Hmm, in my case, it was certainly part of the problem that I tried to back up directly to an SMB share. It wouldn’t complete even after hours, and my best guess is that it somehow created the copy in/of the home-directory when the connection failed.

I’ve had that happen before when an rsync command for uploading backups was doing shenanigans. I think, it choked on a very large folder, but I just excluded that folder and then it was fine.

In hopes of this question not being a practical joke 😅:

The desktop environment makes more of a difference than the distro. Switching distros will also give you a different desktop environment (because not much else uses the Cinnamon desktop environment that Mint uses), but yeah, you’ll probably care the most about the desktop environment.

So, instead of choosing between distros, I would recommend choosing a desktop environment, for example look at KDE Plasma and GNOME Shell.

And then you can either:

1. install it on Linux Mint in addition to Cinnamon. You will be able to switch between them from the login screen.
2. Or you can pick a distro that offers your chosen desktop environment out of the box and switch to that distro.

I will say that option 2 is kind of ‘cleaner’. It will be better tested and integrated, if it’s officially supported by the given distro + you start from a clean slate where Cinnamon isn’t also installed.
But yeah, I would actually recommend starting with option 1. You won’t have to learn both a new desktop environment and distro at the same time. And it’s less big of a step in that you can easily switch back, if desired.

As per usual, do make a backup whichever option you go with. Sometimes, it can cause problems to have two desktop environments installed, because they might edit the same config files, so it’s good to be able to revert…

It’s funny when someone says “I want a solution besides X” and we all kinds to to say “uhhhh, srsly, X is the answer”

I mean, yeah, you kind of have to point it out. Newbies won’t be able to judge how much they’re making their life harder by wanting to do it their way. 🫠

Yeah, not a bad stance to have. When I switched to Linux (in the middle of a compsci minor), I thought I was the king of the world and that I knew everything about computers.

Then Linux showed me that I know fuckall, not because it was particularly hard, but rather because it’s an open library.
You can look at a random config file on your PC and it will explain you highly technical concepts for free.
You can look at the source code of anything you’re interested in. Well, or probably rather read an explainer from someone who read/wrote the source code.
And you can easily look at the logs of your applications to debug them.

Every so often, I run into folks that genuinely seem to know a lot about Windows, and I always wonder how. It doesn’t explain anything to you. 😅

Just to point it out: Having a USB stick with a Linux ISO laying around can be a lifesaver.

Even if you decide to go back to Windows or whatever.

Because you can actually boot off of the USB stick into a practically fully functional OS, so without installing, and then access the files on the hard drive, in case your installed operating system bites the dust (so long as the hard drive and filesystem is intact).

So yeah, might be worth the invest…

Yeah, I was gonna say, just a bunch of Markdown files would probably be fine. Use e.g. mdBook if you want a static webpage with search.

A dedicated service might have some advantages, but personally, I’d care much more about having my recipe collection in a format that I can access without specific software.

I’m at the point where I struggle to explain to newbies how to do things, so I’m always glad that other newbies do it. 🥴

With a webpage like that, I’m not surprised that no one takes it serious. Looks like it fell straight out of a startup. 😵‍💫

Did you maybe try to press Esc?
When it shows the pretty boot logo, you can do that to see the logs, so maybe it works here as well…

Ah yeah, that makes more sense, thanks!

Anyone using the national domain registrar? Does it only resolve nationally, if you buy from there, as the article implies…?

But you want your domain over the world. Cool, do you have enough clients to need this? Then you can hire a person in each country to buy you a domain from the local registry.

I’ve been interested in getting a domain name, but it always just felt like a scam to pay a monthly fee for an entry in a database. If the national registrar is good enough, that would be cool.

Although, I guess, if it is not, I’d at least still be somewhat more at peace with that, since it would mean the intermediate company actually does something…

Yeah, not only does +x leave read/write permissions untouched, it also only makes it executable for the user, not for everyone and their cat.

Can you launch the original executable by itself?

So, if you run the command, that you put into the .desktop file, in a terminal, does that work?

That would have also been my intuition, but apparently the driver is involved. At least, unloading the driver solved it in this case: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269796

This sounds exactly like your problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=269796

It’s quite a lot of detailed technology talk, which I don’t expect you to understand. The main takeaway should be this:

So the problem is [temporarily] solved by running: rmmod hid_apple

This command unloads a driver that’s potentially interfering here. The driver will be loaded again on next reboot.
Which is useful, because you can just try it out and if it doesn’t work (or if it breaks something), you can just do a reboot and everything is back to normal.

You will need admin/root permissions to run this command, so the real command you need to run is: sudo rmmod hid_apple
It will ask you for your login password to confirm running the command.

If that does fix it, then we can look into making it permanent.

my kb Fx keys are unusable for almost a year now and i exhausted all possible way to fix it.

Unusable as in nothing at all happens, or do they do things like volume up/down when you press them?

If the latter, there may be an “FnLock” key combination you have to press. Usually, it’s something like Fn+Esc. Or Fn + whatever key has a lock symbol or “FnLock” written on it…

Lemmy uses Markdown for storing/displaying comments, specifically the CommonMark flavor with some extensions, as documented here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html

And yeah, no, that doesn’t have a way to underline,

except

maybe

one

of

these

here,

depending on the Markdown implementation in the client. Some clients might also choose to underline the highlighting, that’s normally 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤.

Links may be underlined as well.

Well, and then you’ve also got this thing, which is certainly a line under this text:

On Lemmy, we also got strikethrough. Priorities, I guess. 🙃

But yeah, no proper, consistent underlining in Markdown/Lemmy. 🥴

Oh man, I just checked what it looks like in Firefox:

I had written that comment in the Jerboa app (and fiddled with it to make it look reasonable):

when the software (in this case, lemmy’s md to html engine) tries to do the rendering instead of the browser.

And nope, in this case I added the Unicode for the underline myself. Well, I used this app. That passes straight through the MD→HTML conversion without being touched.
And it actually is rendered by the browser, but yeah, by the browser’s Unicode+font rendering, not the CSS engine. Or in case of Jerboa, by Android’s Unicode+font rendering.
Would certainly be nice, if these would look the same. 🫠

Yeah, it’s just your usual buttons:

• Bold → Fett
• Italic → Kursiv
• U͟n͟d͟e͟r͟l͟i͟n͟e͟d → U͟n͟t͟e͟r͟s͟t͟r͟i͟c͟h͟e͟n