Nightwatch Admin

Best way IMHO is copy all the files to another disk, double check and then format the partition into your favourite filesystem, and copy everything back. NTFS can be a bit of trouble.

I am not sure if Martin would appreciate his name this clear on the lemmyverse.

VBox could be nice, but Oracle is on a licensing hunt for people who install the extension pack on potentially work-related systems. Technically it is free for personal use, but is like explicitly inviting the vampire into your home - nothing might happen, but you wouldn’t know until the moment you have 2 tiny holes in your neck.

it is a very private programming language

Gangsters will rejoice https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cybertruck-isnt-nearly-as-bulletproof-as-elon-musk-wants-you-to-think

All hail the Blessed Virgin!

Bunch of funkturd wankers are lying through their hole-ridden stinking teeth! Their whole goddamn business model is based on profiling. They know exactly who what where when why with whom for fuck’s sake.

You’re not wrong. I do have the app because the mobile site shits on my browser (I have anti tracking, cookie blocking, ad wiping defences), and there are a few niche communities I find important that stick around (and r/sysadmin, while not exactly niche, is really useful for me)

This is fun but partially incorrect; yes, more money is better quality, however zero money means infinite quality. Prove me wrong, exhibit A is “the other site”.

Of course. Rules for thee and not for me.

You only have loopback addresses, that won’t work at all. Odd. Unless Ubuntu doesn’t use dhcp. You can try eg “sudo dhclient” or do a manual configuration in the range of your modem (eg ip 192.168.1.2, netmask /24 aka 255.255.255.0, gw 192.168.1.1, dns 9.9.9.9).
Vivek is (y)our friend: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/setting-up-an-network-interfaces-file/

Is your IP address 169.254.x.y by any chance? That would mean you can actually “see” the network but have no usable address (169.254.x.y is APIPA, you could say a fallback basically when no dhcp is available). Try “ip addr” on the commandline or “ifconfig” for us oldtimers

• is the wifi adapter recognised?
• do you have an ip address from your router/modem? generally 192.1698.x.y
• what’s the dns server address? see eg https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-linux-bsd-unix-set-dns-nameserver/
• can you ping your router / modem?
• can you pathping/traceroute/tracepath/… the site?
• can you ping/traceroute/… other sites?

Probably, I don’t see the power grid keeping up.

You don’t even need a calculator for a quick calculation, take the closest value of 10: 3x7=21x37 or easier 20x40 = 800 which is close to the actual number, 777.

You mean RFC1918 private addresses? I guess they keep it at hand but it’s not really interesting to them. Almost all “client side” internet connections are behind a NAT connection, where private addresses are only unique to the router. So while your public address 1.2.3.4 is unique to you, your inside address 192.168.1.1 is only unique inside your LAN. Your neighbour will have the same address inside, but a different one outside, say 4.3.2.1.

Tuchus? It is 5AM here and I already learned a new word, thank you kind internet stranger!

Ah yes, I expected as mich but was hoping for something more… intricate?

Nice write up! Though… the sound coning seemingly from someone’s … someone’s what exactly?

The Hurd hasn’t done anything properly in, what, 3 decades? I am actually surprised someone even remembers it.