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I'm glad I came back for a moment and saw your post. I have edited my previous post and added some details. I really was going.

Well, I have to take it all back. Apparently I did not read the forum rules thoroughly. Most forums have a dim look at homework questions and members are discouraged to answer them. Site admin Donald just taught me homework questions are OK here and I am the bad guy who deserves punishment. Same tim...

I looked up and this printer is network capable. For last 20 years I have avoided purchasing printers which have no network option. All kind of forums are full of people struggling with USB connected printers and sharing them on network. Can someone please explain the mystery, why should anyone want...

The correct solution for running out of storage is more storage. Period. Amen. And it better not be Google, they may lock you out any time when you happen to violate their rules. One prerequisite for a quality service is you pay for it.

Since it is download what fails you could download the deb by hand, as a workaround.

So you can get to gateway but no further? Why are you not answering my questions? How do you expect us to help you without details? Considering all information you have provided so far we can conclude something is wrong. I gave you hint to ping by IP address and see if you can reach internet, this h...

So there is connection, did you try and ping some public address by its IP address?

Can you ping your gateway?

Looks like your hard drive is not the only thing what is faulty, your backup policy seems to be broken, too. Did you know you can configure rsnapshot to back up your work hourly? Or even more frequently? It uses hard links and backups will not grow out of hand in size. Anyhow, you are supposed to ta...

I'd rather have Apple. Although I do not think there is much difference in spying on users. Apple account I must have, I usually keep a Mac in my all-Linux-BSD household. My last Mac sunk in 2016 flood, I was living without until recently I saw a Mini in eBay for $160 and couldn't resist. It so happ...

I started on Usenet over 30 years ago, learned my ropes there. I have been (and still am) member of many forums. Many of them have turned into nannying members. Some have sicko authoritarian moderators who enjoy their power over regular members. Gentoo forums are good, they understand when a member ...

I do not use Grub, can't tell what you are supposed to see ... would there normally be a message about loading kernel? Your HDD light on tells Grub starts doing something with HDD, like looking for a kernel. Or maybe grubx64.efi binary is corrupted and goes nuts. You could repeat the grub install pr...

You have to run test first, then look at results. If test does not finish successfully then you know there is an issue. Run the test.
Also, running fsck on all filesystems won't hurt. But don't let it repair anything, run it just to get info.

I just read somewhere MS Office has a "free" version which you can use when you stay logged into your MS account. Free my foot, if they are waiving the fee then it means they are getting something else, something what they value more. I believe by now everybody knows there is a bunch of el...

I'd investigate what is corrupted and why before doing anything else. Perhaps one of drives is developing bad sectors.

Translate works without logging in, Youtube you can watch but not comment. Google search also does not require account with them. More trouble is maintaining your Android apps without Google login, but it is entirely possible (I never entered my credentials into my phone). I do use Google search mys...

Yes. I'm still contemplating account deletion. I do not use any of their services but gmail, and I stopped using it a few months ago. I forwarded my email to my new protonmail account. Protonmail IMAP solution works in Linux, but only with Thunderbird. I tried Claws Mail, got it working, but sometim...

They will keep it. They keep everything, it used to be 8 years for deleted emails, but it was years ago. Since then their storage capacity has become practically unlimited, so you better assume they keep everything indefinitely now. May be useful for some future authoritarian government to determine...

When booted from an external media in EFI mode, what 'efibootmgr -v' tells you.

delete your google account. +1 !! I tried to login yesterday, but it just kept saying unknown computer.... So deleted. I'm working on it. I have put my gmail address into too many places, now I have to reconfigure all of them. Does Google make you wait? Microsoft put me on hold for 90 days before m...