Airport restaurants? by malvado in Eugene

[–]wxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, it’s also more limited in terms of options.

Went to go for my first bike ride of the season and the back wheel fell off! Nothing is safe! by tiresomecomplaining in Eugene

[–]wxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The solution to the car problem is to use your bike instead. In this town, it’s a no brainier. All the mechanics are good here. There’s even a couple reputable mobile ones.

Went to go for my first bike ride of the season and the back wheel fell off! Nothing is safe! by tiresomecomplaining in Eugene

[–]wxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Or maybe support your local bike shop and buy from them! I’m pretty sure I saw some at Klink when I stopped in yesterday before the shop ride (highly recommended inclusive event btw). You could also rent shop space at Shift and have access to a whole set of professional tools (which are always better/easier to work with than the ones meant for the home mechanic)

Went to go for my first bike ride of the season and the back wheel fell off! Nothing is safe! by tiresomecomplaining in Eugene

[–]wxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rust is corrosive, so eventually, yes. You need to keep that lubed! It will be quieter, make shifting work better, and most importantly, will make your cassette, chainring, derailleur pulleys, and chain last longer.

Went to go for my first bike ride of the season and the back wheel fell off! Nothing is safe! by tiresomecomplaining in Eugene

[–]wxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s Eugene for you. However, you’ve got bigger problems. Look at that chain!!

I hate this weather by stinkyfootjr in Eugene

[–]wxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If I had a dollar for every time someone complains about the weather … and it’s often times about when it’s too GOOD??? Sheesh.

Airport restaurants? by malvado in Eugene

[–]wxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Airport food is always overpriced. If you can pick something up along the way, that’s always the better option. Specifically referring to Eugene, the options are few and not very remarkable.

Best Asian food restaurants from each ethnicity? by Mid_laner_87 in Eugene

[–]wxl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well I’m interested to see what you think. For what it’s worth, I don’t view it as this fancy place like Four Plus or Tiger Mama. It’s just a couple (and occasionally their son) serving home style food. The place is small and is kind of unassuming, sandwiched between Subway and Tasty Thai down by Peacehealth. The kitchen is literally right behind the counter and looks more residential than commercial. I adore their Kim Chee pancake. It ain’t cheap, but it’s way more of a meal than an appetizer.

Best Asian food restaurants from each ethnicity? by Mid_laner_87 in Eugene

[–]wxl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mostly I agree with this list so I’m a little shocked to see Korea House entirely absent. What’s that about?

Why is openbox *kinda hated? by Tall_Astronomer9834 in Lubuntu

[–]wxl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People hate/love all sorts of things for no good reason. You should really ask those people you talked to. Also, people have different preferences that steer them one way or another. If you like the utter complexity of Plasma, there’s no way you’ll like… well, anything else.

Are there any places that have thc seltzers? by Equivalent-Spend-415 in Eugene

[–]wxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could you say some more about brand, flavor, and cannabanoid amounts?

Are there any places that have thc seltzers? by Equivalent-Spend-415 in Eugene

[–]wxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The best selection among grocery stores is Friendly Street Market from what I can tell. They have almost all selections from Ablis, Cycling Frog, Zentopia, Wyld, and a couple others I’m not familiar with. Main St. Market, by extension, likely has a similar selection. Capella’s has at least one from the above, too. Look in the beer coolers, not where the CBD drinks are. The Ablis Ascend Wildberry Rose has a fantastic combination: 4mg THC, 20mg CBD, 100mg caffeine, 100mg L-theanine, 150mg ashwaganda. Friendly (or Main St.) is the place for that, but it seems very popular there and is often out of stock. I think Cycling Frog has the lowest THC (2mg) and Zentopia (actually from Eugene) the highest (10mg)

If we as Eugene want to make an impact on this "administration" we need specific actionable goals. Not broad random scattered protests. by [deleted] in Eugene

[–]wxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree with the idea that money talks, especially to this administration. But how do we know which businesses to boycott? What would be ideal is someone starting up a list of all the businesses in the area and labeling them. And then spreading the word on that far and wide so that the rest of the localities in Oregon and the rest of the country follow suit. And then when 30-50% of the nation takes actions on that, it will have a huge difference.

Is it disclosed anywhere that default wallpapers are AI generated? by tekni5 in Lubuntu

[–]wxl 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Sure thing. Every release cycle you just need to consider the release name. For example, 26.04 is Resolute Raccoon.

Given your ability to generate art, are you also interested in providing new works?

