| jamesp | mastodon.technology is shutting down, lubuntu will need to move to another instance | 01:58 |
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| guiverc | thanks jamesp, we're aware of that but can't do much about it currently I believe | 05:56 |
| jamesp | guiverc[m]: you guys can still move to another instance, like how kubuntu moved to fosstodon.org | 15:00 |
| arraybolt3 | jamesp: We are aware, the problem isn't that. I'm not at liberty to disclose any details, but it's a bit of a mess. Thanks for the idea though. | 16:37 |
| s300 | what's Windows 10 alarm like on lubuntu? | 17:56 |
| arraybolt3 | s300: Could you rephrase? I'm not sure what that means. | 17:58 |
| s300 | im used to use Windows 10 alarm ... what's the alternative for it on lubuntu | 17:59 |
| s300 | ? | 17:59 |
| arraybolt3 | Oh. I get it. | 18:00 |
| * arraybolt3 looks up applications | 18:00 | |
| s300 | here only stopwatch installed... | 18:01 |
| arraybolt3 | Well I see KAlarm, which might work, but it has quite a few dependencies which make it quite large. | 18:02 |
| arraybolt3 | Lemme install it and see if it is the right thing. | 18:02 |
| s300 | i see, i have only 2 G ram | 18:02 |
| arraybolt3 | I don't know if it's going to be RAM heavy, but it was around 116 MB disk space on my machine. | 18:03 |
| arraybolt3 | Oy, my Internet speed is crawling, so bear with me a few minutes. | 18:03 |
| arraybolt3 | s300: OK, got it installed. It looks like it's probably going to do the trick - you can use it to play an audio file at a specific time every day, which would act as an alarm clock. | 18:06 |
| arraybolt3 | It also has a ton of other features for stuff like automated email sending (I believe). | 18:06 |
| kgiii | I use Thunderbird's calendar and tasks as my alarm. Though, reading that you have just 2 GB of RAM makes me think it's a bit of overkill. | 18:09 |
| s300 | is there microsoft store like apps on lubuntu? i want to search all apps like clock/stop watch | 18:10 |
| arraybolt3 | s300: Discover. | 18:13 |
| arraybolt3 | Should be already installed. just launch Discover and you can browse through and find stuff. | 18:13 |
| s300 | yes, loading the discover | 18:14 |
| arraybolt3 | Exercise a bit of caution though, apt packages are virtually guaranteed to be safe, but Snaps *might* not be. If an app is a Snap, look for a checkmark indicating that it is safe. | 18:14 |
| arraybolt3 | s300: ^ | 18:14 |
| arraybolt3 | You can tell if an app is a Snap or not by scrolling down to the bottom of the apps info page, I believe. | 18:15 |
| arraybolt3 | Oh wait actually it will just tell you right on the application tile so nevermind. | 18:15 |
| arraybolt3 | Anyway if you click on a Snap, it will show you the publisher name underneath the app rating - if there's a checkmark next to it you should be good. | 18:16 |
| arraybolt3 | Other Snaps aren't necessarily unsafe, but they aren't from known-trustworthy developers, so then you have to know and trust the developer. | 18:17 |
| arraybolt3 | Anything that doesn't specifically mark itself as a Snap is (I believe) an apt package, and those you can just install. Ubuntu (and Debian, Ubuntu's upstream) vet packages that are intended to go into the apt archives. | 18:18 |
| s300 | looking for this kind of clock apps but seems it is not responding when i try to install https://imgur.com/a/62BFYS0 | 18:26 |
| s300 | thanks for the info arraybolt3 | 18:26 |
| arraybolt3 | s300: Just wait, it might take a bit. | 18:26 |
| s300 | i see, i also notice that that firefox now is as a snap apps | 18:29 |
| arraybolt3 | True. | 18:29 |
| s300 | on windows, i used to press windows button and the arrow button, to make the window apps side by side in one screen; a half on the left screen and another on the right | 18:32 |
| s300 | what's the term of that on lubuntu? | 18:33 |
| arraybolt3 | s300: That's called tiling I believe, but sadly Lubuntu doesn't have that (yet). | 18:44 |
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