I could switch the mesh network over to being the primary, or dig out one of my old routers, which I need to get on openwrt at some point. One runs tomato, one is stock
When a monitor is plugged in externally to a laptop, and the laptop is in the BIOS/UEFI, how often does the BIOS/UEFI show on A)The external monitor B)The laptop screen C) Both?
@Biswapriyo i've heard of linux from scratch, that's probably pretty small but requires some DIY.
now, onto my real problem… I work off a usb ssd, and it keeps randomly crashing, and after that my laptop doesn't post while I have it plugged in. replugging it doesn'r work, hard reset by removing battery and replugging it does
I hoped that bios update would fix it, but it's still persisting
@DavidPostill It's not a drive issue, I've actually bought a second SSD recently, both have the same issue. My other computer (a random dell) with same cable and drive also doesn't have this issue.
I've ordered a sata -> dvd slot caddy, but it'll take a while to get here.
I was going to get one from inside the country, but none of them had one thin enough. Lenovo made a bad design choice and made the slot thinner than 9.5 by a couple millimeters, so I had to find one that's 9.0mm.
@Ave out of interest, I see you are 'she', but why have you explicitly written that your pronoun is 'she'? Have you taken any gender hormones to convert your body from one thing to another?
@bwDraco Ay. Might actually be Google Captcha in this case actually
Medium has the latest version which constantly evaluates whether or not you're a bot in the background
It pops up in the lower right corner of the page when I enter my email address. Gives me an image-captcha if I enter a gmail address and if I solve the captcha I get emailed the log-in link
But if I use email hosted with my own domain, it... just redirects me to the previous page
On Linux, is there a way to figure out what process was using a port,
before it went into TIME_WAIT state.
When I use netstat -tnp I just see two end points, but no process information.
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp ...
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Okay... this is bizarre. Three (identical) laptops in a row have prevented me from using the keyboard on the boot menu when trying to boot from a USB, but when I restart and try to enter the boot menu again it flickers the menu for a second then boots from the USB anyway.
Would a question asking why modern laptops don't have swipe fingerprint sensors anymore be well-received, or would it be too broad? If the latter, what can I do to make it less broad?
I've noticed that almost every laptop sold in my area from the mid-late 2000s until around 2012 or so (i.e. the era of Windows 8) had a built-in fingerprint sensor, all the way from lower-end "multimedia" home PCs to higher-end business machines. But in the early 2010s, that started disappearing.
When I last went to a computer store, there was only one laptop that had a fingerprint sensor, and it wasn't the "swipe" kind that used to be extremely common back in the Windows Vista/7 days.