I had a Tough Book that I had to run a one-liner script on boot so I could have sound. It was something to do with alsamixer. I remember that I couldn't get any audio out of the silly thing without that script unless I plugged in and then removed headphones.
Loved that machine though!
My friends bought me a litter robot, too. I have mixed feelings. I seem to have to reset and fiddle with the thing too often, but when it works, it's really good for keeping the smell down.
My guys use it more often than the other two old school boxes, so I guess two paws up from them?
I hate to recommend Boox,but I have an Onyx Book Poke 3 color, and it's basically an Android tablet that just pretends to be an e-reader. Any format, any audio, any webpage... Comics too.
Had it for years, never let me down. Not as good of battery life as the Kindle, but with Calibre on my laptop and the Boox, I don't ever pick up the Kindle anyways.
Instinctively, I wanna crap on Boox as I don't like some of their business practices, but the Poke is actually my go to e-reader, so...
As an alternative, I know that there are some e-ink e-readers in a phone sized form factor from a few companies, such as Hisense. Can't say too much about them as I don't have one, but half the time I read on my phone because it's small enough to come with me everywhere. Just a thought.
LVM is a bit more complicated than just using a normal partition, but it does add a lot of functionality.
If you need to make an LVM volume bigger, you can just add another disk to the volume. You can also do RAID like stuff with it. Live resizing of volumes is doable too.
I think some LVM stuff can be done in Disks, but I generally just use the command line. Smarter people, are there graphical LVM utilities I don't know about?
There are a lot of good sellers of corporate leasebacks out there... A five year old ThinkPad is going to kick butt over anything new with a Celeron.
I'm a student, and I got an MSI workstation with an i7-9750H, 16GB RAM, 256GB NVME, and a garbage battery for 250$ CAD.
That's less than 200$ USD.
This is my take: most people are decent. There are bad eggs, but generally, they got your back.
If you're trying to get settled, the libraries are a good place for help. Free wifi, books, games, that sort of thing. Our local library helps with getting paperwork sorted and resumes written, so, yeah.
I feel dumb for asking, but I did this and wow!
Is the usb drive formatted as NTFS?
Steam in Linux does not work on an NTFS partition.
I read all of your day 1, and now I feel invested.
Hmm... Shot in the dark here...
smb://username:password@ipaddress/sharename/ ?
I have an OAF router with a USB port that's samba shareable, and I just got to my files by going:
smb://phanto:testpass@192.168.1.1/share
If you can get it to work once, it's a heck of a lot easier to get a simple fstab mount so your share just sits in a folder, accessible at boot. I know I'm Windows, you can keep a Z drive, I just have a /media folder.
Anyone whose smarter than me know what might be the issue?
I've had a lot of success with Lutris for apps you wouldn't expect.