Until there is literally a smoking gun, I have no serious reason to believe that Carter is anything less than a man who has done his best to be good. He was also a human being, and I’m sure people can dig up a bad interaction if they look hard enough. Still, it doesn’t invalidate his lifetime of attempts at making a positive impact on the world.
Carter ain’t no Cosby.
My ex wife turned out to be a Lenovo. She and her new girlfriend seem very happy. /s
Came here to say the same—a crack pipe is usually straight and open on both ends with a metal filter of iron wool in it, often of “Chore Boy” brand…or so I’ve heard.
China bad. /s
This would be the best option. Flexibility.
My fellow American, you have detected that I am one of you. Together we will unite to defeat the other people.
And to the other people, I say…my fellow American, you have detected that I am one of you…
I thought we were avoiding political photos here. /s
Nginx. I pronounced it N-Jinx.
I never in a million years would have guessed it was “Engine X”.
Brazil is trialing Linux right now too.
Since BOINC is on your list, I want to ask—is there a version of it that will display the cool screensavers via web UI? I would run BOINC 24/7 if I could show off those cool data processing screens, but there is no use for a screensaver on my server.
Stick with it! I was intimidated by Linux at first and barely learned anything the first year because I was afraid to tinker.
Learn how to make a backup and do a restore (timeshift is a good option), and then tinker with abandon. The terminal is your friend. Experience is the best teacher.
I’m excited for you. I wish I could learn it all again to experience the excitement of writing my first script or figuring out docker again. It’s going to be an awesome adventure for you. 🙂
I know these things. Doesn’t change what I was saying though.
Netflix has been advertising content in 4k and then streaming it at a lower resolution.
Likewise, the advertising for 5g leads you to believe that it is somehow vastly improved from the previous generation when no guarantee of that exists.
But most importantly, all of this is stemming from a one line joke—it was never a serious comment on 5g or 4k definitions. I’m surprised that you took it that way.
The g’s in cellular data have long been devoid of any real meaning, and they keep coming out with more g’s that have essentially no improvements.
Much like how Netflix advertises 4k when the quality is no better than 1080p at best.
The dark seed of the force is a pathway to many resolutions that some might consider…unnatural.
It’s like 5g—it is if you believe it is.
Honestly, it sounds like you set up some unusual settings when you first set up Ubuntu. Usually, the default Ubuntu options will disable root and give your first account sudo permissions. If it didn’t do that, then it should still have root enabled as a user you can log in as.
I mean no disrespect, but it seems like you need some terminal fundamentals that will be difficult for me to relay to you one at a time. Instead, I’m going to give you the basic game plan that I would run here, and then I suggest you google the individual commands to see how they work.
Step 1: Get Admin Permissions
It is imperative that you get administrator privileges. Try logging out completely and logging in as root. If that doesn’t work, do some googling about Ubuntu root accounts and wrack your brain to remember what you selected when you first set up the OS. When you get access to the root account, you should be able to run that command from earlier to add your user to the sudo group. Running commands with sudo will give your primary account root like permissions without having to risk a fat finger error like you do with root.
Step 2: Try Changing File Permissions
Once you have sudo or root access, use sudo or root to run the chmod 777 command to change a file’s permissions to global access. This will allow any user or program to access that file. There are other chmod restrictions that are more specialized that you may want to learn about, but 777 is a good place to start while testing this because we want to reduce the chance of something going wrong as much as humanly possible.
Step 3: Look For Dependancies
Look up terminal install instructions for google drive. Are there other programs that need to be installed first that may have been missed? If so, install all dependencies.
Step 4: Test Other Distros
Spin up a VM of Debian and try installing google drive there. Does it work on Debian? If so, it may be some setting with Ubuntu that is keeping it from working. I’ve occasionally run across weird incompatibilities with Ubuntu that resolve themselves on Debian.
Step 5: The Nuclear Option
If it works in Debian or another distro, then you may want to consider switching distros, reinstalling Ubuntu, or spending a few hours of googling to figure out what the differences are between the two OS’s to track down your problem. Tracking the solution down may be the hardest option, and though it seems daunting, switching distros isn’t so bad.
Good luck, soldier! The sweet release of solving a problem in Linux is better than any orgasm. I honestly think if you do googling about root accounts, sudo, chmod, and the individual dependencies for your malfunctioning programs, that you will figure this out.
If you get it fixed, I’d love to hear your solution. Also, I’m happy to answer more questions if you make some progress and hit another block, I just figured it was easier to spell out a whole plan instead of giving it to you a step at a time.
It sounds like you aren’t an admin somehow. Do you know the root login credentials? Maybe adding the user to sudo from root will get you closer.
You could also try running chmod as root as a shortcut, but be very careful making a bunch of changes as root.
Couldn’t hurt, but I’d be surprised if that fixed it.
Has your account been added to the sudo group before? If not, run the following command in the terminal with your own username:
sudo usermod -aG sudo <username>
That should give your account sudo privileges and let you run the command with sudo properly.
I really wish I could take a look at your system in person. There are several things happening here that are unusual for Ubuntu.
Did you run it as sudo? And you’re on Ubuntu?
Gavin Newsom doesn’t even seem to be all that popular in California. I have no idea why people think he’s a winner.