No.

Get dopamine from social media, not release notes.

A vps can be had for $10 a year. You gotta be smart about what you do and how you do it, but that neatly sidesteps some of the problems you’d run into when using your own hardware.

I think you’ve got someone helping you with this who’s working with you inside the gui. Rather than cause problems by asking you to try different command line troubleshooting steps that may work at cross purposes with that other thread of assistance, I’m gonna bow out.

If you run into a wall, reboot your server and reply to this post and lll jump back in.

Okay. I didn’t realize you were using a graphical environment. Shouldn’t change anything.

When you say no actual network connection, can you show that with ip address show ens6f1?

Oh, you’re not using networkd. That’s no problem. ip link set ens6f1 up should do the same ish thing.

ens6f1 looks to be your interface. I think you’re using networkd, sudo networkctl up ens6f1 ought to bring it up.

You can use systemctl enable to make it work every reboot.

They aren’t proprietary, they’re Bluetooth.

Pair them with your computer and they’ll work.

Hell yeah

You are missing the middle of your troubleshooting process.

Everything is physically plugged in, your dhcp device is doing its thing and the wire works.

But does your os see the card? Post the output of ip address show to find out!

If you wanna jump to the end, and I recommend you do not do that, your os has most likely recognized and automatically selected the fiber interface instead of the cat5 one.

Jfc yes thank you.

I think bazzite uses systemd.

You can use journalctl to see the logs and find out what happened. They’re pretty straightforward to understand.

E: journalctl, not systemctl.

Two things are happening: intel is trying to figure out how to deal with likely existential problems and their extremely mature product base doesn’t need those maintainers enough to offset supplying early retirement/buyout.

Hey I see that you found hd-idle.

Last time I tried to use it it wasn’t compatible with smartmon.

I would take smartmon over spin down every day of the week.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume the reason you have this problem with power is that you’re running a zfs/md-raid 5 or whatever. It may be a good idea to get away from that configuration. When you write a file to a 3 disk pool with parity, all three drives spin up. The details are a whole nother can of worms but the way that operating systems, busses and hbas interact with disks make this even worse.

I got away from that situation with a mergerfs/snapraid setup where my disks are jbod and writing a file to the pool only spins up one disk (with some caveats) and parity calculation is done at night as a snapshot all at once.

I do not think this saves power, although my power use has been very low in this configuration. I do think this saves drives, because snapraid is decently judicious with spin up/spin down work, amassing all the changes first then calculating what to put where and doing that all at once.

If your primary concern is power use and hard disk life, consider a ssd pool. The density and power consumption are why datacenters switched to them and why 3.5 racks are so cheap now in comparison.

You answered the most important question when another person asked it.

You aren’t developing anything, so a distribution for development wouldn’t be necessary. If it were, it would be the distribution closest to the target environment.

You’re learning, and anything is fine. Someone said Debian testing, that’s a good choice. You just want stuff to work and spend the barest minimum amount of time fiddling around with your environment so probably not Linux at all.

You’ll find that the overwhelming majority of support materials in every language you listed will use windows or can be effectively used in windows. If you really need the Unix environment, they will probably first have examples in macos.

So maybe consider using windows or macos.

You’re not going to have an easier time learning2code on some esoteric distribution.

Don’t look too far into android if the browser having a bunch of compatibility exceptions baked in makes you squeamish.

I’m starting to think there’s a wave of people realizing that the internet is government surveillance technology and trying to square the circle.

May I interest you in lynx?

Pretty sure it’s always been like this.

The web is a mess. If you do anything on it on any combination of software and hardware and expect security or functionality you’re barking up the wrong tree.

T4xx thinkpads or the 12” MacBook Pro 2012.

They’re both very well supported by Linux and have oodles of parts hanging around.

Cups-browsed-eez nutz!