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You could use SSH? That’s what I do. There is a terminal app on iOS that sometimes I use to connect - probably similar on android. What sort of things are you controlling?
 
Brackish said:
Hi all.
I'm a complete Ubuntu newbie and I'm in a bit of a mess and need some advice.
Basically I have a mini pc that I want to use to host a Minecraft Bedrock server for my lad. This bit I get and the guides for hardening, server setup portforawing etc are plentyful.
My bugbear is that the pc has to sit by the router but with no screen so I was trying different RDP software to remote to the pc and control the pc from my android tablet but over LAN.
One of RDPs was No machine but their NX is international based only from what I can gather.
Is it possible to control the pc from an android tablet?
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Definitely opt for SSH in this case. It's very straightforward to set up in Ubuntu. Under Settings -> System -> Secure Shell. However, Ubuntu also has Remote Desktop built in which is fully compatible with something like Windows Remote Desktop out of the box. Settings -> System -> Remote Desktop.

Ubuntu is a very good OS for immediate remote desktop usage. I'm sure there's an android app which will work.
 
I'm sure this doesn't come as a surprise, but apparently graphics acceleration has been broken in Firefox Snap for ages, and the only current fix is to install the .deb package.
 
Just had a weird bug on Ubuntu 25.04. My machine had been on all day with all the displays currently sleeping. Moved my mouse to wake the displays and everything was saturated red, as if the colour balance had red set to 255. No apps had been installed, including updates as far as I know that day. Tried turning HDR on and off, stopping and restarting GDM, rebooting, reinstalling the Nvida driver. Nothing but a red screens everywhere after Gnome login (x-org and Wayland) even TTY was affected!

So, I concluded that the problem must be the 4090 ☹

Or so I thought, I have NVME drive in the system with a separate Ubuntu 25.04 install isolated from my main U.2 and it booted. No more red screens and everything is working as it should!

I am stumped as to what could have happened, but was able to restore from an image of the NVME onto the U.2 using Rerescuezilla and not had any more issues so far, fingers crossed.
 
yashiro said:
Sounds like a bug with whatever app they're using to reduced blue light levels, Night Light, Redshift, Flux etc.
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Bingo! I must have turned on Night Light mode. I did not know that was a thing, and it being buried deep in the Display settings, I could not have done it by accident. Could an app turn it on without my input or is there a keyboard shortcut to enable it that I might have triggered?

edit: Can't find a keyboard shortcut or any update that would have caused this, so it will remain a mystery forever.
 
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I am dowloading Ubuntu and creating a USB bootable drive at this moment, I have not used Ubuntu since Windows Xp to Windows 10 if I remember correctly, and with a lot of help from Ubuntu/Linux forums in it's early years.

Reason is simply due to pulling out an old PC and finding it simply would not boot, had to replace the Cmos battery but it won't repair the W10 install, so may as well give up on it. I had upgraded and verified it form an old W7 install, but had also removed the PSU and GPU that same week, never even registered it as I wasn't using it, so it's a lost licence and not worth fussing over.

The PC I want to use Ubunto with is an old LGA775 Asus Maximus II with a Q9550 and 8gb of DDR2, with an Asus Cerebus GTX1050ti with a Samsung Evo 120gb SSD with a Corsair HX450 PSU.

Is the old 1050ti and this old hardware fine to use with Ubuntu? It was running Windows 10 fine. Is it more beginer friendly these days?
 
sastusbulbas said:
I am dowloading Ubuntu and creating a USB bootable drive at this moment, I have not used Ubuntu since Windows Xp to Windows 10 if I remember correctly, and with a lot of help from Ubuntu/Linux forums in it's early years.

Reason is simply due to pulling out an old PC and finding it simply would not boot, had to replace the Cmos battery but it won't repair the W10 install, so may as well give up on it. I had upgraded and verified it form an old W7 install, but had also removed the PSU and GPU that same week, never even registered it as I wasn't using it, so it's a lost licence and not worth fussing over.

The PC I want to use Ubunto with is an old LGA775 Asus Maximus II with a Q9550 and 8gb of DDR2, with an Asus Cerebus GTX1050ti with a Samsung Evo 120gb SSD with a Corsair HX450 PSU.

Is the old 1050ti and this old hardware fine to use with Ubuntu? It was running Windows 10 fine. Is it more beginer friendly these days?
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I'm sure it'll be fine hardware-wise. Regarding beginner friendliness, various Linux distros are great for beginners and Ubuntu is a fine choice.
 
It should be ok, easiest way to try is to use the live cd or install and find out. You may need to load different Nvidia drivers but probably not as that card isn't too old I think.
 
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