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This computer, which predated Apple & the TRS-80, was instrumental to the beginning of “personal computers” and resulted in the creation of Microsoft. This in turn resulted in Linus Torvalds wanting something better so he created Linux.

Bitwarden scare

This is concerning! Went to signon to gMail, as I often do, and Bitwarden didn’t find the signon. I say a little scary because I have 2FA on the account. Hopefully it’s protected.

Since I haven’t used Firefox in a while, it wanted me to sign back on to some accounts. A problem that I sometimes have when using other browsers, after a while. If I search for google, within Bitwarden… I get this screen…WTH?

Google site? In what world would I have called it Google site? I would have just called it google or google account. Also there is no password in there anyway. There is no entry for YouTube either, and I also sign-on there often too.

OK… Google confirmed my identity by using my phone and my 2FA app. However, it did cause me some worry. Actually it cause me great concern. Was my Bitwarden vault compromised? That could/would be a huge problem. This is something I do, without thinking about it (meaning I don’t search for google or gmail) fairly frequently. I click on signon, a signon screen pops up… I click on the bitwarden extension, it fills in the info… and I’m signed in. Easy…pizzy!

What happened?

Back to Firefox?

So Brave has been much quicker, to start/use than Firefox. But maybe my bad habit of having lots of open tabs has caught up to me. Because if I try to scroll my tabs right/left, which is what a person with many open tabs will often do… it will just stop for several seconds before proceeding. Probably more annoying than slow startup. However from everything I’ve read, Brave is better for privacy. So, hmmmm…

Telegram

Wow maybe I should take a closer look at Telegram. France, who allowed a satanic Olympic opening ceremony recently, arrested Telegram’s CEO a few days ago.

Actually I used Telegram recently communicating with a young girl, who contacted me on X, and was trying to scam me. Yes I said young girl. By young I’m talking 30ish, so young to me. At least that’s how she was portraying herself. She sent me pictures, and I’m sure they were really her… wink, wink. I’m very skeptical when a young attractive girl shows interest in me. As far as being a a young attractive girl, as I finally told her… as far as I know you’re a 65 yo man living in Alabama…or words to that effect.

She recently followed me again on X, using a slightly different name.

Redshift now works with config file

It’s working now with it’s config file, and updates as the time changes. This is manual mode with my latitude and longitude. When I ran it from the command line it just adjusted the temperature based on the time you ran it. I didn’t update as the time changed. You can see below, the color temperature progressively change, as it got later when using the config file..

Linux Mint redshift config file

I’ve fooled with this darn program more than I should have. Having said that I tried googling again today. In many other google searches it talked about this (seen below) config file. I would make entries and it was obvious it wasn’t reading it. 

~/.config/redshift/redshift.conf

Today a search said it should be here (in the root of .config)…

~/.config/redshift.conf

And I’ll be darn that’s where redshift expects in on Mint.

Redshift problem workaround

OK, starting like this from the command line worked…

redshift -l LAT:LON

This seemed to work if you use your actual LAT & LON

Alter screen temp (whatever that means) manually

redshift -O 4500K

I found that command by typing

redshift -h

however typing the following, doesn’t undo the above (it appears to stay the same)

redshift -O 6500K

In addition repeating the 1st command seems to have a cumulative effect… screen gets redder!

The only way I found to revert back is to logoff/logon.

Redshift

It’s been a long time since I’ve had so much trouble getting something so seemingly simple to work in Linux. I’m documenting this because it’s ridiculous how much effort I’ve put in to trying to fix this stupid problem. A few months ago redshift which adjusts the color temperature of your monitor just stopped working. This stopped your monitor from blaring white screens at you after it gets dark. I’m frequently up at 3 or 4 or 5AM and redshift was a nice adjustment. It’s not nice to become snow blind at those hours. I remember looking at the problem briefly (perhaps a little more than briefly) back then before finally just giving up. I’m getting Period: Unknown. So it doesn’t know what part of the day it is. So it’s not adjusting anything! So today I uninstalled/reinstalled the program and that didn’t work. So I…

sudo apt-get remove --purge redshift

and reinstalled, and that didn’t work either.

So back to googling and I found…

The cause looks to be that Redshift by default automatically determines its location using the geoclue library which in turn uses the Mozilla Location Service. That service has been shut down last week on June 12.

Hopefully Redshift can be patched to work without this. For right now the solution is to manually specify a location in Redshift, so that it doesn’t need to use that service. For that you need the latitude and longitude of your location. Here’s an example how to manually specify the location: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Redshi … n_manually

Great… I saved location info in a astronomy document for when I need to define my location in astronomy programs. I’ll get location info from there. Knowing me I simply called it astronomy.txt. Except I couldn’t find it where I expected it to be, or on any backup USB drives where I keep important data.

I do all kind of searches for astronomy with no luck. I grep (that’s a whole other story) the content’s of text files for Latitude or Longitude…nothing.

OK, I’ll look in my astronomy program for the location info. Except I can’t remember the name. My brain cells are definitely not working good tonight. Is it early stage Alzheimer’s? I’m not joking about this, if it’s going to affect me it’s got to start sometimes. However in general my memory has never been great.

OK, I’ll type astronomy in my log file search to see if I can find it. It only brings up Celestia, which I don’t believe uses location data. Celestia is a big picture program. And it hasn’t worked in Mint for years anyway.

I definitely spent more time searching for this file that I know I had somewhere… than I should have.

OK, I’ll type astronomy in my package manager. It brings up some programs but none of them are what I’m looking for.

So now I google linux astronomy programs, and finally find Stellarium which is what I was looking for but couldn’t remember. It’s installed on my computer and it has my location info.

Except it’s in degrees,minutes,seconds. and the config file is expecting it in decimal. Now I could have just used a converter. But nooooo I have to try and find it using GPS. Except my compass on my phone also shows it in degrees,minutes,seconds.

Finally googling my location using the phones GPS gives me the data in decimal.

So the info here says to create a file called ~/.config/redshift/redshift.conf and shows you what needs to be in that file. So I do that and restart redshift and…

It’s still not working… Unbelievable!

I total reboot… same thing! When I exit, it tells me Trying location provider geoclue2

It’s not supposed to be Trying location provider geoclue2 it’s supposed to be reading the location info from the config file. I double check the path and config file name and they are correct.

I can build a Linux kernel… but I can’t get redshift working. Unbelievable!