Tech Nerd Ramblings

[thecatumbrella]

Imgur. I use it and never get any spam.

I'll try it out!

There is a way to upload it to gallery here:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/how-to-upload-videos-to-the-gallery.1631126/

Thank you! I started playing around with this last night, but didn't love how it looked on the page. I'm going to try again with this guide.

You guys are awesome!

 

[notabitail]

Well ok, I'm going to ramble for a short time.

I wanted to install Linux on one of my old laptops. I usually put Linux Mint or Ubuntu Unity on these things.

It turns out neither wanted to load right on this laptop. At all. They didn't want to use the device's internal display, instead wanting me to plug it in to an external.

I installed it, and then tried to get graphics drivers. The problem is that these are all NVIDIA cards, and they don't mix well with Linux AT ALL. Even worse, the drivers for these, the Nvidia 340 drivers, aren't packaged for Ubuntu 24.04 anymore. I tried some drivers someone had packaged for 24.04, but they didn't work.

Pretty much, these old laptops can't run the latest Ubuntu LTS.

I intended to try to try an older version, but it turns out in my infinite wisdom I didn't copy all of my piles of (real) Linux ISOs over to my NAS. Good thing it's got a gigabit connection, otherwise it'd take forever. I had to dig up my old laptop, plug the thing into my network, and copy over all of my garbage.

TL;DR: Linux isn't the universal panacea for all PCs, doesn't work with NVIDIA hardware well, and I forgot to back up files to a NAS.