andrewta

joined 2 years ago
[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Straighten out your back end and it'll go in easier.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

So what are the real lyrics there?

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I actually did think that it meant to kill someone

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Other then the short bit where he purposely mumbled to do a parody of Kurt. The rest was basically fine. Well that and when he has literal marble in the mouth.

At about 38 seconds

The lyrics are "if you want a white horse "

But she sings "if you wan a whi hor". This is one of the the things that bothers me.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago

There’s an idea we should just start sending him mirrors. All shapes and sizes. With a note: it helps when you look in the mirror.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Actually most of the music I listened to in the 90s were easy to understand. There were a few bands that were hard to invested but nothing like now.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Tried. Failed. But good thoughts

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

That is fine.

I just get annoyed with people that don't enunciate

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Pro top : take lots of pictures while on the vacation to Paris France. Send her the pictures. She'll be very greatful that you thought of her on your trip. Trust me.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

US and I get I think six weeks a year off.

It's been a while since I did the math to figure how much I get but I think it was about six. I can take it more or less when I want. The only exceptions are around winter holiday time. That can get a little tricky, but other wise I can basically take off when I want.

Most of my time off is a day here or there. Rarely do I take a real vacation.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Depends on the type of metal.

Hair metal bands from the 80's most were easy to understand. Most of AC/DC was easy to understand.

Opera is that rare exception. Not much into it. But once in a while there is something there that I do enjoy

 

I don’t mean singing in a foreign language, I mean if they aren’t enunciating their words.

There is a style of singing where the singer rolls one word into the next word, or just cuts a word off. I find it distracting and I tend to skip the song very quickly when I realize what they are doing.

While it is a popular way to sing, I have never enjoyed it. I heard some of it in the 1980s but it wasn’t widely used. Today I find a lot more singers doing it.

[–] andrewta@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Simply put because they want more money. Even though the jail is paid for at some point. They’ll just keep the tax and keep collecting and then spend it on something else.

Want to hear something that’ll really piss you off? Every year or a couple years and they’ll replace furniture and computers in city offices that don't need to be replaced. It’s totally in workable condition but they’ll spend the money anyways. Their argument is well if they don’t spend the money then they won’t get the same budget next year so they have to spend it now and yet the reality is they don’t need the equipment.

Then the city turns around, spends even more money on other crap they don’t need and then raise your taxes. Claiming They need more money.

edit: i'm getting down voted because I had a few typos that made it sound like they were spending money on things they DO need. My bad. screwed up typing is now fixed.

 

There is no way to play out a full story by splitting the screen time for 3 stories. Even splitting it for 2 stories is not a good idea. By splitting the time that many ways it’s basically impossible to really flesh out a story and add depth. In a one hour episode you really only get 40 minutes of air time. If you split that for two stories you get 20 minutes of screen time to tell a story. 3 ways? Yeah now you are just wasting a show. You only get 13 minutes to tell a story.

Combine the above with the fact that we have less and less episodes per season, and This creates a real problem to tell a story of any sort

 

If you don’t tell the people why you are leaving, they don’t know what is going on. And this applies to businesses it applies to stores it applies to companies. It even applies to social media accounts. It even applies to your friends and family.

If you tell people why you are leaving, at least they can make a decision if they want to change or not. If the company or whatever is seeing less people coming in, but nobody will say why they’re leaving. How can they make the change?

There’s no realistic way that a manager or a host or the owner of a business or whatever could realistically ask every single person who comes through the door hey are you happy? Are you coming back? Is there anything we should change? That’s not real.

If you aren’t happy and you don’t say what is making you unhappy. Then that’s on you.

Not the business or the social media site or whatever.

They can’t read minds.

 

According to Brother (printer company) I need to set a rule for my firewall.

brother printer instructions

as you can see at that page it says :

To scan using the Scan Key Tool, open the following ports in the security/firewall software you use:

  • UDP: 54925
  • TCP: 54921

I think I have it correct. but i'm new to linux and to creating rules in firewalls.

Those screenshots of how i created the firewall rule. I have the incoming set to "Deny" but I would assume that means that normally deny incoming BUT the rules I created should be exceptions. At least that's how I would read that. If I am wrong please let me know.

The important part is that according to the instructions ports

  • UDP: 54925
  • TCP: 54921

must be opened and allow incoming traffic.

my end goal is to have the ability to push the "Scan" button on my printer/scanner and have a document scan and pushed to the computer. I am running Linux Mint 22.1

If you need more information to help me I'm happy to reply. The big item is :

is the firewall rule created correctly?

I should add that I did create a previous post about my brother printer and I went through brother to make sure the drivers are installed and setup . so that issue has been solved, now it's just the firewall.

 

For example I'll send an e-mail with 3 questions and will only get an answer to one of the questions. It's worse when there are 2 yes/no questions with a question that is obviously not a yes/no question. Then I get a response of

Yes

back in the e-mail. So which question are they answering?

Mainly I'm asking all of you why do people insist on only answering 1 question out of an e-mail where there are multiple? Do people just not read? Are people that lazy? What is going on?

Edit at this point I’ve got the answers . Some are too lazy to actually read. Some admit they get focused on one item and forget to go back. I understand the second group. The first group yeah no excuse there.

