Finally got Mint Cinnamon 19.3 working! It was a permissions problem. The solution was to chown my home directory to bill even though the directory appeared to be already owned by bill. I did this by booting Mint single user mode. At first I was under the assumption that /home wasn’t being mounted, but realized …
Monthly Archives: April 2020
A frustrating day of distro upgrade attempts
The goal was to upgrade Mint Cinnamon 18.3 to 19.3. But as I reported before, the install would hang. Googled and tried many suggestions, which meant multiple boot attempts with various boot overrides (for example nomodeset), but nothing would work. Actually abandoned an early attempt to double check locations because I didn’t want to overwrite …
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NextCloud Android file location
Very easy to keep Keepass up-to-date on my Android (Google spy phone) after making changes on my PC using the Linux NextCloud client which is setup to sync this file to the server. However not obvious to me where this file is located when I select download using the Android client. Anywho I found it …
Webmail problem fixed…somehow?
I don’t like that Yahoo is the facilitator for AT&T email. Isn’t that backwards? Shouldn’t a large ISP handle there own email servers? It’s probably at the root of my AT&T problem. Anywho Webmail now works on Manjaro. It’s now working…somehow! I wish I could say how. It’s magic. And I don’t like magic when …
Strange Webmail problem
Having a problem logging into my AT&T web mail account on Manjaro. It’s not liking my userid/password. But this same userid/password works on Mint. This problem seemed familiar to me. I think I had a similar problem a few years ago. I could successfully log into my Webmail [remotely] in Miami but it failed locally. …
Need to checkout Theia
Eclipse Theia, the vendor-neutral open-source IDE platform that runs in browsers and on desktops. It says, it runs all VS Code Extensions.
Zoom in practice
So I tested Zoom with my daughter in Colorado. Me using the desktop app…her using the phone app. I thought the experience was excellent, much better than using video phone. The connection…unlike video phone was solid. I used Signal also on the desktop to send her the invite. No Zoombombing…this time. I realize Zoom may …
Zoom
I mentioned this cool program/app 2 days ago, and today this article popped up…Zoom is showing how to respond to criticism the right way this is great because this program seems in these times to be very very useful. To be sure they have issues but it appears they realize they as a business have …
CORVID-19 and Shelter in Place!
I don’t have it (that I know of…no symptoms) and it’s not a project I’m personally working on…however it is computer related. Amidst this CORVID-19 pandemic, isn’t technology awesome? It enables people to be social while sheltering in place. We have it easy compared to the time of the Spanish flu 1918-1920 that possibly killed …