cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/[email protected]/p/1844506/me-after-i-add-an-artist-s-entire-discography-to-musicbrainz
I mean I'm doing it for my own self-benefit too lol, but it helps others who discover to the artist after me! But damn does it take a lot of time 馃槄
I mean I'm doing it for my own self-benefit too lol, but it helps others who discover to the artist after me! But damn does it take a lot of time 馃槄
TL;DR: Do a battery reset after getting WiFi/Bluetooth firmware updates when troubleshooting. Might be MediaTek specific.
So I've been using Fedora for year or so now, starting with Silverblue, which is atomic, meaning you can roll back to a previous version or kernel if you're having issues on a system. This works well for temporary fixes, but if the issue goes on for too long, you could be stuck on an older kernel, which is probably a security issue, and means you'll be using outdated firmware/software. Silverblue was smooth sailing for about two months before Bluetooth gave out on me, but I just would rollback to a previous kernel, which worked relatively fine.
But at some point I hated trying to figure out how to do things that the atomic system didn't like, so I switched to regular Fedora KDE, which meant I couldn't do rollbacks anymore. I can't remember completely, but I think it didn't work straight out of the box, and I was too lazy to fiddle with kernels and stuff, so I kinda just lived with it for the past few months since I didn't NEED it. I would passively look up info, only to be stuck again.
But finally I saw a Reddit post from last month complaining about recent kernel issues on Fedora 43, and one of the answers said to do a CMOS/Power reset after MediaTek WiFi /Bluetooth firmware updates, and it worked like a charm! I just hit the reset button on my motherboard. Now if my ELAN touchpad would work again, which is what I was actually searching for...
Maybe MediaTek is just shit unlike other drivers, but I wanted to make sure people on Lemmy (and internet search results) knew to try this before throwing in the towel like I did. No one had ever said some drivers need battery resets.
May your troubleshooting be short!
Sorry to interrupt the corn posting 馃尳
Anyway if you thought it was AI like me, thankfully it's not. It's some cosplay group called gothic.losangles on Insta.
Edit: Here's a potentially alternative frontend for Instagram, but YMMV
Last week I tried to watch the "Shut the Fuck Up PSA" from the National Lawyers Guild, and it was age blocked. I did try to log in, but now you have to VERIFY your age too (obviously I clicked off that shit).
But honestly, alternative frontends like Freetube and yt-dlp might not make the cut anymore:
Mpv crashed, and Invidious instances keep saying "video may not be age appropriate"
Edit: My state is soon to perform age verification on social media sites, so this is probably the cause. I'll just have to VPN to other states or countries until VPNs fail/are blocked.
