Wait. What did I miss ?

Yeah okay, it did look a little weird to be Spanish.

Wait. Is that A History of World Societies in Spanish ?

Yeah it’s definitely not an elegant solution, but it works for now. But I think I will fix it properly at some point, now that I know what the problem is.

You were absolutely correct. It was the ribbon cable. But the fault was so small I couldn’t see it with my aging eyes. But under magnification it was quite clear.

I am also coming to that conclusion. Which sucks because I have to take out the screen to replace it.

And yes. I’m sure I bought the right one :) I didn’t mention it in the original post, but I was aware of the different models and revisions.

Yes the speakers still work. And I can change the volume both in Big Picture mode and Desktop mode with the slider.

I don’t really know what to do in alsamixer to test/change volume input.

xev also doesn’t give any output when pressing the volume buttons.

I’m not sure you need a password to access the shared libraries. Then basically all programs would need a password to run.

Personally I don’t like flatpaks because of the duplication of libraries. But you should do whatever you feel like. Both have merit.

Please, tell me more about this Arrow Block.

Thought that was a gay nuke for a second !

This is basically the argument of Edward Said in ‘Orientalism’. He makes a good argument, so it is worth a read: https://www.jstor.org/stable/42981698

I don’t think he wanted to kill the West though. But maybe the idea of the West.

*Der West

Gee! I hope it works this time!

This seems like it would create a lot of unnecessary latency and dependency on big tech. He should set up a home server and host his own ram.

Stick to it! I know it seems overwhelming in the beginning, but you will get used to it at first and then get better with time.

It doesn’t work so you can figure out why and learn how to install arch. Simple.

But it is the 9th today :|

It’s not the failure of our parents, it’s the exploitation by the capitalist class, that did this.

Because off all the reasons I just wrote in the previous comment.

Yeah, we installed Kubuntu and it still needs configuring.