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Q: 20 GB boot drive?

LeeI have a 20 GB boot drive yet I keep getting low mem notices - it uses 18 GB+. Is that correct? I see other posts that people have much smaller boot drives w/o problems. It usually only happens when I install new software. BTW, I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.

 
 
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2:40 PM
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Q: Segmentation fault in Simple Scan, XSane and scanimage

raaaahmanI've been using Simple Scan on Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS for a couple years now, but today I'm not able to launch it anymore. It opens it window and immediately crashes. When I try to use CLI instead I'm having this message: bugchk_free(ptr=(nil))@modelinf.c(464) Abandon (core dumped) I've tried to use...

 
 
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3:56 PM
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Q: Keyboard function keys always trigger media shortcuts, regardless of whether Fn is held down

x6herbiusI recently bought a Varmilo VA109M mechanical keyboard. It works fine on Windows, but seems to confuse my Ubuntu install in that the F1-F12 function keys appear always to activate media shortcuts, regardless of whether I've held the dedicated Fn modifier key or not. For instance, F12 will increas...

 
 
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8:32 PM
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Q: Mount ISO with write permissions?

user428581I'm trying to view and modify a TinyCore ISO in Ubuntu. But it's getting mounted with read-only permissions. What am I getting wrong here? sudo mount /tmp/Core-current.iso /tmp/foo/ -o rw mount: /tmp/foo: WARNING: device write-protected, mounted read-only.

 

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