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   abadidea (0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 15:39:10 JST abadidea

   me: hey Linux, why'd the wifi stop?

   Linux: wrong password

   me: what do you mean wrong password? it wasn't the wrong password when you downloaded all that stuff five minutes ago

   Linux: dunno. wrong password.

   me: well I am extremely confident that my own wifi's password didn't change in the last five minutes, but here, I will enter it again

   Linux: yeah no that's not the password

   me: I literally pasted this from your sister Macbook's configuration. She's connected to the wifi, she says it's working

   Linux: that's because Macbook is a sluuuuu--

   me: *holds down the power button to suffocate Linux and reboots it*

   Linux: wow! that was weird. guess you changed the router's wifi password while I was out because it works now

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     Nicolas SAPA (nico@ublog.byme.at)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 15:39:24 JST Nicolas SAPA

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     • Semitones
     @semitones @0xabad1dea Could be the fault of iwd or wpa_supplicant. Could be the fault of the driver. Could be the fault of the firmware.
     
     Lot of place where it can fail.
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     Semitones (semitones@tiny.tilde.website)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 15:39:25 JST Semitones

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     @0xabad1dea but who can I really blame? Network-manager? Drivers?

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     njsg (njsg@social.sdf.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 15:39:33 JST njsg

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     • Semitones

     @semitones @0xabad1dea Quite honestly, if I see this behaviour in a linux system, my guess is: it's a Broadcom WLAN NIC.

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 15:40:48 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     • Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.

     @acsawdey In this thread are some explanations, e.g. this: https://hachyderm.io/@GyrosGeier/113467881103375049

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     Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D. (acsawdey@fosstodon.org)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 15:40:49 JST Aaron Sawdey, Ph.D.

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     @0xabad1dea I have had MacOS and iOS both play this game with me too ... if you ever see an explanation for this, please share as I would really like to know what the heck is going on here.

     Just feeds my curmudgeonly assertion that "wifi is networking for when you're not serious" and "just buy more cat6 cable and switches" is the cure for wifi ills.

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     uvok (uvok@furry.engineer)'s status on Tuesday, 12-Nov-2024 15:40:57 JST uvok

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     @0xabad1dea ugh. Problems like this annoyed me so much I even laid a 50 m Ethernet cable across my flat to have LAN. (Which was also annoying).
     (Luckily, my Android phone has no such problems).

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     iced depresso (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 13-Nov-2024 07:43:31 JST iced depresso

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     @0xabad1dea :neocat_baa: I LOVE FREEDOM SO MUCH