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Cake day: March 9th, 2024

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  • final update:

    • sold out in record time
    • actually was able to raise my price over his due to popularity
    • incalculable profit i made so much money

    walked up to jim slammed $45 on his shoulder and took 4lbs with me. didn’t ask. enjoy the business brother you are not like me

    [Post had a picture of a shotgun, a spilled bag of garlic, the book “Ramillia Quarterly, and a folded hoodie with the text “Hikkikimori Condition”]






  • I’ve never had any issues with the mint live environment, but trying XFCE might be helpful. I would also try booting the computer and waiting until it stops reading from the dvd before doing anything. The live systems gets copied off the dvd, and I can see there being problems if you’re doing things that need data that hasn’t been copied into memory yet.

    It’s also possible your memory could be starting to go. Is the windows installation stable? Some linux installers have a built in option to run a memory test (and some bioses as well) but I can’t remember if Mint does. Memtest86+ is a standalone memory testing program can be flashed to a usb drive or burned to a disk.

    As pearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.online (On mobile, I think that’s the right person) mentioned, are all the hard drives internal? Do they show up in BIOS? The Mint installer should be able to see them. Before trying to setup all the partitions in GParted, I would try creating a new MBR partition table on the drive you want to use, saving, and rerunning the installer.

    You can still change both order from bios, but most linux boot managers give you the option of booting to a list of operating systems and then choosing the default after a certain number of seconds.













  • I’m going to preface this and say that I don’t use Debian or Sway but I think I can help explain the reddit post a bit. On mobile, please excuse the formatting.

    Wayland is a protocol that isn’t responsible for drawing anything to your screen by itself. This job is done by a Wayland compositor. (They’re similar to window managers on an X11 system if that means anything to you)

    Sway is one such compositor that Debian supports, but it also supports GNOME and KDE Plasma which have their own compositors and the wiki mentions Weston as well.

    It looks like Debian defaults to GNOME, so the sway commands aren’t going to be much help. Wayland uses libinput to handle peripherals so none of the xinput commands are going to be usable.

    It’s a little in depth and probably not the best way to do things, but I think I have a solution that might work. Hopefully this can at least get you started, let me know if you have any questions!

    Reddit implies that in settings -> keyboard -> shortcuts you can create a shortcut to execute arbitrary commands. You should be able to bind a key to “gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.peripherals.mouse speed 0.0” which will keep your cursor from moving and another with the “0.0” at the end changed to something like “0.5” to set the cursor speed back to something reasonable. This could be done as a shell script to toggle back and forth with one key.