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Cake day: July 2nd, 2025
  • Fives@discuss.onlinetoComic Strips@lemmy.world•Let there be peace
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    24 days ago

    They are downright aggressive - and bossy! One of them will guard the feeder from a nearby tree and dive-bomb any other hummingbird that comes in to eat. And then two of them will guard at the same time, so when a third comes to the feeder, Kenny Loggins suddenly starts playing and there’s dogfights right next to my deck.

    And don’t let the feeder go empty. They will complain LOUDLY. One of them saw me in the kitchen and came up to the window and hovered there, staring at me like, “why is this feeder empty, bro?”

  • Fives@discuss.onlinetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Do you use Arch btw? Best Arch distro?
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    8 months ago

    I’ve had great success with Garuda Linux. I’m running the KDE “Mokka” version.

    It’s quite opinionated, so be aware of that, but it’s been very reliable on my HP laptop (it even has hibernation support!) and the built-in apps are top notch.

    Just be aware that Arch-based distros tend to shun things like Flatpaks in favor of their own repositories and the Arch User Repository (AUR), and there aren’t any friendly point and click app stores like KDE Discover or GNOME Software. You will have to install apps using the command line or tools like Octopi, which is great if you know exactly what you’re looking for, but terrible for app discovery.

    Since I mostly use Flatpaks, I installed Bazaar. You can install Discover, but it only works for Flatpak.

    I used to run Manjaro, but after it left two of my computers in an unbootable state after an upgrade a few years ago, I moved on.

  • Fives@discuss.onlinetoLinux@lemmy.ml•Dell Latitude Touchpad Deadzone and Fingerprint
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    1 year ago

    So it looks like the touchpad problem is a known issue with that particular model. A web search turned up an Arch Linux forum post from 2017 with the same issue. Unfortunately, there was no solution posted.

    Your touchpad shows up as a PS/2 device, right? I have a ThinkPad A475 with a PS/2 trackpad that won’t function at all in Linux unless I add i8042.reset as a GRUB argument.

    Maybe see if that helps?