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Well, my first conclusion after, well, about two weeks of using Linux Mint: mixed.
If you've been using Fedora Linux for years, it's a noticeable step backwards. What runs smoothly under Fedora, where devices are recognized without any problems, requires a little extra help with Mint - and often more time...
Examples: I have a Brother DCP3515 multifunction laser printer. Under Fedora, it is recognized immediately via WLAN and if you want to print something, it can be done…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02308 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

MINT: Multimodal Instruction Tuning with Multimodal Interaction Grouping
Recent advances in multimodal foundation models have achieved state-of-the-art performance across a range of tasks. These breakthroughs are largely driven by new pre-training paradigms that leverage large-scale, unlabeled multimodal data, followed by instruction fine-tuning on curated labeled datasets and high-quality prompts. While there is growing interest in scaling instruction fine-tuning to ever-larger datasets in both quantity and scale, our findings reveal that simply increasing the numb…

Mint Deluxe – Occident Accident
#byncnd

Then there's also the Wayland thing: in Linux Mint Wayland is only experimental, otherwise everything still runs on the outdated X. I switched to Wayland, and some things just don't work.
I have also pimped the Cinnamon desktop a bit visually (the video is linked in a post further down in my profile), and I constantly have terrible display errors such as “ghost windows” (i.e. after closing a window, a transparent area of the former window remains on the screen). When I upgrade …

Stock Market Telepathy: Graph Neural Networks Predicting the Secret Conversations between MINT and G7 Countries
Nurbanu Bursa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01945

Stock Market Telepathy: Graph Neural Networks Predicting the Secret Conversations between MINT and G7 Countries
Emerging economies, particularly the MINT countries (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, and Türkiye), are gaining influence in global stock markets, although they remain susceptible to the economic conditions of developed countries like the G7 (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States). This interconnectedness and sensitivity of financial markets make understanding these relationships crucial for investors and policymakers to predict stock price movements accur…

I've just found out that the nano text editor can sort lines by pressing Ctrl-T (execute any command on marked lines) and then entering "| sort" (like in a shell pipe).
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/717925

Long shot but I can't find an answer with "short searches": I got a KVM. Everything finally works, except Mint shuts down (closing all apps) when I switch to the other computer and I need to open the lid to make it come back.
This is with "lid action=nothing" in the power settings, of course.
Any ideas? Even ideas on how to express this concept in a way that lets me find the relevant reddit thread would be awesome.

Current obsession. Have no real need, other than not having a Floyd-equipped rock guitar in my arsenal. But if I were speccing one out it would look a *lot* like this... the skull inlays 😍
There's a mint used one near me that I've been offered a great deal on... 😩
#guitar #GearSquad…

KH-602

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LoudAndProud
sounds mint:
🎵 Zombies
#soundsmint
https://open.spotify.com/track/3gpW3GpvFgOJSJBDlSXDUl

Nye timepriser for konsulentydelser i naboskabet og vennekredsen:
500 kr hvis det har med Windows el. MacOs at gŸre
250 kr hvis det er en Linux (Mint) maskine
Så kan I lære det, kan I!

@… Preorder of Superdrag - Regretfully Yours is happening!
https://www.lovevinylrecords.com/products/

I need to try to tether the Mint Linux laptop to an iPhone hotspot for Internet access… hope it works!

That sewing machine part from Canada? It was reshipped, and hopefully will arrive this time. Who knows what process it will go through, or what I will have to do to get it. If the gub-mint imposes a tax, do I pay it on pickup or what? All this to get a sewing machine from 1953 sewing again. Yeesh. I other sewing news, the 1937 Featherweight is working. I removed the old busted (and hardwired) pedal, and got a replacement cord/pedal. I just need to finish the cleaning / lube job and then gif…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #StreetSounds
Mint Condition:
🎵 Breakin' My Heart (Album Version)
#MintCondition
https://1djhelix.bandcamp.com/track/mint-condition-breakin-my-heart-helix-re-rub
https://open.spotify.com/track/0NKTnbQQolgvk0FOIkiibI

@… Mint is great for me.

We don't need fat Oreos. We don't need skinny Oreos. We don't need mint Oreos. Like Jesus, the Oreo was born perfect.
#SponsorablePost

Weird how the Linux Mint subreddit has been taken over by people proudly displaying how cool their desktops look.
I know that after being boxed in by Windows it is nice to get more control but frankly I'd rather read posts by people who need help.
#LinuxMint

Nachdem hier ständig #Linux gehyped wird, dachte ich dass ich mal meinen alten #MacMini 2012 aus dem Schrank hole und aufpimpe. Naja, ganz so einfach war das dann doch nicht, Die ersten 3 Versuch u.A. mit Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish und Kubuntu gingen ins Nirwana. Mint ist dann schließlich sauber durchgelaufen…

Good Morning #Canada
On June 30th, 1987, a Canadian one-dollar coin was introduced, produced by the Royal Canadian Mint at its facility in Winnipeg. The beloved #Loonie was born. But did you know the iconic Loon image wasn't meant to be the coin in production and only came to be because the original master dies were lost by a courier. We came close to embedding "Voyageurs" at centre ice during the Olympics.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Numismatist
https://www.mint.ca/en/blog/2022-07-a-tale-of-two-designs-loonie

Went to La’ Shukran for the first time last night and both the cocktails (especially with arak) and the food were fantastic.

