The important question is if the UEFI shell can run Doom.

It’s also worth mentioning that the snap system is quite disliked by a lot of users for various reasons, like stuff not working right.

I suppose this article is a good example of snaps not working right.

There’s software to check how many mAh most laptop batteres are able to take up and deliver, compared to what they shipped with. Modern ones even have how many complete 0-100 charge cycluses the battery have gone through. You can check if you think there’s something dodgy about the battery. I’ve actually seen laptops factory shipped with smaller batteries than ordered.

But knowing linux and seeing you had an issue with the power profiles I’d think it’s software related hah. Is there a discrete GPU onboard it’s using instead of the power-saving one perhpas?. Also, did you turn off that awful “dynamic background” on youtube that continually taxes the CPU?

Happy to help, sorry I can’t offer a simpler solution that avoids reformatting. It’s probably doable if you want to do more fine grain troubleshooting but I’ve never found it to be worth the time.

For my home self-hosting I also prefer pre-made scripts exactly to avoid having to manually set up everything. It’s such a slog and particularly if I have to restart from scratch. What’s the goal of your project, perhaps something like Yunohost or even DietPi could save you a lot of work and get straight to the fun of self-hosting?

Something is completely shutting your server off from the internet, despite it having full LAN access. The only time I’ve run into this exact issue was when I misconfigured the firewall on a server, effectively only allowing for local connections. I simply started over by reinstalling Debian, wiping all my mistakes. But it could also be a setting on your router, and without you knowing what changes you made it’s hard to give any reasonable advice.

These are just shots in the dark, and other might offer better solutions but I’d try;

1. Boot the laptop into a live session directly from USB. All settings are default. Test again, either wget or maybe ping a website. If it works, it’s the server setup and I’d start over. If not…

2. Try reversing all changes on the router, give the server a different static IP.

3. Back up the router configuration to a file, consider making notes of important changes, reset the router and try again. If it STILL doesn’t work you can restore the important settings. If it works, you can reimplement the settings from your notes. (unless we’re talking manually imported VPN certificates and similar lol)

Sorry I wasn’t able to help you out, I’m hosting from home and it’s a fantastic thing when things

I don’t know if it’s useful or not, but if I boot a live debian USB in the server internet works

Haha yes, as mentioned. The issue is a setting on your laptop server installation. The simplest thing is just reinstalling and starting over.

Here I’ve tried wget https://104.18.114.97. It’s able to connect to the IP on port 443, but shows an error message since I’m not using a domain name. But at least I know I’ve reached the server.

Please try wget https://104.18.114.97, if this one goes through I’d think the problem could be related to a faulty forwarding of regular internet traffic (port 80). If that fails as well I’d guess it’s to due with the DHCP/Static IP’s and involves your router. I’m absolutely clueless about Vodafone routers though.

Edit: Any connection would show “The certificate’s owner does not match hostname ‘104.18.114.97’”

Yeah, I realized after the fact. This should work: wget 104.18.114.97, and you should get a ERROR 403: Forbidden if your server has any internet connection.

I bet it has something to do with the LAN DHCP setup, since you have to set a static IP for the server…

Update - That won’t work at all if it is indeed the issue. Let me think for a sec on how to pull external ip by doing a IP wget…

I understand you might be a bit stressed out, but it’s very hard to make head or tails of what you’re describing.

E.g. What do you mean by “no internet connection”? Does it mean just the old laptop, all devices on the network or the router itself?

Domains can be free and several of them works flawlessly with DDNS for home hosting. You can set up a completely free Nextcloud. Self-signed certs and direct IP access works as well.

Somebody else mentioned setting up a VPN to your home LAN, that works fine too.

I like Bluetooth quite a lot, but the default SBC codec that comes with A2DP isn’t all that great. Even FLAK gets recompressed in an obscure format at medium bitrate.

HD “standards” like… AptX(?) aren’t really a Bluetooth standard AFAIK but it runs over Bluetooth so if both devices support it, it works great.

Fun fact, them HD standards are so software based that I got support for three different HD standards when I changed OS.

All I know is that Stux’s instances was on the fence regarding Threads until a little meeting with Ruud somewhere in the Netherlands a few weeks ago. 😉

Sure. I hope I didn’t come across as claiming that I’ve lost any games I licensed through Steam. Just that it’s a possibility.

I buy this space shooter game called “Destiny 2”.

Here’s how they get you; did you buy “Destiny 2” or did you acquire a limited use license subject to change at the publishers discretion?

I haven’t bought a game since Cyberpunk 2077 on GOG. Sure I’ve “perpetually leased” some games on Steam since then, but I didn’t buy them. They can be taken away from me by the owner at any time and I’m very aware of this.

The only way to experience the original content is through YouTube videos.

Very sad, people should be able to buy games to own, keep and share those treasured memories throughout their lives. I can still whip out Final Fantasy 7 on original disks if the kids ever want to see how we did it in “ye olde days”. Destiny 2-players can never do such a thing.

Makes me question if it’s even the same type of products.

It’s “If you’re not paying for it, you’re the product” and we invented the term next week TYVM.

More like the super healthy farmer is handing out organic food for free but people rather eat at McDonalds because it’s nearly packed and that’s where most people eat.

Pretty much my experience with pull-based notifications. I’ve even tested the same client on the same setup against both NTFY and client-pull without seeing a noticable difference in battery usage.

But… Blaming people who are being fucked over by forces generally outside their control is not really going to help their or our situation.

The whole premise of the comment is that it’s not outside of their control, they just chose not to be responsible for the agreements they make. If you have any better suggestions than blaming those responsible for the situation I’m willing to listen and maybe even change my mind.

Expecting or demanding “people” to just change is also not realistic. Even if they wanted to, time, effort, energy, knowledge, skills, and attention are all finite.

Is it more unrealistic than “we” deciding to change and find a better path forward than surrendering our digital lives to strangers? I’m able to self-host my own push server. I wasn’t born with that knowledge. I had to invest time, effort and energy to gain the knowledge and skills. If I can, so can others. I am not an extraordinary smart person.

Still, long before one starts to self-host entire platforms like NTFY or Nextcloud Push, there’s a ton of free to use services ran by idealists rather than capitalists. Or payed options with good terms. There’s so much between just not caring and being ones own sysadmin that I don’t think “don’t have the time” is a valid excuse anymore. It’s not just push messages, it’s everything - as you point out:

This is just one important issue or source of exploitation among a sea of others.

Sure. And most people I offered a free Nextcloud account to said the same. And Mastodon/Friendica-accounts. And so on. It’s like a technological mass depression, we can’t do everything we need to so there’s no point doing anything at all.

And today I’m running a custom ROM and no push services from Big Data while they’re literally getting robbed of their phonebooks by Meta.

Because people might want to have a look at a platform before considering moving to it, and they would consider it because they wouldn’t be afraid of missing out on their usual content.

I’m confused about the difference between a lurker and someone requiring an account, yet don’t want to interact with the community. Why can’t people who leave a platform and create a new identity “lurk”/browse the old place for content, no matter if leaving reddit or lemmy?

I’m not so sure, there are more spectrums and gradations than clear-cut groups.

You’re right in the way that it’s subjective - your perspective is as valid as mine. My own preferences still stand, I don’t want to interact with current reddit regulars.