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Let’s just have a slight tangent where we remove the pointless, useless, and cluttersome “aRTiFiCiAL inTElliGEnCe” results when using Google search in Firefox.
The key steps are to go to Settings -> Search, scroll down to Search Shortcuts, click Add button. In URL box, paste in:
https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14&tbs=li:1
Name the ‘new’ search engine (I used GoogleOld), click Save Engine button; scroll back up the page and select your search engine. Much better results.
Source:
https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/google-search-no-ai-overview.html
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Things are a little better than yesterday, possibly helped by having been for a little bike ride in the sunshine.
The short version:
The shared folders on PavNAS are now appearing in Linux Mint’s file explorer! I’ve no idea what changed. I discovered this by firing up the T410 running LM and it had the shares available on there; I went back to the HPAIO and there they were!
Weirdness #1: WiFi is OFF by default on booting the T410; it must be turned on manually before any shares appear (or I’m able to do any online stuff). Absolutely no idea why this is. Hopefully it won’t affect my use-case too badly as this it’s supposed to be a Kitchen MCM which will have a network cable attached at all times.
Weirdness #2: still can’t access OMV configurator via browser on the HPAIO. I can use it in a browser on the T410, so I don’t think Linux is the issue. Absolutely no idea why this is (again).
Haven’t got around to trying DOSBox (or DOSBox Staging (a seemingly newer/better version)) yet, but I have started copying all the games over. I’m not looking forward to mounting those directories as drives in DOSBox because I STILL have no idea how file structures work in Linux…
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Zark’s’ake, I don't know why I bother: obviously, trying to mount a drive in DOSBox resulted in absolutely no success. I think my error was having the games on a different harddrive to the main drive, which just introduces one extra possible point of confusion for the whole process.
When I can be zarked, I'll try it one more time; after that I'll move the games to the main disk (THE C: DRIVE!) and follow the how-tos to the letter.
Linux, ugh.
