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CAT 8 is not an actual standard and a lot of the CAT 8 cables being sold are actually a scam. Cat 6 is more than enough for a gigabit connection but Cat 7 may be better if you later go to a faster connection, depending on the number of devices connecting to it. Cat 7 can also handle longer cable len...

I have a couple of Apricrorn Aegis Encrypted USB drives I use to backup my financial data on in case the encrypted data I keep on my computer and backup drives has to be accessed on a computer other than a Linux machine. I keep one at home and another in my safe deposit box at my credit union and sw...

when I switch workspaces I want to see just some workspaces-specific apps in my app panel. That is exactly what I see. I posted the pic here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?p=2453190#p2453190 If you don't see that I fully understand why you don't want to use it, although I could probabl...

I don't understand why connecting a USB connected drive (HDD, SSD, or flash drive) to a running computer would be a problem. I've never had a problem when doing that over the decades I've been doing it. An HDD has moving parts. If you set a 3.5" HDD on the table while using it it would make a ...

I use the Brave Browser. It has most of the protections already in place. I just don't participate in their buggy-as-a-flophouse-bed BAT program.

Hello all, I have mint 20.3 XFCE I use workspace switching - and my preferred method for switching to a different workspace is to click on one of the two workspaces located on the lower panel bar. However, there is obviously a default setting in which workspace will also be switched when the mouse ...

Meanwhile collapsing apps is the only meaningful way to keep my desktop organized and neat. Hard disagree, I think workspaces are wonderful for organization (and they existed in Linux since the 1990s), but of course to each their own. I think the current design is great; I hope they don't change it...

having the drive connected prior to booting up, causes the boot time to be excessive. I have found from doing it many times, that it is far more preferable to just boot up normally, and then when the Desktop has been reached, Plug in the USB drive. It seems to take a much shorter time period for th...

Hiyall, I just created my 10 year old NAS drive as a network backup. It contains 6x 2Tb HDDs in a RAID10 setup. (mirrored 6Tb). Considering their age, one or more HDDs are like to fail sooner rather than later. My question; is it necessary to replace the drive with one exactly the same size or coul...

A suggestion: When installing an OS, if possible, remove all drives but the one you are installing to.

...When pointing the cursor at the battery status and volume icon on the taskbar, moving the scroll wheel adjusts the screen brightness and volume respectively...Does anyone know who came up with this idea? I would like to directly thank them. Heck, I didn't even know I could do that (I'm on on Cin...

If all else fails, you might want to try the Brightness and gamma applet. It has worked for me on a machine with an NVIDIA (pardon my profanity) card and one with an AMD card. I have mine set so only the slider for brightness shows when I click on the applet's icon. These are the settings I used. se...

...And how to install an M.2 SSD into a external enclosure: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/AKed1OdLwvk This video wasn't quite accurate with USB standards. USB A be used with speeds up to USB 3.2 Gen 2 (10Gbps) as long as the cable plugged into it is rated for that. Other than that, the vid...

Did you ever get that low frequency tone sorted out? A little while ago, after six years of use, my little Dragonfly Red DAC lost its right channel. At first, I thought my right speaker had gone bad. After fiddling with connections, switching it off and on, "talking" to it, etc., to furthe...

AndyMH wrote: ⤴Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:35 am Just checked, Kdiskmark is in software manager, but a flatpak, so it won't get installed in my system.

I know why some people don't like flatpaks but why don't you like them? I'm not being critical; just curious.

That is too funny :lol: One can get OCD about backing up. I try to keep it reasonable, but I sure do have quite a few copies and they aren't all in one place. I also make and maintain quite a few backups for each drive in my computers. Granted, it's not to satisfy any OCD tendencies (it's all about...

I always replace the original SSD in case I have to revert to the original installation. If there is more than one drive in the machine and I have to send the machine back for warranty repair, I'll remove all the drives and replace them with the original drives.

I use an applet called "Brightness and gamma applet" in my panel to control brightness on both my laptop with an NVIDIA (pardon my language) graphics card and my desktop with an AMD graphics card. I have mine configured to adjust brightness only. I just left click on the applet, then move ...

diyliberty wrote: ⤴Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:55 am ...

I have friends who have a desk that's almost identical to that one.

Notes to altair4's comments. I always add user to the fstab options, without it only root can mount/unmount. If you mount in /media it will show in the devices pane in nemo as DATA (remember linux is case sensitive). If you don't want it to show in the devices pane, mount it in /mnt . You have to e...