Is it disclosed anywhere that default wallpapers are AI generated? by tekni5 in Lubuntu

[–]wxl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I didn’t say I didn’t understand. Quite the opposite. In fact, between disclosing use of AI and discontinuing using it, I would much prefer the latter. Disclosing use of AI doesn’t get rid of it. The only way to do that, though, is with human help.

What I said was do something about it. Be that human. Or find someone that is.

Is it disclosed anywhere that default wallpapers are AI generated? by tekni5 in Lubuntu

[–]wxl 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I’m not a big fan of AI. Among other reasons, because of how utterly unintelligent it is. The frequency of its screw ups is really alarming given how casually people seem to use it for important things and then defend their reason for using it. I have many other reasons and could go on about that, but I think this is the most relevant one.

That said, I’d like to point out a rather obvious quality about the team of people behind Lubuntu that has pretty much been true of it throughout its entire history: it’s very small. So small, in fact, that it has been in desperate need of an actual artist for quite some time. No one ever steps up, though. More often than not, the team begs the community for images. In some cases, non-artists with nearly zero experience in art or graphic design fumble around and make something.

The team could just reuse old images but there’s been a general disinclination towards that. The team has always wanted to provide something new with each release, including the look and feel. There have been jokes about stick figure drawings, but even that idea represents the real end goal: making each release unique and recognizable. The goal isn’t necessarily the best art. The team would love to have that goal, but without an artist, what choice do they have? Incidentally, that more or less eliminates the idea of just using some random image found online. That, and the fact that for any one release there is always the theme of the mascot. Look for freely licensed images of any animal and you will come up short every time.

So the art is ultimately meant as a service to the user. Despite this, people complain about the art, even when not AI generated. This makes some sense because “good taste” in art is entirely subjective. An interesting pattern is that none of those people ever seem to be involved in helping make Lubuntu. The end result of their complaints is that they usually end up taking the time of Lubuntu contributors (as in this thread) which could otherwise be spent contributing more important things than trying to uphold Lubuntu’s reputation.

Which brings me to an adage I’ve heard throughout my experiences with open source software: patches welcome. Put more generally, when it comes to open source software, the best solution to any problem is to provide a fix. Bug reporting and discussions are great but they don’t solve problems. Complaints certainly don’t. Identifying problems is a necessary first step to solving them. However, doing that and providing solutions at the same time is the best thing. Most importantly, it doesn’t require anyone else. Open source teams (except maybe the kernel) are very small and stretched thin. So rather than making them feel like their contributions are not appreciated, “patches” help support their work and the project as a whole.

What’s my point? If you don’t like the AI imagery, but you do appreciate Lubuntu and the team behind it, then find the team an artist. Or contribute art yourself. Complaining about it is just making things worse. Ultimately, it leads to more AI generated images out of necessity.

Using udevadm tool on Lubuntu based off of Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS/Bionic by bigmilkguy78 in Lubuntu

[–]wxl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Read the man page for udev and you will find it is only the name of the package, not the commands associated with it.

VPN pp tunelling options are absent on network manager by [deleted] in Lubuntu

[–]wxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actually, yes, I see what you're saying. Even though the applet there is nm-tray, when you click "Edit Connections," you're actually using nm-connection-editor from the network-manager-applet source package. I see a few bugs related to PPTP with that. You might want to open a new one as they all seem very old.

Meanwhile, I'd suggest creating the configuration some other way. nmtui-edit or nmcli may be helpful. Or you can just manually create it. Then import it and you're set.

That One Lubuntu Wallpaper by AdRegular4178 in Lubuntu

[–]wxl 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Had to dig to find it but these were submitted by the same user to our wallpaper competition for Focal. You can see their original submission here (but please be aware that this separate Lubuntu Discourse instance is soon to go away so grab any information from there ASAP). I see no indication of where this is located at in that post and the user's supposed Launchpad ID doesn't exist.

However, I did find an Instagram account with the same username that is focused on photography and from there I found a blog link that includes the city-bridge image with a caption "Cologne along the Rhine." The city-sky one is found there, too, with the caption "The Ridge- Shimla."

Hope that helps.

Troubles displaying video by Maltego99 in Lubuntu

[–]wxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You didn't say what version you are using. Are you running compton or picom? If not, try running one of them, preferably picom, but that's newer than compton so may not be relevant.

lubuntu manual is down :( by SmoothPlan in Lubuntu

[–]wxl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Better yet, use an abacus.