I did look at changing the DE, but apparently KDE doesn’t work well with Mint. I want to change distros anyway though, as some of the problems I’m having are from the outdated repos. I’ve only been on Mint properly for a few months, but have had to manually install a few programs already

Thanks for replying, it looks like I’ve got some homework to do :D

I did look at the fstab page, but I didn’t understand enough to get an answer. I’ll look at the mount page tonight, thank you :)

I thought that might be the case, but do you know if changing the group would help at all?

That could work really well then, especially as I’m looking to change distros. Mint is great, but it’s got a few issues that are getting in my way now.

Thank you :)

That could work then. I tend to have to use the same sites for the various sites, like Facebook for example, but it’s rare that I need to use the same site for different accounts on the same site. Most of the sites use Gmail for now, but that does work well with multiple accounts.

I’ll have a proper look when I get home later. Thank you :)

No worries 🙂

Unfortunately that won’t work for me, I need them to be completely separate. I’ve got physical and mental issues that mean I get brain fog, and then get things muddled up. If the tab groups share things like bookmarks or saved logins, there’s a chance that I’ll open the wrong link, or log in to the wrong email.

That’s interesting. I knew that Firefox had options for different profiles, but last time I tried I couldn’t get it working the way I wanted. I’ll have another look, thanks :)

Thanks for replying :)

I think there’s some confusion though, none of the sites are hosted locally, PortableApps just lets me use a separate browser and email client for each website, effectively sandboxed from each other so that there’s no chance of accidentally editing the wrong site or posting from the wrong account. Each PortableApps instance has its own set of logins and bookmarks etc. to manage one website and the associated emails.

I essentially just want to run a program in a Windows 10 VM that’s stored on the Linux host but on an NTFS drive. As far as I can tell, the permissions on the NTFS drive are interfering with that, as the files are in the root group on Mint, whereas I’m in the tippon and vboxuser groups. I’m not sure how to change that without risking breaking something, but the way the NTFS drive is mounted through fstab seems to be the answer.

I think that changing fstab so that the drive is mounted under my user and group will fix it, but I don’t know how that will affect anything else on the drive, or any Linux programs that access those files. I’m stuck with NTFS for now as I occasionally need to dual boot, and need these programs available while I’m in Windows too.

Ideally I’m going to move away from using PortableApps to manage the sites, but I haven’t found a better way yet.

I’m using Mint too, and have tried installing Notepadqq and Kate. Notepadqq just crashes immediately even with the fixes I found online.

Kate is really good, just be aware that the version in the Mint repo doesn’t save the session automatically. It can save it, but only manually, and only for saved files. It doesn’t recover files that haven’t been saved yet like Notepad++ does.

Temporarily? How else do you get the excess food off the plates? 🤔

The same GDPR that allows every website or app to share your data with their 816 partners, as long as they claim they have a ‘legitimate interest’?

Is it just me or is Tom’s Hardware getting really shit lately? This is the third article I’ve seen where one person has been ripped off and their story is ‘The state of the industry! Scams everywhere! 😱’

One of the others was someone who bought memory that had been swapped for metal weights, and Tom’s Hardware tried to claim that it was a new industry scam because of the price increases, and not a one off

The latest DeDRM uses a key from the installed version of the Kindle program, which is for Windows. I think you can use a key from the Android or Amazon tablet versions too, but I’ve never been able to get it to accept those keys

Data’s in the background trying to figure out why they just destroyed the mining colony, and realising it’s those damned organics and their mating rituals again.

Most of the cameras like this that I’ve seen have an app that lets you transfer the photos too. The issue is that you need to connect to the camera with Bluetooth, which then turns on the camera’s wifi for the full connection. The apps do this automatically.

I’ve been wondering if there’s a way to run the app from a computer, and connect to the camera through that, but I don’t know how you’d get it to wake the camera to allow the wifi connection.

Yeah, it was exactly this. He wanted to be the big action hero, so to him, rotting behind a desk on a short leash would be the worst possible ending. Even in prison he could play out his power fantasy, even on a small scale. Here, he’s finished.

I really like that :D

I’m a bit gutted that my kid’s not into skating, because now I haven’t got an excuse to copy your homework :p

OP:

Is green

Sees the error of their ways and rectifies it

Heart grows three sizes

OP is the Grinch

I sorted out my phone photos a while back, and arranged them all properly, but then I found an old backup with loads of missing photos and dodgy file names. Dropbox automatically renamed them during a backup about ten years ago, so I would have had to rename them all and check for duplicates again, and I just couldn’t be bothered at that point.

I’m an amateur photographer, so I’ve got tens of thousands of photos going back at least 20 years, so I really do need to sort them out.

I’ve got thousands of music files too, mostly as mp3. I’ve just finished organising those, so the next job is getting rid of the crap and getting better quality copies of what’s left.

Funnily enough though, my father was really into the local music scene in the 90s and got me into it, so I’ve got a load of music from small unsigned bands too. I help with a small music festival here, also for unsigned acts. I haven’t upset the postman here though, I’ve only had posters delivered. So far… 😁