Several weeks ago Google started popping up their “we’ve noticed suspicious activity” screen and making me respond to a Captcha any time I used them to search something. I try to use Google as little as possible because nobody should be allowed to collect that much information about anyone. Sometimes, when all my other search engines fail I have to go there. This finally became too annoying. The Google screen also said it through one … A Fedora 33 Virus?Read more
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Linux Distros That Suck at Multiple Hard Drives
Some Linux distros really suck at dealing with multiple hard drives. Too many “maintainers” only have a laptop. Background You need a wee bit of background before we jump in. Hopefully you can see the featured image. Recently picked up this Lenovo M93p ThinkCentre from eBay. I specifically bought an M93p instead of M83 because I wanted two hard drives. I had a 480 GB SSD I wanted to transfer the Windows 10 over to … Linux Distros That Suck at Multiple Hard DrivesRead more
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Fedora 33 Black Screen Again
Fedora and Nvidia. We can one day hope Fedora actually tests with Nvidia at some point in the future. For RPM based distros I just don’t hold out hope. Few things piss me off more than being notified I need to apply updates only to find a busted system on reboot. Fedora is notorious for this. RPM based distros in general have this “never test it” problem, especially when it comes to NVIDIA. They always … Fedora 33 Black Screen AgainRead more
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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 18 – The Pull Request
It has been a very long time coming, life kept getting in the way here, but my Diamond editor changes are ready for pull. For those who don’t give a rat’s behind about the pull request, here are the new packages. These are not official. I have tested these Diamond editor packages in bare installs of said operating systems. For Ubuntu installs you need to use the Software Installer, not dpkg from the command line … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 18 – The Pull RequestRead more