They do. By default the system partition is straight up mounted read-only.

Is that… ICQ? Why?

systemctl disable systemd-critic.service

Systemd-init, the core part of systemd, offersa wide range of features surpassing other init systems. More features lead to more bugs and security vulnerabilities.

This is a bad take. Many of systemd’s features improve security significantly. And having all that code in one cohesive place can’t possibly be inherently less secure than the cornucopia of init scripts we used to use.

They do. Even back in their pre-UEFI days, it was possible to flash BIOS from a properly-formatted USB drive by holding down a magic key combination at power on. But it was not exactly publicized as a supported method.

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It can be a big issue. The newest release offers some improvements.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/windows-subsystem-for-linux-september-2023-update/

Oh and the aqueducts!

The ones we’re investing tons of money to replace to remove the lead?

You basically just made the case for exactly why.

Programs should be using the system resolver, not parsing that file.

The system resolver should have predictable behavior. But if other programs are doing their own DNS resolution (or otherwise predicating their functionality) based directly on the contents of resolv.conf then their behavior will not always be consistent with the system resolver (or with how the sysadmin intended things to function).

And that can break things in subtle, unpredictable ways, which is always a headache.

Thus, on some modern systems, resolv.conf simply declares the local systemd-resolved instance (i.e. 127.0.0.1) and nothing else.

A single global resolv.conf file also will not let you configure different behavior based on interface or on network namespace. Want to ensure DNS lookups for specific apps occur only through your VPN-specific DNS servers but all other apps only use the normal system resolvers (i.e. no leaking from either side of the divide)? Want to also ensure DNS lookups for those specific apps fail when the VPN is down (again, as opposed to leaking)? systemd-resolved has your back.

And before anyone asks, yes, I am aware there are other, more crude and convoluted ways to do that with e.g. iptables (just like you can use crude, inconsistent init.d spaghetti scripts to manage services). It’s just one single real-world example.

A single global resolv.conf file also will not let you configure different behavior based on interface or on network namespace.

The point is to configure everything using consistent, predictable configuration files and syntax, and to ensure consistent, predictable behavior.

But if you ultimately still want resolv.conf.d back, then your distro of choice undoubtedly provides a way to do so.

Cloud-init is fairly well documented:

https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/reference/network-config-format-v2.html#nameservers-mapping

But if you do not need it (and if you’re configuring DNS by hand, it doesn’t sound like you do), you can disable it entirely:

https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howto/disable_cloud_init.html

resolv.conf itself should be managed by systemd-resolved on any modern Ubuntu Server release. And that service will use the DNS settings provided by netplan.

With cloud-init disabled, you should have the freedom to create/edit configuration files in /etc/netplan and apply changes with netplan apply.

That’s more of Brother doing things correctly. Mine automatically shows up on all my Windows systems too.

Nobody:

OP: “Please do the needful.”

How do middle-click-to-paste and middle-click-to-scroll conflict?

Some of us are clumsy.

There are actually three.

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/139191/whats-the-difference-between-primary-selection-and-clipboard-buffer

Shell != Terminal

https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/47584/sentence-construction-just-because-does-not-mean

Dazed and confused, but trying to continue

For alt+drag try this:

https://stefansundin.github.io/altdrag/

For the rest I think you’ll need to go to real AutoHotkey.

The terminal and the shell are two different things.

cmd and ps are shells, which automatically use the built-in terminal as I recall.

Windows Terminal is not a shell. But it can open cmd or ps or bash shells.

For sudo I usually use this:

https://github.com/gerardog/gsudo