You can Google the words you don’t know, and find out that it does in fact answer your question.

Sure, regular file permissions can do that. You may need to make the folder owner someone else, and set the sticky bit.

It’ll be much faster the next time. It has to make sure all the data is out of the space to be freed. Assuming it moves it as close to the start of the partition as it can (and you’re shrinking it from the end) then it’ll be faster.

If you’re shrinking it from the start, yeah, it’s going to take forever because it will always have to move a lot of data.

Oh, that’s fine then. Though you should still have monitoring on drive health, or backups if you don’t care when exactly it dies.

The only time I don’t do a regular upgrade is for Windows Server. Too much weird shit happens. I like to keep my servers running clean.

Nah, regular upgrades should be fine for those too.

Really, so there was filesystem corruption? I’d definitely check the health of that eMMC chip if you can.

That’s weird. It’s getting as far as Linux, so hopefully you have a backup you can restore and everything will be fine. If not, you can probably still pull your data off and reinstall.

Also, usually thin clients have eMMC chips instead of SSDs. Those are designed for low write lifetimes. I would be very cautious about trusting any important data to them, especially if you’re not monitoring their health.

Unlikely, since DHCP is a pretty short conversation, and other clients aren’t having issues.

What have you tried so far?

Are you new to interacting with other humans too? Because a response like this is just solidifying the case against you.

Creating new accounts after being banned is usually against the rules. Why were you banned in the first place? Maybe take it up with the admins, we can’t do anything here.

It’s really hard to say for sure, because there’s almost never accessible logs from the monitor or USB controller. First course of action is usually firmware updates. Monitor firmware, PC BIOS/UEFI. Then try swapping hardware. Make sure your USB-C cable is appropriately rated to carry video of the resolution you’re using, plus the USB traffic. I assume it’s not also carrying power. Then try different USB-C ports on the PC (front/back/addon cards).

If possible, you might try changing from USB-C to USB-B connections to see if that’s any more reliable. Or at least use separate cables for video and USB. A quick check of the manual suggests that’s supported.

Possibly, though extremely unlikely. They wouldn’t care unless you were doing it to help set up a nuclear weapons program or something.

This also assumes you’re American, or working from the US. If you’re French and working from France, for example, you’d be subject to French law, not American law.

How likely is my system to break with the standard kernel?

Unlikely. Standard releases are still pretty stable.

Because their lawyers said so. Canonical is based in England so their lawyers didn’t say so. I don’t know where the Debian project is based. OpenSUSE is based in Germany so I’m not sure why they feel the need, but I assume that’s what the lawyers said they need to do.

Sounds like a network issue, not a KVM issue. Have you done any troubleshooting from that angle, and if so, what have you found?

Are you relaunching Firefox every time? You could just reload the file by refreshing.

But I don’t think any viewer is going to support keeping your place in the document when it changes.

Yes, stop shooting yourself in the foot and allow cookies at least for those sites.

Yup. If data has to be moved, that’s one read and one write, in different parts of the disk. That’s going to be slow. (At least they’d be sequential, I think.)