The asinine route I took was to authorise Google to deliver the file(s) to my OneDrive and then use one drive sync to download them.

There are benefits, the files are ‘backed up’ on another cloud; the process it entirely independent of you having a browser session.

That’s going on the headstone.

I use several dirt cheap ($20) tp-link branded 1Gig cards, they probably just have a crappy realtek chip.

Absolutely no issues.

But, again, is just a simple home network.

Depending on your jurisdiction, your local commerce regulator might have a different opinion of the legality of this than VW, especially when they’re taking away features you already paid for.

Ledger.

I fought GNUCash bitterly for years, then found Ledger, and now have glorious text file accounts. I can source control them with git. I can edit them with IntelliJ because an IDE is an awesome text editor.

F12 should open the browser developer tools, one panel will be the network requests.

It could be the accepts header then… check if the request includes accetps: application/json

In my experience that is almost always the server returning an html error page.

Start with inspecting that actual response the first character is probably <. The rest of it is likely to be a “not found” or “internal server error” (being the most common) page.

Then look at logs…

FU Dell BIOS and your F11 b/s.

Gnome makes absolutely no promises of version compatibility for extensions.

You’re stuck waiting for an extension dev to update to support the new gnome version.

That server’s root access is now vulnerable to a compromise of the systems that have the private key.

An alternative, if you have console access, to doing that root password dance, is:

1. Drop to rescue/emergency/single-user mode.
2. Do your changes to the user account
3. Drop back to multiuser mode.

s/chatgpt/journalists/ too.

They my go to to quickly triage a problem being caused by SEL or not.

Not quite. But sorta, yeah.

Learning to “not fuck with it” or ways to do so and rollback are valid lessons themselves.

Being able to segregate “production” and “development” environments is very valuable.

100%

The alternative being variations on:

Hi my name is [redacted], I have [X] years experience.

Please run sfc /scannow.

You can find more help at [Irrelevant KB URL].

Please rank me 5 stars.

Ticket closed

Theoretically one could also prohibit rebooting.

IIRC kexec is pivot_root but for the kernel.

Anything you need to buy is more expensive than anything you already have.

Especially if youre worried about power costs.

Reuse wha you have, replace when you need to.

Mine are all named for the colour of the case, or case accent when ambiguous, though network infrastructure items are named for their models, being the typical default.

I sometimes use A records or mDNS-SD for the actual services provided and use a *.home.arpa. domain.

Another theme at another site is native fauna and flora names.

No cringe, no pop culture.

I thought this was a request for Stack Overflow proof.

Then figured that was 'proof from pasting random crap from SO".

Then figured it’s the same thing.

Any distro will be suitable, create yourself as the first user when installing (which will probably be added to the wheel/sudoers group or whatever) then create a new ‘standard’ user.

Most distribution defaults should be adequate.

For added safety, choose one that is immutable like, for example, Fedora atomic.