If you’re missing deadlines and getting customer complaints because of a new hire, that’s a failure in management, imo.

(Of course, that’s not saying management will take responsibility)

Doing a very quick search on this and it looks like the firmware updater uses webbluetooth. This knife has bluetooth hardware in it.

I thought we weren’t supposed to be using Mint anyways because it uses Systemd? /s

Emacs.

With all the vimmery going around nowadays though, I feel like I’m on the losing team. ;_;

Looks like a scam to me. It can do all these tests to find security issues, but instead of telling you how to fix things (or do it itself) it has you input it to an AI?

Yeah, GNU IMP. Recognisable and easy to understand for those familiar with the old name.

WLBR just seems like people being clever for clevers sake.

The problem with tools like this is that they don’t actually check that the mail is sent correctly. You can define security keys, but they don’t mean anything if your mail server doesn’t use them correctly.

For testing, I use https://www.mail-tester.com/ which you send an email to and it does more thorough tests on the server and email itself.

Especially with the newer ROCm 7.2.x releases improving hardware support and other improvements. Especially with the rate of improvements to ROCm recently, it’s unfortunate to see ROCm 7.1 shipped in the Ubuntu 26.04 archive.

Improvements!

But yeah, 3 months out of date for software that isn’t security critical is fine. Probably just hit the feature freeze at a bad time. It still presumably works well enough for most people.

I’d like to suggest Linux Mint: It allows you to use guides and software written for Ubuntu but disables all the scummy stuff.

24.04 to 26.04 is a big version jump and sadly they can’t check every combination of hardware and software. Some people don’t go through the upgrade process and just back up their user data and reinstall when they want to upgrade to a new major release. In my experience, the automatic upgrader is usually fine but occasionally requires me to tweak something on my system.

Missing Nvidia drivers

Ubuntu has a “driver manager” software in the settings which should allow you to install recommended drivers.

Python not compatible with software like Proton VPN

What version are you using and how did you install it? You might be using an older version of their app and the issues are fixed in the latest versions. If you really can’t get their app to work, you can go to https://account.protonvpn.com/downloads#openvpn-configuration-files and download an OpenVPN file which you can import in your network settings. It doesn’t have all the bells and whistles as their app, but it still allows you to VPN your traffic.

My pc is not welcome in the new Ubuntu world :’(

I mean, isn’t Windows notorious for breaking things after an update as well? :P Computers in general are brittle and don’t handle change well.

Doesn’t that cause issues if a backdoor happened a few months ago and you should be updating to a recent fixed version?

NixOS would beg to differ. :P

Tragic that they don’t enjoy any fun in their lives.

Lift up your mouse. What is an LED but a spicy candle?

I’d recommend using an atomic distro. Then if you get shot to pieces you can roll back to a good state.

They aren’t available as regular boot options, so you need to use timeshift itself to switch to them. It provides a cli though so it can be used in cases where you’ve broken your x server.

I’m not sure if it’s treating “localhost” as a hostname or not, but does replacing it with 127.0.0.1 function as expected?

Even then, it’s possible that there may be small embedded circuits inside the camera with the sole purpose of constantly recording and sending that data who knows where.

You know, if you want to go full tinfoil hat.

Not paying open source devs or firefighters is taking advantage of their enthusiasm.

I don’t know how available it is for other distros, but Mint has a gui tool called Timeshift that allows you to take and restore snapshots.