Monthly Archives: January 2024

Was getting this screen trying to connect to Udemy Checked Internet speed with Speedtest was getting in the low 90Mbps, supposed to get >=300Mbps Was getting a similar screen on a different site (https://www.kinguin.net/) a few days ago. Waited a little and it cleared up. Waiting 2hrs today didn’t fix the problem. Speedtest was still …

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I had a problem signing on to the bitwarden extension in Floorp. Clicking on the extension while not logged on. It was asking for the Master password, strange thing there was already a non-bitwarden password in the field. Anyway I copied in the password. But it kept telling me it was wrong. Did my password …

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Again I followed this. In the process I got a low disk space warning (~700MB free). So I found/deleted about 7 old kernel modules from /lib/modules. Now have over 4GB free. Readers digest version (install from bash_history): After install you will have a “Virtual Machine Manager” menu item or CLI “virt-manager”

Followed Bill Sky – The Computer Guy! One of his Cobol vids popped up on my home page. Watched some of that. Then watched the whole Fortran video 1 he did. Found out that Intel also offers a Fortran compiler for Linux. He has a nice easy way about him. Owned a flight school, retired …

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Saw a Leo Laporte podcast of him talking about cheap, legal MS-Windows licenses. Look here, and here. I mean personally, I have no great need for MS-Windows. Except for perhaps playing with virtulazation. As I did a year ago (almost exactly) when using QEMU.

No sooner do I say I’m really liking Floorp (I just made it my default browser a few hours ago), than it starts with none of my previously open tabs. That is total crap. I have tabs open that I want to revisit, in the future…at my leasure. Firefox did that occasionally, but if I …

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Not sure I’m crazy about the colors, but the current tab is easy to see. Sometimes in other browsers I lose them

Feels just like Firefox, except so far, I’m not experiencing Firefox’s ridiculous start up time. I’m sure this problem is unique to me. There’s no way, that everyone using Firefox are waiting many, many minutes for it to respond.

I just get a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner on a black screen. Might have to do with my old video card. It does say experimental.

From 21.2 (Victoria) to 21.3 (Virginia). Highlights: From Cinnamon 5.8.4 to Cinnamon 6.0.4 Optional login using Wayland