People still do regular reinstalls? I just copy over my parititons to the new laptop and… Continue on with my day, haha. There’s some steps I had to take for the LUKS encryption which i forget now, but once you get LUKS setup, I’ve been able to just copy stuff over. I’ve had the same install of Ubuntu for basically 10 years, over 3 laptops.

You seem to know about flatpak so I thought i’d ask this question here, since I couldn’t find much searching online. I’m messing around with postmarketos (which is alpine Linux based and using wayland) at the moment on an old phone, and installed a flatpak version of Joplin. Problem is I can’t get the onscreen keyboard to be triggered when an input field has focus. Any tips to fix this? I’m not sure if its a problem with my set up, or how the flatpak was prepared. So not sure what to do to fix it.

Do you have any git instances that you could share out to help distribute, but also further develop the mod? Github, gitlab, gitea, etc?

I dunno, ask the guy with the 1985 Mustang.

Thats a shame you can’t express your personal beliefs more.

Still really confused, you’re gonna have to explain more about your personal views.

Explain more, I’m still confused.

I’m confused, what are you hinting at with this comment?

The point is to show how fucked up and authoritarian your current government is. Someone just got arrested by the police in the US for playing the Darth Vader song to protest the National Guard. So yeah, we’re about as fucked as Russia right now.

Ahhh I see. Well damn because that functionality does sound pretty useful, sad that its currently broken with Wayland.

I never used khotkeys, but would input-remapper do what you want? You can remap keys or execute macros on key presses. It supports X11 and Wayland.

https://github.com/sezanzeb/input-remapper

Sounds like a developer who’s pissed they had to make this hack in the first place, not proud of it, and not the way they’d like to solve the problem. But the external factors they can’t control keep putting up road blocks, so this hack was all they could come up with to temporarily solve the issue for themselves.

Well, I guess after looking it up, its actually ‘whaling on something’.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/usage-of-whale-wail-wale

I’ve got a fun one to share from my college programming professor. Similar situation, they had a machine that kept locking up, and this was back in the days of huge mainframes the size of rooms. So they call the repair tech from the manufacturer.

So the repair tech shows up to the office gets the run down on what’s been going on, and goes out to his car and brings in a huge piece of wood and just starts wailing on the thing as hard as he could. The whole office was freaking out thinking this guy had lost it, and he later explained that the memory was a grid of magnetic coils, and the coils would rust and the rust shavings would fall between the coils below, corrupting the memory bits. So he was shaking them loose by slamming the machine with this piece of wood. Lol wild times.

I’ve been clinging to my 10 year old Logitech diNovo Mini, but when this thing kicks the bucket dunno how I’m gonna replace it. Trackpad has been pretty good, and I like the fact that it turns off and is protected when the clamshell is closed so I don’t accidentally press stuff when it gets lost in the couch. We really need an open source mini keyboard so people can make their own and customize buttons, etc.

I mean, I always buy used business line laptops for about $400 each when I upgrade, but if I plopped down new $1500 pricing for a new laptop, I’d be a little upset if I broke the USB power port. Guess that’s just me though. I don’t like planned obselence, most people don’t seem to really think about that much I guess.

Am I the only one that thinks that USB-C power delivery is a con?

Having the option to charge with usb-c in a pinch is a really nice feature, but for longterm use I’d really rather usb-c plus a seperate barrel jack for power.

The barrel jacks on business line laptops are usually a separate module that if it breaks from catching the cord with your foot and ripping it out of the laptop, you can replace the module. I’m not sure I’ve really seen replaceable usb-c power jacks very commonly, they’re usually part of the motherboard because it’s a combined power delivery/thunderbolt port or something. Now if you rip the cord out the jack is totally fucked And you have to solder a new one on.

How’s the performance for media on that thing? I was eying up the surface go line to replace an android tablet that I mostly use for playing movies and TV shows I’ve downloaded. Think it would do okay playing back 1080p and higher content?

Sorry, still not understanding your position, can you explain a bit more about your troubles and problems? Then many of us here can help you.