That will be a good thing - you need to spend much time on these bikes to burn off the calories from all the verification cans you are forced to consume.

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That sounds awesome

tmux has been on my to-learn list forever now. Seems it should be bumped up in priority.

NetworkManager was not installed on my system, but I will look into this later and check out nmcli and nmtui (as suggested below) to get familiar with these tools.

I don’t think it uses netplan.io - it is a very standard Debian server install - netplan.io being Canonical, I guess that would typically be found on Ubuntu installs?

nmtui sounds nice. I didn’t end up installing NetworkManager now, but it is something I will look more into, so I’ve noted it down. Learning networks is a big goal for this year.

‘ip a’ to show your active addresses

Nice, now only my ethernet interface shows an IP after implementing the changes to etc/network/interfaces as described in an edit in the OP.

rfkill to hard disable wireless devices

rfkill was also not isntalled by default on my server, but I’ve installed it now and see that they (i.e. bluetooth and wifi) are unblocked, so I will now go learn how to block them. :)

nmtui if you want a simple way to change network configuration or disable something

Nice, I will check this out!

Tech Broligarchy*

Thanks! That worked right away :) I have also entered the correct environment variable in Flatseal now, and it opens as expected now from the desktop shortcut.

Just to explain why they’re stored there: you’re trying to change the config of the sandbox itself not the app. Flatpak manages the sandbox and it is flatpak that needs to know what permission an app should have. Any files in “~/.var/app/…” pertain to the app itself inside it’s sandbox.

Thanks for this explanation! I love Linux after having used it for two years now, but the sheer amount of things to know about is quite overwhelming when I don’t always have too much time to spend on learning. It doesn’t always feel like I’m getting any better (although I know that is not true), but comments such as yours is certainly helping people like me become better users :)

At least in the DMCA I believe

It’s insane that this bullshit can be pushed again and again and again. It gives me some comfort that they have still not succeeded, but they only need to succeed once, and if they are not blocked from putting this forward again, we would have to succeed again and again and again.