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- Tue May 21, 2024 7:02 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Trackballs
- Replies: 11
- Views: 151
Re: Trackballs
Microsoft Optical 1.1a mouse - just the best general purpose mouse ever. I still have one new one left - they fail after about 10 years for various reasons so it's a race to the grave
- Mon May 20, 2024 6:28 am
- Forum: Distros
- Topic: What distros have you been testing recently?
- Replies: 440
- Views: 54674
Re: What distros have you been testing recently?
After a bit of faffing around at the start of this year I decided to give Mint Debian a whirl - LMDE6. In the past I was not much of a Cinnamon fan, but with Cinnamon 6 they have fixed a lot of little niggles and tweaked/enhanced a few areas. The result is something I'm quite happy to live with and ...
- Sat May 18, 2024 7:53 am
- Forum: Distros
- Topic: Asmi linux
- Replies: 7
- Views: 98
Re: Asmi linux
OK, so had a read on The Reg, downloaded and installed in qemu-kvm VM - full version. I am amazed at just how much is crammed into this spin. Full Libreoffice 24.2, GIMP, Inkscape, Shotwell, Vokoscreen, VLC, Geany, even got Cherrytree AND Color Picker!!! yay!!! to name but a few and a well populated...
- Fri May 17, 2024 7:16 am
- Forum: Hardware
- Topic: Trackballs
- Replies: 11
- Views: 151
Re: Trackballs
We had a couple of trackball fans where I worked. The only problems came (regularly) when they started to get jumpy due to a build of of crud on the rollers underneath the ball. Basically human skin, grease and dust. Such fun to clean out.....
- Fri May 17, 2024 7:12 am
- Forum: Distros
- Topic: Asmi linux
- Replies: 7
- Views: 98
Re: Asmi linux
Ubuntu without snap - looks like a possibility. https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/05/15/asmi_2404_ubuntu_without_snap/ https://blog.teejeetech.com/2024/04/27/asmi-24-04-release-notes/ https://blog.teejeetech.com/2024/04/27/asmi-24-04-final/ I normally read The Reg every day, ...
- Wed May 01, 2024 6:33 am
- Forum: Distros
- Topic: Ubuntu 24.04 released
- Replies: 3
- Views: 358
Re: Ubuntu 24.04 released
This was not exactly unexpected, I've been banging on about exactly this since 2022 when it became obvious that Canonical intends to drag linux into a snap walled garden one way or another. By 26.04 they will have made it impossible to install deb files at all because of changes they have made to &q...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:31 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Microsoft intends to record everything you do on your PC for “AI” processing
- Replies: 5
- Views: 138
Microsoft intends to record everything you do on your PC for “AI” processing
https://www.osnews.com/story/139462/mic ... rocessing/
Sort of inevitable really.
Disguised with a load of microsoft feature doublespeak, but it is only going one way.
Sort of inevitable really.
Disguised with a load of microsoft feature doublespeak, but it is only going one way.
- Wed Apr 17, 2024 6:26 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: The weather has been crazy
- Replies: 1267
- Views: 168848
Re: The weather has been crazy
We are just entering the first spell of dry weather (more than 2 days without rain) since October last year. It does seem very strange, the lawn is not waterlogged, the lakes that have formed in fields starting to dry up, soon they'll stop overflowing onto the roads - so they'll be dry. Potholes wil...
- Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:08 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: German state migrating 30000 workers to Linux
- Replies: 3
- Views: 176
Re: German state migrating 30000 workers to Linux
Given that Softmaker is a German company and that Softmaker Office is far less alien (to an MS Office user) than LibreOffice - and is better with MS Office files - I am puzzled that they didn't go down that route. OK there's a cost but it is a well supported product and I reckon a good deal was to b...
- Thu Apr 04, 2024 7:34 am
- Forum: General discussion
- Topic: Beware of Phone Scams
- Replies: 5
- Views: 155