Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:23:00 -0800 wes dijo: >if you right-click on the keyring, do you get any options around >setting a password? It just pops up the box to enter the password, and if I leave it blank and then click on OK it gives an error message that I didn't enter the right password. It

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:20:59 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 17:23:00 -0800 >wes dijo: > >>if you right-click on the keyring, do you get any options around >>setting a password? > >It just pops up the box to enter the password, and if I leave it blank >and then click on OK it

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser?

2022-02-14 Thread Dick Steffens
On 2/14/22 15:55, Rich Shepard wrote: On Mon, 14 Feb 2022, Dick Steffens wrote: Thanks. I'm trying things other than Firefox to see of Firefox has anything to do with my system sluggishness. Dick, Have you watched top for a while? You might consider reading the 'nice' man page and setting

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser?

2022-02-14 Thread King Beowulf
On 2/14/22 14:49, Dick Steffens wrote: > Is anybody using the Brave browser? > > Good? Bad? Indifferent? > Brave browser is a bit of an odd derivative of chromium.  It is focused on privacy, but also has set up an advertising network that pays users to view optional adds via BAT (cryptocurrency)

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser?

2022-02-14 Thread Randy Bush
good can not use all the time because it does not support ffox's https://git.rg.net/randy/randy/src/master/firefox-proxy.md randy

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser?

2022-02-14 Thread Dick Steffens
On 2/14/22 15:07, King Beowulf wrote: On 2/14/22 14:49, Dick Steffens wrote: Is anybody using the Brave browser? Good? Bad? Indifferent? Brave browser is a bit of an odd derivative of chromium.  It is focused on privacy, but also has set up an advertising network that pays users to view

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser?

2022-02-14 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 5:16 PM Dick Steffens wrote: > > On 2/14/22 15:07, King Beowulf wrote: > > On 2/14/22 14:49, Dick Steffens wrote: > >> Is anybody using the Brave browser? > >> > >> Good? Bad? Indifferent? > >> > > Brave browser is a bit of an odd derivative of chromium. It is focused > >

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread wes
On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 4:57 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > >virbr0 is for virtualization software. virtualbox, vmware, etc. that's > >where the 122 comes from. > > That's interesting. Of course, I spent hours yesterday fiddling with > VirtualBox, and finally got it working. But since last

[PLUG] Brave Browser?

2022-02-14 Thread Dick Steffens
Is anybody using the Brave browser? Good? Bad? Indifferent? -- Regards, Dick Steffens

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser?

2022-02-14 Thread Jason Barnett
I like it. I've been using it exclusively for the last 3 years and have not had any show stoppers with it. The advertising angle of it is basically, it will block ads but also allows you to earn "bat" crypto (by watching brave ads) which can then be donated to websites that you choose. Basically,

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread Bill Barry
On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 1:04 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: > I could use some suggestions. This gives a high level summary of what keyring does. https://itsfoss.com/ubuntu-keyring/ For your purposes it gives the suggestion that has already been proposed here. Give the keyring an empty password and

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser?

2022-02-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022, Dick Steffens wrote: Thanks. I'm trying things other than Firefox to see of Firefox has anything to do with my system sluggishness. Dick, Have you watched top for a while? You might consider reading the 'nice' man page and setting firefox (or whatever seems to be bogging

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:24:09 -0800 wes dijo: >On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:04 AM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:14:19 -0800 >> wes dijo: >> >> >On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:49 PM John Jason Jordan >> >wrote: >> When I ran ifconfig it gave me enx+long-number which was the >>

Re: [PLUG] Brave Browser?

2022-02-14 Thread Dick Steffens
On 2/14/22 16:16, Bill Barry wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 5:16 PM Dick Steffens wrote: On 2/14/22 15:07, King Beowulf wrote: On 2/14/22 14:49, Dick Steffens wrote: Is anybody using the Brave browser? Good? Bad? Indifferent? Brave browser is a bit of an odd derivative of chromium. It is

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022, Tomas Kuchta wrote: security zealots who implemented authentication for just about anything (filesystem, video, sound, usb, applications, etc.) They may be zealots to you, but to many of us they are Lawyer Avoidance Gurus. The number of people waiting to sue

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:14:19 -0800 wes dijo: >On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:49 PM John Jason Jordan >wrote: > >> Apparently Xubuntu is supposed to be using seahorse, but it's not >> installed on my Lenovo laptop with 20.04.2 nor on my new Latitude >> with 21.10. I tried the link, but again it says

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread wes
On Mon, Feb 14, 2022 at 11:04 AM John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Sun, 13 Feb 2022 17:14:19 -0800 > wes dijo: > > >On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 12:49 PM John Jason Jordan > >wrote: > When I ran ifconfig it gave me enx+long-number which was the > ethernet, and no IP address for it, and it gave me

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread TomasK
On Mon, 2022-02-14 at 11:04 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > Using the Latitude I logged into the D-Link DIR860L B1 and noted that > there is a connection at 192.168.1.171 marked 'Latitude,' that must > be > the ethernet. Of course, 192.168.122.1 did not appear. > > So now I have two questions:

Re: [PLUG] Login keyring

2022-02-14 Thread TomasK
I am not against security, do not get me wrong - This is about freedom to control my computer - that implies that there should be reasonable way to do that and be able to authenticate and/or disable it - simply use it. If the only choice to control ones own audio device is not to install modern