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Comment on The Best Ways to Use Generative AI in Your Life for Free by cooper

cooper — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 21:09:30 +0000

Jose – Excellent article! Perfect intro. for those of us who have not yet tried using AI. Thanks!👍

Comment on Latest Windows 10 and 11 Update Problems and How to Fix Them by dan

dan — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 20:41:56 +0000

Any news on KB5034441?

This was a helpful article,
Dan

Comment on 12 of the Best Google Maps Alternatives You Should Try by bicboc

bicboc — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 13:50:39 +0000

I’ve only tried Waze and Mapquest here in UK (Norfolk) and neither are really very accurate.
Waze at least knew where Hall rd was, but too the long way, whereas MQ had no idea and ended up north west on way to?????
Google and Baidu maps are both more accurate.

Comment on How to Use Linux Online With These Emulator Websites by Paul A. Gureghian

Paul A. Gureghian — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 17:49:29 +0000

I don’t know about the others, but I tried to use Pop on Distrosea and it didn’t work. I contacted Distrosea about it and was told that for financial reasons they hadn’t allocated disk space for it or something like that.

Comment on Top 12 Linux Distros to Pick From in 2024 by Friar Tux

Friar Tux — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 04:36:58 +0000

I have always been a Linux Mint/Cinnamon fan – for the past ten, at least. As of of this past Monday, even more so. This past November, I bought a brand spanking new laptop. The latest of the latest – thought I’d treat myself. Well, I tried to load on my favourite OS but when it was installed, I could not get WIFI working. Mint just did not want to find the WIFI. I tried a dozen or so of the other “biggies” but they were the same. PCLinuxOS was the only one nice enough to actually tell me that WIFI was not available. Ah, I believe it was a driver issue – too recent a driver – if that possible (cough, cough). This past Sunday, I read a write up on Linux Mint “Edge” and how it has the latest drivers for the latest chipsets, and guess what? I installed Mint Edge and everything works. I love it.

Comment on How to Check Your Raspberry Pi Version and Other System Information by chewie

chewie — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 20:21:20 +0000

Sorry, my previous comment should have mentioned that the OS is Debian 11 (bullseye).
That’s probably more useful than the hardware version!

Comment on How to Check Your Raspberry Pi Version and Other System Information by chewie

chewie — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 20:19:43 +0000

Thank you for the info.
Just to let you know, on a “Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.1”, the path is slightly different:

cat /sys/firmware/devicetree/base/model

Comment on How to Setup Dual Monitors With XRandR by emb

emb — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 16:01:40 +0000

I wanted to offer my gratitude and celebration of this piece. It really supported me, I loved the style, tech level and depth. I was sad not to easily find Miguel on mastodon.

Comment on How to Fix Ethernet Speed Capped at 100 Mbps on Windows by Baldeep

Baldeep — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 01:00:02 +0000

Useful tips to help people move from CAT5 speeds to CAT6 speeds.

Comment on How to Make Nautilus Even More Useful in Linux by dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:16:58 +0000

Sounds like Nautilus is an unfinished product in comparison to other File Managers like Dolphin or Konqueror.

Comment on Ethernet Switch vs. Hub vs. Splitter: What’s the Difference? by Sayak Boral

Sayak Boral — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:02:18 +0000

In reply to John C..

Thank you John

Your encouraging comment made my day

Regards

Comment on Ethernet Switch vs. Hub vs. Splitter: What’s the Difference? by John C.

John C. — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 13:02:55 +0000

Good explanation of a topic that I’ve never been able to find a clear explanation about. Thanks!

Comment on 7 of the Best Distros Based on Fedora Linux by James

James — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:29:39 +0000

There is not all that much to learn to just use Linux. I am 68, a total GUI guy and use Linux. Learning to download an .iso and burn it to a USB drive or DVD is about it.
Most Linux OS’s install themselves now day if you don’t have some fancy requirements. The system updater keep it up to date automatically. While I use and love Synaptic, software centers and boutiques make installing and removing software very easy. If you do run into problems community forums are there to help you out. Most(but not all) are very friendly places. Now if you wish to be an IT person, systems administrator or developer their is more to learn.

The one thing you need to use Linux is an open mind and willingness to encounter something new.

Comment on 8 Ways to Increase Network Speed via Regedit in Windows by carlos

carlos — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 18:02:36 +0000

los valores son en decimal no hexadecimal

Comment on 7 of the Best Chrome Extensions for Reddit Users by JM

JM — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 17:52:35 +0000

What??? Customizing Reddit? :)

Are you out of your mind? Don’t you clean your computer of Internet junk daily?
Had you done so (as you should) you’d have no cookies left on your system in which case “customizing” websites would be absolutely ridiculous! :)

Start cleaning your system and forget about stupidities. Get your priorities right!

Comment on 8 Fixes for Chromebook Touchpad Not Working by Jai

Jai — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 01:26:06 +0000

All step i follow at last same app not install and pc ask turn on develep how? Or last solusion for app cant install in chormebook i go bulding level 5 pc jump down or buy new agian.???

Comment on How to Get Wayland to Work on Nvidia Graphics Cards by Miguel Leiva-Gomez

Miguel Leiva-Gomez — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 17:11:51 +0000

In reply to Kat.

Have you tried:

sudo dracut –regenerate-all –force

This makes Dracut generate a new initramfs for every kernel you have installed. If your Nvidia driver misbehaves after this, you may not be using the DKMS drivers. They show up as nvidia-dkms in the official repos.

Comment on How to Fix the “This File Does Not Have an App Associated With It” Error in Windows by Sad Now :(

Sad Now :( — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 02:49:19 +0000

The RegEdit step made things worse. Now none of my toolbar shortcuts work.

Comment on 5 Tech Trends I’m Excited and Worried About in 2024 by dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 13:09:43 +0000

“4. I’m Worried That AI Will Make Privacy Obsolete”
No need to worry any more. AI has already made privacy obsolete.

It used to be said, tongue in eek, that Google knows more about each of us than we know about ourselves. AI has made that a truism.

Comment on How to Get Wayland to Work on Nvidia Graphics Cards by Kat

Kat — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 08:44:08 +0000

How would you execute step 2 / building init ramdisk on an arch system using Dracut instead of mkinitcpio? I’ve tried looking into this a ton but I just can’t figure out how to do it