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    Problems when setting a second's monitor resolution

    run The above command will list all your devices and modes. then run should get an output something like # 1848x1036 59.93 Hz (CVT) hsync: 64.42 kHz; pclk: 159.25 MHz Modeline "1848x1036_60.00" 159.25 1848 1968 2160 2472 1036 1039 1049 1075 -hsync +vsync now you can add the modeline Now...
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    Australia - The Land Down Under

    Whats up with this https://hotair.com/tree-hugging-sister/2024/05/17/solar-panels-spark-hot-in-australia-as-energy-companies-start-charging-owners-for-excess-power-generation-n3788596
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    No internet while connected to Hotspot?

    Try Does it work?
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    PDF file.

    The simplest solution is probably to use pdftotext from poppler-utils to extract the text, and then use an existing command line spell-checker (spell, ispell, aspell, etc...) to check it. Note that if you are generating the PDF, you are probably better off checking the source of that generation...
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    Am I Stupid?

    has not been updated in 8 years - requires python-wxgtk2.8 which has been truncated in Debian 12 repos what is available now is python3-wxgtk4.0 - so I believe it is a compatibility issue
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    Bluetooth will not turn on on my laptop

    Need to check for missing firmware now or you can run and post back the results - if it is missing firmware it should show something like RTL: firmware file rtl_bt/rtl8761b_fw.bin not found
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    Bluetooth will not turn on on my laptop

    try This should show your Bluetooth - post back the results
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    .pdf editor for Linux Mint

    There are two that I know that can compete with Acrobat Pro, but they are paid versions like Acrobat 1)Qoppa PDF Studio - https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio/download/ they also have a free PDF viewer - https://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudioviewer/ 2) Master PDF Editor -...
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    GRUB Rescue:Need help from someone with patience

    Try the ? in (hdo,?) will be the partition number counting from 1. once booted back into it make sure the efi partition is mounted at /boot/efi and as root run grub-install also are you dual booting with Windows? since you have no /boot/grub/x86_64-efi/normal.mod file you most likely do not...
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    GRUB Rescue:Need help from someone with patience

    try and then and then we are looking for an example output should be - lost+found var/ dev/ run/ etc/ tmp/ sys/ proc/ usr/ boot/ home/ lib lib64 and so on what we are looking for is boot/
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    Tuxedo OS 3 - KDE 6

    I see on Tuxedo OS website it says - We might not be able to answer questions about third party hardware or software. For questions about popular open source software (Thunderbird, Filezilla...) please contact a forum e.g. ubuntuforums.org. The research effort for application specific setup is...
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    Books are Worthless Nowadays.

    I have several hundred books in my house right now I just bought - The Demon of Unrest - by Erik Larson - It's about the events that led up to the US Civil War
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    The unthinkable has happened: Nvidia has finally embraced open-source GPU drivers

    Both my older Dell laptops have Nvidia - last Nvidia driver I could use was the 390 series and Kernel 5.4 - with that said the Nouveau Drivers work just fine with no issues
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    GRUB Rescue:Need help from someone with patience

    At the grub prompt type in ls you should get an output like (hd0) (hd0,msdos1) or (hd1) (hd1,msdos1) now we need to find the boot directory run ls [partiton name] so if ls does indeed show (hd0,msdos1) that would be ls (hd0,msdos1) an example output should be - lost+found var/ dev/ run/ etc/...
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    Australia - The Land Down Under

    Solar Panel fire at Olympic Park in Sydney https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/thousands-evacuated-from-sydney-olympic-park-aquatic-centre-after-solar-panels-on-roof-go-up-in-flames/news-story/b2c99ca23666e204d1e4f17bae4c11a3
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