

Before there was the Internet there were libraries. Your main reference books were dictionaries for looking up proper definitions of unknown words. Then you had encyclopedias for general topics. To get really specialized you had to consult the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature. That was an index organized by topic of magazine articles, including scientific ones like Nature. Reference librarians were very helpful in finding specific information in a hurry, and there were some books that couldn’t leave the library.











The only routine sound issues I have on mint is the output settings don’t stay the same through a reboot, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to permanently disable output for monitor speakers that I don’t have (eg HDMI sound).