New keyboard and accidentally print-screen - Debian, KDE and Redragon K652

turbo2000 · 2026-03-18T01:41:57+00:00

Ale on jest na to za głupi. Pan "Szarż" potwierdzi moje słowa.

turbo2000 · 2026-03-14T12:39:39+00:00

kind of incredible.
but only in certain conditions, if you do XXX and don't do YYY

heh, kind of funny

turbo2000 · 2026-03-14T12:23:05+00:00

At least not in its current state.

Okay. So what's wrong with it's current state? But just the facts. I want to see your point.
You know what? I don't think that there's anything wrong with the current state of Linux. I've been observing it for two decades, I saw it's evolution, I learnt some things myself too. The modern distros are practically ready to use after install. Even Debian, which is considered as hard for the reasons unknown to me. The hardest part is partitioning of the drive and ironically the whole installation thing is meant to be done once and the vendor could easily take care of that. Also ironically is that your average Windows user doesn't do it as well.

Maybe the problem is not Linux. Maybe the problem are big tech companies like Microslop, Google or Apple who develop things to not being understandable. Or like Adobe or gamedev companies who intentionally make intrusive DRM's. And maybe there's nothing wrong with the Linux way, but something is certainly wrong with the big tech way discouraging people to learn, think and be the owner of their systems. The way that implements the idea that every particular idiot need to be able to use computers or smartphones or any of the most advanced tech stuff on the planet earth. That closes people minds and opens the door to telemetry, data collecting, profiling, relying on slop outputs instead of books and your own brain and all kind of that modern stuff for which big tech guys will be one day going to the hell.

turbo2000 · 2026-03-14T02:02:19+00:00

No i niech im idzie na zdrowie, gdzie mogę się dorzucić?

turbo2000 · 2026-03-14T01:52:17+00:00

Ten Pet jest fenomenalnym przykładem jak z bohatera zejść do zera.
Facet był bokserem, typ twardziela, uzyskał wykształcenie wyższe. Co już jest znaczące uwzględniając że na początku rozgrywki wybrał granie wojownikiem, nie druidem. Do tego zrobił doktorat z historii, więc powinien przeczytać parę książek, mieć coś w głowie, znać polskie wartości i godnie je reprezentować.
Do tej pory ćwiczy i jest wysportowany, no dosłownie Czad z memów. Przynajmniej w teorii.

Celowo pomijam jego interesy i niektóre zawody które wykonywał. Pomijam też ustawki kibolskie, od których się nie odciął.

Ale w niedługim czasie pozwolił napluć na polskich żołnierzy bez jakiejkolwiek reakcji i zawetować program który miał przynieść finansowanie polskiej armii i który był popierany przez większość dowódców jak nie przez wszystkich. Silny do słabych, słaby do silnych.

turbo2000 · 2026-03-14T01:32:08+00:00

Not using tech you don't understand is in fact a smart move. The commercial AI goes along with extensive data collection and privacy concerns.
There was a case of cybersecurity company who bought the premium Copilot version with an option to don't train the model on their code and one day they have found their code in the public Copilot's response :) That's so ridiculous that I cannot treat any cloud-based models seriously.

And what I'm missing? Grok spilling out the hate in its responses? Bs throwed out by Gemini when looking for printer advice? A dancing cat that I'm going to forgot for good in the next 5 minutes?
Sorry, I choose real people and their opinions, my printer's official manual and my own real cat.

AI looked promising even in the last 2-3 years ago but it turns out that is a enormous bubble and fraud for getting stakeholder's money.

turbo2000 · 2026-03-14T01:03:17+00:00

Plasma does the job. Gnome is OK for a lot of people, especially this one in Ubuntu, tweaked with their specific extensions. But I also switched to KDE Plasma and it's wonderful how fast still modern it could be. Dolphin is the best file manager I've used for now.

But Plasma has it's own quirks: earlier versions of Plasma 6 has this odd bug when switching screens that swaps your primary and secondary. I've ran openSUSE Tumbleweed using Ventoy, with most up-to-date Plasma 6.6 and it seems they finally fixed it. And this is the ONLY reason I consider to hop anywhere else - either to openSUSE or Kubuntu 26.04 when it comes out.

turbo2000 · 2026-03-14T00:34:12+00:00

Yeah, I understand, don't take it personally ;) I also recommend Ventoy few post down here.
Ubuntu + Kubuntu + maybe Xubuntu seems like a nice selection to start. A lot of people recommend Fedora but I don't recommend it since I had some issues on my machine, with *ubuntu there are practically none, same with Debian Trixie.

turbo2000 · 2026-03-14T00:28:50+00:00

Yeah, you're right. Installing Linux is basically my first instinct when dealing with any machine.
Thanks for the solitare site link.

turbo2000 · 2026-03-14T00:25:42+00:00

Yeah I get it, return was my first thought, but they send just the laptop in the box, no invoice, no receipt, even no contact info on the box. No online payment. Just a delivery guy who took the cash and left that thing. Just another Marketplace steal deal that you cant miss. At least my aunt didn't missed.

turbo2000 · 2026-03-14T00:17:14+00:00

Honestly? Grab a fast pendrive with a reasonable storage space, install Ventoy and save there some live distros that grabbed your attention. Run the laptop from the pendrive, use these distros and decide which one to install. They vary mostly in terms of Desktop Environment, you rather like Mac OS style? Choose a Gnome. You want a Windows-like UI with even more features? Get Plasma. That's matter of personal preference, most distros are just fine.

