Linux Mint

Linux Mint is fantastic. Until its not. Cinnamon runs into all sorts of issues with its "hardware device driver" snafu, the occasional session bus error (at least when running cinnamon on openSUSE), and apt often renders itself non-functional with the nonsensical error sudo apt --fix-broken install which of course would be awesome if it worked. But it doesn't. It never has. It doesn't even appear to be valid syntax. This variation however, does work:

apt-get -f install

Why the openSUSE online repositories had to go offline today however, is just maddening.

All Lives Matter?

Smart people research the shit out of things to better argue their point, because we can all agree opinions based on incorrect assumptions are as numerous as chewy balloon knots. Which is why it took me years to begrudgingly acknowledge white privilege. Because I thought it didn't exist. I thought it was a farce. I thought it was a tool of the libtards to fool me into paying for something undeserved; Rush and I belonged to a secret club of universally smart people. So I researched my argument to prove the point and walked away with a completely different understanding of a great many things. "All lives matter" is a chewy balloon knot answer. Don't be a chewy balloon knot. Do even a modicum of reading. Do the bare-fucking-minimum of ANYTHING different than what you think you already know. You too may find yourself on a completely different plane of existence looking down upon a field of chewy balloon knots with a mixture of amusement and pity.

Cool Retro Term

Only after paying real money to the Apple App Store for, "Cathode" a terminal emulator which mimics a number of vintage consoles did I run across cool-retro-terminal for both linux and mac (that said, the iOS Cathode app is FANTASTIC for CLI from the bedroom).

HOWEVER not all distros have cool-retro-terminal and not all distros which do display it properly, if at all. And building from source on some distros is downright disastrous.

This seems to work pretty well though:

wget https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term/releases/download/1.1.1/Cool-Retro-Term-1.1.1-x86_64.AppImage
chmod a+x Cool-Retro-Term-1.1.1-x86_64.AppImage
./Cool-Retro-Term-1.1.1-x86_64.AppImage

You're welcome.

Headless Resolution

God I hate Xf86config and xorg conf files. And we're flush with virtual servers these days. This occurred on a headless physical, but the steps should be the same to change from a forced 1024x768 to 1920x1080:

# init 3 to kill your window manager.
# X -configure to create an xorg.conf.new
# cp xorg.conf.new xorg.conf to overwrite the old with the new.
# init 5 to restart your graphical environment.

I use NoMachine (nx) which has a Display --> Change Settings --> Custom Resolution functionality I used to great success after the above steps.

Ugh.

What Can One Person Do?

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-can-one-person-do-eric-howton/

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