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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • Yes, I use multiple profiles (for work, personal, etc.) and experience at least the cursor issue on multiple profiles.

    Even if it turned out to be profile-related, I don’t think the answer should have to be to create a new profile and thereby lose everything associated to it, especially if it were to reoccur. I use FF Sync and that may help I suppose. But I understand your logic and was thinking along the same lines.

    I’m trying to recall if I’ve ever seen it on my other computers but I’m not sure as I spend 95% of my time on the one.



  • This person is the only one who gets it.

    OP isn’t looking for answers. They just want to complain. AND THAT’S FAIR! It is problematic. And it’s okay to vent.

    It is a mess. There’s no easy solution or fix. We want there to be but we acknowledge that the strengths of Linux can also be weaknesses at times. It’s a heterogeneous ecosystem maintained be a myriad of volunteers and others and idiosyncrasies are a natural consequence.

    We pick our battles. Linux brings so much power, but it’s not without some trade-offs. But we can all agree on one thing …

    It’s a hell of a lot better than dealing with Windows.



  • I wasn’t aware of RustDesk. I’ve looked for usable solutions in the past and was never saw it or anything else like TeamViewer.

    The nature of the problem seems to require a hosted service. So TeamViewer fit the bill and was free for this use case. But I’ll have a look at RustDesk now that I’m aware of it.

    All that being said, I don’t mind closed-source. I’m an open-source zealot, but I’m not Richard Stallman. I use Linux at work so I’ll use whatever software gets the job done at the end of the day. I’m just glad to see more software work on Linux.



  • Brother QL-1110NWB

    Works flawlessly on Ubuntu. Even the cut feature. I recall looking at their Linux driver page, but can’t recall if it was even necessary to install it.

    Because this is a network-enabled model, it was auto-detected on the network. That makes printing from Android a breeze as well.

    I imagine the other Brother models work just as well like the QL-1100.


  • I would seriously reconsider Hertz

    While I do believe that you may have received some decent service, that is a bit of a surprise to me. But that’s not my reason for recommending against them.

    No, I would dissuade you from them just to keep you from getting unnecessarily arrested. Hertz has a bad habit of claiming their customers have stolen their vehicles. I presume this is due to very poor tracking on their part.

    I personally witnessed this, although I did not get arrested fortunately. They called me two weeks after returning the car to ask if I planned to return it. They called me two more weeks after that again.

    I’ve seen reports for years since then of people in the same situation getting arrested after Hertz reported the car stolen.









  • So we shouldn’t house them unless and until we figure out all of the complex issues? They’re not going to benefit any at all, or have any possibility of getting on their feet, until we have a perfect solution?

    That’s what’s being said there: homelessness is not something we should do anything about, because of reasons. So let’s do nothing.

    That’s a fucking cop out.


  • Even if that is true, does it somehow invalidate the fact that they are also homeless?! Are they less deserving to be out of the elements because they have an addiction?

    That’s what I find so disgusting about this statement. It’s just an excuse and doesn’t address anything at all.

    Using his own “argument”, it would seem to me that a path to less addiction and violence would involve having a place to live and sleep.