Re: Acer swift 1 trackpad not working

On Sat, 10 Sep 2022, Dan Ritter wrote: JamesM wrote: A Google search gives me - ID 8087:0026 Intel (as the WiFi card) ID 1c7a:0575 LighTuning (as the fingerprint sensor) ID 0408:a094 Quanta (as the camera) ID 0781:5571 SanDisk (as my USB mem stick) The little I've been able to find out

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Wed, 8 Jun 2022, Kamil Jońca wrote: rhkra...@gmail.com writes: On Wednesday, June 08, 2022 12:18:58 PM Curt wrote: On 2022-06-08, Felmon Davis wrote: that's the thing: I don't understand how the parts fit together; what is the connection between: (1) 2-step auth (2) app-specific pw

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Wed, 8 Jun 2022, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday, June 07, 2022 09:38:42 PM Felmon Davis wrote: be it a/b testing or b/s testing, the change seems to have gone into effect and I can only use Alpine by acquiring an "app-password". I'm wondering if I can turn off 2-step authen

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat, 4 Jun 2022, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 07:21:57PM +0200, Felmon Davis wrote: On Sat, 4 Jun 2022, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: [...] I misspoke or miswrote: I have Alpine running but *without* the app-specific setting. They're messing with your brain. I'd leave

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat, 4 Jun 2022, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 03:45:00PM +0200, Felmon Davis wrote: I do think Google et al. sometimes make pronouncements and then don't get off their ass ('arse' if you prefer) - that how committees work with (or against) other committees. I think

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat, 4 Jun 2022, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Sat, Jun 04, 2022 at 02:24:16PM -, Curt wrote: On 2022-06-04, wrote: Bullshit. Famous last word. I've already determined that your principles go no deeper than your dime-a-dozen opinions. This might be due to your

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Sat, 4 Jun 2022, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sat, 4 Jun 2022 11:50:55 - (UTC) Curt wrote: Hello Curt, Bullshit. Well! What a witty, erudite, cogent, well reasoned, rational and eloquently put explanation. I'm convinced. not his usual stylistic savoir-faire but who cares? we'll soon

Re: google account say it will no longer deliver email

On Thu, 2 Jun 2022, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 13:59:45 -0400 rhkra...@gmail.com wrote: My gmail (normally delivered by pop3 to my old version of kmail (on Wheezy) stopped working around 8:30 am this morning. I set up an application specific password this morning, and

Re: Acer CMOS Setup and Ctrl+S [was Installation fails to recognize SSD]

On Fri, 13 May 2022, David Christensen wrote: Does Acer document the CMOS Setup Ctrl+S key combination? the only 'documentation' I've seen is in the webs. I noticed if you search "Acer AHCI" you get a ton of hits on something called . as far as I've looked so

Re: Installation fails to recognize SSD

On Wed, 11 May 2022, Bruno Schneider wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2022 at 11:18 PM David Christensen wrote: I have Dell Latitude 5400 laptop that I have been experimenting with: 1. Changing CMOS "Settings" -> "System Configuration" -> "SATA Operation" from "RAID On" to "AHCI" allows Debian to see

Re: Claws-mail Address Book Bug?

On Sun, 13 Mar 2022, Cindy Sue Causey wrote: On 3/12/22, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 13 Mar 2022 09:19:52 +1100 Charlie wrote: Discovered that when I looked for the mailing list on the net. I dare not say googled because there is some controversy about IKWYM, but in most

Re: Google smtp and pop

On Sun, 6 Mar 2022, John Hasler wrote: Marcelo Laia wrote: Have you, or someone else, a suggestion for one alternative for Gmail? I use pobox.com . My wife uses the email service that comes with our Web site on Gandi. Both are quite satisfactory. Unlike some others I don't consider Google

Re: Google smtp and pop

. -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

e only tried (a) and it worked fine. I am well armed for the next time I have the pleasure of a hotel. thanks to all contributors. f. -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

the credentials but any modern browser will do. nice outcome! useful discussion! thank you. f. -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.

Re: Memory leak

tabs and windows so that when you start it again, you can start where you left off. what this quote doesn´t mention is tabs opened as ´private browser´ tabs won´t preserved. -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.

