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Can you give the output of cat /proc/cmdline

cloasters: just going back to basics, please could you post the outputs of either lshw or inxi -Fx depending on what you have installed? Also, was this a completely fresh installation (as in completely bare drive) or did you leave your /home directories in place?

But... but... but... current Mint uses systemd, and systemd's the fastest thing out there, designed for speed and... and... and... never mind. Actually, that borg cube's grown a bit big, and lost its focus on boot times. Oddly, I don't think its fans have noticed yet. One other thing, if...

Um... yes. Of course. They were designed that way. The need for VPNs came about from universities and businesses wanting to join separate campuses/offices together on a common IT network, across the internet. So, it simply creates encrypted connections between a main server and a variety of...

Probably sensible - otherwise we Brits might feel compelled to change history ;)

Is that scene playable, or just watchable?

... is a question you should be asking of any VPN, regardless of who owns it and in which country its headquarters are located. If you're using someone else's VPN, chances are, it's not secret, just different.

Used to be 118, until Directory Enquiries was forcibly split off from BT, broken up and sold. Now we have half a dozen numbers... and no users, as internet search engines have eaten their lunch. At some point, we will need to find a way to pay these various service providers fair value for...

They either get a fresh OS install then sold on to secondary consumers, or scrapped. It depends on the leasing company's business model.

Well, it's not quite as bad as I've made out above. Browser fingerprinting is hard to spoof, but also not as precise as obtaining the user's consent (express or implied) by setting trackers and cookies. You can have a look at how you might be identified through this...

Before you branch out into arboreal networking, consider carefully the following problems: - logging must be carefully controlled - you must be particularly careful with root access - always keep the root password secret - firewalls tend to spread in dry weather, so you will need some other kind...

It's a waste of time worrying about that. Even if you avoid Google, your activity on the internet leaves footprints - between browser fingerprinting, IP geolocation and similar methods, advertisers and others can still identify users reasonably accurately even using a nominally secure browser...

A couple of notes: - The corporate PC market is many times greater than the enthusiast market - Many companies don't own their hardware, but lease it on an upgrade plan - Businesses find it easier to manage their hardware if it's all the same - it keeps the inventory down for spares and repairs...

Don't forget, if your electrics are up to code, you also have to replace your RCDs with a rusty nail, and disconnect your earth rod. If you live in an apartment and don't have access to your electrics, then simply wrapping your case, desk and chair with several layers of aluminium foil, taking...

Oh, I think they are. The biggest problem with decriminalisation is not the act of removing legal restrictions on the drug itself - that part is easy - so much as the effort needed to rehabilitate the entire supply chain from production to consumer, including across borders with countries that...

I saw "third party component" and worried in case it meant "hardware component" - thankfully, my laptop's been vaccinated*. Anyway, this seems appropriate: (Credit: https://xkcd.com/2166/ ) * pengiunated, really, as vaccine comes from vacca, meaning cow, and I run Linux rather than Hurd.

Here's a quick fix

Which brings the thread full-circle. A 2700K light has some blue. The LEDs most commonly made for blue don't quite match up with the human eye's sensing range for blue light, so a higher absolute intensity of blue is needed to create the right perceived intensity. Thus your eye may be...

The colour temperature relates to the frequency of light emitted by an ideal black body emitter at a specific temperature. In more human terms - you know when you heat metal and it glows red hot, then white hot? If it didn't melt, it would eventually glow blue hot. Ironically, "cold" colours...

That... still happens sometimes. When he's pretending to be a cat, or a guinea pig, or robot overlord or something. Being 9 is great! My prematurely greying hair agrees :( Ah mate, it's been ages since you've had a new car, I see. They come with telemetry now! I have an app on my phone, I can...