If I correctly remember the minimum number of moves required to get all the disks from one tower to another, 10 layers is going to be a slog.

Seems like removing the file from /home/YOURUSER/.config/autostart/ ought to have undone the problem. Booting from external media of course, so as to be able to get to it, which you have to do anyway to reinstall.

I realise this is long after the fact.

Having something just sitting there in /usr/local/sbin shouldn’t have any effect at all, so I can’t imagine that was the issue, so calling it must be.

And the only thing I can think of is if there was a permissions problem and Cinnamon choked because the exec-er refused to run.

[Many problems]

Well shoot. Now I want to know why that didn’t work. But I don’t fancy having to work my system back to useable if it refuses to boot.

If that’s an every time thing, I’d be tempted to compile myself a very simple C program that uses system or execl to run /usr/sbin/iwconfig and my preferred parameters. Then I’d change the owner to root, give it the SUID bit and then put a call to it somewhere in my startup.

(As to where on the system I’d put it, /usr/local/sbin is probably the best choice. Where/when in the startup is slightly more difficult. On a single user machine, it might be OK, or even work best, in the GUI’s Startup Applications, rather than anywhere like /etc/init.d/)

If I was really curious, I’d go digging to find anything else that might already be doing that and if not, where the default settings are kept and see if they can be changed, making the above unnecessary.

For the sake of this comment I had a quick dig around and didn’t find anything obvious on my own machine, but then, this isn’t a Mac nor do I use wireless, which might be hampering my efforts.

I was thinking “The Poot-Trumpin’ Fart Tube”, but yours might be more suitable for business purposes.

There’s a minimum temperature for indoor work in Britain, but no maximum. The minimum for sedentary work used to be 17°C, but they reduced it to 16°C during the last government. Notably, it hasn’t been increased again under the current one. (For active indoor work, it’s 13°C. Outdoor work has no limits otherwise the country would be even less functional in extreme weather than it already is.)

Zelenskyy would have to be foolish to expect anything else at this point, so this had to have been for another reason. Possibly to prove that Putin remains a terrible person and to keep the conflict in the news.

They generally share quite a bit of policy with the conservative party though. And where there are politicians changing parties in order to follow the gravy train (rather than the party itself moving right), it’s often from a conservative party to an up-and-coming even-further-right party.

Basically, love of money and sticking the boot in to those who don’t have it.

Only in America

Sadly this part isn’t true. If you want to find a hateful regressive, you only need to look to the right-wing parties in many countries. Sure, there are a few regressives in the fringe left-wing parties too, but the political right has a far more mainstream problem, worldwide.

And it seems like a handful of the party faithful might be waking up to that fact.

Stopped clocks and all that.

Two excellent reasons to not play on that course then. Either out of, you know, respect, or if you lack that, some equally disrespectful pissed-off Vietnamese might have chosen to set up some war-era style surprises.

Would you risk it?

If Putin hadn’t decided to forcibly annex parts of Ukraine in the first place, many Russian sons would still be alive and Zelenskyy perhaps wouldn’t be seeking help from the “wrong” people (not that I think that’s an entirely valid way to think about it.)

And as best as I can tell Zelenskyy is not in favour of the way Israel is going about what they’re doing in Palestine, and I’m sure he very much recognises the parallels with what’s happening to his own country.

Of course. If you can’t be loud and obnoxious, you can’t compensate for the fact you have a tiny penis.

Which I wish they’d quit because they’re giving the rest of us with tiny penises a bad name.

Both definitely happen, but this is almost certainly a formal writing versus common vernacular thing.

As for why, I’d guess the pronunciation as a word could be mistaken for the actual word “vat” or, worse, “fat”. Most people want fat on their goods almost as much as they want V.A.T., but now there’s confusion added into the mix.

Well, I suppose there’s precedent elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Specifically anyone who likes stinky cheese, or enjoys tucking into things like hakárl or lutefisk.

Regardless of who the star turn is, this is grounds for a class action lawsuit if ever I heard one.

On the other hand, there’s very little chance that would go well for Owens or her would-be audience.

… how do we convince them to push for it?

Tough times require tough measures. Either you find what the students do in there acceptable or you don’t. If you don’t, someone needs to check, and if not that sysadmin, then it’s going to have to be someone even further away.

One alternative would be to have the restrooms be locked and to be unlocked on request. How key management works with that I leave open.

This would be ideal if there was a suite of unitary WCs, because one key per room per person.

Not ideal in the case of emergencies, I grant you, but then, you don’t want to be using a filthy restroom in an emergency either, so I guess go the whole way into that and put a chemical toilet somewhere outside nearby. OR the old outhouse with hole in the ground if you can’t stretch to that.

The attendant doesn’t have to be a custodian. The member of staff with the office closest to each bathroom is now responsible for at least checking that bathroom once an hour. It’s a budget crunch. Everyone has to do their part!

And if that doesn’t fix the budget crunch within a week or two, the bathrooms are now being checked.

I’m leaning towards no. If you’re sat on the toilet in a small WC room, that urinal is going to be nearby and very close to face height. Also urinals are only really usable by half the population.

Sanitary wipes might be a better plan. Even better if they can be made reusable, but that could be too much to hope for what with the need for yet another bin, and the propensity for confused people to put things in the wrong one.

The problem with that is not the students, or the layout, communal or otherwise, but the unwillingness of the institution to pay a toilet attendant.