Why is the default still version 2? Version 2 hasn’t been supported since Jan. 1st 2020!
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OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and other software
Oh OpenSUSE Tumbleweed Software…how do I install thee…let me count the ways. Wanted to install Keypass, seems fairly popular. Tried Discover…nope! Tried YaST software…nope! Finally found a 1 click install from the Browser. Darn…not very advanced. Only three places to look for software? What was I thinking also wanted to install neofetch and found yet …
Install OpenSUSE Tumbleweed
Last time I used OpenSUSE was in 2015. First off I found it odd, considering it was a 4+ GB iso, that I had to install Gimp. A few things stood out for me in this distro. Root [/] defaults to BTRFS and Home [/home] defaulted to XFS. I used these suggestions. Always stuck with …
Website down!
Went to add a new post into WordPress and got “Your PHP installation appears to be missing the MySQL extension which is required by WordPress.”. So I reported it as such to support. Later found that the PHP problem affected the rest of my site too. It must have been a big problem on their …
Fedora 34 install fail
First time trying Fedora since I used it at version 5. I could document this better but I’m not because it’s tedious, and won’t accomplish anything. Suffice it to say I couldn’t place my two disk mount points on different devices. On the 1st panel I could select the 2 different disks I wanted to …
Amazon sidewalk
Downloaded app and turned off this invasive feature, that Amazon turned on today for everyone. I know…why do I have an Echo in the first place? It can be a fun novelty device. These days I mostly use it for finding my phone. But I really don’t trust it, and keep it unplugged most of …
The PiDP-11
I want one…someday! The PDP 11/70 is what I started my computer career on. I first used a PDP-11/40 (or45), in college, where I also ran it as a tutor/operator. The front panel looked very similar to the PDP-11/70. Here is a nice article about running RSTS/E on it. The PiDP-11 is a replica of …
Ripping CDs
Hadn’t done this in a while. Thought I had already ripped most of my CDs that I liked years ago. However was looking for some Molly Hatchet, and none to be found in my collection. How can that be? I listened to them a lot back in the day. I loved Southern Rock. Also no …
pCloud
Found out pCloud has 2-factor . So enabled it. Something to note, is it gives the option to use Google Authenticator. Shouldn’t it instead say a 2-factor app or an app like Google Authenticator? Because I don’t use Google Authenticator I use FreeOTP, which implements open standards: HOTP and TOTP. Which as of this date …
Easygui/tkinter and Python3
Needed to install easygui in Python 3. So…pip3 install easygui. Then it reported that tkinter was missing. First off I thought tkinter was included with python…I guess not…maybe python 2? So quick googling suggested pip install tk. which ran but still “reported that tkinter was missing”. More googling suggested pip install python-tk. WTH? I guess …