Fair enough. Be aware timeshift default settings only image the system config, backup your home directory separately to a usb or cloud drive

Dude you’re not changing any configs by trying it, it’s already installed. You’re just selecting an existing option.

Far be it from me to discourage good backups though.

To answer the question no timeshift won’t roll it back because there is no change to rollback.

Think of it as grabbing your tv remote and switching the input on your tv from hdmi1 to hdmi2 to swap to the ps5/xbox from the cable box. You’re not changing the config you’re choosing an alternate input that was already there.

Now if it goes badly (I’ll be shocked if it does) then there is a simple way to revert, use your ctrl-alt-f4 (or f3 or f5) keys to swap to a fresh terminal login, login, then type

shutdown -r now

And hit enter

You’ll be back after the reboot at the login screen, click on the little mountain icon and choose x11 again (it remembers your last choice) and you’re sorted back into x11

Now just to close the loop for when you do need to restore a timeshift backup. Yes it is best practise to boot from a live mint usb & run timeshift from there to restore your last snapshot however in an emergency it will work to initiate the restore from the boot itself (it will initiate a reboot and do it on reboot).

Lastly if it’s an AMD gpu I’m betting on hardware, changing that cable and swapping physical connection ports would be top of my list.

Malvinas not Maldives (they’re half a world apart), and there have been briefly Spanish/Argentinian populations on the islands between 1774 and 1820 but none since then. The majority of whom were one of a) a military garrison b) convicts c) guards of convicts. Very small numbers of non military settlers during that period

So broadly yes, everyone who has been there since the early 1800s is aligned with the UK

That’s a very slanted version of the history. It is much more complicated than that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands#History

Tl;DR, settled and abandoned several times, Argentina’s claim depends heavily on a legally dubious hand over of ownership from Spain and proximity. UK’s claim is based on ongoing occupation of abandoned islands which it had never agreed their claim to was relinquished or invalid.And the fact that the independent settlers who were living there in the most recent re-settlement rejected Buenos Aires and asked for London’s help to secure themselves.

All people who have been living on the islands for near 2 centuries want to be British (see referendum posted on here).

As for the “occupied territory” - well I think the South American natives might want to have a similar discussion about European settlers in Argentina who have also been there several centuries - if you want to unwind one in fairness you need to unwind the other.

Dot point version:

• Uninhabitated prior to European settlement/invasion of South America

• The Falklands remained uninhabited until the 1764 establishment of Port Louis on East Falkland by French captain Louis Antoine de Bougainville and the 1765 foundation of Port Egmont on Saunders Island by Captain John Byron (for clarity - separate parts of the island group, both groups unaware of each other as far as any documentation can tell).

• In 1766, France surrendered its claim on the Falklands to Spain, which renamed the French colony Puerto Soledad the following year. Problems began when Spain detected and captured Port Egmont in 1770. War was narrowly avoided by its restitution to Britain in 1771

• The British and Spanish settlements coexisted in the archipelago until 1774, when Britain’withdraw the garrison from the islands, leaving a plaque claiming the Falklands for King George III. Spain’s Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata became the only formal presence in the territory. West Falkland was left abandoned, and Puerto Soledad became a penal colony. Amid the British invasions of the Río de la Plata during the Napoleonic Wars in Europe, the islands’ governor evacuated the archipelago in 1806; Spain’s remaining colonial garrison followed suit in 1811

• Since the islands had no permanent inhabitants, in 1823 Buenos Aires granted German-born merchant Luis Vernet permission to conduct fishing activities and exploit feral cattle in the archipelago. Vernet settled at the ruins of Puerto Soledad in 1826, and accumulated resources on the islands until the venture was secure enough to bring settlers and form a permanent colony [NOTE that was NOT a colony beholden to what is now Argentina, it was attempting to set up an independent state]

• Vernet’s venture lasted until a dispute related to fishing and hunting rights led to a raid by the American warship USS Lexington in 1831, when United States Navy commander Silas Duncan declared the dissolution of the island’s government.

