I just used a bot to read it: https://web.archive.org/web/20250901133211/https://cheapskatesguide.org/articles/debian-netinstall-waf.html

Oh no worries!

Also hdparam/nvme-cli will let the drive erase itself, and should be faster than operating through a computer. Like it can take seconds on some SSDs since it wipes the chips in parallel, and some drives are self encrypting, so it just deletes the key, leaving the scrambled data. But those usually won't work on USB drives.

Ah that sucks.

one parallel port (DB25)

You might even be able to use the parallel port as basic GPIO, especially if it's on the I/O bus and not some sort of PCI adapter.

Some websites like Facebook and Google work, but other websites like Lemmy (any instance), Reddit, my CMMS, various wholesaler sites hosted both in AU and worldwide, are affected.

I wonder if IPv4 is somehow wonky, but IPv6 is working fine? Since Facebook and Google definitely support IPv6, the others may not (although Reddit should too).

You could try comparing ping -4 and ping -6 when it happens. That is if your network supports IPv6.

If you do get any inconsistencies with ping, you could also try experimenting with traceroute/tracert, to see where the delay happens.

Don't Python scripts need python at the beginning of the command that summons them?

Not if the script has a python shebang (e.g. #!/usr/bin/env python3), then it will run like any other script.

Pretty sure they're talking about why the meme says, 'WINDOWS', 'LINUX', and 'ios'.

No worries! I believe there is a way to install desktop extensions on Android Firefox, but I'm not sure if it'll work.

You could try Privacy Pass.

My understanding is previously the kernel would crash on systems with more RAM than the address space, so there's now a patch to ignore the anything above the max address supported (e.g. 32bit without PAE, 36bit with PAE). More RAM was never supported, so I think the author of the article has misunderstood or oversimplified what's been done.

Epic!

You should be able to add options it87 force_id=0x8688 ignore_resource_conflict=1 to /etc/modprobe.d/it87.conf (or whatever filename) and it87 to /etc/modules. To get it to run at startup.

Ahh sorry, I thought you meant you plugged it into the input side. If that's the case then are you running anything that measures CPU usage? I run the TIG stack, it might be able to give you some hits. Also back to my original point which is already unlikely, if it's a modified sinewave UPS, it can confuse some measuring devices while it's on battery.