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…

It’s one half of ‘bread and circuses’.

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.

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

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.

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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.

Assuming you mean IPv4 CGNAT: IPv6.

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.

The nouveau drivers are just barely enough to have a desktop, anything actually needing a GPU will perform very poorly (in my anecdotal experience with 4K). Or, to put it another way, choosing an NVIDIA card is choosing their proprietary drivers.

So you’re left with AMD (and Intel). The open amdgpu driver is pretty good and is suitable for gaming. Which I do.

I have no experience with Intel, but I believe their open drivers are pretty good.

So I recommend AMD.

Potentially faster installation

Particularly when you’re flashing the ISO you downloaded from MS to USB and it doesn’t work unless you use MS’s magic tool. Thus dropping you into the bootstrap paradox.

Especially because it gets partway through the install before failing to load NVMe drivers complaining there is no installation media to load them from.

It turns out it’s faster to install Ubuntu and download one of MS’s windows VM’s and use that to download and flash a USB than actually install Windows 11.

Common parts are available and easy to get, relatively cheaply.

Specialist parts are somewhat more difficult.

You may as well just bring your existing gear.

At this point, in the US, it’s “stab myself in the gonads to spite my face”.

find ~ ... would be quicker, auto generated files are likely stored in ~/. cache per-profile.

Quicker… as in for a first-stab, then /var. Rather than scanning the whole disk.

Especially as the nice response is “we’ve had feedback about that app from too few users to support it, unless you’d like to try”.

Or, pretty much any other response.