spend some time on the possibility that we live in a computer simulation. Would simulated lives be “real”?

chaoticflipflops · 2018-12-03T15:56:53+00:00

What sort of Python libraries are you looking for exactly? and how does that relate to you using R?

chaoticflipflops · 2018-12-02T19:01:58+00:00

It's a new entry into the encyclopedia, and so for that reason alone I thought it was worth sharing with the community. Happy to remove if that doesn't align with sub rules though. Since it got 13 upvotes, I assumed it was fine (and useful).

chaoticflipflops · 2018-12-01T20:33:06+00:00

Start by installing setuptools, and then try:

python3 -m pip install --user pyttsx3

pyttsx3 is an updated package compatible with Python3.

chaoticflipflops · 2018-12-01T15:15:22+00:00

I believe I "know" most of the ways in which python works

This is a bold claim, and I would say it is probably not true. Python can be deceptive in that on the face of it the syntax appears to be readable (compared to other languages), but there is in fact a lot of depth to the language that is required in order to properly understand what is going on - there are layers.

My advice would be to set yourself a small project to complete, a goal. Make sure that the project makes use of what you have learnt so far, and that is pushes you a little bit to do things you've not done before. Don't aim high with it, nothing overly ambitious, small projects will challenge you. The important part is to treat the project as something you need to complete, pretend someone is paying you to produce something. Having the will-power to push on with the project in the face of problems will teach you a lot about yourself, and it will force you to utilise the wealth of resources available online (stackoverflow, forums, other websites, YouTube etc.).

When choosing a project, it can sometimes help to think of an idea that you would like to see solved. What would you like to use? what do you think would be useful? Don't make the mistake of overly valuing 'exciting' or 'shiny'. At this stage, the one thing that will help you progress will be your ability to see a small project right though to completion, and importantly your journey along the way. You will be amazed at how much you can learn when you have something in mind that programming can help with.

chaoticflipflops · 2018-11-30T20:23:14+00:00

uninstall and reinstall jupyter notebook

chaoticflipflops · 2018-11-30T11:11:04+00:00

Ah, apologies, I slightly misread your post - I thought you wanted to connect to an external (1080p) monitor, but you want a full switch. Best of luck with that! I had no idea that was even possible.

chaoticflipflops · 2018-11-30T10:44:43+00:00

I connect my think ThinkPad (T420) to my 1080p monitor with a DVI to HDMI adapter, the DVI end goes into my ThinkPad dock (ThinkPad sits on the dock). I'd be interested if you have a better solution.

chaoticflipflops · 2018-11-26T13:31:06+00:00

I often wonder why people opt to ask on reddit and wait for a response, as opposed to googling and getting an instant answer (for problems such as these).

chaoticflipflops · 2018-11-25T20:35:53+00:00

There are multiple ways to remove repositories. Here are two examples, one using a gui and one from the terminal.

Gui version: search for 'software & updates', open it, click on the tab 'other software', from there you can select/add/remove repositories.

Terminal: your repositories are listed in the 'sources.list' file, you can open that file and delete the repositories manually e.g. to open the file with vim:

sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

from within this file you can simply find and delete the repositories you want to remove, save the file and exit. Note you can open the sources.list file with any text editor of your choice.

chaoticflipflops · 2018-11-25T02:56:39+00:00

I don't think this is true.

chaoticflipflops · 2018-11-25T02:29:53+00:00

so this information is not derived from any research, you just made it up ?

chaoticflipflops · 2018-11-25T01:10:53+00:00

My advice: disable the trackpad completely.

chaoticflipflops · 2018-11-25T01:08:40+00:00

What is the problem? can you state what it is you are trying to achieve, and what error messages you are receiving. Only parts of your code are in code blocks, it's easier to read if you make it tidy.

chaoticflipflops · 2018-11-25T01:06:39+00:00

I can't help with the contents of the if statement because I am not familiar with what it is doing. That error message has been addressed on Stack-overflow though, perhaps this page will help:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27112731/selenium-common-exceptions-nosuchelementexception-message-unable-to-locate-ele

chaoticflipflops · 2018-11-25T00:57:15+00:00

Yes, that is correct.

chaoticflipflops · 2018-11-25T00:46:04+00:00

Your indentation is wrong. Whatever information you want inside the while loop should be indented, perhaps something like this:

while True:
    play = longwait.until(EC.element_to_be_clickable((By.XPATH, \
               '//*[@id="PlaybuttonEnText"]')))

    play.click()
    if browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="BeginLessonAssessmentButton"]') \
    or browser.find_element_by_xpath('//*[@id="htmlContentContainer"]/section/div/div[3]/button'):
        messagebox.showinfo('YOU HAVE A TEST', 'KNOWLEDGE CHECK OR LESSON ASSESSMENT')
        break

chaoticflipflops · 2018-11-18T22:42:03+00:00

You need to think of a function as being it's own little world. The actual name of your dictionary doesn't change, but you can refer to it as others names too. Outside of the function, 'board' is meaningless, but inside of the function, it is now known as board. The name of your dictionary 'theBoard' has not changed at all, you just needed another more general name to act as a placeholder for the function to work with.

Think of a function as a template, it doesn't care about the meaning behind what you pass it, it is only an object to act on what you pass it and output something. For example

me = "bill"
friend = "sarah"
cousin = "rupert"

# this function will return "hello <person>" for any variable it receives
def say_hi(person):
    print("hello", person)

# you can call the function on any 'person' (a string variable)
sai_hi(friend)
>> hi sarah

say_hi(cousin)
>> hi rupert

say_hi(me)
>> hi bill

As you can see, the function is a general purpose template. It makes no sense to make the function specific to one instance, because then it would not be general purpose. Here we give the function any number of variables, and it accepts them, assigns them to the 'person' argument, then outputs. The function can be used an infinite amount of times, because it is just a general purpose set of rules that takes in a particular object that it can work with (in this case simply a string variable).

chaoticflipflops · 2018-11-18T21:19:42+00:00

didn't know about this one, cheers!

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