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I'm trying to tether my Ubuntu laptop to my Samsung Galaxy Phone and I'm using Netshare to avoid T-Mobile throttling of tethered devices. I open Netshare on my phone. On my Ubuntu 22 laptop I go to...

Firefox was running way to slow and I wanted to remove and reinstall a fresh version. So I uninstalled, but Ubuntu Software Center thinks I still have Firefox installed. I think the uninstall failed...

Update: I'm making progress. I have a connection. My laptop appears to be connected to my phone via NetShare. But when I go to my laptop's browser I still don't have internet. What could the problem...

Thanks /var was at 12GB
I ran the script I found at https://itsfoss.com/clean-snap-packages/
It's now 8.9GB. So I recovered over 3GB. That's a big improvement. And it should put an end to the error...

I'm getting the Low Disk Space on "Filesystem root" error message. Below are some diagnostics I did.
Do I really have low disk space on root? Running df -h gives me "/dev/sda4 29G 25G 2.4G 92% /"....

Which of these is the touchpad? I tried "2" but something's not working.

$ xinput list
WARNING: running xinput against an Xwayland server. See the xinput man page for details.
⎡ Virtual core...

When I have no mouse and the Touchpad is turned off, how can I turn on Touchpad, if in order to do that I need a mouse or a touchpad.

I'm on an HP Laptop and I often use it with a mouse and turn...

I have an old System76 Meerkat wich has a VGA output, and runs Ubuntu recent stable.

I'm trying to send that output to two monitors which have HDMI input.

I want the two monitors to act as...

Okay, I'm testing this.

I added "UUID=69bb6a6b-ee06-43eb-b22e-ae12a22e3c30 /media/ntfs ntfs...

Would the below correctly mount my NTFS partition when I boot Ubuntu
Do I need the entire UUID 69bb6a6b-ee06-43eb-b22e-ae12a22e3c30

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid'...

Here is my current partitioning
GParted Data, sda,


Partition: /dev/sda1, Name: efi system partition, File System: fat32, Mount Point: /boot/efi, Label: System, Size: 260MiB, Flags: boot, esp
...

Yes, I guess it's the Windows / Ubuntu shared partition which is complicating things. So maybe I should make the 900GB partition a NTFS partition and make that Ubuntu's Home partition. Would that...

I have a Windows 11 laptop. I want it to dual boot Ubuntu. So I shrunk one partition by 30 GB and I labelled that partition as "/" root. Then I installed Ubuntu to that. I didn't create a Home...

I've got an Acer Aspire A515-43 laptop. I'm trying to boot off a Lubuntu Flash Drive. I get to the Acer splash screen which also shows "Powered by Lubuntu" and the "spinning bird" and it just stays...

XScreen GLSlideshow Doesn't See My Images

I have an old computer. I want it to run a non-stop slideshow of the images in
/home/user/Pictures/Screensaver_Pictures
That will be the main function...

I'm interested in the Dell Precision M6800 now. Any opinions on that? They sell in the $550-$600 range. I know this is quite big and heavy by today's standards, but I only need a laptop I can move...

I want an affordable 17" laptop which will consistently boot and run correctly. My performance demands are not high. About 80% of my work I do in the browser. But I need 1TB of storage mainly for...

cat /etc/fstab
Shows
/dev/sda2
/boot/edit
And
/dev/sda3

blkid Shows
/dev/sda1
/dev/sda2

Yes, and nothing happened.

What is supposed to happen. And how would I navigate to the journal logs?

My Ubuntu 20 installation stopped working. I backed up my data and reinstalled. But I'm getting the same error message.

"You are in emergency mode. After logging in, type "journalctl -xb" to view...

I'm in the middle of running it again. Using "--no-o --no-g"

I found, "The permission problem occurs whenever you don't have the permission to change file permissions on the destination of rsync....

The command I ran
sudo rsync -rltgoDv --progress --exclude=".*" /mnt/toms_home_folder/tom/ /media/ubuntu/Backup\ Plus/Toms.Laptop.Backup..2022.02.05 --log-file=mylog.log

I thought this was...

I'm running this as root but I'm getting "failed: Operation not permitted (1)"
How do I get around that? Should I assign to myself "ownership" of the folders and then run rsync?
How would I do...

I'm getting "No space left on device" messages. I'm running Ubuntu 20 on a 32G flash drive, with a persistent sector of about 1Gb. Is it the persistent sector that's causing the "No space left on...

I run
sudo rsync -rltgoDv --progress --exclude=".*" /media/ubuntu/Home/tom/tom/ /media/ubuntu/Backup\ Plus/Toms.Laptop.Backup..2022.02.05 --log-file=mylog.log

It seems to stall and

Log File...