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And if anyone ever has a low-spec machine they'd like to extend the life of, use the MATE edition (and it doesn't have to be Mint; MATE is available in all major distros) or XFCE (same) instead of Cinnamon, Gnome, KDE, etc. Not only will general resource requirements be much lower but neither of...

It's been a long time for me and I am on my phone so will skip Googling this for you: Look for "NVRAM reset". This procedure worked for me on a MacBook Pro a few times ~15 years ago. That'd be my first and likely only thing I'd do that presumes software or firmware error; otherwise I'd chalk...

Put a neck beard on 'im, make sure he doesn't shower for ~1 week, caffeinate him heavily and you've got yourself a RHEL sysadmin.

There is some granularity to what permissions can be assigned/denied to a user present in the sudoers file; but for the most part anyone who has sudo privileges has, essentially, root privileges. That said, there are times I have to log into a machine on my very modest network and just do...

I try this at home a lot and it never works. Maybe I should first "sudo su" and then simply issue the "beer me" command? :)

There was a guy about 15 years ago in the Debian support forums who constantly - and intentionally - typed "ubutnut" and I guess I've become acutely attuned to people's deliberate and accidental misspellings of it.

+1 on that: On any non-Windows OS I've never given AV a thought for an instant. EDIT: unless, of course, it is a server with Windows-connected clients.

Dude - You have a BITOG account! :) I am sure the M2, especially in concert with your other Apple stuff, will prove valuable to you for a good while.

In my experience (I have been a web developer and have been using computers for multimedia production since the internet was still called "the information superhighway"), Apple-branded hardware is consistently outstanding. I have 3 iPhone 4S that I use *when* other phones fail and I need...

I am no Windows user but I have to support several Windows laptops and desktops for clients. In my opinion/experience: [holds hand up as high as possible] It is this important to NOT DO SHADY OR GREASY STUFF ON THE INTERNET. [lowers hand ever so slightly] It is this important to use common...

Possibly @y_p_w is referring to the web site sending a temporary one-time login password?

The one I use - BitWarden - and most others: 1) Allow you to log in once and remain logged in unless and until some condition is met (i.e. you manually log out, you log out of your system, you close your browser, etc.; it should be a setting that you can choose). 2) Presuming you are logged in...

I have been in this spot a few times; for me it's almost always been DNS, a Wordpress site I've assumed from someone/somewhere else whose config file references a version of PHP that is not the version on my server and I spaced on confirming it prior to (attempting to) go live, or a SSL...

Just to be 100% sure on that, since you're using a Chromium-based browser, maybe hit the F12 key (that'll bring up a developer console, likely on the right), then right-click on the Refresh button and choose (something to the effect of; the exact language will vary depending on the browser)...

The site(s) aren't loading at all for me; "Site cannot be found". I'd wager someone is performing an operation (software update, migration to new servers, new SSL certificates?) on a live server and things have not gone according to plan.

I've always felt there was an element of spite about this design. :) I am Canadian and only have to deal with these when I cross the border. You get used to it. We started putting roundabouts on my side of the border a few years ago; and they need some getting-used-to as well.

At an intersection that compels a "Michigan left" there is normally no left turn allowed at the actual intersection.

My daughters' Chromebooks, about the same age but not Samsung, actually have an option, accessible through a GUI menu somewhere, to install Debian. Debian is the distribution on which Ubuntu, and therefore also Mint, are based; and I'd wager that any of those 3 ought to extend the usable life of...