@babe hell yeah!

@babe now i need to get an Othello set. I play Go which everyone confuses for Othello but it’s not QUITE close enough. 😉

For Christmas, my Aunt gave me this incredible gift, knowing I love and collect fountain pens. It was her collection that she had amassed since she was a teenager. The one with the blue ribbon around it was one that my grandfather (whom I never got to meet) used to write home from overseas in the army. Such a thoughtful gift and I can’t wait to clean and restore them if possible.

#fountainpens

I was told when I moved into my house that I needed to make it more home-like with wall decorations and such.

Thanks to @babe I now have the perfect wall adornment in my office.

@catsalad Dubstep

A lot of Social Media lockpickers like to dunk on MasterLock's padlocks as being trivial to pick or otherwise bypass.

Being an absolute beginner at lockpicking, I feel that in order to be fair to MasterLock, it should be said that these lockpickers are often highly-trained professionals. AND their padlocks are trivial to pick or otherwise bypass.

I want a "cleaning mode" for my laptop, so I can wipe the keys without locking the laptop down with "too many incorrect password attempts"

this is one of the things I got reminded of and well, that's my christmas present sorted

yes i hate myself why do you ask

@cazabon success! It works great for my needs running Mint with Cinnamon!

I’m not as crazy about Cinnamon as i was Plasma, but I *suppose* I’ll struggle through. 😁

Thank you again for pointing me in the right direction!

@cazabon I have no idea how this information didn't come up for me when I looked, I suppose my search-fu is lacking.

I've tried KDE, Gnome, and Cinnamon all with no luck but I was using a VM to test, which according to that KB is a no-go. I *had* tried a physical laptop, but used KDE for it.

I'll be trying Cinnamon on the laptop tonight, I think I'm onto something thanks to you!

@ellyxir I'm looking to keep the same experience whether I'm sitting in front of the local machine or remote. I tend to have programs running that need to stay running when I switch back and forth between local and remote. I'm not even going to TRY multiple displays at this point, I'll settle for just one. But it needs to lock the local workstation when I'm connected remotely.

@kkarhan I looked at Remmina because multiple people suggested it, but it appears to just be a client unless I'm seriously missing something. I have VNC/RDP clients that will work, it's a server component that will lock the local system when I'm connected, that I'm needing. I would love to be proven wrong about Remmina though!

@kris_of_pnictogen Unfortunately it doesn't seem to blank/lock the local desktop which is a dealbreaker for privacy reasons.

Unfortunately, having tried nearly ever feasible solution offered to me, I have yet to find a remote desktop system for linux that works with any of the distros I've tried.

NoMachine looked like THE solution, offering a "blank local display" feature, which is the exact thing I need remote desktop to do, Except it just doesn't work. I turn the setting on, it doesn't do it. I've tried KDE and Gnome, X11 and Wayland, no dice.

Being this close but unsuccessful is so frustrating.

@alice That is absolutely wonderful and what I was hoping to hear. It sounds like nearly everyone benefits then! Maybe I'll be able to get good enough to participate some day.

Your art installation idea sounds great, how many are you up to now?

@alice Forgive the mention but I have a question for you regarding lockpicking. I am just really curious and NOT making judgements, but I see a lot of posts of lockpickers "liberating" love locks, and wonder about the ethics (for lack of a better term) of it.

Is taking somebody else's lock like this placed there benefiting somebody in some way? Is it a way of saving locks that would otherwise be destroyed? Do people put these locks in place knowing they're going to be taken?

@yojimbo Yes, I'd very much prefer the remote user to be bonked off in the event I forget to close the remote connection, although its not AS important to me.

@zer0 Unfortunately I hated the Fedora w/ Gnome experience so much that I deleted the test VM with an hour or so. Thanks for the suggestion though!

@ottobackwards Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is console only. I need the entire gui environment. Thanks for the suggestion though!

@fedops Thanks for the suggestion with this, but unfortunately having the local console unlocked and viewable is something I need to avoid. Not that I'm up to anything shady, but I like to do things like my Christmas shopping while I'm elsewhere and don't want people who are home to see it.