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mintCast Episode 304

This is mintCast: A podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux

We record every other week on Sunday afternoons

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INTRODUCTION

Welcome to mintCast Episode 304. This is Leo and Bo and Tony Hughes and Tony Watts and Joe and Moss and special guest Josh Lowe AKA All_About_Code. We’re recording live on Sunday March 10th 2019. First up, we’ll hear Josh talk about his new PC, my SSD and Docker stuff, Joe with X2GO and Raspberry Pi, Tony Watts with his OnePlus 3T, Bo with some SCCC info, Tony Hughes with LineageOS and a new Dell, Moss still fighting issues, but soon with more RAM! Then, lots of news including Kernel 5.0, The amazing interview with Josh Lowe, and some feedback from our listeners.

Bi-Weekly Wanderings:

Josh Lowe

Setup a custom PC running Mint 19 after recommendation from Tony H. Moved from Ubuntu and so far much happier with Mint.

Played around with “Numpad superpowers” (A visual editor for creating macros) with the Pimoroni Keybow.

https://numpadsuperpowers.com/

Leo

Got a 256GB m.2 SATA disk for my Thinkpad. For VM Storage, dual boots, etc.

[Bo, Co-topic] Hank’s suggestion to write disks with cat instead of dd.

Having a play with Docker, and learning the ropes.

Joe

Ordered an AMD FX 8350 for the server.

Installed and working

Temperatures are much more stable

Got new screens for the kids tablets

Have not installed yet

Took apart the other tablet to try and fix the charging problem

Not seeing any damage. Further testing required to find out if it is the actual port or the battery

Might be better to replace the board with Tala’s to get around the bezel issue on her device then fix the port when i can. Will also be able to quickly tell if it is the battery or port.

Took apart the dell venue 8 pro to try and get the battery to read power correctly

Didn’t work, but did get it put back together and working again

Install X2GO server on the pi

sudo apt-get install dirmngr

sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keys.gnupg.net E1F958385BFE2B6E

sudo editor /etc/apt/sources.list.d/x2go.list

# X2Go Repository (release builds)

deb http://packages.x2go.org/raspbian stretch main

# X2Go Repository (sources of release builds)

deb-src http://packages.x2go.org/raspbian stretch main

sudo apt update

sudo apt-cache search x2go

sudo apt install x2goserver

sudo apt install mate-desktop-environment

sudo apt install x2goclient

It works. Love that i have it again and may turn it into an x2go gateway

Tony Watts

Updated firmware on guitar pedal

Upgraded OnePlus 3T to Lineage 16, Android Pie

In place upgrade not possible.

Had to flash latest oxygen OS to get up to date firmware, THEN flash latest Lineage

Bo

SCCC

New Streaming setup question for the crew/audience

Tony Hughes

Installing Lineage OS 16 onto my OnePlus 1, ready to hand over to my wife as her upgrade from a Nexus 4 running Android 5.1

Rooting and Flashing Lineage OS 15.1 to the Nexus 4. After quite a bit of fiddling due in part to my impatience and partially due to some difference in the terminal commands in the youtube video and what were needed in my system...

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mintCast Episode

This is mintCast

A podcast by the Linux Mint community for all users of Linux

We record every other week on Sunday afternoons

Watch the mintCast website for the schedule

Livestream information is at mintcast.org/livestream

We’re in the mintCast channel in IRC at irc.spotchat.org

If you see something that you’d like to hear about, tell us! We’re almost everywhere!

Send us email at [email protected]

Join us on MeWe

And Facebook

Post at reddit.com/r/mintcast

Chat with us on Telegram, link

Or post directly at http://170.187.156.171

And now, here’s the show:

Welcome to mintCast Episode 303.

This is Leo and this week with me are Moss (not last this week) and Tony Hughes and Tony Watts and Joe and Bo (sorta) and we’re recording live on February 24th, 2019.

First up, in our wanderings, more security vulnerabilities, some OpenMandriva news, another LUG, the return of the Dell 7130, and more distro hopping

In the news, we have some updates, some goodbyes

In the innards, we hit more new user help with tons of pointers

And finally, plenty of listener feedback to chat about

BI-WEEKLY WANDERINGS:

Leo

Writing again at leochavez.org

Documenting my GUI setup in Mint

Trackpad issue on t450s

Flatpak vulnerability

snapd vulnerability (Dirty Sock)

Moss

I spent several hours getting OpenMandriva 3.03 installed (almost 1400 updates, plus all my usual stuff). My system includes 4 distros on separate partitions. They have played together well. OM played with others better than any distro I've seen. And then... my Ubuntu Studio 18.10 installation updated its Grub, which, without asking permission, rewrote the whole Grub on the system. Now my three Ubuntu-based distros work, but OpenMandriva goes into a kernel panic at Step 2. I decided to blow away the offender (Ubuntu Studio 18.10) first. I heard there was a MATE flavor of MX. I found that was not true, but found some very confusing instructions on installing MATE DE on MX. Not being as stoopid as I used to be, I managed it. So I found and installed OpenMandriva 4 beta. Went smoothly. Everything seems to work, although it’s still beta. But now, MX is not booting, returning a 32-bit error. At this point, only my LM 19.1 MATE install is fully configured; I just have to troubleshoot the printer function in Bodhi 5 and finish configuring Kodi (not easy) to get that up and running. OM 4 is missing some files which would get Mullvad running, other things to follow. And I need to reinstall MX or find something else for Partition #4.

Update on Life: My mother is finally in the rehabilitation facility she should have been in a month ago, but is not optimistic about ever leaving. And my soggy car is still the same, ServPro said they can fix it for $500-700, everyone else tells me to “total” the car and get my insurance money. BTW, the rain has been so bad in this area that a rockslide has closed Interstate 40 on the North Carolina side of the mountains going from here to Asheville and large portions of Knoxville were so flooded I could not drive Uber last night.

Joe

Ordered Controller Board for 3d printer

Received

Got an enclosure for the 3d printer in the hopes that it will prevent that from happening again and maybe improve my prints

Modified.

Had fun at the local lug

Helped set up virtual box using an already existing hard drive with Windows

Then helped set up x2go on the same machine so that someone could remote into linux and launch the vm of windows

Reading up on pi hole docker

Need to rebuild my server. Gotta decide what to do

Purchased a mic stand extension.

Tony Watts

Upgraded Dell 7130 wifi card - thanks Craig!

Updating my arcade cabinet

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