Continuing edit: there are comments where people have tried the bullet points and they say it still doesn’t help. I might put the needed questions in red.

 

Ok first let me state I thank everyone for all the help over these last 7+ months. I'm on my final item ( I think ) to be fully on Linux. If I can get this working I'll wipe windows 10 from my pc and just be using Linux. So here's hoping someone can help me on this problem.

It's not so much of a MAJOR issue but more of an annoyance.

If I go to Document Scanner in Linux Mint 22.1 I can click the scan button. The scanner will active and scan the document putting it into a pdf or picture. No issues there, so I know the computer can see the scanner. I can also print to the printer. (Should note that the scanner is a scanner/copier)

So the system works in that direction.

If I go to the scanner and using the controls on the front of the scanner and hit scan it will say "No PC Found". So it's (in my opinion) a driver issue. I believe the linux system isn't announcing to the network that "hey I'm here and ready". Could be easily wrong there.

I went to the bother printer web site where thankfully they have actual linux drivers.

brother linux site

I downloaded the Printer drivers from there. I also downloaded the scanner drivers. Also the Scan-key-tool 64bit drivers.

I can't remember where I found it, and I tried looking in my history but sadly no luck.

But I do remember a post that asked what the output of

brscan-skey

and

brscan-skey -t

when I type them into the terminal I get no real result, it just looks like

andrew@linux:~$ brscan-skey

andrew@linux:~$ brscan-skey -t

so no real output there but sadly I can't remember why it was important or even where the webpage was at.. but at least you have the output of the commands.

I'm pretty sure that it's just something simple that I'm missing.

Oh yes, I also turned the firewall in Linux Mint off. Just in case there was an issue there, but no luck. To turn it off what I did was bring up the GUI for the firewall and click the slider / button next to Status. Normally it as a check mark and I set it so the shield is just greyed out.

If you need me to run a command to check something or need more info, please ask.

The printer/scanner is wirelessly connected to the router.

Thank you

 

You go to lift up a chip and most of the stuff (toppings) is left on the tray.

Try to scoop anything up and you get so little that it’s more headache then it’s worth.

Not saying they shouldn’t exist, just I would never order them.

 

Most times the computer will turn off when I click shut down, but randomly it does not turn off. The screen shot is the output as the computer is trying to shut down. Any ideas of why the system randomly doesn’t turn off? How to fix it?

I think I might put a pin in this one until I do a re-install and put it on the hard drive actually in the computer. Maybe the external drive is causing the problem ..

 

For example, I just purchased mass effect legendary edition in steam in mint Linux.

I also have a Windows computer Windows 10, if I installed steam onto the Windows 10 computer and logged into my steam account. Would mass effect legendary edition show up there? I’m asking here rather than trying it , which sounds kind of odd, Because my Windows 10 computer isn’t working really well right now so it’d be kind of a pain to make the test myself.

The second half the question is, if I were to buy a steam deck, would my steam purchase of mass effect legendary edition show up on the steam deck?

I realize this not a Linux specific question, But I wasn’t sure exactly where to post it out.

 

So my big questions are :

is there a way to get an equalizer installed.

Is there a way to fix the audio so the player Rhythmbox doesn't try to create a surround effect in music during playback? It seems like the music system is trying to "shove" the music from the left and right speakers further out to the left and right. Kind of an artificial surround sound.

I have 2 speakers and sub plugged into the computer via a usb cable that runs directly to the sub with the speakers plugged into the sub.

I'm running linux mint. it comes with rhythmbox preinstalled. I used the software manager to install

Rhythmbox-plugin-alternative-toolbar

but didn't see any real change to the interface of rhythmbox .

When I go to the 3 lines on the upper right corner (which I assume is the menu) and click that it shows (view) (tools) (preferences)

When I click preferences and then the plugins tab it doesn't show the plug in that i just installed ..

I was hoping that the plugin might give me some control for how the audio is played (some sort of equalizer)

i tried going to the package manager to see if there is an equalizer that i could add to this program. doesn't seem to be any.

any help is appreciated.

 

solved: answer in comments. short answer is Piper needed to be installed.

I installed solaar.

It calls my mouse a m500s. In Solaar i set key/button diversion (there are 2 drop down menus) one i set to forward button the other i set to regular. This causes one of the buttons on the side of the mouse to act as the forward button on a web browser.

key/button actions drop down menus (2 drop down menus) I set to back button and mouse back button.

when i run

xev -event mouse | grep -b2 button

4319-ButtonPress event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001, 4381- root 0x1e5, subw 0x3000002, time 13605046, (43,38), root:(75,102), 4452: state 0x10, button 9, same_screen YES 4494- 4495-EnterNotify event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001,

4708-ButtonRelease event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001, 4772- root 0x1e5, subw 0x3000002, time 13605214, (43,38), root:(75,102), 4843: state 0x10, button 9, same_screen YES 4885- 4886-LeaveNotify event, serial 25, synthetic NO, window 0x3000001,

that is the result if I hit the forward button on the side of the mouse in the test window. but no result of hitting the other side button (the back button).

I know that the o/s isn't recognizing the button press but not sure how to get linux mint to recognize the pressing of the button.

any thoughts on how to fix this issue?

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