Re: What laptop's do you guys like?

2023-07-22 Thread mick howe
I got an ASUS Nitro 5 when the screen on my Lenovo i3 kept cutting out and voided the warranty before I got it home by installing a 1 TB SSD with Arch instaaled. To boot Arch I have to hold the F12 key down while it powers up or it boots windows 10. Wouldn't buy another ASUS mick down under On

Re: "Please append your preferred default BLAS implementation to the regular -Syu command line"

2023-06-14 Thread mick howe
Thanks for raising this issue, many times when installing new (to me) packages I get this type of issue and I have no idea which way to leap blindly. On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 10:40, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Thu, 2023-06-15 at 02:33 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > Out of feeling and because

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread mick howe
Sounds promising if I can sneak into the house with my ether cable while my daughter is at work. mick in hellharbour On Sat, 28 Jan 2023 at 11:21, Genes Lists wrote: > > On 1/27/23 19:02, Genes Lists wrote: > > > > It's worth checking if this patch made it - sorry haven't had a chance > > to

Re: Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread mick howe
I do have wifi on my laptop getting internet but I haven't tried to use it beyond email and browsing the web. I am now struggling to to wrap my mind around new concepts, I'm 70 y.o. and in poor health, the cause of my moving 1000 km from where I had everything working and had contacts. mick in

Arch / Manjaro friendly wifi dongle

2023-01-27 Thread mick howe
I have just moved to a house where I can't get an Ethernet connection to the broadband 'modem' so I need to finally adopt a wifi setup to connect my two desktops and random Raspberry Pi and Arduinos to the 'modem' & the internet. That raises two problems: I don't know anything about wifi except

Re: [arch-general] Linux server crash causing router switch to stop working

2022-02-10 Thread mick howe via arch-general
seems so obvious you already illuminated it but some buffer not clearing old data? mick in glen innes 2370 On Fri, 11 Feb 2022 at 09:32, David Rosenstrauch via arch-general wrote: > > Following up on this crash issue I keep having with my Arch server. > Basically server just completely freezes