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A few days ago I posted about getting a Microsoft Surface Laptop SE and installing Lubuntu on it. Everything is working great but there is one annoyance I was wondering if someone can help me find a solution for.

After I installed lubuntu I noticed that the volume up and down keys weren't working, the mute button worked fine. I went into keyboard shortcuts and saw that shortcuts existed that should make them work but they didn't. I simply changed the shortcuts to the volume up and down keys plus the function key and they worked, problem solved, almost. They keys only work to control the built in speakers on the laptop but I also use a USB speaker and bluetooth earbuds, for those the volume controls do nothing. To change the volume on these devices I have to open up Pulse Audio and change the volume there. Does anyone know of a way to have the volume control keys work for whatever output device I happen to be using at the moment?

A few days ago I purchased a new Microsoft Surface Laptop SE for barely over $100.00 US. It's a rather nice looking machines but it has terrible specs. 4gb of ram, a Celeron N4120 processor, a 64gb SSD, and a 1mp camera, it's really kind of crappy, but it was cheap! I was looking for a machine that was small, and that could handle really simple stuff like watching videos and checking email and act as a white noise generator through Sox, when I travel. I decided to try out Lubuntu and it has been perfect. I use Fedora and KDE Plasma on my desktop so LXQT took a little bit of work to figure out, but now everything works great and it does exactly what I need it to. So thanks to all the Lubuntu developers!

I have been following the progress Aptera Motors has been making for a long time now and I am in love with this car. I would absolutely love to own an Aptera. I also see that getting these cars actually into buyers hands and out on the roads is a highly difficult and expensive thing to do. So my question is, what if another car company were to buy 51% of Aptera Motors? Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Geely, pretty much any of the larger car manufacturers could do this and in doing so it would give them access to all of the R&D and patents and everything else that Aptera has come up with which could be quite beneficial to them. Not to mention that they would have this amazing looking technically advanced halo car to make them look better, so while it would undoubtedly involve some risk for the car manufacturer but I think it could also bring about a pretty good pay off (maybe even more so for a Chinese manufacturer as they could get a foot in the door in the US). There would also be some risks for Aptera as the larger company may just want to take their best tech and leave them for dead or try to dilute their design down to a point where it would be unrecognizable, but if it worked out it could be wonderful for both companies involved. So does anyone know if there has been any talk about involvemnet from a larger company in Aptera Motor's history?

Hi everybody, yesterday I posted a tin type photo of my husband and myself and everyone seemed to enjoy it. It is a pretty weird photo, and you guys embraced it and celebrated its weirdness. This made me think a little about Cincinnati as a whole, and it's kind of weird. It got me thinking that maybe we should all embrace the weirdness of our wonderful city and maybe even promote our weirdness to the rest of the world. Think about it, we have the real life Hall of Justice, the second largest Oktoberfest in the world, the largest abandoned subway system in America (possibly the world), the Northside 4th of July parade, we are possibly most famous for a radio station that only existed on TV until recently, some crazy architecture, there is just a lot of weird stuff in Cincinnati. What if our city adopted the slogan "Cincinnati, Midwest Weird!" or something similar? We also have an amazing art scene, a great beer scene, a statue of two babies nursing on a wolf that doesn't look too happy about it, we can celebrate our weirdness and maybe even amplify it a bit. I would love to see the city expand the streetcar system a bit but also add a series of aerial cable cars that would go out into a bunch of the different neighborhoods. Imagine going to a cable car station and riding it to a main hub downtown where you could either transfer to a different cable car to go on to another neighborhood or just hop on the street car to get around down town, it would be efficient, fun, and weird! What do you think, should we celebrate our weirdness and increase our weirdness and show off our weirdness to the rest of the world?

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I am an American, born and raised in Tennessee, who lived in the Netherlands from 2013 to 2016 and so I got the chance to learn what living in a democratic socialist country is really like. Hit me with your questions!

So I lived most of my life in Nashville but moved to Cincinnati a few years ago. I never ate at Biscuit Love in Nashville because it just seemed a bit touristy for me, but they opened up a restaurant here in Cincinnati a couple of years ago and I was in the are yesterday and decided to give it a try. Went in about 1:00pm and the place was dead, started looking at the menu and saw biscuit sandwiches named things like "East Nasty" and "Princess" which would not mean anything to someone in Cincinnati so I thought that was odd. I ordered the Princess, a side of cheese grits, and sweet tea. Order cam out quickly (the lady working there was pretty dang wonderful) and the tea was perfect. The cheese grits were decent, not the best grits I have had but certainly not the worst either, what was lacking was cheese. The chicken was tasty, just not very hot and nothing close to chicken from the actual Prince's. But the biscuit was just strange. It was square and very unbiscuit like, more like a thick stack of filo pastry, really flakey and crispy. It wasn't bad it just didn't meet my expectations of what a biscuit is supposed to be. Soft and buttery was replaced by flakey and crispy. The real shock was realizing how much I had paid for all of this, the price for the size of the meal was a miserable value.

So is this what Biscuit Love in Nashville is like or did they come up with some crazy ideas on how to meet the tastes of Mid-Westerners that just fell flat? At least there wasn't a line to get in.