Friday, June 20, 2025

Installing MOST to get colorful MAN pages

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I had to read some  MAN pages (manuals for terminal commands i.e. man ls would show you the help file for the ls command).  On my Ubuntu ...
Monday, June 09, 2025

AppImages Stopped Working/ Installing

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On my Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, I was using AppImageLauncher to help mange my AppImage files .  Recently I've tried to add three different AppI...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

When Using Firefox, Stopping FACEBOOK from Auto Refreshing Your FEED When You View Comments/Pictures/Videos.

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I use Firefox to access Facebook and Chrome for most everything else ( for right now ).  Facebook has a bad habit of doing an Auto Refre...
Friday, January 24, 2025

Virtualbox not showing USB Devices to the Guest OS

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When I try to add a USB Device in Oracle Virtualbox to the settings for my virtual Windows 11 Guest (Ububtu 24.04.1 is the host) all I see ...
Friday, December 06, 2024

Cura Loading Models Slowly/Delay (version 5.6 +)

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I recently upgraded  UltiMaker Cura from version 5.2.1 to version 5.9.0 and when I did it loads models very slowly, or better said, it ha...
Sunday, November 10, 2024

Installing A.I. Text to Image FOOOCUS (runs locally)

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Want to have your own Text to Image A.I.?  Let's get one up and running on Ubuntu 24.01.1 (I had it running on 22.04 too).  Let's in...
Saturday, November 09, 2024

Ubuntu 24.04.1 AppImages Not Working

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I upgraded from 22.04 to 24.04.1 on my Ubuntu box and some of my AppImages stopped working. Not all of them just a few.  First to get AppIma...

Fixing Virtualbox after upgrading to 24.04.1

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 After I did an upgrade from Ubuntu 22.04 to 24.04.1 I received an Error when trying to run my Windows 10 install in Virtual Box.  The fix...

Error when using sudo apt-get update: N Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/binary-i386/Packages'

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I upgraded from 22.04 to 24.04.1 and while fixing some of source files and running a " sudo apt-get update " to make sure my 24.04...
Thursday, September 26, 2024

Solaar, Logitech Unified Mouse/Keyboard Configuration App

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 I bought a new Logitech M720 Mouse .  It can connect via Bluetooth or a Logitech Unified USB Dongle .  In addition, it can connect to three...
Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Installing and Trouble Shooting CHIRP Radio Programming Software

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I bought a Baofeng UV 21R and needed to program it.  After a little research I figured out I could use a piece of software called CHIRP .  ...
Thursday, April 04, 2024

XZ Utils - Checking the Installed Version

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XZ Utils has been affected by a backdoor malware.   Versions 5.6.0 and/or 5.6.1 are the affected versions. Want to see what version of th...
Friday, September 08, 2023

NEMO, Change It's Default Start Directory

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I want Nemo (File Manager) to open the Downloads directory by default instead of my Home directory.  Let's change it now  Step 1.  Ri...
Monday, May 22, 2023

ALT key not working on Windows 10 running in Virtualbox

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I run Microsoft's Windows 10 as a Virtualbox Guest Machine from my Ubuntu 22.04 HOST.  I switched my Ubuntu 22.04 desktop to Cinnamon ...
Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Enable AppImages and FlatPaks on Ubuntu 22.04 +

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 Enabling APPIMAGES on Ubuntu 22.04 + Ubuntu 22.04 does not included the libfuse2 package by default. The AppImage distribution and most Ap...
Monday, January 23, 2023

"The following packages have been kept back" Error

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You're getting the error " The following packages have been kept back:  <list of packages>" after you run the  sudo apt-...
Thursday, January 19, 2023

Cinnamon Desktop / Gnome Desktop Nvidia Graphic Driver Fix

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I switched to Cinnamon Desktop a few days ago and did my first update today.  After the update I started getting an error when I logged on s...
Monday, January 16, 2023

Dumped Gnome Desktop for Cinnamon Desktop

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I have become sick of trying to track down a memory leak in Gnome Desktop on my Ubuntu 22.04.  It eats up 12gb of ram over a 4 day period.  ...
Sunday, January 08, 2023

Gnome Desktop Extensions I Use.

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Here is a list and link to all the Gnome Desktop (Shell) Extension I use.  I've been trying to find a memory leak in Gnome Shell (or one...
Monday, December 26, 2022

Mouse/Keyboard Battery Levels Displayed in Panel

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 A Gnome Shell Extension for Ubuntu 22.04 that displays the battery level of your wireless mouse and /or keyboard in your upper panel;   Bat...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Install Dropbox on Ubuntu 22.04

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Step 1.  Get the Ubuntu Dropbox installer. Navigate to Dropbox's Linux software download site at https://www.dropbox.com/install-linux ....
Sunday, December 11, 2022

Ubuntu 22.04 Stuttering Video Chrome/Firefox/Totem

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I was having trouble with YouTube videos stuttering.  They were NOT dropping frames , but about every 5 seconds they would freezing for 1/2 ...
Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Installing Wine 7.01 on Ubuntu 22.04

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I used Wine to run Photoshop CS2 on my Ubuntu 20.04 box ( Intel Core I5 ).  It worked without issue. I've upgraded that box to 22.04 ...