Adjusting the text selection and background appearance settings for thunar are not available via Settings Manager | Settings Editor. Luckily, thunar can easily be customized another way via css. The solution. To fix this unreadable text when thunar is in the background, add a file
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ArsTechnica has a follow-up to a Wall Street Journal piece about polymarket’s false advertising. Essentially, the old saw of “on the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog” has become a business model for a new kind of snake oil.
“In its push to draw users to its unregulated platform, Polymarket has flooded social media with videos like [George] Makihara’s, which appear genuine at first glance,” the article said. “In reality,
A photo I took when paddling and portage through Quetico in September 2023 is a winner for the Xubuntu 26.04 wallpaper contest.
I will be getting some stickers.
Basically, a corruption of the CUPS policy file stops CUPS from running until the corruption is removed.
My printing stopped working after a late November 2025 update. Basically, only Airprint drivers would appear in a print dialog, and those drivers could not connect to anything when selected (and so there was no printing at all).
I tracked the error down to CUPS not operating
Firefox 131 released in October 2024 gained the ability to link to a specific text fragment inside a web page by including #:~:text= followed by the text fragment to link to.
But, that feature is turned off by default. To turn on this feature, first go to your about:congfig page and click through the warning. Then search for fragment in the search box.
To turn on this feature,
Webex does not work on Ubuntu 24.04/Noble systems.
Thanks to Michael Heilmann, the error is related to a missing apparmor profile.
I did fix this bug by adding a apparmor profile for Webex into a new file here “/etc/apparmor.d/Webex”:
profile Webex /opt/Webex/bin/CiscoCollabHost flags=(unconfined) {
userns,
# Site-specific additions and overrides. See local/README for details.
include if exists <local/Webex>
}
Afterwards you need to reload the profiles with
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Ubuntu handbook has instructions on how to get Airplay up and running on a Linux box.
With these instructions, here is what I did for my desktop.
I have upgraded my desktop but not my laptop.
Note: Xneo is an alias for neofetch –ascii_distro xubuntu.
In general, the switch to mostly snaps could be smoother, and I still need
Continue Reading Upgrading to Xubuntu Noble — 24.04 from 22.02 — and a review
Given the breadth of hardware and operating system wrinkles at play with Linux, it is all too common to see recurring and minor errors pop up about some setting or hardware snafu that really does not matter.
For my desktop computer, I was seeing log files of 2 to 4 gigs in size. Here is how I tracked this problem, discovered the cause, and found a solution (at least for the ballooning log
With the new speedometer 3.0 speed tests, I ran some tests with various browsers on my System76 2018 Galago Pro laptop.
Current specs are (via the inxi terminal command):
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Video acceleration in Firefox (all recent versions of the past year and more) has been a problem on my desktop computer with its radeon graphics card. See my setup. Various websites would have videos appear as glitches and even lead to the xfdesktop freezing/crashing and needing to be killed (xfdesktop will automatically restart after being killed).
Thanks to UbuntuHandbook for its advice at Enable Hardware Video Acceleration (VA-API) For Firefox in Ubuntu
Continue Reading Video acceleration in Firefox for radeon graphics card
Note: Creepio, an AI, is a featured player among Auralnauts.
The current infatuation with Artificial Intelligence (AI), especially at the state bar which is pushing CLEs about how lawyers need to get on the AI bandwagon, is generally an un-serious infatuation with a marketing concept.
AI and LLM – language learning models, on which much of recent AI is based – has nothing to do with accuracy. So, for a legal practice or any kind of professional activity
With twitter deteriorating by the day, there is a need for social media options. And, one of those options is Mastodon and the Fediverse. Unlike other social media where a person signs up for an account at a central repository (think Facebook, twitter, or LinkedIn), there is no single repository or instance of Mastodon. Rather, Mastodon’s only real organization is set of communication protocols called ActivityPub so that posts from one instance can migrate to
Artificial intelligence is all the rage nowadays, and Barton Gellman indicated how whisper.cpp presented fantastic accuracy.
So, I gave the app a run, and it is impressive. Unfortunately, directions for usage could be a bit better. Here are some helpful tips.
First, some directions for installing.
In recent versions of Vivaldi, the menu has started appearing on the right side of the window.
I am a stickler for usability, and so I want a menu showing. I also follow the original human interface design guidelines of trying to have window controls on the upper-left corner of windows/screens.
Any insights into how to fix this display bug in order to get the menu back on the left side of the window?
This bug
Continue Reading Menu on wrong side of the screen in Vivaldi
With the ongoing unemployment crisis, I have not had much time at all to do anything computer-related in a while.
But, Dedoimedo has a fabulous post about how to make FireFox more user-friendly in the current v91 user-interface. Here is what I managed to accomplish in 20-30 minutes.
Download the userChrome.css file I created yourself to save some copying and pasting, if you want.