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Hey so has #Ubuntu completely #b0rked some new #Networking / #WiFi #Snap or what?
I've been getting persistent popups every 300 seconds all morning
"System x minutes ago:
Sign in to WiFi network
Wired Connection 1"
OK: so my wired network through my Netgear Orbi has been set for a good ten years; my WiFi networking via the Orbi ditto
The whole thing looks as sus as all hell
When I dismiss the noti it opens a Firefox tab that tries to access a broken, sus URL:
connectivity-check.ubuntu.com.
NOTE 0: the box this is all happening on is on a wired LAN, period. No WiFi at all, period
NOTE 1: URL ends with a dot, not a slash
NOTE 2: URL is http, not https
It finally times-out with a 503 Service Unavailable
The URL itself does check out via whois and host
"organisation: ORG-CGL14-RIPE
org-name: Canonical Group Limited
country: GB"Did Ubuntu get started with a new WiFi networking snap, not get it finished, and go home for the weekend or what?
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that ambivalent feeling when you fixed something for its main task (yay!) by making it less capable overall (fuck!) albeit in a way you don't really use (yay!) but have done and could again (fuck!) because despite knowing exactly what's wrong (yay!) you are _never_ finding the part (fuck!)
which is why my 1st gen anker soundcore now has a barrel jack and is 100% externally powered.
tho' I suppose I could rig up a battery pack and make it mobile again. fugly, but mobile.