Anyone else having this problem?

We’re happy to announce that BusKill can be installed on Linux directly with apt

What is BusKill?

BusKill is a laptop kill-cord. It's a USB cable with a magnetic breakaway that you attach to your body and connect to your computer.

Watch the BusKill Explainer Video for more info youtube.com/v/qPwyoD_cQR4

If the connection between you to your computer is severed, then your device will lock, shutdown, or shred its encryption keys -- thus keeping your encrypted data safe from thieves that steal your device.

Debian

BusKill can be installed on Debian with apt.

To install BusKill in Debian, execute su - and then apt install buskill

To install BusKill on Debian, execute the command

su -
apt install buskill

Read the full article here:

• https://www.buskill.in/apt-debian-install/

Support BusKill

We're looking forward to continuing to improve the BusKill software and looking for other avenues to distribute our hardware BusKill cable to make it more accessible this year.

If you want to help, please consider purchasing a BusKill cable for yourself or a loved one. It helps us fund further development, and you get your own BusKill cable to keep you or your loved ones safe.

Buy a BusKill Cable
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Stay safe,
The BusKill Team
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I have tried a few different websites. My microphone indeed gives input, but when trying to connect to a call it just fails. Does anyone know how to fix this?

Hi!

I have been using Mint since November and feel pretty used to it, but I do miss wallpaper engine from Windows and there does not seem to be an equivalent, analogue, or alternative to it...

...Right?

Ok, sort of a noob-type question for someone who has used Mint for a long time, but I'm having trouble correctly pinning this app Krokiet, the successor to Czkawka, to my panel. I've added the application using the menu editor, right clicking on the icon and choosing "add to panel."

And it does add it to the panel! But when I click the icon on the panel another generic square gear app appears on the panel next to the icon (see the attached cropped screenshot, I used the old Czkawka icon in place of the sheep). I've edited the .desktop files in .local/applications, but no luck. I periodically have this problem with apps that aren't in the repos or in a PPA, but I can usually get it work—but not this one! The github page has more than ten different Linux versions, maybe one might work better than another? Much obliged for any suggestions.

A week ago I made a post about my excitement for switching to Linux. I was unable to do it that day, but I have finally done it today, after a couple complications (I was getting my tech friend to help me). I was scared, but I had no issue with connecting wifi or bluetooth and am having fun setting everything up! I figured out how to do some things with files quite quickly and didn't even have to look things up. It's so fun to figure these out! I am so incredibly happy to have switched!

linux mint web app at 2 minutes 46 seconds

please explain it to me like i'm 5 because i just don't really understand the difference. if there really is a difference.

Problem description: Screen will turn black for an instant (around 50 ms?) and go back to normal, black screens will mostly (but not always) be accompanied by a horizontal gray strip. Blinking happens fairly often from desktop view, it happens a little less when loading basic websites like forums from Firefox, but it gets borderline unusable when displaying a video, I only tested this on reddit though.

I installed Linux Mint "Zara" 22.2 Cinnamon edition for a 2015 HP ProBook laptop (can't recall the specific model rn), it's set up for dual-booting along with Windows 10 in legacy MBR mode (no EFI). Since it's a laptop it has an integrated Intel HD Graphics (520?) GPU.

The problem's been present since I first booted up the live session from the USB, I thought after installing it would go away since maybe the live session is less stable or something.

Windows works perfectly fine in regards to this though, so I know it's not a hardware problem.

Across the forums, for people with similar issues (I haven't found one that describes mine exactly) the solution is usually "Find the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet splash' and change it to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT='quiet splash intel_iommu=igfx_off i915.enable_dc=0 i915.enable_psr=0 intel_idle.max_cstate=2'."". I have tried with each of this parameters at least once, rebooting each and none of them completely solving the issue. my current setting is probably the one described there except that it may not include i915.enable_psr=0.

And yes, each time I modified the file through sudo nano /etc/default/grub, saved it, and sudo update-grub-ed, which never reported syntax errors so at least that should be fine.

