Quite worrying, since we all love birds, but partial solutions suggested:

https://e360.yale.edu/features/bird-window-collisions

Last few days, after a random amount of time the taskbar gets a glitch.
Reboot fixes it. It may happen once a day, early, later no pattern.

Nothing I can find...driver been the same for a while, it's up to date, system up to date.

Ideas??
When it glitches a reboot is the only solution, while rest of screen/desktop is there, you can't access anything.        

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-67343374


"Europe's Euclid telescope is ready to begin its quest to understand the greatest mysteries in the Universe.
Exquisite imagery from the space observatory shows its capabilities to be exceptional.
Over the next six years, Euclid will survey a third of the heavens to get some clues about the nature of so-called dark matter and dark energy.
These unknown "influencers" appear to control the shape and expansion of everything that's out there.

Researchers concede, however, they know virtually nothing about them, even though they probably account for 95% of the contents of the cosmos.
Neither dark matter nor dark energy are directly detectable. Our only hope of gaining some understanding is to trace their subtle signals in the things we can see.
This will be Euclid's job: to observe the contours, distances and motions of billions of galaxies, some of whose light has taken almost the entire age of the Universe to reach us.
Somewhere in the statistics of this 3D cosmic map - the largest ever made - scientists expect to find answers.

Euclid's survey will be the most fundamental of inquires, argued Prof Carole Mundell, the director of science at the European Space Agency (Esa).
"We are human, we want to understand everything around us; whether that was as ancient people looking at the night sky and drawing constellations on our caves, or trying to understand whether the Sun would come back after the winter - we seek that knowledge and insight," she told BBC News.
"We don't currently understand 95% of the Universe, a universe that is 13.8 billion years old. We're sentient beings who've been around for a tiny fraction of that time, but we could be the species that gets to figure it all out."


Dark matter and dark energy are among the biggest puzzles in modern astrophysics.
The former could be some as-yet-undetected particle. Astronomers infer its presence from the gravitational pull it exerts on the matter we can see. Galaxies would fly apart if it wasn't there.
The latter represents a very different problem. It could be some kind of energy in the vacuum of space. Whatever it is, it appears to be working against gravity to push galaxies apart at an ever-accelerating rate."

Still runs for me fine with ublock origin.
Anyone else having issues?
I see Louis Rossman has had some strikes for mentioning the grayjay app.

A few months ago I converted my Acer chromebook 317 to Linux Mint 21.2. It performs very well, but gets a little warm at times as it doesn't have a fan, or any ventilation.
I have been trying to install Q4OS because it is much lighter, yet has everything that I require for the conversion. The installation fails.
The details are in the attached PDF.
Any suggestions will be much appreciated.

EDIT:
The problem was that Q4os saw the drive as dev/vda, and not dev/emmce. I installed the latest MX23 which set up the drive exactly the same as Mint did. Installed with no problems, runs cooler than with mint, & there is a setting for the numpad key, so I don't need to use the 'onboard' keyboard to enable it. (there is no numpad key on the Chromebook keyboard)   The soundcard is also working, which did not happen with Mint.

Attached Files

  Q4os problem.pdf (Size: 105.35 KB / Downloads: 7)

Any feedback on buying items from these guys?

I have an old rangehood that needs to be removed and replaced.  I would like some recommendations for this work if anyone can suggest a person or company please do.

What's going well and not so well?

The roses are in full swing - Birthday Present finished and Blossomtime is past its first flush. Climbing masquerade, Jeanne la Joie and Dublin Bay now at their best.  Others are budded up and coming out and a few that don't have colour yet but will soon. Lilies are up and the first buds about to open. The first cosmos is out (from punnets) and I have seeds coming along for later in the season (it attracts goldfinches so we get a good patch going). The geranium is nearly finished but still has a few left. There are several more plants (all self-seeded) but it looks like they will be next year.

The first water irises are out. Lotuses are leafing up well but a way off flowering yet (last week of December at the earliest). Next week's fortnightly feed will go to weekly after that. The white water lily has had a few flowers.

Dwarf beans are up. The first lot got dug up by the blackbirds just as they were germinating so I planted the next lot very close. The first lot recovered after all so now I have too many plants too close together. DH says thin them but I might just feed them well and see what happens. The beans freeze very well so there's no danger of having too many. And in a couple of weeks I'll plant the next row with a bit of space.

Lettuces are going well. Spinach (popeye and No7) is bolting but that's to be expected. I have started some seeds of Sprinter which is supposed to be heat tolerant so it will be interesting to see what it does. Leeks have also bolted. Broccoli is doing better than it was and is starting to head up after a slow start. One lot didn't get enough sun and for the other the soil became too acidic. With a better angle of sun for one and some lime for the other both are now looking good. The garlic is mixed, with some growing well and some struggling so I gave it some more lime and time will tell whether it was too late. Corn and potatoes are all looking good.

We have strawberries fruiting and the blueberries have heaps of berries. Two different varieties. One has few leaves and had heaps of flowers followed by a lot of small fruit forming which may or may not be big at maturity. The other has a lot of leaf and had a good number of flowers that have grown into fruit that are much larger so far, but still well off maturity.

And this morning I found my best secateurs that I lost two weeks ago. I had been racking my brain over where I last had them, as you do, and this morning spied them when I was checking the lotuses for aphids. They were tucked on the edge of a container and were hidden by the large leaves. So that was great. They are 25+ years old and still going strong, including the never-ending lose-find cycle (the worst one was being buried in the compost a few years ago and only found when I dug it over). A clean and oil and they are fine again until next time.

My main PC is in an Antec P280 case. This is a case I wish to keep. The Power On switch is sticking and causing annoyance. It is hard to get to and to try and remedy. If I was to reverse the connections between the Power On and the Reset connections to the motherboard, could that be a suitable work around?

They are so bloody expensive now I'm surprised so many people have bought them.
Last 2 nights have been pretty loud on my street.
I ended up getting a bunch myself on the 5th when a local retailer had to clear out the remaining stock at a heavily discounted price.