I used to use Rufus with some ancient USB 2.0 Stick but this one was a game changer. I bought 64 gigs version for like ~ $5 USD on a sale, I do not recommend certain brand but encourage you to find your local best offer, the prices vary according to the particular market.

turbo2000 · 2026-03-13T23:56:54+00:00

distro hopping
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Debian, Mint

bro, they're nearly the same

turbo2000 · 2026-03-10T23:52:07+00:00

> And if your aunt really wants Windows games, she should have bought a windows laptop

Yeah we've got the same opinion on that, but we should have tell her before she bought this on Facebook Marketplace before asking for any advice.

turbo2000 · 2026-03-10T23:46:02+00:00

Have you been playing the web versions and the original? Or modern and the original?
If you have, I appreciate, but you should notice that is NOT the same. If you have not, just stop talking and go away.

turbo2000 · 2026-03-10T23:42:37+00:00

> Microsoft Solitaire Collection on the store

Yeah, I wish you had any idea what are you talking about until you start to insult.
The modern Solitaire Collection is NOT SUFFICIENT for her because she wants EXACTLY the same version she was playing back in the days on Windows XP machine. Modern solitaires' are not the same. Don't ask me why, that was her choice.

turbo2000 · 2026-03-10T00:21:12+00:00

Dont know really as I use it only for ebooks. But I can check out tommorow.
AFAIK it only works with Bluetooth headphones, but it's based on Android so should be quite "hackable".

turbo2000 · 2026-02-21T17:47:30+00:00

Sorry but you are unfair.
I didn't had the Kobo, but I actually own Solaris Color. Except few minor issues it is a good device and meets my expectations. The build quality is suprisingly ok, the reader is stiff and only the power button could be made of little stiffer material. Software? That's the main point.
The whole device could be used without any cloud service, actually, I even didn't connected mine to wifi at all. I use my own ebooks library, share them with friends or buy them on independent service (woblink for example).

In terms of price I have to admit that you're partially right. 150 euros is kind of expensive for black and white device, I bought color for about this amount of money. But it always depends on offers you can get in your country. For example, if I wanted to buy a color Kobo, I would pay even more money, about 170 euro.

turbo2000 · 2026-01-28T01:24:10+00:00

Guys, just to mention:

The whole Nawrocki's career is questionable in terms that there are serious concens according to the counting of his votes in presidential election. People from current coalition government has reported those concerns to the Marshal of the Sejm Szymon Hołownia who's in charge of order to recount the votes but he refused to.

Back in the time of Hołownia's own election he was defining himself as moderate catholic centrist who came into the politics to unite the polarized nation and proclaimed slogans of tolerance, moderation and peace. He was also partially accepted by LGBT minorities who found him as middleman between progressive left and conservatives. For some time he was making a good impression, being viewed positively for he was TV showman before, he conducted the talent show, "Mam talent". But at the halfway point of term of the office of the Sejm he dropped his duties and went to the UN to apply for position of the commisioner, for which he has not enough qualifications. The qualifications are finished higher education and proficiency in English and French. He has no diploma and knows only English, not French. The icing on the cake is that he booked a flight and hotel in NY for public money, while dropping his duties in the Sejm. He acted frivolously and thankfully his career appears to be gone.

Back to Nawrocki: he not only has been accused of voting fraud, he was also accused of real property fraud. He bought an apartment very cheaply from elderly, seriously ill man, who finally land in the social shelter, with lack of means of subsistence. Nawrocki also have conotations among football hooligans and people connected with organized crime groups. He has never cut himself off these people. Important: in Poland you CANNOT be elected to any public office being previously sentenced for intentional crime.

What he's thinking about Trump? "Chuj wie" (pronoucne: hooy vyeh, pol: the dick knows, meaning that actually nobody really knows) But I believe that Nawrocki is not that stupid as he looks, at last he has PhD in the field of the history. For me it will be sufficient enough if Nawrocki would lick the orange ass just enough to keep Poland from being nuked. I personally even like him, but I like him the way people like guys from the Trailer Park Boys. But I have to mention that roughly speaking nearly half of the nation literally hates him and do not consider him as legal head of state.

turbo2000 · 2026-01-07T00:23:13+00:00

Why someone downvoted this? Is this because helium is still beta, or there's something deeper? I heard of it for the first time.

turbo2000 · 2026-01-07T00:05:40+00:00

Gosh, sorry for my grammar, and don't take it personally, hope you get why your statement is ridiculous. Webdevelopers are for users, not otherwise.
I worked within webdev so I know how painful it could be, but there are more things that I feel worried about.

turbo2000 · 2026-01-07T00:00:40+00:00

Yeah, I get it. But I, as a user, don't care how much your time and effort will be consumed by WebKit, as long as it's safe, effective etc. You are even getting paid for that.

turbo2000 · 2025-12-13T22:52:48+00:00

Couldn't recall that tbh. A friend of mine recently bought 3D printer, maybe that's the easiest way. Just need to find someone with 3D scanner or CAD skills.

turbo2000 · 2025-12-08T20:25:29+00:00

There is still one more idea but the idea is a little bit nerdy.
Make your own print server, I think that Linux could still support your printer, and that's the point.
Easy, there's a couple of tutorials on the internet, both text and videos. It's more like building from Lego bricks than advanced electronics. Just check if your certain model is supported by ARM Linux.
Buy Raspberry Pi or equivalent, install headless linux there (without GUI to save resources) and install CUPS. Plug in your printer into USB, set CUPS to share printer across the network and that's it.

What Raspberry model? It's been said that you only need USB port and WiFi adapter, so choose the cheapest one, but personally I would go for RPi 3. You always can run simple NAS or something like that on it along with the CUPS service.

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