My screen resolution is 1366x768, if that helps in any way.

UPDATE 1: I tested and rendering to external monitors work fine, I connected the device to a TV through HDMI and the blinking would only occur on the laptop monitor. This would maybe suggest it's a hardware issue, but that wouldn't explain why windows works fine, and messing around physically with the lid doesn't seem to increase/decrease the flickering. On the other hand, certain websites make the blinking/flickering occur more often if rendered, e.g. Godot Docs, and especially, Stack Overflow.

Info: My laptop is an HP ProBook 440 G4, integrated GPU Intel HD 520

I am currently up late doing anything but sleeping. Later, during the day, I will have officially taken the dive into Linux! I am very excited to do so. Does anyone have any tips, anything that a new user should know? That would be greatly appreciated.

Apologies: I posted this earlier then deleted it after being advised to avoid both, a poor choice on my part 🙁. However I'd be interested to hear what other people's experiences have been with these.

Good morning, I am trying to use WireGuard. I can connect to the VPN, but I cannot access any websites. The strange thing is that if I open a website in my browser (Firefox) and then launch the VPN, I can browse the previously opened websites, unless I open links external to that site. Do you have any advice for me? Thank you and have a nice day.

And then I realized I didn't need windows anymore. What software would you recommend to convert the partitions left on the SSD to Linux mint compatible ones ?

I can already use them but only as storage.

Can I expand the 70 Go I had reserved for mint without having to go through a full reinstall?

What can I use and how ?

Please, thx

I recently learned about a new bill being proposed in Ireland called the Communications (Interception and Lawful Access) Bill where Ireland may make it legal to “empower law enforcement to intercept of all forms of communications...whether encrypted or not” including the legal use of spyware.

According to DistroWatch, Linux Mint’s origin is Ireland so I’m wondering if there is going to be any implication should this bill pass.

hello. This feels like a stupid question and I'm sorry that I have to ask it but searching has been fruitless.

I've put a used amd 5700xt in my tower. The machine boots and sees the card and lists it in system settings. When I unplug the hdmi from the integrated graphics and plug it into the card it nothing displays on the monitor. Its as if the card is turned off.

If I boot the machine with hdmi in the graphics card from power up the screen stays black. Removing the cable and plugging into the integrated port brings up the display on the monitor as expected

Before I rip it out and troubleshoot further, I wanted to ask if there was a setting some where that I need to change to tell the machine to start using the new card?

TYVM

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42166990

Just a neat resource I found about LM and felt my fellow lemms might enjoy. Could be helpful if you know someone who is thinking of switching and looking for resources.

Not my channel.

Aloha, I'm being dumb. I tried to move away from using PIA- private Internet access do to some suggestions. I bit the bullet and finally switched VPNs after ~5 years or so.

I know others may say it's dumb but I was going to try Proton VPN. On my phone, no issues. If I run the installers in Mint though, I can't seem to get it to install. Tried the Debian install, tried the Ubuntu install, but no luck. Specifically the command sudo apt install proton-vpn-gnome-desktop Will always return an unable to locate package, even while running from the same directory I run the wget commands and such from.

Is there something that you have seen that works well with this? I need to set that machine back up for a split tunnel for a couple specific apps and not others.

I'm pretty much set on running my PC on Linux Mint, but before I make the full plunge I want to test it out by launching it from a USB drive. I was wondering how much discs I would need on the said USB stick so that I can boot into LM environment and test it out.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/58911678

The law firm that I work for is has finally decided that we should embrace Linux.

When of the key programs that we use a PDF Editor that has e-sign capabilities. Most people use Adobe and I use Foxit.

The problem with Foxit is that it doesn't run natively on Linux. I have to use WINE which is already going to be a problem cause we need a program that works out of the box. Having a program work out of the box cuts down on IT support and makes it easier for everyone to use.

