Moderation needs to be done with clear rules upfront so people know what they can and cannot post. Moderating based on downvotes compared to upvotes is a terrible way to moderate because it is horribly inconsistent and unpredictable.
Edit: and people in general have an overwhelming tendency to use downvotes to show disagreement, which is not the same as the post being bad.
I don’t think OPs posts or this comic strip is in violation of any rules for this community, there is really no grounds for banning just because the posts are downvoted a lot.
We call them “Marie hens”
No the technical term for those are “Hemiptera”, “true bugs” is the colloquial name.
“Bug” is not a technical term, it is a colloquial word used to describe all kinds of different insects, arachnids etc.
Curious, how do you plan to download from your newsgroups if you are not exposed to the internet? This is no different than the internet access e.g. qbit needs.
Not really, most SFF PCs top out below 70W at absolute maximum, 100W-400W at idle is improbable.
For reference, mine uses 7W on average running my home automation and some other things, when it’s actually idling it’s well below that.
That would make it way too high at anywhere from 100W to 400W depending on where in the world they are.
Have you tried doing a DNS lookup from the router (pinging a host by name, say) when you were having the problems?
Yes this works when I’m having issues. I guess I’ll try looking in to my routers DNS next time i have issues. For now it’s working again (I still haven’t changed anything)
Just default for my gl.inet, haven’t changed anythingon that part.
I mean, i have narrowed it down to some kind of DNS issue, I just don’t know what. Right now everything is working again (I haven’t changed anything), so I’ll have to keep looking next time it stops working. It’s just weird it works for days/weeks at a time, and then suddenly breaks for a few hours until it “magically” fixes it self again without me doing anything.
Is the laptop Linux?
It is yes, Mint
Restart doesn’t fix it unfortunately.
I am using my routers DNS, and it’s reachable from my laptop.
Yes I use the same destination fro testing on my laptop and the router.
I think I’ve narrowed it down to a DNS issue, I just don’t know exactly what. I can ping outwards from my laptop when using IPs but not names. But my laptop can reach my DNS.
From my laptop I can ping outwards using IP, but not names (e.g. openwrt.org), but I can reach my DNS from my laptop
When you confirm that the router can reach the Internet during this period of outage, how are you doing that?
it’s a gl.inet brume2 running openwrt, I SSH into it and can ping outwards to anything and my speed test from the CLI tells me i have 900Mbit available
Internet access from all devices in my house simply stops working entirely for a few hours, sometimes there’s weeks between this happening, sometimes only a few days. But when this happens, I can still reach internet from my router without issue.
My old Pi4 with SSD averaged around 7W, so only 1W lower than my mini PC, but performance and usability of my mini PC is far greater (and it comes with 1tb NVME and 16GB ram). I generally advice against using most SBCs these days unless you specifically need the pin I/O for something.
The mini PCs draw up to 30W, mine runs at an 8W average
Well, this post is seemingly enjoyable to 34 people, do these people then not matter because of the 70 that don’t like it?