Some security bullshit bollocks blocks thumbnails! Why?
╭─x@titanii ~/r-Music/KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard
╰─➤ sudo sysctl -w kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns=0
kernel.apparmor_restrict_unprivileged_userns = 0
╭─x@titanii ~/r-Music/KingGizzardAndTheLizardWizard
╰─➤ rm -rf ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail/*
zsh: sure you want to delete the only file in /home/x/.cache/thumbnails/fail [yn]? y
Above two commands - per the reddit post - fixed it… And this is supposedly / allegedly a more “n00b” oriented distro…
Saw a job in my town looking for a Ubuntu guru - but alongside the specs I could mostly match was this proviso :
must have previously rolled out Ubuntu using Landscape…
Interesting - I’ve looked at it (Canonical Landscape) and done a bit of playing with it (6-7+ years ago) - but - “never used it in anger” so I could never claim to know what it’s like to use at the “coal face”…
I’ve mentioned before - one of my favourite jobs (nearly 20 years ago) was providing LINUX desktop support to geologists running RHEL 4 with beefy 64 bit PCs (dual Opteron, and dual NVidia Quadro and bucket loads of RAM - some of them had 32 GB - that was a lot of RAM in 2007!) - I miss that… It was so cool - but the main boss hated me - and I only attribute that to the fact that I rode a Harley - I owned two at the time + a Suzuki GSXR1100) and he was a diehard “honda man” (cheesy ad from the 1960’s: “You meet the nicest people on a Honda”…)…
I’ve had 4 Yamahas, 1 Kawasaki, 1 Suzuki, and 3 x Harley - worst motorcycle I ever owned was a Honda… bucket of c@rp… The Suzuki was after the 4 Yamahas - if I was going to go back to Jappas - it would be Suzuki - much better engineered and parts cheaper and more “universal”… One of my Yammys - needed piston rings - that was 1992/3 - Yamaha wanted $1000 AUD for head gasket and rings… f–k that! For a $1500 motorcycle???
I swapped my Harley for a Honda monkey lots of fun never fast but at my age I no longer care
I worked at a college at one stage and needed to see a client to run computer courses for them. My boss said you cannot go on a motorbike imagine the reaction. The client was happy with my pitch and booked a who series of courses plus took students from or college he even came out to discuss my little Suzuki. Another fun bike.
Is that paid stuff?
I cant extract any useful info from their website.
I think I have had at least 6… 4 of them Hondas including the current 2 farm bikes.
Honda motors are fine … best mower I ever owned. Small motors are another world … Honda beat Briggs and Stratton .
I had one of those Suzuki 2 stroke 4WD’s once. It was a really nicely built vehicle.
I always thought Landscape was a paid product, but I think they changed that a few years ago. I have a few computers running Ubuntu at home and I think I have them all on the free Ubuntu Pro. You can have up to five for free.
Copilot says:
Landscape is open source and can be self‑hosted, but managing production fleets—commercial or not—effectively requires Ubuntu Pro; you’re paying for entitlement and updates, not for permission to use it commercially.
Pretty sure you can use it without paying - how else would one learn how to use it?
Another Ubuntu thing I kinda hate :
I recently tried 26.04 (final release) as a VM in virt-manager - the default terminal is no longer Gnome Terminal - it’s something else… There’s NO configuration option to make it transparent - i.e. you can’t even make it “slightly opaque”… It feels really “dumbed down” and “locked down”…
Yeah like the average new user’s going to break out the terminal and run a bunch of dconf commands… I haven’t actually used dconf for nearly 10 years or more - I remember I wrote a bash script to enable scroll bars on windows when Ubuntu took them away…
I must have deleted it 'cause I can’t find it… I do have another shell script that uses dconf to set the string delimiter character in terminal (Gnome Terminal) - sometimes termed as “characters deemed to be part of a word”. Biggest problem with dconf (and the menu driven gconf-editor [?]) - they move stuff around all over the place from one revision to another - it’s probably kinda worse than the Windows Registry - at least PuTTY’s registry hive has been in the same place for 25+ years
If you make things harder than they need to be - I’ll usually find some other option (i.e. a different distro)…
Pretty sure all modern DEs use a compositor…
It’s just annoying that a feature that’s been there since basically “forever” gets taken away…
I “need” transparent terminal - e.g. so I can read a web page with a howto - under my terminal window…
Transparent terminal is something I just “expect to be there” - even if I have to click a couple of config options in the terminal application…
I remember that approach when the Desktop wallpaper was really nice … but the approach taken by yourself requires a good concentration to avoid confusion between the 2 sources of data being displayed at the same time
I remember when you could have a moving / video / animated gif as wallpaper… why would you? And then I remember some idiot who’d install the old Windows 3.1 PC speaker driver so Windows would make a start up sound and it slowed the desktop and made it unusable… I’d remove it - and this idiot would put it back…
Anyway - I don’t have FULLY transparent - just an opacity level - so I can have a terminal and read some content underneath that window :
Bizarre! The above update - when I look at it in Brave on my Linux PC - I can see the page writing under the terminal window… But - the SAME view in Brave on my Mac M1 - there’s nothing under the terminal window… I think MacOs is doing some trickery… Annoying…
