On Fri, Nov 22, 2024 at 11:53 PM Tim via users
wrote:
>
> Tim:
> > > Don't give XYZ your Gmail password when it asks you to log-on with
> > > an email address and password. Argh.
>
> Patrick O'Callaghan:
> > Very easy to misunderstand. The site should be clear that they want
> > *their* passw
Jonathan Billings:
>> But seriously, was there something about these errors or other
>> effects that made you think it was something other than DNS being
>> broken?
Stephen Morris:
> I would have thought that if my wifi connection had been temporarily
> disconnected, hence the data couldn't be ret
On Sat, 2024-11-23 at 10:15 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
> All I'm doing is right clicking on a desktop icon with the mouse,
> where the icon is a soft link, that was create by the install of a
> package from it repository (Google Chrome), selected properties and
> tried to check the "Launch Feedba
Tim:
> > Next biggest issue is logons. Which password for which service? No,
> > don't use the same one everywhere. You've suffered the consequences of
> > doing that before, why haven't you learnt? Choose something that you
> > can actually type correct, but nobody else will guess. Don't give
Tim:
> > Don't give XYZ your Gmail password when it asks you to log-on with
> > an email address and password. Argh.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
> Very easy to misunderstand. The site should be clear that they want
> *their* password, not your Gmail (or MS, or Facebook, or Apple, ...)
> password. Un
On 22/11/24 13:55, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Nov 21, 2024, at 16:06, Stephen Morris
wrote:
Can someone tell me if the following errors were because of a
network hiccup (there was no visual indication from F41 that the wifi
network had disconnected and reconnected) or whether it was becau
On 22/11/24 17:27, Tim wrote:
On Fri, 2024-11-22 at 09:27 +1100, Stephen Morris wrote:
Just further to this, on my system if ~/Desktop has a .desktop file
in it that is a link to a /usr/share sub-folder, the permissions tab
in properties correctly says I don't have access to the file being
linke
On Fri, 22 Nov 2024, Tim via users wrote:
I do understand the "don't update" mentality. More by luck than
expertise they've gotten something to work, and they don't want to risk
changing anything. But the decision gets taken away from them when
they're interacting with other things over the ne
Stephen Morris wrote:
> On 20/11/24 10:14, old sixpack13 wrote:
...
> I would assume it is the same place that dnf and system-software get
> there repositories from being .repo files in /etc/yum.repos.d, and then
> in each .repo file in that folder is a flag indicating whether the repo
> is enab
Hi.
For years, we are using (not at the same time) the same IP on the
wired and wifi interfaces on our laptops.
For Fedora-40 it was necessary to configure NetworkManager with:
[connection-dad-default]
ipv4.dad-timeout=0
Ref:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/40/ChangeSet#Enable_
On Fri, 2024-11-22 at 19:12 +1030, Tim via users wrote:
> Don't give XYZ
> your Gmail password when it asks you to log-on with an email address
> and password. Argh.
Very easy to misunderstand. The site should be clear that they want
*their* password, not your Gmail (or MS, or Facebook, or Ap
> On 21 Nov 2024, at 13:57, John Mellor wrote:
>
> In the Disks app, select the disk, go to the 3 dots on the top right, select
> write cache and select disable. I'm unsure, but you might need to reboot as
> well. You can also do this in the CLI, but its been years since I have had
> to do
Tim:
> > Person comes along with my THIS won't do THAT. You spend some time
> > diagnosing, then downloading a few months worth of updates that they
> > never did (which is always a slow thing, no matter how fast your
> > internet is). Reboot. More downloads... Reboot. It's often all that
> >
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