know where I can find more information about this? I'm running edge iso on my laptop and would like to know.
wait what? I didn't see anything in OP's link about that, and nothing I see online says anything about it. where did you see that?
Is it possible to change which folder the file manager will show when opening the file manager?
Yeah super specific and weirdly worded question, I know. I use the download folder a lot, so much so that I would prefer the file manager to show that folder directly instead of showing me the user folder, and then navigating to the downloads folder?
Side question, is it safe to delete folders like the documents folder and the music folder without causing issues in the future?
Oh, dope. Is there a timetable for its stable release? Also, is the update for the Edge ISO as well?
wait is THAT why my mint edge iso randomly fucking sends me back to login screen??
I really don't like killing players, and when I am a player, I really don't like having my pc killed. That being said, I like the idea of player killing, because then it ups the stakes (theoretically. I've never played in a permadeath campaign). Parties would have to think twice about taking on a more powerful foe, or consider running away as a very real option to avoid death, or reconsider doing absolutely stupid shit that will get them arrested and executed. It (again, theoretically) makes the game more realistic in a sense?
But then you're playing it, and your character you wrote a 3 page backstory for dies because of bad rolls or shitty combat balancing, and now you're pissed because you really liked playing that character, but the dm isn't going to rewind time and the party has no way to resurrect the character or at least preserve the body until they do have the means. Or you're on the other side of this as a DM, and watching a good player get pissed off and quit the table because of it.
wha... but... why?
ooh boy, and I was going to do pop!OS on my main rig thinking mint wasn't good for gaming.
Been using Mint for about a month now on my daily laptop. It's nice, not having to deal with windows' bullshit, but on the other hand I've had a number of issues with it; most recently, it sort of reboots itself every so often randomly. That, and issues with not being able to hear high fidelity audio on a bluetooth headset while also using the headset's mic (there's a codec that let's me use both mic and audio, but the audio is low quality).
Usually though issues get fixed with an update, just gotta check the update manager often.
The specific laptop model is HP Laptop 15-fc0025dx. It's an AMD Radeon graphics card; lspci lists the vga compatible controller as a Mendocino (rev c1), which this link seems to tell me is used in the AMD Radeon 610M. Unsure how to dedicate additional memory to the gpu from the BIOS (still a linux scrub lol), but checking on some dmesg errors reveals there seems to be a recent bug with a link encoder assignment (whatever that means). More details in this comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/10811232
I checked the logs. I really don't know how to use journalctl -e at all, so I'm just going to mention what I found on dmesg. It reported a number of errors, though they were mostly the same. This one came up pretty often:
[drm:link_enc_cfg_validate [amdgpu]] *ERROR* link_enc_cfg_validate: Invalid link encoder assignments - 0x1c
and these two come up a number of times, always together:
[drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring sdma0 timeout, signaled seq=13767, emitted seq=13769
[drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process pid 0 thread pid 0
I got an error for the bluetooth a couple times too: Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to read codec capabilities (-22), and this other one only came up once iirc: hub 6-0:1.0: config failed, hub doesn't have any ports! (err -19)
I don't think the hub or the bluetooth errors have anything to do with the crashes, so I looked up the first error, the invalid encoder assignment one, and found this thread from a few days ago, though it doesn't seem to have any solid answers other than rolling back to an older linux. Most recent post seems to be from 2 hours ago lol, I guess this is a really new issue?
[WP] You wake up one morning and find a clowder of cats in your living room, all of them staring at you.
Clowder is a group of cats apparently
yeah you're correct, it is the login screen and not the lock screen. it just happened again while I was leaving my laptop running and playing music. I'll run those commands in a little bit, otherwise occupied atm
[Unresolved] What the hell is happening here??
Running Linux Mint 21.3 EDGE Cinnamon iso. Linux kernel 6.5.0-41. Not sure what happened here or what the cause was, occasionally happens when using Firefox. It'll bug out like this for a few seconds, then when I move my curser over it everything goes back to normal.
I've also experienced an issue where, when opening a tab or doing something in Firefox (usually Google docs), the entire system will randomly do a partial reboot? best way I can explain it is it'll go black, flash (what I assume is) the BIOS terminal screen, then load in my lock screen; all my open softwares will have closed out and I'd have to open it again. Idk if the system is rebooting fully when this happens or not but it sure as hell feels like it.
Are these related? are they Firefox issues or is something fucky with my drivers?
I've verified everything is up to date like 6 times just in case.
