I don’t want to spam multiple links with examples, but you can look this up on your favourite search engine to find multiple current problems with Cinnamon’s screensaver. It seems pretty common and that’s why I’m asking.
Here’s a link that’s from a month ago listing all the possible causes.
Does Mint have screensaver and locking issues with Cinnamon?
I install Mint on computers of people that don’t want Windows and that I have to help, but I personally use Debian and MATE. Recently I tried to use Cinnamon on Debian but the screensaver was not always working. Sometimes I was away for days and when I was coming back, my monitor was still on. And sometimes the screensaver got stuck, impossible to remove without restarting my session.
I have a friend that tried Mint too, and he basically told me the same thibg was happening to him.
I have not heard about this from other folks to whom I installed Mint, but since they’re all very basic users that turn off their computer every time they are done, it never came up.
It would be my only issue with Mint for beginners. If they leave their computer running and come back later, there’s a slight chance that the screensaver will either not be started, or very difficult to exit.
It’s not for the general public, it’s for municipalities and authorities.
How would the French government benefit from spying on three cities and one ISP that works with local authorities using Matrix? And why would that be worse than Microsoft doing it instead of them?
I hope they will keep their promise.
Both the federal and provincial governments where I live had plans to ban the sale of gas powered vehicles by 2035. They kept this policy for a few years but both scrapped it recently.
My province initially made it a law that 100% of cars sold by 2035 should be electric. It’s now 90%.
So, as much as the current German government can say it plans to do this by 2045, there’s more than enough time to have another government that will scrap this policy. And their plan is even more ambitious.
I hope they will continue in the long term with this policy, but the cynical in me is doubting.
I’m Québécois and grew up in a small town near Drummondville. Volunteer work is not a requirement nor expected.
Some people just do “bénévolat” and offer their time for causes they support, and it’s very important for some organizations, but there’s no expectations that everyone should.
For example, the famous “Tour de l’ile de Montréal” needs a few hundred bénévoles/volunteers every year for the multiple events. They come from individuals wanting to help at those those events, but also from organizations and schools that are encouraging it.
So we have a lot of local festivals and events staffed by bénévoles, but it doesn’t really come from an expectation. Just from kind or social people that want to help their community.
Retirees also do a lot of bénévolat here. In fact, it might be one of the slices of society here that does have some expectations about doing bénévolat, as they have lots of free time.
In short, people working full time jobs are not expected to volunteer. Others, like seniors and students, maybe a bit.
Unfortunately if nothing slowly starts to change, it’s gonna the same thing in several years. Other countries and region will have transitioned and liberated themselves of that dependency while others will still rely, depend, and hope cheap gas.
If someone is a smoker, it’s still better to encourage them to try to stop continuously or multiple times, even if not successful, rather than hoping the person will just stop in the future.
No need to be new. It doesn’t even need to be an EV. Just a car that’s more efficient. It can be used, and/or smaller than a SUV/pickup truck.
Or, there may be other options like public transit or cycling. Or maybe even moving to a place where a car is not really a necessity most of the time. Some cities have car sharing companies to bridge the gap and only use a car when necessary.
In some other countries, they have accelerated their transition to renewable energy.
https://asianinsiders.com/2026/03/31/asia-energy-transition-plans-oil-crisis/
The priority for governments is getting through the current crisis, but many have also turned an eye to the future. Reducing dependence on oil imports is the only way to ensure a similar situation doesn’t happen again.
In nearly every Asian country, greater energy security starts with a successful energy transition. This is creating opportunities for overseas firms boasting tools, technology and knowledge in a wide range of areas.
Meanwhile other countries are just hoping for cheap gas, and some are even slowing down or are actively working against alternatives. Some presidents even go as far as pay more to cancel renewable energy contracts.
And I wasn’t there but apparently there’s been an oil crisis in 1970 that led to more efficient cars and reshaped the industry.
https://enginestories.com/history/oil-crisis-to-electric-revolution-how-fuel-shaped-car-design/
But I guess that no, of course there is simply no alternative to cheap gas.
Oh I understand that. And that’s whybwe should work really hard to get rid of gas powered vehicles and find alternatives. But no, the only solution is to burn cheap gas.
God forbid people use less gas, or even switch to electric. All that’s needed to be happy and fulfilled is cheap gas. Fuck the environment, fuck other people killed for this, as long as we have cheap gas, everything goes.
Don’t try anything else. Just keep expecting cheap gas.
Ask me how I know we won’t do fuck all about climate change.
Well, this is much easier than going after Iranians anyway.
The US, which is rapidly becoming Russia #2, should be sanctioned by the international community. It probably won’t happen, but it should.
When I went on twitter and reddit a few years ago, there was the hashtag #carryshitolympics and a subreddit with the same name.
This belongs in that category.
Now that you mention it, I have been doing tech support for multiple years and yeah, sometimes I just have to read them the message on the screen.
And let’s not even mention the oppression of culture. We never got to choose our native language.
I was taught about global warming in the 90ies at school and have always been concerned about the environment and pollution. I’m from the generation that saw that Manbearpig episode, and even though I know South Park “makes fun of everyone”, this one always seemed too much.
But I stopped giving a fuck during the pandemic when I realized that even a pandemic wouldn’t change society.
We saw first hand how the environment could improve and benefit from making changes in our way of life, but most people wanted to go back to their commute and waste energy in traffic.
Even today, governments and public employers are still forcing their employees to go “back to the office” even if it’s not needed for lots of jobs.
I care about the future of next generations, I have nephews and nieces, but apparently nobody gives a fuck because it would be too expensive and disruptive. We prefer cheap gas.
So I still maintain my lifestyle of not having a car and being careful when I can, but I was avoiding airplanes as they are the most polluting mode of transport, and I don’t anymore.The majority apparently doesn’t care and just wants cheap gas and cheap shit. They want to choke us while complaining everything is getting more expensive, amd won’t change anything.
Every headline year after year is how we won’t reach our climate “goals” and how we’re passing thresholds one after the other.
So I don’t give a fuck now. It’s sad but I can see what people around me chose, and it’s cheap gas and endless consumption.
I don’t know the Batman universe, so at first I thought this looked like dip, from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. But I checked and no, dip is much darker than this.
We don’t give a fuck, give us cheap gas. We want cheap gas and continue useless consumption. Let’s consume the earth!
I was taught about global warming in school in the 90ies, warned, tried to warn and convince others, but apparently I’m wishing for the impossible and reducing consumption would be an economic disaster. So let’s consume all the earth. I’m sure this won’t be economically catastrophic in the lomg run either.
What is the Gulf of Messo-America?
AFAIK Mesoamerica is a region, and the gulf in that region is called the Gulf of Mexico..
Yeah, I didn’t check the stats but I’m pretty sure we have much more chances of just being hit by a car while existing than getting our thighs burned by the emergency slides while evacuating a plane, so I also sometimes take that chance anyway.
Apparently you should at least avoid wearing shorts on planes. There’s multiple reasons, including not sticking your skin where others people’s skin have been stuck, but the most important to me is because of the slides in case of emergency.
If you wear shorts and for some reason the slides have to be used to exit the plane, you risk being burned.
Not strictly a Mint issue, but it’s still sotfware from them.