F12 should open the browser developer tools, one panel will be the network requests.

It could be the accepts header then… check if the request includes accetps: application/json

In my experience that is almost always the server returning an html error page.

Start with inspecting that actual response the first character is probably <. The rest of it is likely to be a “not found” or “internal server error” (being the most common) page.

Then look at logs…

It’s one half of ‘bread and circuses’.

FU Dell BIOS and your F11 b/s.

Apostrophe catastrophe.

Oh, there are forks: #2.

Gnome makes absolutely no promises of version compatibility for extensions.

You’re stuck waiting for an extension dev to update to support the new gnome version.

That server’s root access is now vulnerable to a compromise of the systems that have the private key.

An alternative, if you have console access, to doing that root password dance, is:

1. Drop to rescue/emergency/single-user mode.
2. Do your changes to the user account
3. Drop back to multiuser mode.

s/chatgpt/journalists/ too.

They my go to to quickly triage a problem being caused by SEL or not.

Not quite. But sorta, yeah.

Learning to “not fuck with it” or ways to do so and rollback are valid lessons themselves.

Being able to segregate “production” and “development” environments is very valuable.

100%

The alternative being variations on:

Hi my name is [redacted], I have [X] years experience.

Please run sfc /scannow.

You can find more help at [Irrelevant KB URL].

Please rank me 5 stars.

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Theoretically one could also prohibit rebooting.

IIRC kexec is pivot_root but for the kernel.

Anything you need to buy is more expensive than anything you already have.

Especially if youre worried about power costs.

Reuse wha you have, replace when you need to.

They are introduced in NZ and have destroyed the native bird populations.

We trap and hunt them here.

I forget that possums aren’t pests in some parts of the world.

Assuming you mean IPv4 CGNAT: IPv6.

Mine are all named for the colour of the case, or case accent when ambiguous, though network infrastructure items are named for their models, being the typical default.

I sometimes use A records or mDNS-SD for the actual services provided and use a *.home.arpa. domain.

Another theme at another site is native fauna and flora names.

No cringe, no pop culture.

I thought this was a request for Stack Overflow proof.

Then figured that was 'proof from pasting random crap from SO".

Then figured it’s the same thing.

Any distro will be suitable, create yourself as the first user when installing (which will probably be added to the wheel/sudoers group or whatever) then create a new ‘standard’ user.

Most distribution defaults should be adequate.

For added safety, choose one that is immutable like, for example, Fedora atomic.