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How do I make sure my headless system is always connected to a working wifi source? I tried adding a script like this in `sudo crontab -e` (not the raw script but just the path to it) wget -q --spider google.com
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then echo "Online" else echo "Rebooting" systemctl shutdown -r now fi This instead is my wpa_supplicant.conf ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant update_config=1 country=mycountry
network={ ssid="myid" psk=mypass } Sometime due to power outages or network simply going down for whatever reason my pi fails to reconnect I have a bunch of local services running I can't access
Benjamin Williams
What sysctl.conf config options are worth using for a mid powered desktop? Alot of places say to change like 100 of them but can that do more harm then good if you over configured it or set values too high?
Adrian Rogers
Im on Debian Testing and I hear people shit on it because it has older "packages".
What does it actually mean? The specific software? How big of an leap can there be with Krita/Wine/Firefox on Debian testing and on Manjaro?
Blake Lopez
yo wtf i haven't heard of this DE before, good shit
Jayden Robinson
since stallman is no more, it is no longer GNU + Linux, just Linux
Charles Hall
I thought Debian Testing was basically the normal desktop version that most people used.
