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Cake day: August 14th, 2023

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  • Thanks for the help!

    Turns out it was a hardware issue - I eventually found that I couldn’t connect to Wi-Fi in my mint live usb or Windows 10 on that computer either after a bit more testing. A full power off and unplug seems to have reset whatever was wrong with the Wi-Fi adapter and all is working again, thank goodness.

    Thanks again for taking the time to help! It’s what I’ve come to love about this community in the two months I’ve been in it!


  • I’m on Linux mint 22 and use surfshark as my VPN. It has a Killswitch to ensure that I can’t be connected to the Internet when the VPN isn’t active.

    But, when I turned on the Killswitch, suddenly all of my Wi-Fi options disappeared completely from my network manager. I can’t connect to the Internet at all - the option is completely gone.

    I disabled the Killswitch and rebooted but that didn’t do anything.

    I used time shift to revert to a snapshot from yesterday but still no Wi-Fi options.

    I tried disabling and stopping the process that turning on the Killswitch enables, but no luck there either.

    Uninstalling surfshark doesn’t do anything either and just requires another time shift.

    At this point I’m at my wit’s end. I have no idea what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated


















  • Here is everything I can remember doing:

    1. Downloaded the apk

    2. Installed and opened the program

    3. Allowed notifications

    4. Input my four instances: lemm.ee, sh.itjust.works, lemmy.basedcount.com, and lemmy.ml

    5. Hit “sync” and watched them sync. Three of these instances had almost the same number of communities (around 120), but one had none whatsoever. It took two or three minutes for that instance (basedcount) to sync all of the communities, and in the end, it wasn’t able to subscribe to about 20 of them for some reason. (maybe because nobody had ever gone to/searched for those communities from that instance before - I’ve heard this can lead to access problems, but you’d probably know more about that than I would)

    6. About five minutes later, I got couple of notifications saying that 6(-ish) communities had been synced and that 18(-ish) had been unsubscribed across my instances. This confused me, so I checked my instance list and saw that all three of my instances with around 120 communities now had around 95.

    7. I disabled notifications because they were starting to feel spammy.

    8. I looked at the notification again and realized what had actually happened. I immediately uninstalled the program and resubscribed to as many communities as I could on lemm.ee, my main account.

    Sorry this is so long - I hope it helps!