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  1. PsychoHermit

    New Laptop

    Greetings folks. Holy cow, my laptop ran for 7 1/2 hours on battery, and that was down to 20%. i must say I am very pleased. Must be a hell of a battery. --glenn
  2. PsychoHermit

    Solved What are the switches for inxi to get it to show the wireless adapter?

    I know the wireless is supported, all I need is the identification of the wireless adapter to select the correct firmware. thanks in advance, --glenn
  3. PsychoHermit

    Why am I logged in twice?

    Greetings folks, Running Debian testing. Why do I appear to be logged in twice? This is a recent development, GKRellm used to show 1 users. Searching comes up with two likely looking posts, but it's on stack exchange and there's a cookie dialog that I cannot close so I can't read the posts...
  4. PsychoHermit

    [off topic] Happy Father's Day

    Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. --glenn
  5. PsychoHermit

    iPhone

    I'm amazed. I was able to connect my iPhone and download photos. I didn't expect it to work, so I was pleasantly surprised. Linux has come a long way from where it was when I used it several years ago. --glenn
  6. PsychoHermit

    Introducing the Carson City Linux Users Group

    The Carson City Linux Users Group will be meeting Saturday, December 17 from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, at the Carson City Public Library. 900 North Roop St. Carson City, Nv. Upstairs in Collaboration Room #1. Meetings are free, and open to the public. Carson City Linux Users Group Thanks, --glenn
  7. PsychoHermit

    [solved] How do I get snap-confine working?

    Greetings folks, How do I set up snap-confine? I have copied /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine.real to /etc/apparmor.d/usr.lib.snapd.snap-confine trying to get snap-confine working. No joy, when I try to run anything that is snap based I get snap-confine has elevated permissions...
  8. PsychoHermit

    [solved] snap-confine has elevated permissions and is not confined but should be

    Greetings folks, I'm having problems with snapd. This is what I get launching firefox from CLI. Running ubuntu 22.04 snap-confine has elevated permissions and is not confined but should be. Refusing to continue to avoid permission escalation attacks Reinstalling it cures the problem but...
  9. PsychoHermit

    Boot is bypassing grub and going to windows

    Greetings folks. I just had an SSD installed and reinstalled ubuntu 20.04.3. The install went fine but now I can't get my grub menu to come up. I have disabled fast boot in windows. What else can I try? It's an HP Envy Touchsmart notebook It's booting in efi mode as far as I know. One troubling...
  10. PsychoHermit

    Greetings

    66 year old noob here. Still working, probably for another year. I ran Gentoo for a couple of years, and got lazy when the hard drive cratered and installed Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. Running it on a several year old HP Envy TouchSmart notebook. Everything worked perfectly right off the bat, including...
  11. PsychoHermit

    Mouse wheel dropping events [solved]

    Greeting folks, I'm running ubuntu 20.04.3 on a HP Envy SmartTouch notebook. Everything was working perfectly until recently. When scrolling a page with the mouse wheel sometimes it does not scroll. I haven't been able to find anything in the logs. Hardware as follows. glenn@LinuxBox:~$...
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