Firefox, they recently added a new profiles system and it seems like it might be conflicting with the old profiles system. I actively use two instances of Firefox and when ever I try to launch both instances in the morning, I keep getting error messages. So, I have to keep restarting Firefox until it lets me actually launch both instances. I’d actually like to use the new profiles system because it seems so much more convenient but there doesn’t seem to be a way to migrate profiles from the old system to the new system.

I’m still pretty new to Mastodon, so I don’t really know much about it yet. But, on top of hashtags that you follow, could it be posts that are shared (or boosted, as Mastodon seems to call it) by another user that you follow?

There are a lot of things that make me happy to at least some degree. Just going in order of what I remember, there is, finding uses for older pieces of technology, listening to music that is upbeat and “energetic” (if that’s the right word to use), playing games with good gameplay and stories (even if they can get depressing sometimes), and while it’s been a while since I’ve last watching one, watching Anime can also make me happy. There are also some other things but I’ve either forgotten them or I just don’t feel like mentioning them.

So far, the only thing I know for sure that I would consider using it for is to use JoiPlay to play RPG Maker games that I can’t get working with my normal methods but at least on my current computer/distro, I’m having issues with audio crackling.

I might find other apps to use later but for the most part, I just kind of keep android apps to android.

I once annoyed one of my friends in high school while he was trying to write a story/book (I don’t remember if he was actually trying to write his own book or if it was just a story). One day, I saw that he was typing a sentence that said something about one of the characters “whipping out his cellphone” and I said “oh, is that what we’re calling it now”. I would then occasionally look back at his story without actually reading anything and laugh a little. At first he thought it was funny but at some point he started getting annoyed and kept telling me to stop.

I used to maintain my own website through Neocities, but I had to stop because it was too stressful for me. I ran out of ideas to write about, I lacked confidence in my ability to program the website and I never got any feedback from any of the users who visited it.

My website kind of went through two phases while I was maintaining it. The first phase focused on reviewing and comparing various applications for both Windows and Android. After I took a break for a few months, the second phase of my website was branched out to include Linux and I wanted to focus more on gaming related topics.

I still kind of do some of this stuff for my own personal use but I don’t post any of it online anymore. I have thought about either using Neocities again or using Odysee’s article feature to start posting some of this stuff online again but I’m not really sure if anyone would find it useful/interesting.

The only thing I use as a backup is a Live CD that’s mounted to a USB thumb drive.

I used to use Timeshift but the one time I needed it, it didn’t work for some reason. It also had a problem of making my PC temporarily unusable while it was making a backup, so I didn’t enable it when I had to reinstall Linux Mint.

Well, one of my grandmas died about a year ago, I don’t really talk to my other grandma, I’ve never met either of my real grandpas (my parents have never met them either) and I don’t really talk to my step-grandpas. I do go to family gatherings but I’m not really much of a talkative person, so I don’t really have much of a reason to talk to them.

I’ll keep it brief because I know that this kind of stuff is very triggering for some people but when I was in elementary school, my dad was an alcoholic. One year on my birthday, we decided to go out of town so we can eat at a restaurant that we didn’t have and buy some games from GameStop. Long story short, right before we reached our destination, my dad for a reason that I don’t remember (assuming there was one), decided to start physically abusing both my mom and my sister. So we ended up just going right back home and we just ordered pizza.

Something that I considered doing with a similar laptop, was to use it as a low-end portable gaming system. I’d take a lightweight Linux distro, like the 32-bit version of Q4OS if it’s system requirements are lower than your current setup, and get it loaded with a bunch of games with low system requirements and retro emulators. Obviously, it wont be anywhere near as powerful as your main computer (if you have one) but because it’s portable, there could be some value in having a portable gaming pc (unless you have something like the Steam Deck).

I’m not sure what you mean by tactical shooter but flathub has a subcategory for shooters in the games category. While half of them are source ports of Doom, Quake and some other games, there are a few games I’ve looked into that seem interesting. So far I’ve only played Empty Clip and that’s a pretty good top down shooter with rpg elements but games like Red Eclipse and Tremulous look pretty interesting as well.

You could use them as a memory card for ps1 games.

While I don’t have that many, I do already have multiple email addresses that I actively use. I also have them setup as a recovery emails for each other, so that way, if a hacker wants to take over one of my emails, they’d have to hack all of them.

That’s the reason I don’t open random emails and I never answer the phone unless I’m expecting a call/text from a specific number. I’m too paranoid about getting scammed/hacked. I’d be using 2FA if it wasn’t for the fact that I’d have concerns about potentially loosing access to my accounts because the trusted device stops working or something.

I do already use different passwords for every account that I have and I changed my Gmail password recently. Is there anything else I should be worried about?

To some extent. For audio, I don’t really have to much experience with expensive headphones/earbuds but I do notice a difference. I still usually go with cheaper headphones though because the difference in audio quality and durability aren’t really enough to justify the price difference.

For visuals in games, I do prefer to have the best experience but what settings I use depends on the game. There are some settings that are universal to me, like for example, if anti-aliasing is available, I always have it set to 2x (or 1.5x if the game has it) because every option for anti-aliasing in every game I’ve tried looks exactly the same to me, so going higher is just a waste of system resources. For similar reasons, while both of my monitors support higher resolutions, I still prefer to use 720/768p.

I think the only time I really don’t care about visual quality, is just when I’m watching videos online.

Yeah that’s it. Also, I think I know why I couldn’t find anything about it, it’s because it’s part of a pack of games and not a stand-alone game. It’s also weird that I don’t remember any of the other games from that collection.

It might not be the first but my oldest memory of playing a game was a very old pc game that I can’t remember much about and I’ve never been able to actually find anything about it anywhere. All I remember is that it was a game that had colored rats on conveyor belts and you had to sort them. I’m pretty sure it had a top down perspective as the conveyor belts would loop back to where the rats came from.

Yes but the problem for me was more complicated. Mesa is installed by default in Linux Mint and Vulkan should have worked out of the box but for some reason it defaulted to the wrong Kernel driver for the GPU. I didn’t know this before posting and, as I stated in other replies, every search result on every search engine told me the wrong information.

I don’t know if I need to do that because Vulkan seems to be working now but is that correct? My sources.list file is empty and it states the wrong version of Linux mint. Should I actually edit “/etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list”, seeing that that has the actual list of repositories?