Update: Have not personally resolved either issue. unsure if they are unrelated. I can't seem to replicate the issue, unsure if they will be resolved by a random update or not, though the issues do seem to be fairly recent and known about; see comments for what I found on the Internet.
oh, Europe, yeah that makes sense. see I live in bumfuck America where they'll tell you to get fucked and then shoot your kid
right, but some people do, and by encouraging this, you're fucking over your fellow humans.
edit: There are also situations where you don't have a choice but to buy water bottles. maybe you're out of your home, your personal bottle is empty, and it's hot out. maybe you're at the airport. sure you could drink from water fountains, but what if they're nowhere near you? or what if they don't work?
how much of this still applies when the debt is as big as the United State's current debt? (genuine question)
iirc nitrogen is the best gas for this, as your body doesn't realize it's not getting Oxygen and you just kinda fall asleep and stop existing. or maybe I'm thinking it backwards idfk.
obvs don't test it.
Gotta say, one of my favorite scenes in the show/light novels is when [SPOILERS]
Title
when Enri summons the goblin army.
all that buildup and all that payoff is just so incredible. the army coming from nowhere to blindside both the reader and Prince Barbro's army in the nick of time, just for them to thoroughly wipe the floor with them, the way literally everyone is shocked by this genuinely random development (that still makes total sense in the context of the story) just grabs me like nothing else. it's not something this story does often either, so it's especially special (ie it's not overdone in the story so it isn't stale). seeing the underdog suddenly get a huge set of reinforcements is crazy n I love it so much. and since it's a side character, it's an excellently well placed foil to Ainz already having that power and defeating the rest of the kingdom's armies. it's just... chef's kiss
Holy shit fuck the new dark fluid mission on meridia
Ah yes, have a bug beach spawn literally on top of the drill
Ah yes, have a bile titan spawn 5 feet away from the drill and instantly spit vomit all over it, with 0 time to kill it before it does.
Ah yes, have all bugs instantly set the drill to high priority and ignore literally everything else
Seriously how the fuck are you supposed to do this mission??
[Resolved] Mint Issues with Audio Input
Edit: Possibly resolved. Noticed there were a bunch of updates that mint wanted to install, but which required a reboot. Live sessions reset everything on reboot, so I obliterated windows and did a full install, then updated. Mic issues seem to be resolved now, dunno what update it was that fixed it. I only say possibly resolved because I haven't finished fully testing it due to time/location constraints but the tests I did do seem to work fine.
First a quick thanks to everyone who helped me out before; ended up using Cinnamon Edge and the wifi and bluetooth both work.
However, I am having issues with audio inputs. For whatever reason, it seems to detect audio outputs as the audio input (at least from Firefox). e.g. when I have music playing from a youtube tab and try using my mic, it detects the music from the yt tab as the input, and doesn't detect any input from my mic itself. This occurs regardless of whether I have bluetooth headphones connected or not. How can I fix this?
Edit: Still having issues with it. Installed pavucontrol (after a lot of trouble), the only input is from monitors but I don't see anything I can do with it.
Issues I was having with installing pavucontrol and the fix I found:
From the command line, it returns Waiting for cache lock: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 4932 (synaptic) until it cancels itself. From the software manager, I get E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend. It is held by process 4932 (synaptic) W: Be aware that removing the lock file is not a solution and may break your system. E: Unable to acquire the dpkg frontend lock (/var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend), is another process using it?. Ended up using sudo lsof /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend to find the process using that lock and killing it (it ended up being process 4932 lol).
2nd Edit: Messed with the configurations in pavucontrol. Shows two, uh, things I guess: HD-Audio Generic and Family 17h (Models 10h-1fh) HD Audio Controller.
HD-Audio Generic has three profiles: the first is Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output (unplugged) (unavailable). The other two are the same thing, except one has Digital Stereo 7.1 and the other has 5.1. None of these seem to do anything.
Family 17h (Models 10h-1f) HD Audio Controller has 3 as well: Analog Stereo Output, Analog Stereo Duplex, and Analog Stereo Input (unplugged) (unavailable).
I don't think I can figure this out. I have the same issue even when connecting my bluetooth headset, where the input mic registers the output audio as the input for some reason. The "monitor" of Family 17h (I don't really know what it means by monitor) picks up the output as input, and the same goes for when my headset is connected.
Linux Cinnamon Mint live session Wi-Fi issues
Linux noob using mint for the first time, decided to boot from a flash drive before fully installing on my PC, just to try it out first. I'm having issues getting Wi-Fi to work during the live session though; clicking the Wi-Fi icon only brings up Network Settings and Network connections. Network connections lets me try to set it up manually, but I can't figure out how to get it to connect after putting in all the info I can find for my Wi-Fi. Is this normal? Did I mess up the installation somehow, or is a drivers problem?
Hardware: HP laptop, AMD Ryzen 5 7520U w/ Radeon Graphics (Model # 15-fc0025dx). OS: Linux kernel 5.15.0-91 generic, Linux Mint version 21.3, Cinnamon version 6.0.4. Booted off a flash drive (live session).
edit: I also get the following screen when I try to shut my laptop down from the Mint boot: !
