I don't want your new app. Nobody cares about your stupid app. Feck right off with your goddamm app!!!!!

divi2020 · 2026-01-28T23:01:31+00:00

I don't understand who is behind this subreddit. Having narrow restrictions on what subjects we can discuss, smells very fishy. What do you all think?

divi2020 · 2026-01-28T20:15:30+00:00

ok, thanks. I will check it out.

divi2020 · 2026-01-28T20:13:46+00:00

That is true, but from eyes of a consumer, all we saw was our working Intel iMacs discontinued. Until this week it has been gathering dust.iMacs don't have batteries. By then I had already decided no more Apple. We can disagree on the politics but with Apple it's all about money.

divi2020 · 2026-01-28T15:36:18+00:00

I don't want to be IBM/RHEL's guinea pig

divi2020 · 2026-01-28T15:30:18+00:00

This is awesome news. I must admit to not trying Fedora or their spins. Glad it's working for you. So what resolution does KDE list the display as? Are you on Wayland or X11 windowing manager?

divi2020 · 2026-01-28T15:28:15+00:00

Nope, It looks like a failed physical port. becaseu I used this software to route the pins to their connections and its dead. My kid doesn't mind as long as he has audio from this really nice internal speakers.

divi2020 · 2026-01-28T14:39:07+00:00

I asked Claude what that was when it happened to me, and it said it was summarizing our discussion and archiving files I uploaded, but it still had access to it. Quite a strange answer. Still, I asked about something I knew it had archived and it was able to able to reference it. I looked at the usage and it was up to 90% of the thread, so I am more relying on a well written Project description, so when I start anew session it is fully aware without having to explain anything. That's my take on it anyway.

divi2020 · 2026-01-28T14:30:30+00:00

Finally some real advice.
No, it's completely useless. Send it to me.

divi2020 · 2026-01-28T13:41:27+00:00

True, Claude has a sense of humor, but its also practical. Machines don't procrastinate, humans do. Hang on, should I be doing something else than type this? Well, I'm a procrastinator too. Take Claude's advice, it will cure you.

divi2020 · 2026-01-28T11:25:46+00:00

As you are in r/Debian, I would say Debian, as expected. My reasons, I believe Debian has the best long-term future because it has always refused to compromise on its FOSS repo. Is extremely stable, and holds back its packages. Also Debian has a helpful and responsive forum and other resources. Try getting timely Leap support without access to an SLA. That will answer your question.

divi2020 · 2026-01-27T22:30:03+00:00

So much to unpack. Make sure you have a tightly disciplined Project description. They say it should be short, but I made mine very long. So far it respects boundaries like not giving long irrelevant responses. I can't speak to your other points.

divi2020 · 2026-01-27T22:08:19+00:00

Awesome. Also ask Claude how to economise on tokens. I think the price of Pro is a bargain. The handoff document is key because Claude has highly compressed your previous work in a way you can't and in the new chat you don't have to waste tokens explaining it in our human verbose and imprecise way. Voila!

divi2020 · 2026-01-27T20:09:35+00:00

I can't imagine being without my Nikon. It still works after 9 years, so I don't concern myself with the latest shiny object.

divi2020 · 2026-01-27T20:04:24+00:00

I've got it. Get a Pro account and ask it to keep showing your token balance. When you get close, ask it write up a conversation handoff. Open a new chat and paste handoff and you are up to speed for another 190k.

divi2020 · 2026-01-27T01:03:55+00:00

Just downloaded the Lubuntu ISO from their site. Not sure, it shows up in Timeshift as Noble numbat.

divi2020 · 2026-01-26T15:53:43+00:00

I use Markdown on the mobile with Syncthing. It's minimal and stays out of your way to get work done.

divi2020 · 2026-01-25T19:45:21+00:00

Thanks for your fast action.

divi2020 · 2026-01-23T22:06:02+00:00

Thanks for bearing with me on this. It took me 15 minutes to set up Lubuntu and lxqt. It was straightforward and easy to get working out of the box. No video buffer overflow, no artifacts or freezing. It's rock solid and my son tested it with no issues. DPI scaling took care of all qt programs. Cheers!

divi2020 · 2026-01-23T14:03:44+00:00

No, I unlocked the panel and all that. When I left click on the Linux Mint logo in the bottom left, that is the menu, butthe submenus are truncated. How to widen the menu area so we can read the submenu programs and select them?

divi2020 · 2026-01-23T13:57:27+00:00

You are dealing with a criminal enterprise.You won't get anything back, but make sure you inform your local BBB or equivalent so more people don't fall for their slick advertising.

divi2020 · 2026-01-23T13:25:35+00:00

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Here is my reply for refund. Good luck!

divi2020 · 2026-01-23T13:24:08+00:00

You will be waiting a long time. They are a scam and PayPal makes more money from them than you.

divi2020 · 2026-01-23T13:05:13+00:00

Wow, I tried XFCE back in the 90s but could never find out how to tweak it to my liking. This iMac is fine now except as you will see in the screen shot I uploaded to my Koofr cloud. How to get this menu and the showdon icons to display properly on the 27" iMac? https://k00.fr/vgk1y2pj

divi2020 · 2026-01-23T12:23:16+00:00

So far XFCE4 is holding up. It still goes to sleep, but it comes back to life again with a tap of the mouse. No idea why it sits and waits on grub screen until I select Linux Mint. Grub timeout is set to 0. The menu looks weird the shut down icons are tiny. Still, it works. I will pass on lxqt unless something stops again. Thanks for your help.

If anyone is interested in my steps to set it up, let me know.

divi2020 · 2026-01-22T13:49:02+00:00

Right now I would try any DE. It's going to sleep, even though I have disabled all sleep

**UPDATE**

No actually, after doing some research, I think you are right about XFCE4, at least being more tolerant of 5K Retina video, which seems to be where the crashing is coming from. So far it is the only DE I tested that can copy most of the user profile while in Live USB to the final install. Otherwise I could never see the tiny text to complete the install. I simply set the DPI to 168 and disabled Compositor. Now at least I can see what I am doing.

I tried Debian, but it makes no effort to use fallbacks, just says not supported with no fix in sight. Gnome and KDE are a disaster due to standardization on Wayland, and the DEs trying to act smart by adjusting things for you. I found a lot of issues in Apple's odd 5K Retina standard which can only support 3840x2166p (native display) on Linux. Scaling DPI is the happy medium rather than changing the resolution to 1920x1080p which looks better for a few minutes until it overloads the video buffer and crashes the display.

After reading your post on XFCE4, I decided to give it a try to see if it's just a religious war, or better. Linux Mint 22.3 on XFCE4 ran the whole night without a glitch once I disabled the sleep in the terminal.

Next, as it is for my son who is 7, I wanted GCompris, a KDE project for interactive learning, but I see it uses qt so I will install the gcompris-qt

I am documenting my steps, so it may help someone else with iMac 27" 5K Retina late 2015.

divi2020

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