• Buenos Aires attempted to gain influence over the settlement by installing a garrison in October 1832, which mutinied within a month and was followed the next year by the arrival of British forces, who reasserted Britain’s rule

• The British troops departed after completing their mission, leaving the area without formal government.[48] Vernet’s deputy, the Scotsman Matthew Brisbane, returned to the islands that year to restore the business, but his efforts ended after, amid unrest at Port Louis, gaucho Antonio Rivero led a group of dissatisfied individuals to murder Brisbane and the settlement’s senior leaders; survivors hid in a cave on a nearby island until the British returned and restored order

• In the late 1830s, an appeal was made to the Colonial Office in London by businessmen seeing potential profit, for organised settlement of the islands.[49] In 1840, the Falklands became a Crown colony

If you’re going to do that why not just install Debian ?

why is it that going into ctrl+alt+f1 and then ctrl+alt+f7 to go back, resolve the issue?

I suspect when you swap between the terminal screens you force a resolution input to the screen and/or force the GPU to define what it is expecting to the screen.

If it’s not wayland / x11 then try changing your display cable and also which of hdmi/dvi/display port you are using (ie if using hdmi swap to a display port out of GPU and into monitor for example) if you can.

I’d also check what video drivers you’re using and see if there are any known issues - I vaguely recall early NVidia GPUs (umm 10x0 series I think ? I run AMD and so dont pay a lot of attention) have been deprecated from the latest kernel (don’t think that has flowed down to Mint as it runs older/stable kernels but worth checking).

In addition to the info throwaway403 provided, the practical step you need to know is - at the login screen you can choose between wayland and x11 (although most people never notice the option),

• reboot your machine, or just logout

• on the standard version 22 cinnamon login screen you should see a little picture of a mountain in a circle click on that and it will give you a couple of options (cinnamon default, cinnamon software rendering, cinnamon on wayland)

• choose one of the three you’re not currently using and then login

Try the other options if that doesn’t fix it. If none of them fix it then it prob isnt an X11/wayland issue

Note where you choose the x11 vs wayland changes depending on which display manager you’re using and whether you’ve installed any themes - so if it doesn’t look as described then click on stuff on the login screen until you find it - the only other things will be accessibility options and virtual keyboards unless you’ve installed something really left field

As I understand it the (flawed) logic, is they think that sabotaging key infrastructure will reduce support for supporting Ukraine by inconveniencing (and potentially harming) citizens in the countries that support the UA war effort.

This is predicated on a belief that the average person is not actually in favour of supporting UA and hence it will take little to cause people to put pressure on the govt.

I can’t speak for Lithuania but I can tell you that here in the UK that would cause people to double down on the anti-russian sentiment, and is more likely to lead to a fund raising drive than it is to calls to stop supporting them.

Ahh there’s some good news to balance a crappy monday. Well done.

I use non EU european for preference. Albania Serbia etc.

Al, not Billy. Al Borland was the “Home Improvement” sidekick with the catchphrase “I don’t think so Tim”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d5zhv2TDag

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Improvement_(TV_series)

Well, I think you’re wrong, but I hope you’re right. Quite frankly I’d like to see the MAGAts sorted in the way the Confederates ***should ***have been sorted.

However I don’t think your equation adds up. You have a base assumption in there that the US military will swap or schism to support the blue states and I don’t think it’s going to work out that way. Militaries dont easily or lightly turn against their leadership - not even ones as badly treated as the Russians (and the US military are a thousand percent better treated than the Russians), and if you walk into any military base it’s Fox News you’ll see on every TV not CBS or ABC. The military has always primarily voted rightwing and heavily did so at the last election iirc. There are certainly veterans who are anti trump but that doesn’t make them the majority.

My opinion is there will be some rebellion which will be quickly put down.

Can’t prove it either way, neither of us can. So I think your version is hopium, but I hope you’re right.

Based on behaviour to date do you seriously think the MAGAts will allow a peaceful split ?

The group who rolled the military into blue states on a bullshit pretext are going to let their cash cow go free ?

I don’t think so Tim.