basically tiny worms, often shorter than a few milimeters. it’s the name for a whole group of different species, so some are microscopic while some can be several cm long

I mean, the whole bee is, if you think about it

you do know what quarter pounder means right?

Still faster than some humans lol

I see, thank you

So the entire community works together to complete the challenges? Does just everyone get the cape then? How does this work?

Do you think I didn’t read this? You obviously saw that I posted it in another comment, and I am mentioning info from the very text you posted here.

(Edit: I am realizing I am coming across as kinda hostile here, but I genuinely just want to understand your thought process behind posting this)

If you read the comments of the answer you copied, the OP of the question also said the following:

The following solutions worked: Static ARP entries and subnet-directed broadcasts. You may use one of both if you have the same scenario. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Them mentioning that one ‘may use one of both’ makes me believe there is a way to make this work properly with unicast. The serverfault post is also mentioning the need to manage several machines this way, which is why I believe the answer you copied suggested using broadcast, as managing ARP entries for several machines could become tedious and unreliable.

Yes, electricity is expensive here and I don’t use it daily.

I’ll look into my options regarding a different switch or router, thanks.

However your solution with the ESP32 would require me to manually trigger the boot, no? At that point I can just use the magic packet, which works fine already.

Is it a public server? That’s pretty cool!

Regarding the VPN ban, having read nothing about it, I would assume they mostly mean using VPNs to spoof being from another country. I doubt they are talking about people using VPNs to connect to their home network. Plenty of businesses use that technology daily to allow remote workers to access their private network.

In fact my laptop is barely ever opened when I use it lmao

Thanks for the tip regarding the IP segment, that seemed to be it. I needed to use the correct broadcast IP for the subnet (I think? I’m bad with networks. I used 192.168.2.255 instead of 255.255.255.255, and now it works)

And yeah, I am looking to get a router at some point. Hard to make such a purchase when I’m struggling to make ends meet currently, though.

How would this explain the packet not reaching the server in a powered on state?

Fair point

Do you need windows running on bare metal? I’m quite happy with a VM for all my windows usage. For example the mouse I use has a config tool that only works on windows

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Nvidia drivers are a bit more of a hassle than amd but apparently bazzite does a good job at working out of the box with nvidia.

Maybe having issues as bad as sound completely being broken isn’t typical but some kind of issues that you need to tweak yourself are normal. More so than on windows, I think. Sure, a power user who is privacy conscious definitely needs to tweak windows a whole lot to get it to a state they are comfortable with. But if all you want to do is browse Facebook and YouTube, windows is absolutely way more hands off. Even if Linux is getting there.

Yeah same here.

My biggest two problems are: my audio interface of my desktop PC doesn’t power cycle correctly when the PC enters sleep, resulting in me having to re-plug the device after sleep. No command or kernel param I tried fixed this issue. Issue persist across different distros (Pop, Nobara, Arch) And on my media laptop KDE likes to skip to the beginning of the video a short while after pauaing for some reason. It happens in haruna and in Firefox, but only when I have the Firefox KDE integration plugin installed. It used to work fine on vanilla arch, this only started once I installed cachy to try it out. Currently downloading tumbleweed to see if it works there.

A small price to pay IMO.