So I’ve got a living room computer running Cachy OS/Plasma Bigscreen that has replaced my Xbox. (I’m calling it the Xbox None)

It’s an old Dell Optiplex I picked up for cheap - runs indie titles pretty well and I can stream from my main PC.

Anyway, that’s not why I’m posting..

I can’t seem to find a way to get it to turn the TV on and off when it goes to sleep and wake up. Can anyone help?

Edit: thanks for the answers! I don’t want to buy an adapter so I guess I’ll live with having to use the remote. 🤷‍♂️ I am going to see if the TV settings can help me out though.

So I just got myself a nice new ergonomic mouse with 7 buttons. However, four of the buttons are defaulted to options like forward/back/home/etc with no option to change it to a simple button click through the software it came with. So how did I take control of these buttons? I'll tell you, because I couldn't find any easy solutions on the web.

Step one: Buy a mouse. I got a cheap-ish JLAB ergonomic mouse. 7 buttons, super comfortable.

Step two: Download the mouse software, Karabiner, and BetterMouse.

Step three: Through the mouse software, set the buttons you want to a letter or number. I set the ones that weren't listening to 3, 4, 5, 6. Then delete that, never use it again.

Step four: Through Karabiner, in the simple modifications section you can then tell it to take any input from that mouse and assign a button-# to it, so set the letters you picked to the button number you want. Use Karabiner Event Viewer to confirm the changes.

Step four: BetterMouse will now recognize your clicks and you can set them to do whatever you want in the OS, or by program.

Karabiner is free, but BetterMouse is paid. There might be another option I'm unaware of, but I think BetterMouse is a solid buy for $10.

Now I need to decide what macros I want to attach to my 2 new buttons.

I’m wondering if anyone has any experience with this?

https://snapcraft.io/icloud-for-linux

I’m working on transitioning to Linux from Mac pretty casually and I’ll still be using this iPhone til it’s dead. So I’m figuring out solutions to my current computer-usage before I switch my main machine. I’d like to maintain some interoperability between my phone and desktop computer so this has me intrigued.

Is it well-maintained? Trustworthy? Easy to use?

I have an old Thinkpad T420 I’m testing stuff on before I take the plunge but I figured I’d ask before giving it my credentials.

Edit: thanks so much for all the advice. I’m going to try a couple different ways to do it and see what I like :)

Edit again a few weeks later: My tests on my experimental computers went so well that I took the plunge on installing Mint on my MacBook Pro (2015 I think).

I ended up using Syncthing to sync my iCloud Documents and desktop folders on my desktop Mac with what I’m now calling my Mintbook. That automatically syncs to iCloud, so I can get the important stuff on my phone easily.

Then I created a web wrapper of iCloud.com/calendar using Mint’s built-in web app creator. It works well enough; my only complaints are that I can’t copy and paste events by right-clicking like I can on the Mac app, and no notifications on Mint.

From there it’s easy enough to switch from calendar to notes, photos, FindMy, etc. so I’m happy with my iCloud “app” for my laptop usage.

I think the only things holding me back from switching my desktop now are photos syncing, and I haven’t tried DaVinci Resolve on Linux yet (I do some light video editing from time to time.) and I’ll need to buy another 5TB hard drive to transfer from my APFS formatted storage drive to a Linux-formatted drive. (I believe the transfer process will be easy once I get it thanks to SyncThing)

So, I’m a third of the way to abandoning apple on my most-used machines. Feeling pretty good about it.