Ah, bugger. I wish you success with your troubleshooting.

You’ve probably checked everything already, but if not, check if it’s just the power supply that’s gone. I’ve had this happen to a couple of Raspberry Pis - the machine itself turned out to be fine.

It was removed about version 44 or 45 or somewhere about then. Maybe a couple of years ago.

Unless they’ve fixed it in a very recent version, it now has a “next five weeks” view instead - starting from the middle of one month and ending part way through another, and showing you a mixed up “Aug/Sep/Nov” sort of thing - which might be sort of useful for knowing what you’re doing socially next week, but if you’re trying to do accounts, timesheets, budgeting and other admin stuff it’s a massive pain in the arse.

[Edit] I had a look to see when it was done - there’s a blog post talking about removing month view here: feaneron.com - 2023, extending the month to infinity
though I think that version didn’t appear in Linux Mint for another few years though.

Interesting. I hope they have a “month” view in the calendar. Gnome Calendar removed theirs (“it’s a feature, not a bug”) and it’s been a massive pain in the arse to use ever since.

I’m not sure if you explain the specifics in the video, but I worry that you’re overcomplicating things?

Unless there’s a reason for doing it like this to learn about something, if it’s actually working like a doorbell, then start by looking at a doorbell.

You need the chimes (bit that makes noise or light when electricity is added), wired through the power source (i.e. batteries) in a continual circuit that plays constantly - then you interrupt that circuit with a leaf switch (a push-button).

When the leaf switch is off, there is no circuit and no noise is made.

When the leaf switch is pressed, there is a circuit and the noise is played.

At the most basic level, a leaf switch is a thin bit of metal hovering a few millimetres above another bit of metal - the wire goes into the top bit of metal, and out of the bottom bit of metal (or reverse). A tiny bit of pressure joins the two bits of metal and completes the circuit, making the electric flow. When released, the two pieces of metal separate and the circuit is broken. You may need springs to move them apart.

From that point, you’re inventing a pressure plate for a cat. Something which will press together with a cat’s weight, then spring back up when the cat is no longer on it.

You then refine or calibrate that mechanism so it always goes off with a cat, but not with a gust of wind or spider etc.

Haha! That’s better than what I had :)

“Draw me like one of your French Girls, or as recently I have taken to calling them, GNU+French Girls”

I’ve never really seen the advantage over a standard hone.

It doesn’t matter who it was. I know the song you meant, and now it is stuck in my head all day.

Thankfully it’s a fairly enjoyable riff to spontaneously interrupt me any time I leave my brain free for a few seconds :)

Check if the endeavouros software repository has something called “Input Remapper”.

You can reassign a key or axis to any other key or axis.

I use this for a couple of old games that insist on numpad keys, on my laptop that has no numpad.

My only question with the Framework laptop is still “Is it upgradable to have physical buttons on the touchpad yet?”

That’s a very good point. That’s a long time for someone to be that upset/ angry about something.

Is there an origin story?

I’m not quite sure it’s a “community” as such - it looks like just one guy having a bit of a nervous breakdown on his own.

It’s a good improvement. They needed this years ago (or ideally, when they first started using snaps).

Mint, after about 20 years of Linux.

I think I tested a bunch of Linux distros about 2006, and settled on running Ubuntu v6 on an old laptop for occasional use and learning. Ubuntu was brown and it looked beautiful.

Later, I dual booted Ubuntu and Windows XP on my main computer from about 2008 until about 2014ish - I remember being annoyed that I had to install some launcher thing called “Steam for Linux” so I could play this newly released Linux game called “Crusader King’s II” (I was sure I’d never use this “Steam” thing for anything else).

2 laptops and one desktop bought since 2014 have been Linux exclusive. The old desktop still chugs along on Ubuntu, having been upgraded through versions for over a decade, and somehow still works. The old laptop and newer laptop (my main machine) have only ever run Mint.

Turns out that “Steam” thing was quite useful.

…and less “mainstream” than Windows?

It’s not so much forgetting, but waiting until Windows “changes it” - the “yeah, just go here in the settings… oh… there’s not a setting any more… there used to be an option for this…”

I liked Gnome back when Ubuntu was brown.

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All babies shit themselves, and evidence suggests I was once a baby - but since I have moved on, if I were to shake hands with a shitty-handed person, I would wash my hands afterwards.