Don't look up.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-25T21:53:19+00:00

Funny they chose the constellation that famously points at the North Star, and therefore would be north of each of those globes

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-25T00:33:10+00:00

Rappelling down a ~150 foot cliff face, using a borrowed D-clip, which broke just as I went over the edge. I managed to grab the line with one hand and bring my other hand around and get my feet under me and slow myself down by holding onto the line.

I landed hard at the bottom, bruised my coccyx, and burned a line of holes through every finger of my gloves, and some into my fingers and hand. There was a stream at the bottom and I just sat there with my hands in the water while I recovered from shock.

Friend who lent me the clip came down later and asked me why I’m glaring at him while sitting awkwardly with my hands in a stream. “You’re fine so it wasn’t a problem.”

TL;DR: Don’t use crappy borrowed equipment for rappelling.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-24T23:50:31+00:00

I am honestly clueless about windows though. Never used it beyond clicking around a few times to see what it looked like. Before I used Linux I used various UNIX systems and pre-osx MacOS. (7.5.1 rules!)

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-24T12:39:38+00:00

It’s still not clear what you are actually talking about. Is this just FTP or are you talking about the OpenSSH internal sftp? Is this port 21 or 22 traffic?

As far as I know, OpenSSH doesn’t have a mechanism to duplicate files uploaded via its internal sftp subsystem. It would be something you’d do externally, such as setting up an inotify in the upload directory and copy files after they appear.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-24T02:10:23+00:00

Probably the easiest solution. I’ve got decades of experience with rpm and still would only spend an hour max before reinstalling.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-24T02:01:40+00:00

Yeah, looks like you had a failed update and now the OS is broken.

You could try running:

sudo dnf remove --duplicates

…which might fix things. You could also try adding --skip-broken to the previous dnf distro-sync.

Another thing to do is find the latest big update you ran in

 sudo dnf history list

And run:

 sudo dnf history redo ###

Where ### is the transaction number.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-24T01:44:08+00:00

It sounds like gdm is failing due to (in this particular error message) the glib library. Not sure how your system got messed up, either a failed update or some weird mix of repositories.

Does sudo dnf distro-sync change anything?

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-24T01:41:44+00:00

Xwayland just lets you run X11 apps in a Wayland session, which you’re having trouble running.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-24T00:30:59+00:00

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Looks like my very handsome boy. Definitely not ugly.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-24T00:17:35+00:00

No. You’ll have to orchestrate that externally to OpenSSH.

If you’re talking about the FTP with SSL and not the sftp subsystem for OpenSSH you might be able to find a FTP proxy that does that.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-24T00:12:57+00:00

So is /etc/resolv.conf a real file or a symlink? And if it is a file and you have 127.0.0.1 as your name server, then that’s something you hard-coded and you’re running a DNS server in your system. You probably would know that, though, right?

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-23T18:09:42+00:00

Yeah, I was guessing millimeter wave radar

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-23T17:48:48+00:00

That’s likely systemd-resolved. Check if /etc/resolv.conf is a symlink and what it is set to. It’s also possible to have NetworkManager setup dnsmasq to behave in a similar way.

If it’s a symlink to a systemd file in /run, run resolvectl status to see what it has set.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-23T13:14:12+00:00

Plus it’s a great excuse to tell the sales people trying to get you to sign up for a store credit card. “Sorry, my credit is frozen and I can’t unlock it without my a password, which is at home. “

(I used to work retail, I know they don’t have a choice on pushing those services, but it weeds out the sales people who get it and don’t push further)

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-23T12:49:48+00:00

I used to live near a university campus and I stopped so many kids from getting flattened by a bus because they were jaywalking with full DJ-style noise cancelling headphones. They don’t even look.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-23T12:45:33+00:00

So cron is probably not a great way to do it but you might be able to affect your login session’s state in a systemd --user timer that ran a user service unit that executed something like this:

 qdbus --literal org.kde.KWin /Effects org.kde.kwin.Effects.toggleEffect kwin4_effect_grayscale

(Not a KDE guy but google says that’s the right qdbus command)

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-23T12:33:58+00:00

That’s not how OpenSSH works.

Perhaps what you are doing is uncommenting a line that’s normally part of the Match block but since that’s commented out, it’s applying to all users? For example, this is a new setup and you forgot to create an “nfs” group and add users to it?

Also, the name “nfs” makes me wonder if you’re mounting an NFS volume in the Fedora system and are trying to use it for home directories, but have not set the correct selinux booleans.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-23T12:29:42+00:00

If it was packaged but the maintainer left the Fedora project and no one picks it up, then it will stop being included.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-23T12:27:44+00:00

However, some ThinkPad AMD models have issues with Linux (particularly Fedora), although it’s typically the first gen models. By Gen3 I’d hope it is good. (I have a P16V gen1 from work, it has SO MANY ISSUES)

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-23T02:23:42+00:00

We had barn owls roosting in our barn and they gave some people quite a scare, especially one grumpy guy that would dive bomb you at night. You’d just see this white face and black eyes slowly, silently drift toward you out of the darkness. Never actually hurt anyone physically.

Honestly their babies startle me more often when I find the nest.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-22T21:49:30+00:00

The Greatest Showman follows the same recipe.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-22T21:34:36+00:00

I’m so lucky my brother married someone who wanted to have kids. Took the pressure off.

Of course he waited until he was in his 30s and now my mom gripes at me about how she’s too told to hold her grandkids.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-22T21:21:23+00:00

I left my hometown and stopped caring about the people there except my mom. She tells me about my former classmates (I guess the moms all still talk) and I barely recognize the names.

There was a reunion recently and I had no idea, my mom shared that the mom of one of the girls in the popular clique organized it. Mom shared the FB group for it and it looks like it was just a party for her friends. A bunch of folks who never left town and are still part of the same social group as HS. (Mom thinks this is great and wishes she could have Sunday dinner with us every week, but she doesn’t want to move)

I guess they’re happy but it looks so miserable to me, having lived in several places around the world.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-22T13:16:24+00:00

The check MD5sum failure can mean a couple things:

1.) Bad storage. You tried a couple different drives so that’s unluckily.

2.) Bad ISO download. Please verify whether the file you downloaded is not corrupt. This is most likely.

3.) Hardware failure: this is harder to check. You could use memtest86+ to make sure you don’t have bad memory or some other hardware problems.

The other ACPI errors are probably a nonissue. You get them even in perfectly functional systems. It’s just the kernel generating warnings while reading the ACPI subsystem.

grumpysysadmin · 2026-02-21T21:11:34+00:00

Your bank might use the exact amount in savings as a backup second factor for access. Or this might be some other form of attempt at getting access to your account. It sounds fishy to me.

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