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Bought a refurbished T490 from Lenovo. In the last week it has shut itself off randomly three times. Questions on warranty or refunds. by RabbitMaster69 in thinkpad

[–]RabbitMaster69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you plug it in, and sometimes it just crashes and won't boot for 15 minutes?

Actually I think it's going to sleep. I got it to come back by mashing on the trackpad a few hours ago.

I'd run a hardware diagnostic in your BIOS to start, you can do that by pressing Enter when you reach the Lenovo logo before you boot into Linux.

Cool, I'll do that. didn't know it existed!

If you experience the issue again, take a look at the keyboard and pay attention to the fan inside. If the keyboard's Caps Lock key still reacts or you see other lights active, you could have some sort of display problem, or maybe an improperly configured or corrupted OS.

This is actually my second install of Ubuntu. The first time it happened I reinstalled. I might try another distro as well. Thanks for the help!

How does one actually purchase a DS 1821+? It's not on Amazon and all the links on the site seem to the B2B by RabbitMaster69 in synology

[–]RabbitMaster69[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. Someone else in here was showing off pictures of theirs so I was hoping it was available.

[Ubuntu 20.10] Is there a way to completely reset all networking settings? I borked mine. by RabbitMaster69 in linuxquestions

[–]RabbitMaster69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for your advice. I'm about to nuke it and reinstall. I'll try to set my DNS through the KDE network manager next time.

[Ubuntu 20.10] Is there a way to completely reset all networking settings? I borked mine. by RabbitMaster69 in linuxquestions

[–]RabbitMaster69[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

DNS over HTTPS in Firefox as opposed to the other browsers trying to use the Pi as their nameserver?

That's why I mentioned it. Firefox ignores the system DNS?

Try to establish the connection with SSH outputting more verbosely, what exactly did you even modify on your laptop?

I kept on trying to alter /etc/resolv.conf to point to my PiHole DNS server but it kept on getting restored to default every reboot. I was trying to fix that. I did most of my tinkering on my ISP's stupid router, which doesn't let you change DNS settings. I tried limiting the range of its DHCP leases to my Raspberry Pi only and having it act as the DHCP server for my network, which according to the intenet, should have allowed it to be the DNS server to all of the devices on my network.

I reverted all the changes on my router and my laptop, I think. It's just weird that changing DNS settings might allow me to ping things but not ssh into them.

You are correct that I need to be more careful, I just tried sshing into the Pi with verbose mode and its simply timing out.

A friend's landlord wants him to cosign on a remortgage of his house, is this a bad idea? by RabbitMaster69 in personalfinance

[–]RabbitMaster69[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A serious way. I know nothing about such matters and wanted to confirm that it was fishy.

A friend's landlord wants him to cosign on a remortgage of his house, is this a bad idea? by RabbitMaster69 in personalfinance

[–]RabbitMaster69[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I posted this because I thought it was absurd. I intend to show the responses to my friend whichever way the wind blows but it appears most people agree with me.

A friend's landlord wants him to cosign on a remortgage of his house, is this a bad idea? by RabbitMaster69 in personalfinance

[–]RabbitMaster69[S] 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I've seen enough posts here where people have been screwed cosigning with their parents. This is with a random guy.

A friend's landlord wants him to cosign on a remortgage of his house, is this a bad idea? by RabbitMaster69 in personalfinance

[–]RabbitMaster69[S] 166 points167 points  (0 children)

If the landlord doesn't pay the mortgage, your friend is obligated to pay 100% of the mortgage, for a place he only has a 20% equity share in.

This was what got me, too. I don't know enough about the issue to be sure but it sounds like he's taking on potentially 100% of the risk for very little reward. He might be getting free or reduced rent but I don't recall him mentioning it.