Finally, all those pennies I collected as a child will be worth something!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/treasury-penny-mint-to-stop-making-pennies/

Sometimes I'm silly. Noticed that a fire camera I was watching showed a clock over a minute ahead of my system time, assumed the problems was me. Installed Chrony (Linux Mint, recent Win convert so I'm hardly a power user) and spent the usual 20 minutes farting around with it. Couldn't seem to get it right.
Finally realized my clock IS within a handful of microseconds of the NTP server; it's the clock on the camera that's wrong. D'oh.

Israeli cyber and computer science experts phished by Iran-linked APT42 https://therecord.media/israel-cyber-experts-computer-scientists-phished-iran

@… I was so fed up with Windows 11 that last year I switched to Linux. I started with Zorin, which was good, but then tried Mint and have stayed with that for 9 or so months. I'm very happy.

Tilbage til **Linux Mint Cinnamon Edition** efter korte gæstespil fŸrst ved Ubuntu Budgie og derefter Zorin OS. Begge distributioner gav mig en del udfordringer i den daglige drift- og jeg betragter mig som en garvet Linux bruger. Men Mint- det kŸrer bare <3
#linux #linuxmint

After Linux Mint and Cinnamon looked a bit old-fashioned and dusty, I gave Cinnamon a facelift following these good instructions. Now it looks really cool and modern!
#linux

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #SteveLamacq
sounds mint:
🎵 Zombies
#soundsmint
https://open.spotify.com/track/3gpW3GpvFgOJSJBDlSXDUl

I need to get a new laptop for work, where I'll install Linux (Mint, probably, unless otherwise directed) and I'm trying to figure out what model to get.
Can somebody please tell me if the bullshit "AI" features are actually detrimental the same way a dedicated graphics card would be (in my specific scenario)?

Series B, Episode 07 - Killer
JENNA: A missile?
BLAKE: No, it can't be. They can't have spotted Liberator. We've got the blind down. [launch appears on screen]
JENNA: There it is, look, just leaving the ionosphere.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/207/33 B7B6…

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Cat in mint condition, original boxing

The UK government should publish the full underground map of cables etc (NUAR) below Royal Mint Court (OS grid TQ338806)

My complete setup is currently as follows:
Linux Mint and FreeBSD on all my computers and notebooks
Pixel 9 with Graphene OS (but will be replaced by a new Fairphone 6 with /e/OS from Murena in the future)
Connected via KDE Connect
Office with LibreOffice
My own Nextcloud for files, photos, calendar and contacts
Hardened Firefox with uBlock Origin
Freetube and Newpipe instead of YouTube
Ecosia search instead of Google
Proton Mail and Tutanota Ma…

Fun fact: NUC's with the Intel N150 are certainly not supported everywhere....
FreeBSD 14.2, 14.3,15.0; Void, MXLinux 23.6ahs, Artix daily 20250609, Ubuntu 25.04 install fine, but don't get past the resulting Grub menu.
Fedora 42, Linux Mint 22.1 (surprising!), Slackware Current liveslak Slackeroni & Mate and the Arch iso do.
And of course our all time fav Win 11 Pro 😜
Something to keep in mind when scoring the latest and greatest for that amazingly low p…

@… @… If you haven't installed Mint yet, consider putting your data on a separate partition before you do. You can do this later, but it's easier at install time.

Yes, I am a very political person. And that's why the unbelievable has happened in the last few days: as an old Linux and Unix user since the 1980s, I've switched from Fedora to Linux Mint... (and I'm still using FreeBSD too)
Technically a step backwards, as Fedora is far more up-to-date and modern, but politically and morally a step forward. Why?
Here in Europe, since the fascist, racist, narcissist, uneducated primitive moron and would-be dictator Trump became presi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02308 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

MINT: Multimodal Instruction Tuning with Multimodal Interaction Grouping
Recent advances in multimodal foundation models have achieved state-of-the-art performance across a range of tasks. These breakthroughs are largely driven by new pre-training paradigms that leverage large-scale, unlabeled multimodal data, followed by instruction fine-tuning on curated labeled datasets and high-quality prompts. While there is growing interest in scaling instruction fine-tuning to ever-larger datasets in both quantity and scale, our findings reveal that simply increasing the numb…