There were shadowy conspiracists lurking in the dark alleys of Washington, and hiding from the glaring sun in the High Desert of California, but they were laughably easy prey when the Martian lizard people, the subterranean Vril-empowered mole-men, and the globalist pedophile Commies did show up.

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  • You only need one. Standard is to use your router IP as local nameserver.
    If your internet provider has issues with name resolutions, which happens sometimes, you can instead set 8.8.8.8 (Google’s nameserver) or 1.1.1.1 (Cloudflare’s nameserver). But then you can’t ping other devices in your local network by name, and loading websites can be a tiny bit slower.



  • First step to check would be which packages were updated, and whether there are any .pacnew and .pacsave files in /etc
    Cause that’s really the only way a pacman update can fuck up networking, by installing a new config file for a networking-related package.

    sudo find /etc -name *.pac*

    also check if there are systemctl services that didn’t come back up (most likely systemd-resolved)

    sudo systemctl --failed









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  • The general philosophy behind it.
    Ubuntu started out as Debian with some improvements.
    Once they were established as the primary Linux distro, they pivoted to an MS-like approach. They tried to invent and implement their own solutions for things that an agreed-upon solution already existed, and was in need of manpower to iron out the kinks (best example is developing Mir instead of throwing their weight behind Wayland, or creating Unity instead of improving Gnome).
    They also tried again and again to monetize their OS, which they built on top of millions of volunteer work hours from the Debian project.

    All of these efforts failed so far. Their current “we can do it better” project is Snaps, which again duplicates volunteer work instead of contributing to Flatpak which was there before.
    I’m willing to admit this one does make sense, since their goal is to make an OS where everything except the kernel and the init system is a snap, something which you can’t do with flatpak.
    But I’m also pretty sure that’ll fail again.

    If they simply built an OS with a Debian base, newer packages, 2 releases per year, an LTS every 2 years, and a GUI selector for Gnome or KDE in the installer, they’d be the perfect beginner distro. On the other hand, then they wouldn’t make any money.