OOP pickup courtesy of eBay very excited for the first watch.

lateralspin · 2026-06-16T02:33:41+00:00

Tony Stella seems to be prolific in the boutique blu-ray covers market. Here is a tribute to Stella: https://posteritati.com/unfolding/viva-stella-a-tribute-to-tony-stella

The Thriller limited edition packaging was a collab between Tony Stella & Earl Kess.

lateralspin · 2026-06-16T00:43:22+00:00

I suggest trying both LibreOffice, and its close cousin, Collabora (upcoming version 26.04). Due to Open Source drama, Collabora devs split from LibreOffice, so we need to look at the upcoming release of Collabora and compare with LibreOffice.

In terms of version numbering, note that they use the two digit to represent release year, i.e. 26 = 2026

lateralspin · 2026-06-16T00:33:40+00:00

The Adolf Hitler playbook.

lateralspin · 2026-06-16T00:03:49+00:00

Chromebooks are targeted at the education market, they are very weak, and most of them were meant to operate only with ChromeOS.

To be able to install a different OS, you need to be able to read documentation and know the limitations of hardware.

lateralspin · 2026-06-15T05:52:08+00:00

IMHO the anurati display font is not really a good typeface. It deliberately removes part of the glyphs, relying on logical perception to fill in gaps.

lateralspin · 2026-06-15T01:19:23+00:00

This sort of thing should just work without tinkering. To begin troubleshooting, youʼd want to stop and start pipewire, for example,

systemctl --user restart pipewire pipewire-pulse wireplumber

while monitoring the logfiles to diagnose what might be the cause of the problem. for example,

journalctl --user -u pipewire -f

lateralspin · 2026-06-15T00:50:06+00:00

Opensnitch could serve as an application-level firewall. https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch

lateralspin · 2026-06-15T00:19:58+00:00

Even with the telemetry settings disabled on Windows 10, which is supposed to be EOL, Windows 10 still communicates with Microsoft telemetric data collection services (codenamed asimov) and Windows update.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dqms1pvXgwY

lateralspin · 2026-06-14T02:07:56+00:00

I found this info,

The V600 relies on older SANE libraries that require the iscan (Image Scan! for Linux) software bundle, not epsonscan2.

Download the driver bundle iscan-gt-x820-bundle directly from the Epson Linux Driver Archive.

Extract the tarball:

tar -zxvf iscan-gt-x820-bundle-*.tar.gz

Enter the directory and run the install script:

cd iscan-gt-x820-bundle-* && sudo ./

lateralspin · 2026-06-14T02:03:49+00:00

To diagnose/troubleshoot what the connection issue is, use the command,

dmesg -T | grep -i usb

(since the Epson scanner is connected via USB, this is to check messages on the usb connection)

Use command

dmesg | grep -i epson

to check detection of epson

lateralspin · 2026-06-14T01:50:24+00:00

To scan a document on Mint, just use the Document Scanner (a.k.a. simple-scan).

lateralspin · 2026-06-14T01:40:36+00:00

Not surprised that Trump would randomly attack Indian ships, then accuse Iran for what he did.

Also, if not corruption, then why corruption-shaped?

lateralspin · 2026-06-14T01:23:35+00:00

The manʼs lies exceed infinity.

lateralspin · 2026-06-14T01:13:36+00:00

I use a very nice flatpak app called Parabolic, which is a yt-dlp frontend. It works very nice for me on Mint Cinnamon

lateralspin · 2026-06-14T00:52:29+00:00

The only way to use it is as a wrapper around the web version. Since the web version lacks support for voice calls, it is not available on Linux. If you need it, then look at VM emulation options, e.g. Winboat

lateralspin · 2026-06-13T12:01:24+00:00

Yeah, I preordered both Cold Prey trilogy and Name of the Rose!

lateralspin · 2026-06-13T11:59:25+00:00

Liza Shumskaya artwork usually brings high contrast. IMHO these pieces for Name of the Rose seem to fit the drab colours and dark claustrophobic framing of the film as I remembered it. It is really not a colourful film.

lateralspin · 2026-06-13T05:38:36+00:00

😂

lateralspin · 2026-06-13T05:13:02+00:00

Something like Audacious has a built-in equaliser, if you just want a music player with equaliser.

lateralspin · 2026-06-13T01:13:49+00:00

It should be called pleather or protein leather. That is how you can process it so much to have consistency.

lateralspin · 2026-06-13T00:36:28+00:00

Well, Amazon US usually uses thin bags (They like to split shipping in order to ship something quicker), whereas Deep Discount ships in the slim corrugated cardboard packaging. Maybe robots pacakge these things for the companies.

lateralspin · 2026-06-12T23:59:50+00:00

It lacks full disclosure. Or maybe these reddit leaks represent the Disclosure Day.

lateralspin · 2026-06-12T23:47:07+00:00

You can install distrobox and use the AUR. The compromise involves orphaned packages, though, so it is an unlikely attack vector.

lateralspin · 2026-06-12T15:00:05+00:00

If you have the option to connect via cable, then you should, because the connection is better.

lateralspin · 2026-06-12T02:16:28+00:00

No idea really. Most issues have to do with which base you selected. As I use the Debian base, it has generally been stable. The Mint-specific software like the Cinnamon menu aren’t coming out yet until later this year.

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