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Living 20 minutes into the future. Eccentric weirdo. Virtual Adept. Time traveler. Thelemite. Technomage. Hacker on main. APT 3319. Not human. 30% software and implants. H+ - 0.4 on the Berram-7 scale. Furry adjacent. Pan/poly. Burnout.

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drwho,

Destination port 123/udp isn’t Tor. That’s NTP.

drwho,

Something seems fucky. Check this out: www.metastem.su

drwho,

Hmm.

Not being able to select boot order in BIOS suggests something very strange is going on, because it suggests that the BIOS can’t see all the drives. That has to happen before the bootloader can be evoked.

It sounds like GRUB is installed on the WD Black. BIOS -> drives it can see -> boot loader

What was the specific error that the Arch boot attempt threw? How did os-prober work for you?

drwho,

What boot loader are you using? That is what allows you to pick between what OS (in your case, drive) to boot at power-on.

Are you using UEFI for this?

drwho,

I’m going to be building out a third wireless access point with OpenWRT to get better wireless coverage in the house.

drwho,

Are you keeping an eye on system temperature?

drwho,

A classic! Way back when it used to be recommended on as a good introductory text (until O’Reilly started publishing books on Linux, anyway).

drwho,

Neither do I. I’ve had a sensor net watching for Wayland news (because sooner or later I’m going to have to migrate to it, just want to know when) but so far there hasn’t been any executive summary.

drwho,

That is simple. About as simple as it gets. The more complex method involves figuring out what VPN software Mullvad really uses, figuring out your keying material, fighting with NetworkManager…

tl;dr - Follow the directions.

drwho,

Because nobody cared about what I was listening to when I did. It didn’t get me anything useful.

Can one recover from an accidental rm -rf of system directories by copying those files back in from a backup?

Well I’ve joined the “accidentally trashing your system with rm -rf” club! Luckily I didn’t delete my home directory with all the things I care about, but I did delete /boot and /usr, and maybe /var (long story, boils down to me trying to delete non-system directories named those but reflexively adding the slash in front...

drwho,

That’s entirely valid. Good luck.

drwho,

Your chances are pretty good if you copy them back - ultimately, that’s what the restoration function of backup software does.

As for ownership of the directories and files, that’s a bit trickier and might involve some trial and error. root:root is a safe bet for most of it, but there is a lot of stuff in /var that is owned by system accounts.

What distro are you running? That’ll help figure it out.

drwho,

I’m surprised they don’t want to scan something else.

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    drwho,

    Of course it will. 702 is the best weapon they’ve ever had, and they’re not going to give it up come hell or high water.

    drwho,

    It’s only a matter of time before those records (and my mental health records too) get involved in a breach.

    This does not leave me sleeping well at night.

    drwho,

    Even then, not so much. I’ve been tugging on those particular wires, and the overall response seems to be, send a reply once, then ghost you until you’ve forgotten that you asked them. They do nothing during that time, and will probably continue to do nothing well after we forget.

    drwho,

    Yup, pretty normal.

    drwho,

    I’m okay if Xorg dies off. I just hope that the stuff I use everyday works reliably with Wayland before it does.

    drwho,

    I agree. Some of the Linux servers I used to run at work in the early 00’s were 12 to 16 core monsters (for the time) and the kernel didn’t even blink.

    Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Committing Fully To Netplan For Network Configuration (www.phoronix.com)

    The Canonical-developed Netplan has served for Linux network configuration on Ubuntu Server and Cloud versions for years. With the recent Ubuntu 23.10 release, Netplan is now being used by default on the desktop. Canonical is committing to fully leveraging Netplan for network configuration with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...

    drwho,

    The question is, is it going to suck more or less than NetworkManager?

    drwho,

    You (and I) are unfortunately part of the small fraction of a percentage point that think and are inclined to act this way.

    drwho,

    OpenBSD got a grant from the DoD, and then Theo posted his opinions of the post-9/11 US government, and they put a stop on the check before it even crossed the border. He pissed a lot of folks inside the Beltway off that day.

    drwho,

    You’d rather not know that someone you might find yourself working with could turn on you in the blink of an eye for a reason you’re not even aware of?

    drwho,

    What the actual fuck?

    drwho,

    I had something similar happen in one of my ESP8266 projects (also running MicroPython). What I wound up doing was, every five wall clock minutes (maybe a bit sooner than that, for your case) I had my firmware do a local_networks = wifi.scan() just to exercise the wifi functionality. If that failed I have the code do gc.collect() followed by sys.exit(1), which causes the 8266 to reboot automatically.

    Give that a try.

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