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Alfred Chow - Maker of Things

Edit: I think I have it sorted. It is a browser thing.
Browser updates meant I couldn't find the setting.
Thank you.

Linux Cinnamon advice please.

When I download a document, it default saves to the Downloads folder.

Is there a way to have it ask where I want a file to be be saved so I can save it into the correct folder?

Sometimes a download has such a silly name that once in the Downloads folder I can't find it.

Thank you.

#Linux#TechHelp#MakersHelp
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Wendy Palmer

The unethical treatment by the local tech guys of my mum’s elderly neighbour is something to behold.

She’s had trouble with her email, iiNet, which sold off their email service and it stopped working for her (probably because she hadn’t paid the new company due to drowning in spam).

Took it to a computer shop, charged her $110 to tell her nothing’s wrong.

I got her set up with a replacement email.

All worked fine for a while, then something happened and her email stopped downloading and she had password problems.

A second computer shop charged her $90 to tell her they’d fixed it (except they looked at it for 2 minutes and didn’t give her a new password or anything).

I sorted it out as much as I could.

Password problems started up again the next day. I don’t know what’s happening, but before I can go back, she’s called in a third guy, supposed to be experienced with helping the elderly.

He sold her a new laptop.

What a fucking arsehole.

I just got the text to please come and help again, as the new laptop is having the same problems *quelle surprise*

#Elderly#TechHelp
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2something

Android question:

When I got a new phone, all my Google Play apps were automatically installed from a backup, and, crucially, the icons were arranged into folders in the same way.

On the other hand, I needed to manually reinstall all f-droid apps and recreate the layout of my home screen.

Is there a way to back up the organization of non-Google-Play apps on my home screen? This would make getting a new phone a lot more convenient.

Note that I am NOT asking about backing up app data: I already have backups of all app data I care about.

I have an unrooted Pixel 6a.

#Android #FDroid #TechHelp

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Jourei

I can see an unknown device on my network infrastructure on windows?
The icon disappears occasionally for some minutes. I can't find anything strange via my router, I even denied that MAC address for no effect.
arp -a command doesn't show that address, I recognize all of the listed devices (well, not the ones that IP starting with 224 or 10, I doubt those are actual devices?)

Any idea what this might be? I can see my router modem separately, a different make.

#techhelp
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Sybren A. Stüvel

My workstation crashes hard, whenever I leave it alone for long enough for the monitors to turn off. Once that happens, the machine is hard-locked. NumLock doesn't toggle, SSH'ing into the machine is not possible any more.

I'm running Kubuntu 24.04.2 LTS.

Does anyone know how to diagnose this? There's nothing in the dmesg / syslog, it just fully hangs.

#TechHelp#Linux#Ubuntu
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Syl (Sylvia Bun) :neobun_bi: :neobun_trans:

Hey fedi, I want to move off Google services for email at some point soon but with Proton Mail and/or their CEO’s statement earlier this year I’m skeptical about using their platform.

What are the best competitors atm? And what are their advantages and disadvantages?

#askfedi #askfediverse #techhelp #degoogle


Edit: woah I wasn’t expecting so many good replies so quickly, thanks y’all! If you have any suggestions that haven’t been shared or different opinions I’m open to more feedback! I just wanted to say thank you to those who have already helped ​:neobun_heart:​

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