How are you using it remotely? VNC?

Perhaps the server config started defaulting to XFCE. Maybe what happened is entire XFCE DE got marked as a dependency, installed during update, and then when some config defaulting to XFCE thanks to this became valid, you ended up here.

If it’s VNC, what do you have in ~/.vnc/xstartup? Maybe a line like xfce4-session &?

something that isn’t an SD card to the /sdcard directory?

Could be.

On my phone (Poco X3 Pro - stock Android 11, MIUI 12) the /sdcard is a symlink pointing to /storage/self/primary which itself is a symlink pointing to /storage/emulated/0, which is /data/media, the user-accessible portion of internal storage.
Though from what I can find it anyway is just emulated FAT filesystem which is actually ext4 under that.

Something about backwards compatibility as the directory used to actually be used for SD cards in the past.

I am talking about some devices using /sdcard to mount internal storage.

But is it an SD card.

I mean, the directory name says so, but…

~ $ realpath /sdcard
/storage/emulated/0
~ $

…it may also not be.

Or switch to any rolling-release distro which won’t have major updates to begin with.

Hmmm, did you get it new?
I’ve checked a review of this laptop and it had correct ones:

There’s already Yandex captcha for those situations.

I’ve had a teacher in elementary school scream at me for doing so. (Nesting parentheses is forbidden. [You are supposed to use brackets.])

It’s also a bit unstable.

Try to transfer files via MTP instead and then tell me what’s unstable.

Anyway, the most reliable way of file transfer I found so far is KDE connect. Haven’t had that fail yet.

Android doesn’t natively host any remotely-accessable service

What about ADB? It’s disabled by default, but can be used over network as well.

Close enough.

Once you get into recovery manually, is there no “Power off”? It seems there should be:

Can you get there?

AUR.

But most programs compile within 2 minutes on my shitty laptop anyway. And it’s automated.

Yes, but at much higher cost.

OK, but seriously, X, Y and Z are these:

1. Reboot

2. DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth

3. sfc /scannow

The only answers you’ll get.

Because for me Windows was not easier to use.

I only got my first proper computer in 2020, and comparing Windows 10 with Linux Mint 20, I found the latter much simpler to use not having used either one prior. Just having to bounce between Control Panel and new Settings, plus a lot of tutorials shown magic with registries…
Also, I had a lot of problems with uninstallers failing or not removing programs completely, and getting permissions to remove files directly was also pain in the ass, even as “Administrator”. That often resulted in me booting up live Linux DVD to remove crap programs from Windows.

I gave it a try, but I didn’t like it. Perhaps I’d like MacOS though. It seems similar enough. But Windows just feels like 2 decades of hotfixes glued together.

Sounds like you already got started.
Do you have more precise questions? Doesn’t matter if it’s something “simple”.

By the way, with some not so ancient devices you can search for the firmware here: https://software.cisco.com/download/home and at least get MD5 and SHA-512 hashes to verify the files you downloaded.

Not the case with this AP though.

Edit: Oh, I almost forgot. Also the exact filename. Makes it easy finding it online.

attack

They just pull out of those states. How is that an attack?

Good idea.

You can still get the newest DD-WRT builds even on the WRT54G.
That is a Wi-Fi router from 2002.

Of course, the features are sort of limited. I tried the VPN build (on WRT54GL), but I couldn’t get the OpenVPN client to connect. I found some thread mentioning it may be missing something, but I don’t know if that’s the issue.

Anyway, without overclocking I’d expect like 2Mbps. I mean, it barely handles HTTPS. Just trying to load the WebUI maxes out the CPU for several seconds if trying to use HTTPS.
Perhaps it’s not missing anything software-wise, but it’s just so slow it times out during handshake.
So I just put the std build on it in case it will be useful at some point.