Re: Memory leak

know. f. -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Curt wrote: On 2022-02-12, Felmon Davis wrote: Greets! Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which provides the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10. this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen with Brave

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

On Sun, 13 Feb 2022, Bret Busby wrote: On 13/2/22 3:52 am, Felmon Davis wrote: Greets! Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which provides the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10. this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen

Re: miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

On Sat, 12 Feb 2022, Dan Ritter wrote: Felmon Davis wrote: Greets! Sitting in a hotel in Hamburg, Germany, thankful for Firefox-esr which provides the page necessary for logging into the network. I´m on Debian 10. this miracle of connectivity doesn´t seem to happen with Brave browser

miracle of Firefox in the hotel.

) can it be replicated in Brave and Iron (which I generally prefer)? I admit Brave is often a bit touchy about accessing pages where it suspects security threats. f. -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

On Tue, 4 May 2021, deloptes wrote: Felmon Davis wrote: you can view it on youtube (if that's compliant with your principles) at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOxYuzOJV58> this is exactly the problem - the original video is not there, but the one where someone comments on the

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

On Tue, 4 May 2021, deloptes wrote: Felmon Davis wrote: you can view it on youtube (if that's compliant with your principles) at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOxYuzOJV58> this is exactly the problem - the original video is not there, but the one where someone comments on the

Re: [Off topic] videos of german state TV, was Re: HTML syntax.

es) at <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOxYuzOJV58> fjd -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.

Re: TDE (Trinity Desktop Environment) vs KDE

by accident than design - it played nicely with the graphic chip. I very much liked Exegnu, based on Trinity, but haven't used it in a while. f. -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.

[SOLVED] Re: live-boot doesn't detect internal SSD

the SSD! I sat on this for hours. wrong search string. fjd On Fri, 20 Nov 2020, Felmon Davis wrote: greets! been looking around for a solution without avail. Acer Swift 3 SF313-52. tried X-buntu, MX-Linux and another distro. gparted, fdisk and their partition managers only show the usb so no ins

live-boot doesn't detect internal SSD

systems side-by-side. welcome advice. fjd -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.

Re: Please be respectful

remedies. -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.

Re: When I log in it just shows my username and the $~ I’m completely new

advise, but at least this is a start, as well as reading the literature that's been suggested. sounds to me you were trying to install and something went wrong...? f. -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.

Re: non function firefox

you start with add-ons disabled? I am no longer sure what's been tried. f. -- Felmon Davis

Re: *nix

On Sun, 16 Feb 2020, Curt wrote: On 2020-02-15, John Kaufmann wrote: Just so. At what point does a small and natural generalization of "one thing" become more complex than a new thing? Simplicity is the friend, complexity the enemy; order the friend, entropy the enemy. It takes a lifetime of

Re: screen color distortion after xrandr

your home directory that have been modified within the last three minutes. Not running a DE, I can't be more specific than that. Cheers, David. -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.

Re: screen color distortion after xrandr

ryOn Wed, 8 Jan 2020, Dan Ritter wrote: Felmon Davis wrote: greets! I was trying to get a second monitor (a tv) to work using xrandr. I noticed that the screen on the laptop would suffer severe, almost 'psychedelic', effects if I hit a certain setting. unfortunately I don't recall

screen color distortion after xrandr

xrandr? thank you. f. -- Felmon Davis Verbum sat sapienti.

Re: [OT] replacement for SystemRescueCD

. note that 'you' is originally the plural of 'thou'. no offense if you ignore me. (I repeat.) and thank you for all the contributions to this list! f. Not ridiculous at all, but rather the modern way to speak to those who you do not address intimately or patronizing by "Duzen" (german "du", english "thou", french "tu"). Polite and secure. Have a nice day :) Thomas -- Felmon Davis

Re: Dependencies et al (was: Default Debian install harassed me)

es for which this as an issue? If not, why encourage another dozen messages about it? not sure about encouraging a dozen messages as such but the discussion has been very instructive for me at least. fjd -- Felmon Davis

Re: udev being an ass

On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Gene Heskett wrote: On Tuesday 27 August 2019 16:01:30 Brian wrote: (P.S. Could we have posts without medical details. They make me feel quesy). Life, fully lived, can and will have its queasy moments. Perhaps you are overdue of an annual physical? I see Brian's

Re: Insidious systemd

need to read up more before I purge. but I am not adverse to living with systemd either. rock the boat or toe the line - not sure. f. https://duckduckgo.com/html/?q=anthropomorphism https://literarydevices.net/hyperbole/ -- Felmon Davis

Re: And now, from the Nice people? Re: Group thoughts on: Anti-virus tools

bt there's a list to read. this seems to support my interpretation. f. -- Felmon Davis

Re: what to do with gtk-2/gtk-3 clash?

