RaiderZulu

Make the kid pay for his own business connection? Once on a separate connection, the kid should learn a lesson swiftly, all while freeing up the house connection.

I have not had an install break unless I tried to install Ubuntu on Fake RAID or I did something stupid to get something to work. Like mess with the video driver to make OpenCL work. https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1107578-x-server-will-not-start-driver-not-found-linux-mint-191/ Or mix repo versions and hit apt-get upgrade. I did that twice. The second time was a failed attempt to upgrade from a Ubuntu 16.04 base to a Ubuntu 18.04 base that I gave up on in the end after 36+ hours of failed attempts to get it to work. All for an alpha game that was simply bugged. At least I got a less fundamentally broken install out of it. And I necro a thread that has an inactive starter. Brilliant.

So I tried to get my idle Vega VII on Xenoa (my home server) to join in the Folding Fun for https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/1091921-ltt-official-folding-month-2019/ and I broke the install by trying to downgrade the drivers the wrong way (is there a right way?) after trying other things first. I have restored access to TTY1, and after shutting down the firewall, access through ssh, but I still can't get X to start. I have run the uninstall sscript an then the insstall script for a newer version, which got me to that point, but I have hit a wall, even after using dpkg to install the xserver and other obvious components that were not installed by the sscript. I am left with what looks like a driver not found error in the gpu-manager log and something very similar in the Xorg log. What am I missing? (Do I reaaly need those fallback Vesa drivers?) Xenoa is built from: 1x Seasonic Prime Titanium 1000 1x Asrock X399 Professional Gaming (*-firmware: American Megatrends Inc. P3.50 12/24/2018) 1x AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX 32-Core Processor (Overclocking locked out by physical switch) 8x 16GiB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3000MHz (description: DIMM DDR4 Synchronous Unbuffered (Unregistered) 2134 MHz (0.5 ns); clock: 2134MHz (0.5ns); box set) 1x AMD Radeon Vega VII (doing next to nothing right now but putting colourful text on the screen.) 3x Crucial P1 NVMe M.2 1000 GB drives 1x NZXT Kraken X62 (If that can wig things out.) 1x Memorex USB DVD-RAM/ROM/R/RW+- drive (Certainly can wig things out if it were left attached and populated.) Logs attached as a single plaintext file. xenoaLogs Oh, and this marks the third time I have had to attempt a rescue of an install from my own stupidity.

Ignore my request edit access on the form. I was wanting to know if I had signed up successfully as a few others had some problems with it.

So soon (this December, to be exact), the FBI will be able to remotely search any machine anywhere in the world with a standard warrant. Here is the wording of the addendum that allows this: So, according to that, there is nothing keeping the FBI from snooping around in Linus' home rig (or mine or yours for that matter) if they are able to get a warrant for doing so. And looking a the wording of condition A again, it looks like any form of encrypted communication, from HTTPS to Tunnel Bear, will satisfy it. I think my justice department just 1-uped everyone on the war against encryption in the most subtle manner they could. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/09/19/fbi_overseas_hacking_powers/

Somewhat off topic (I think): The LTE change over is giving me headaches. I've tried (indirectly) finding a servicable replacement for my Samsung Flipshot (http://www.cnet.com/products/samsung-sch-u900/), but I found that touchscreens don't work for me. I am always having a feelling that I am going to fatfinger something (assuming I get any response). The need of a screen lock means there is a notable lack of quick access to the functions I use the most: Camera and telephone. Then USB connections have been slow to start on the devices I tried them on. Why would this be important? I often use my handset as a document scanner at school, where the computers lack any form of wireless connectivity. Speed trumps quality (up to a rather low 1.2MP (estimate) point) in this use. There are other things I have left out like battery life, but in short, my six year old is still doing what I ask it to better than any device I can find on the market to the point that switching would be crippling. OT: I've been in forums before and I understand off topic posts are mal-forma, but can't really tell if this counts as off topic. It is related to the overall 2G shutdown, but not the 2G GSM shutdown of AT&T, and i don't see it quite warrenting a topic in mobile devices in its current state. (Maybe a fuller rant when I have time somewhere else is called for?)