Yea, the installation isn’t too difficult. Looking at my groups as well I think it’s only the libvirt group that you have to add a user to for KVM/QEMU with Virt-Manager, but the same could be said for VirtualBox as I believe you have to still add the user to the vboxusers group if you were to install it instead.

Yea, I have heard about SketchUp as well, but if I can learn the full FOSS alternative instead then I’d like to use it. I guess I could use Blender or something too, but I really liked the engineering oriented parametric modeling that Fusion360 was doing with the timeline.

That’s good to hear about the 3d printer as I have yet to connect mine to try the same thing. I just have to learn freecad though, as i used to use fusion 360 which is not packaged for Linux.

Yes, even though I did not have a subscription, watching them do stuff like this every 2 weeks for the last year or more is what finally pushed me off to Linux as well. I got my parents moved over as well though, and they did have a subscription previously.

No, haven’t had time to trouble shoot much unfortunately. If they need a scan they just use their phones at the moment which works fine, but I still have to investigate further.

It pulls its data from open street map I believe, so it’s as useful as the community is capable of making it.

The name of a side street I know was missing so I made an account on open street map and added the name, soon after when they consolidated the data it’s there now.

This is both a good and bad thing. It means some stuff is not always up to date, but at the same time, for areas where people maintain it, I can see such fine detail that I can use the map to find out where there are things as small as trash cans, benches, and bike racks.

Oh neat!

My script is for gnome, but I wonder if there us an equivalent gnome extension in existence as well.

I like this one.

Which WM?

I am new to themes with gnome and am interested in learning about it in that capacity if you should have any resource material saved!

There is a toggle for SFW/Sketchy which in my experience has worked pretty well in avoiding such things, but you are probably right it does not catch everything.

If such a thing happened, I would just re-run the same command to update to a different one though. I guess I generally just make sure no one is in the room when it runs haha.

I am indecisive when it comes to wallpapers so I have a script somewhere which accepts tag-words as arguments and then scrapes wallhaven.cc for those words at the resolution of my setup and picks one that contains those words at random before downloading it to my wallpapers folder and setting it as my wallpaper image.

So for example, you could just know you want something blue so you would run wallpaper blue and it just grabs one and sets it. You could get a wallpaper of the sky, of a blue car, of the ocean, whatever happens to be a wallpaper that met the criteria of the word/s supplied.

On this day 16 years ago some girl learned that you have to actually think about what you buy before actually buying the thing to make sure it does the thing you want it to do.

This girl decided to buy something listed as a “computer” and it is her own fault for not bothering to look into what her money was going towards beyond that.

This is like if I were looking for a new jacket, bought the first thing I saw with “jacket” in the name, and then was pissed off at the jacket because I couldn’t use my arms when I wore it because its a straitjacket, not at all intended for the purpose I wanted a jacket for.

No worries, I appreciate it :)

So it looks like the brother driver utility installed both brlaser and brscan3, however it still wont detect unfortunately. Thanks for the welcome though!

Thank you! I checked and It does have both brscan3 (skips brscan as brscan3 is considered the newer version) as well as brlaser, but still no luck unfortunately.

Thank you, they both like it already and my Father has said that he thinks it is much easier to find what he is looking for so I think it was a big success :)

Nice! Yea a disk from 2013 would not only have been hanging on by a thread but I also guarantee it had never been defragged haha.

Best of luck to you in resolving!

My move for my parents to Mint went very well thankfully. Brother even supplies Linux drivers for their printers as a I found out and printing works great, but even after installing their scanner driver for the model, I can’t seem to get any scanning softwares to detect it so I’ll have to look into that part further.

Otherwise everything else runs super smooth. Now I have to deal with my system!

Thank you, this is very informative.

Thankfully I have ~15 TB of external storage so backing up the totality of the internal storage shouldn’t be an enormous problem.

Haha, if only my brother would move away from Mac, but I understand why his use case warrants his choice.