Thorned_Rose

Looking at the Arch Wiki, it looks like this is a known issue. Give this solution a go:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/MSI_GS65#Wifi_is_hardblocked_(airplane_mode)_after_waking_up_from_suspend

EDIT: on closer look, it’s not much of a solution. I assume you’ve tried restarting the network service and that doesn’t work either? Possibly you could automate the airplane mode key twice by triggering that after waking from suspend…

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Sorry, I was alluding to how expensive everything is here. Even with our free healthcare, the average American still has more disposable income than the average NZer.
And unfortunately decades of underfunding and budget cuts has our ‘free’ health system on its knees. Many people now pay for health insurance or even fundraiser to go private because waiting lists are so insane. If it continues on the way it is, people are goi g to end up with the American system anyway as people will opt for paid insurance that gives them far more choice and better access than the poor person system will (aka our current system will become like Medicaid and not people will be insured or user paid anyway).

Sorry to be all doom and gloom on a gaming community, just sometimes really sucks to be so isolated and watching society around you go to shit.

Any, I’m gonna go put my energy where I want it to go and do some volunteer work 😊

Try living in New Zealand where $600 would be considered a bargain. If we could get a Deck at all.

Back about two decades when I was using Windows and it was till easily customisable, I changed the bsod colour to red for funsies. Windows being Windows crashed and went to my red screen of death - my ex’s cousin saw it and thought it was something really really bad, “Wow, a red screen, never seen that before. Must be even worse than blue”. No mate, I just customise the shit out of anything I touch 😅

I would just move on. Some people have a bee in their bonnet and can’t look past their own problems and see why other folks might find certain discussions useful.

Personally, when I was first looking at switching to Linux (and then through distro hopping) I found discussion like these great as I could see other people’s reasons for choosing the distro they did.

Where is that a new thing? I’ve been using Linux since early 2010s and people were using that term back then (and it wasn’t a new term then either)

I don’t really have any one stand out reason. I first introduced myself to Linux in the late 1990s, buying a Red Hat CD and phone book sized manual that at the time cost a lot, especially as I was poor student. I think one of my tutors (I as doing computer studies) said that he ran Linux and I got nerdy and curious. It sadly didn’t last long as too much of my other study was based around Windows.

Over time, Iecame to despise corporate monopolies, spying, manipulation, billion dollar advertising budgets, and turning people into products (not just Microsoft, but Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.) more and more, so I decided it was time (early 2010s) to give Linux a go again. I’d read people saying it was more usable for gaming than it used to be. Still required giving up some games since Steam Proton wasn’t a thing yet but for me, I was making an concious choice to only support gaming that was Linux native (or games that I already owned that worked on WINE).

I distro hopped bit before settling on Mint. Used that for about 2 years and then got a new PC. Wanted to challenge myself more and went with Arch. I have enjoyed the customisation, freedom, privacy and ethically conscious choice ever since.

I wouldn’t say I’m obsessed but I certainly try and free other people from the shackles of non-floss software as much as I can.

Third same. Before my current PC, my old PC was a 6yo install. Never had problems that weren’t caused by me (although I could count on one hand the number of times I had issues in that 6 years).

My current install is more than 2yo trouble free.

I’ve DE hopped and fiddled with heaps of stuff in that time too.

If only I could even get the original in my country (New Zealand) 😔

My first flavour was Red Hat back in the late 90s. It’s a shame I didn’t give it more of a go back then. Then Mint for a couple of years in the earlyish 2010s before finally settling on Arch where I’ve been for almost a decade now.

And Micro$oft

Wtf is that screenshot?! When you’re talking about user protection, it generally helps to have a relevant screenshot and not something thats going to confuse or put off users.

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The death rate is dropping yes, because of things like seat belts, air bags and better structural safety features of cars. But if you look at the crash rate and rate of driver error, it’s increased and is continuing to increase. Injury and crashes from driver distraction had a massive increase with the advent of smart phones.

I haven’t read all the comments yet so forgive me if I’m repeating this.

This is not specific to Windows or Microsoft. There’s been a general dumbing down and more hand holding going on for decades now.

People don’t need to think for themselves more and more. A huge amount of technology and information dessert is allowing people to become increasingly stupid.

Driving for example, many would assume that technology like lane assist is there to keep people safe from mistakes. Which it is, certainly. But only because people are becoming lazier drivers.

It’s not so much a chicken or egg issue as a horrible feedback loop of stupidity or downward spiral into dumbness.

I honestly worry for the human race with how increasingly lazy and idiotic we are collectively becoming.

At this rate, we don’t have to worry about robots, aliens or AI obliterating us, we’ll be too dense to recognise it and welcome our extinction with open arms and apathy.

Communism is the workers own the means of production collectively. That doesn’t preclude private ownership in totality.

No, I’m not a greedy CEO. I’m a filthy hippy witch that’s wants to see capitalism replaced with genuine utopian socialism.

“The Illusion Of Choice”

Second Thought is so good!

You do get that Bad People don’t usually label themselves as such right? It would be like the Nazi party (unironically) labelling themselves as the Fascist Genocidal Aryan Elite Supremacists Party instead of National Socialist German Workers Party.

How many people do you think would support fascist, genocidal dictators if they outed themselves as such to begin with?