On Sat, 15 Dec 2018, Stefan Krusche wrote: Good day Felmon, Am Donnerstag, 13. Dezember 2018 schrieb Felmon Davis: trying to start Firefox (from Mozilla), Pan, Google-Chrome-Stable generates: TK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported (I use

Re: what to do with gtk-2/gtk-3 clash?

On Sat, 15 Dec 2018, Matthew Crews wrote: ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, December 13, 2018 2:28 PM, Felmon Davis wrote: trying to start Firefox (from Mozilla), Pan, Google-Chrome-Stable generates: TK+ 2.x symbols detected. Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process

what to do with gtk-2/gtk-3 clash?

. it came up without vertical scrollbars. I tried to sort this out by changing themes and their properties. that is likely the source of the issue. the stuff I find online offers nothing useful if you are not developing code. guidance sought. fjd -- Felmon Davis

Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly [SOLVED]

On Sun, 9 Dec 2018, Liam O'Toole wrote: On 2018-12-08, Felmon Davis wrote: Greets! I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to have worked though there are some oddities. now VLC has grotesquely large control buttons ("Play," "Pause", etc.); the

Re: after Stretch VLC is ugly

On Sat, 8 Dec 2018, Andrew McGlashan wrote: On 8/12/18 8:24 pm, Felmon Davis wrote: Greets! I decided to upgrade from Jessie to Stretch last night. it seems to have worked though there are some oddities. High DPI changes perhaps? DPI is set to 96. f. -- Felmon Davis

after Stretch VLC is ugly

and just did the Stretch update on top of it. not sure of the relevance (thus I mention it). I don't recall the version of VLC on Jessie; it's "3.0.3 Vetinari" here. I am using Trinity Desktop which maintains a version of KDE3. f. -- Felmon Davis

Re: Help me Linux

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Curt wrote: On 2018-10-30, Felmon Davis wrote: On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: People who have no experience doing a thing believe that the thing is hard. for a different perspective, look up "Dunning-Kruger Effect." I did and I think Dunning

Re: Help me Linux

On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Dan Ritter wrote: People who have no experience doing a thing believe that the thing is hard. for a different perspective, look up "Dunning-Kruger Effect." -- Felmon Davis

Re: Micro-report: using Stable without systemd

On Tue, 16 Oct 2018, Gene Heskett wrote: Other things on my mind, like the cataract op on my right eye at 7AM, good luck with that! I had both eyes done this past Spring. fjd -- Felmon Davis

Re: NitroShare doesn't seem to work with Buster

On Fri, 15 Jun 2018, Gary Dale wrote: On 2018-06-14 12:19 AM, Felmon Davis wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2018, Gary Dale wrote: Or on another subject, does anyone know if mtp will ever work? I don't know; there has been discussion of using: gmtp go-mtpfs jmtpfs I've used jmtpfs (requires) java

Re: NitroShare doesn't seem to work with Buster

On Thu, 14 Jun 2018, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2018 00:19:07 -0400 (EDT) Felmon Davis wrote: ... I've used jmtpfs (requires) java; I've used one of the others but jmtpfs doesn't require java, at least not on my (Stretch) machine. ah, ok. my error. false memory. Celejar

Re: NitroShare doesn't seem to work with Buster

On Wed, 13 Jun 2018, Gary Dale wrote: Or on another subject, does anyone know if mtp will ever work? I don't know; there has been discussion of using: gmtp go-mtpfs jmtpfs I've used jmtpfs (requires) java; I've used one of the others but forget which, whichever, it worked alright. I use

Re: how to view config file changes without running an upgrade?

On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 6:07 AM, Curt wrote: > On 2018-03-21, deloptes wrote: > > Richard Hector wrote: > > > >> Where 'checked' was presumably the debilitate one :-) > > > > true, sorry - even double checking fails sometime :D > > > > > > When Norman Mailer's