Thanks for the advice on ruling out physical "dirt" factors! I rarely think of those...
Regarding the negotiated speeds, I'm unsure where to find them. Neither the interfaces page, nor the status page nor an ip link shows anything speed related (other than the MTUs but those have always been set to 1500).
Haven't checked my low level sound drivers in a long time - I'm using pipewire and wireplumber to control it all. Is ALSA still there at the bottom/as a dependency? Arch btw.
Depending on where the alleged offenses were committed, not decrypting that for which the authorities have a warrant to analyze can be a crime in itself. I'm all for encryption, but without plausible deniability - something that VeraCrypt offers with their hidden volumes feature - encryption might by itself not get you far. Again, depending on the jurisdiction in question. And depending on whether the authorities really want to invest the time and money into "catching" one pirate. And, finally, at least encryption gives you the choice not to decrypt on demand. I just wanted to give encryption some nuance.
This about the IFS variable was eye opening! Thank you SO much! This is exactly what I was trying to understand, namely, how on earth the for-loop is smart enough to understand how to count when I haven't specified a numerical interval (as I do in for instance C when I practice that). This just solved it all. Thanks! Now I also understand why my code gave me excessive outputs when I changed ls into ls -l. The IFS variable made the for-loop count every single blank space!!! :D
Reading this part of the Bash manual for the third time today, I think I finally understood it better, thanks to this part in particular:
[...]execute commands once for each word in the resultant list [...]
In other words, whatever follows in is half expected to result in a list of words (items), each for which command is then executed. Beyond that, I guess I'd have to simply look at the logic behind for-expressions.
I was a teacher for some years and I absolutely understand your style of explanation. I don't find it condescending at all! Thank you so much for the in depth guidance! Some of it I already knew, some of it I didn't. Anyhow, a new perspective is always appreciated! :) God, Bash (GNU/Linux in general) is so much fun!
The mere thought that my life is going to end at some point makes me freeze up emotionally and physically. It exacerbates my depression to a point where I sometimes simply call in sick.
It's sad. There is so much beauty in this world, in our existence, in our universe and one day my body will give up because of old age or because of sickness, depriving me of it all.
There is so much that I haven't experienced, and it's not relativistic. I don't buy the BS that some people try to console me with when they say that the only reason that I value life and all it's beauty is because it's finite. F*ck you all. I genuinely weep at the sunrise, at the beauty in people, at the undiscovered knowledge of the universe regardless. I wish my life would never end.
For those of you that know the Japanese animated series Naruto, I feel so much compassion for Orochimaru, even though his human experiments were vile and evil.
My depression sometimes makes me want to stop existing to stop suffering from it, but that's a sickness and an internal struggle and it doesn't represent my true feelings. I don't want to die.
The general attitude is that you are required to be digitally literate and that you have the "required" equipment. Just like many businesses nowadays take it for granted that you have a card to pay with.
Thanks for the advice on ruling out physical "dirt" factors! I rarely think of those...
Regarding the negotiated speeds, I'm unsure where to find them. Neither the interfaces page, nor the status page nor an
ip linkshows anything speed related (other than the MTUs but those have always been set to 1500).