The features needed:

1. Bookmark
2. Move/delete/insert pages
3. Redact
4. Bates numbering
5. E-sign
6. Change orientation of the page
7. Resize pages
8. Add notes
9. Highlight
10. Charges in Canadian dollars
11. Offline program
12. User friendly

Bonus points: It's a non-American company

The ones that I have looked at:

1. PDF Filler (not a fan of it being almost 100% cloud based)
2. Master PDF Editor
3. PDF Studio

Edit: Distro would most likely be Mint or Zorin.

I am on Linux Mint on a rather old refurbished Lenovo T460. The enter key is broken, so I want to have the key remapped to my insert key.

Until now I have been using xmodmap, however since a recent system update it no longer works.

Currently this is my startup script: xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

And this is the contents of the ~/.Xmodmap file:

$ cat .Xmodmap 
keycode 118 = Return

! Disable broken Enter key
keycode 36 = NoSymbol

Thanks in advantage for the help :)

Edit: I forgot to mention that copying and pasting the command I have in Startup Applications into the terminal and then pressing CTRL+M works, but it is a pain to have to do that every time I boot my machine.

I would like to see the Linux Mint project move in three directions:

1. Drop Xfce and MATE and focus on Cinnamon.
2. Continue with LMDE and Ubuntu-based Linux Mint, but only with Cinnamon.
3. Create an immutable version.

I'm a novice so go gently it's kinda my first time. I hope I'm in the right place.

I recently installed Mint on an old laptop to use as a browser for my TV. Everything has gone great so far except when I turn off the TV the laptop goes to sleep and won't wake. The TV is set to primary display.

I've turned off all of the power saving options and set Screen off/Suspend/lid coose to never or nothing. Turned off the screen saver and light. I checked the BIOS (it's actually BIOS and really that old) and no power settings that would effect sleep or wake.

But it still goes to sleep when I turn off the TV. This would be tolerable if it would actually wake from sleep. So the only way to get it to come on is to pull the battery out and force a restart.

Problem #1 - Goes to sleep when TV is off

Problem #2 - Won't wake unless I pull the battery

I followed the written tutorial in the settings but I still don't know if there's Wapuro Romaji and often when I try to test the layout it snaps back to English or doesn't seem to write any different from the english keyboard and if everything does work it seems to delegate individual Kana to keys & I'm not very comfortable with that way of typing.

hello @linuxmint@mamot.fr @linuxmint@lemmy.ml @linuxmint@mastodon.social

tl;dr I have got a problem with the tree-sitter-cli package version stuck at 0.20.8-5.

I installed the nvim-treesitter plugin in Neovim, and when I run :checkhealth, I get the following message:

nvim-treesitter:
Requirements ~
- ✅ OK Neovim was compiled with tree-sitter runtime ABI version 15 (required >=13).
- ❌ ERROR tree-sitter-cli v0.25.0 is required
- ..

#linuxmint #tree-sitter-cli #neovim #tree-sitter

1/X

Hi all, about to install latest LMDE with Cinnamon. I like my taskbar / dock on the left, to make better use of real estate.

Mint doesn't have that option to move it to the left.

Can I ask if anyone has done this, in a good, usable way?

Thanks for your help.

🚩UPDATE: If you can't stand that avatar icon in the menu, just right click the Mint logo and select configure. 👍

It is now possible to upgrade Linux Mint 22, 22.1 and 22.2 to version 22.3.

If you’ve been waiting for this we’d like to thank you for your patience.

1. Create a system snapshot

You can use Timeshift to make a system snapshot before the upgrade.

If anything goes wrong, you can easily restore your operating system to its previous state.

Launch Timeshift from the application menu, follow the instructions on the screen to configure it and create a system snapshot.

2. Prepare for the upgrade

If you installed Cinnamon spices (applets, desklets, extensions, themes), upgrade them from the System Settings.

3. Upgrade the operating system

Upgrading to Linux Mint 22.3 is fast and easy.

In the Update Manager, click on the Refresh button to check for any new version of mintupdate or mint-upgrade-info. If there are updates for these packages, apply them.

Launch the System Upgrade by clicking on “Edit->Upgrade to Linux Mint 22.3 Zena”.