vortexal @ vortexal @lemmy.ml

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I'm not sure how to do that because I've never had this kind of an issue with flatpaks before. What am I supposed to do?

Simple64 isn't a PPA, it's downloaded from flathub and the github page only links to flathub. If you are seeing a PPA, it's probably not real. Also, I'm not sure what to do with the information but that command gives me: libxapp1: Installed: 2.8.2+virginia Candidate: 2.8.2+virginia Version table: *** 2.8.2+virginia 500 500 http://mirror.team-cymru.com/mint-packages virginia/backport amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 2.2.8-1 500 500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu jammy/universe amd64 Packages

I would try a direct install but as far as I can tell the only way to install simple64 is through flathub. Trying to install through apt just give an error saying it can't find the package and the github page just links to flathub.

Have they ever? ChromeOS's original "app store" was just Chrome's extension store. It's been awhile since I've checked but Google doesn't (or at least didn't) officially support running android apps in ChromeOS Flex. Instead of focusing on getting more apps running on ChromeOS, they're actively working on Google Play Games for Windows (which also hurts android). For which I think I saw that there are games that work in Google Play Games but they don't work in ChromeOS for some reason. I'd imagine that there are a lot of other weird things but it's been a while since I've actually used it.

It's just one of those things where, ChromeOS has the potential to be a good competitor to Windows and MacOS (and maybe even a good Linux distro) but for some reason Google does nothing with it to make it worth using and actually seems to be actively harming it.

I know it's probably an odd choice, but ChromeOS. It has the potential to be not just a good starting point for new Linux users but also a distro that could allow Linux to be a lot more accessible to people who aren't as technologically capable. The main problem is that, similar to android, Google prevents ChromeOS from being used as a proper Linux distro. Right now, it might be a good alternative to Windows and MacOS but as a Linux distro, it's just not worth using. Especially considering that Linux already has some options available for running android apps, such as Waydroid, that work pretty well.

Ok so it turns out that I got that error message because I forgot to use sudo, but it still didn't disable MOK. However, as I stated in the update in my post, I was able to get around MOK with my password and I'm currently reinstalling Mint.

I tried that a few hours ago and it didn't seem to do anything. But I just tried it again and got this message "Failed to request new MokSB state".

I do what I can to just ignore it. Sure, I don't have a lot and my life is pretty shitty but I always remember that someone somewhere else probably has it significantly worse. Also, while I know it's morbid to think like this, I know that if things get really bad, there will always be a way out.

I don't know how to do any of that first part. All of the data on the drive is replaceable, it's just going to be very tedious and time consuming. I'm currently trying one other method and I think after I'm done with that, that I'm just going to skip trying to recover the data. I had some other plans for what I wanted to do with this device and I think trying to recover the data isn't worth it at this point.

Assuming I'm using it correctly, it doesn't seem to be working for me. It sees the partitions but then it says that they can't be recovered. But it's weird because it's for some reason saying that there is two unreadable partitions called "ms data", which unless it's referring to some partitions that were deleted when I install Ubuntu, I have no idea what they are supposed to be.

I don't think I can use that mostly because my internet package has a data cap and I don't want to risk exceeding that.

Also, I know it's not really the time or place for this type of discussion but I've noticed recently (within the last few months) that for some reason the Lemmy community has changed. I don't know if anyone else feels that way but it sometimes seems like some users are unnecessarily hostile/judgemental towards me. I wont say anything more because once again, this is not the time or the place but Lemmy wasn't like this when I first started using it over two years ago.

I know you wont understand where I'm coming from so I wont bother explaining it. If I need another storage device than I'll just have to wait until next year to get another storage device.

Edit: I don't understand why I'm getting downvoted but it proves to me that I made the right choice in not explaining my situation.

That's one of the solutions I saw that I currently can't do because I have no other device that I can use for that.

Outside of having significantly more formats and methods available (some of which are experimental), the only other thing really notable is that 7zip doesn't seem to have a "tar before" option, like PeaZip does. I can see that in the manual, that 7zip can tar files before compressing but you have to do that manually.

I should probably mention that my original comment was comparing PeaZIp to WinRAR. I actually didn't use 7zip until I tested for the purpose of comparing it to PeaZip in this comment.

I've never really used it for movies and it can recommend more than just movies but I've used TasteDive before, if you haven't already tried that one.

Ok, I know what happened. Because of Wikipedia's new layout, I saw "two USB 2.0 ports" but missed the part where it stated that those were included on the docking bar.

On a side note, I have seen people take a raspberry PI and use a case with a touch screen and a battery so they can use it as a phone.

Ok, I was confused because OP said USB "sticks". I knew that Linux phones have standard USB ports so I thought that maybe modern android phones had them too.

Do modern android phones have standard USB ports or can you just use USB storage devices through the charging port with an adapter?

Ok, I've edited my comment to reflect that.

I recently found out about PeaZip, it's a Foss compression tool that can compress and uncompress a wide variety of compression formats. For some formats, like 7z, it also has some pretty advanced options to help maximize compression ratios, if you know what you are doing of course.