toynbee

Fedora is absolutely my favorite distro that I’ve used to date. I have it both on my desktop (mostly used for gaming) and my laptop (mostly used for web browsing or anything I might have to do while traveling) and have for many years.

I never get crashes or anything, but on both systems the mouse (USB for desktop, track pad for laptop) will occasionally just stop working. Sometimes clicks still work, sometimes not, but universally the cursor just stops moving. On my desktop I just unplug and plug back in the mouse, but on the laptop I either have to wait it out or reboot using the keyboard.

The desktop also has issues with Bluetooth. (As does the laptop, but they’re much more intermittent.) I even got an external dongle in case hardware or placement were the problem, but that changed nothing. I know both the internal and external work because, when I search, they find my TV, my HASS unit, etc.; but for the things I actually want to connect, like a keyboard or headset, it either doesn’t see them at all, or does, but they disappear when I try to connect or pair them (and don’t show during the next search unless I wait a while).

I haven’t really looked into the mouse issue, but I have reviewed various logs for Bluetooth and not yet found anything that looks relevant.

Other than those issues, I love Fedora. Other problems I’ve had in the past have resolved themselves, presumably through the efforts of the developers, so though I’ve had these issues through several releases, I’ll probably just wait them out.

Fair enough. Thank you.

I’m not trying to be dismissive or critical of those who use a NAS solution. I’ve never used one myself, so maybe it really is amazing; but from your response it sounds just like an NFS (or perhaps samba) server with a web interface? I did try TrueNAS once and it basically seemed like that, but also with convoluted permissions.

Again, not trying to be dismissive or anything. Just trying to understand.

I’m unclear on the benefit either has one just an NFS server.

So where do I go for my free mp3 sex now?

Couldn’t say - I’ve never had the chance to use it. In fact, I’m not sure I ever had the SysRq key on a keyboard I’ve used.

I have had a Pause/Break key and used to think they were the same thing, but now I’m not so sure.

You just reminded me … Before I really got into IT in my career I was at a job that still had a messenger for the internal staff. I set my status message in it to “Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring.”

I got chastised and made to change it, because the message might offend … Skinny elephants, I guess? I never got clarification on that.

(The manager had no clue what it meant.)

I’m currently on my phone and I’m not going to try to figure out how to test regex on Graphene. Therefore I can only say: well done!

We share the same dinna!

Let’s see you write a regex for one, then we’ll decide.

I try to avoid “this” style comments, but I genuinely don’t know how else to respond to this one. It was hilarious. I literally (by which I actually mean “literally”) laughed out loud.

I don’t see an issue with it. There are maybe a few things I would say differently, but every IT job I’ve worked has had poorer language in the documentation, even sometimes the ones we distribute to customers.

When my work enabled Gemini, I asked it how to disable it. It said it couldn’t help me and asked if I had another question. I didn’t.

That’s the only interaction I’ve willingly had with it.