My error. What follows 'iface' in the interfaces file declares the interfaces for the system. The interfaces file is what ifup/down uses when invoked. My suggestion didn't work because wlan0 isn't in the interfaces file. Assuming you tried ifconfig wlan0 down in rc.local, it may have failed for the same reason.

New suggestion:
Re-edit any changes you made and return them to system defaults.
Disable (for now) the init script you created.

What follows 'auto' in the interfaces file identifies the interface to be brought up at boot. 'lo' is like a virtual loopback device to access your local network.

Edit /etc/network/interfaces from this:

auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

to this:

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet loopback

This interfaces edit tells the system to enable wlan0 at boot. The 'switch' to disable wlan0 is rc.local. After the interfaces edit, test again with ifdown wlan0 or /etc/init.d/networking stop in rc.local.

I don't know if adding dhcp to the iface line will help or hinder a wireless interface. Maybe someone who knows can help?

My guess is the articles to take Chrome away from Google are like a shell game, to get people looking at and talking about this instead of that. What's 'that'? Despite the long overdue concern of search and browser monopoly, Google's been transitioning to a very different global monopoly. Why watch and suggest when they can directly influence what people think and do?

Optimized ultrasound neuromodulation for non-invasive control of behavior and physiology
NeuroResource, Volume 112, Issue 19p3252-3266.e5
October 09, 2024
https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0 … 24)00493-8
Note: At the end of the page are 112 references to Google Scholars

"Focused ultrasound can non-invasively modulate neural activity, but whether effective stimulation parameters generalize across brain regions and cell types remains unknown. We used focused ultrasound coupled with fiber photometry to identify optimal neuromodulation parameters for four different arousal centers of the brain in an effort to yield overt changes in behavior."

Note dates

Mobile phone using non-invasive nerve stimulation - Google Patents
Filing date: 2014-05-30
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20150073505A1/en

Non-invasive Human Brain Stimulation in Cognitive Neuroscience: A Primer
Primer Volume 87, Issue 5p932-945
September 02, 2015
https://www.cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S0 … 15)00674-1

"The use of non-invasive brain stimulation is widespread in studies of human cognitive neuroscience. This has led to some genuine advances in understanding perception and cognition, and has raised some hopes of applying the knowledge in clinical contexts. There are now several forms of stimulation, the ability to combine these with other methods, and ethical questions that are special to brain stimulation."

Waving Hello to Noninvasive Deep-Brain Stimulation
New England Journal of Medicine 2017;377:1096-109
September 14, 2017
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMcibr1707165
Join/pay wall, Abstract only

"A recent study in mice provides proof of concept that deep-brain tissue can be specifically targeted by the exterior application of two electromagnetic fields of slightly different frequencies."

Don't know if you've made any edits but interfaces marked "auto" or "allow-" in /etc/networking/interfaces are brought up at boot. And /etc/init.d/networking and /etc/default/networking have the line CONFIGURE_INTERFACES=yes as default.

If no laptop switch (fine suggestion greenjeans!), try setting your init script to load last. Another option is /etc/rc.local. Any cmds there are executed after all the normal system services are started and before login.

Using FF 128.4.0esr on Ceres

Some time ago I also found FF keeping stuff I didn't want kept. In Settings > Search > Address Bar, there's a list under "When using the address bar, suggest" Although all were unchecked, suggestions from bookmarks and sites previously visited still showed up. Didn't matter that "Delete cookies and site data when Firefox is closed" and "Clear history when Firefox closes" were checked. Bleachbit wiped any further suggestions. This FF setting works now but is the info simply hidden?

In my fluxbox menu along with a script:

xterm -e 'bleachbit --preset -c && ~/scripts/./flashcache.sh'

The script deletes mozilla's cookies.sqlite, favicons.sqlite, bookmarkbackups, cleans ~/.dbus/session-bus, /tmp files and dirs in ~/.cache. I created a waterfox.xml cleaner for bleachbit and did the same when I replaced it with librewolf.

I don't expect to remain anonymous, just keep FF and LW (if possible) from knowing everything I do. I agree about excess SSD use yet I've been running bleachbit daily on this Crucial 120GB for ~10 years.

If interested in what Bleachbit's firefox cleaner does:
https://github.com/bleachbit/bleachbit/ … irefox.xml

Also if interested, open the user.js file (bottom of list) for about:config privacy/security settings at https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js

DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is where your ISP assigns a new IP address every time you connect/reconnect online. A static IP is where you assign the IP address, and it remains the same across reboots and every time you connect/reconnect online. Your ISP may/may not have hoops to jump through for a static IP.

DHCP vs Static IP: Which One Is Better?
https://community.fs.com/article/dhcp-v … ences.html

Linux Static IP Address Configuration
https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-con … -tutorial/

Network Configuration - Manually
https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfigur … e_manually

This Open letter to the Linux World was posted a few years later, in 2014, around the time of Debian's adoption discussions. It's direct and well written, as others wrote then and since.

"Instead of complaining, do something about it." is something we've all seen occasionally in Linux forums. That it's about open source makes it possible to suggest. However, rewriting specific functions of an existing OS's internal code takes a great deal of time, as well as the continuing commitment to maintain. Yet to take on a project like Devuan when most of the Linux community was moving in a different direction?

I think it's worth repeating...

Other options: if "not responding" shows again, check https://downdetector.com/status/googlepublicdns, or try Cloudflare (1.1.1.1/1.0.0.1) to see if another DNS has same/different results.

No other thoughts on the missing files yet noticed you save 5GW files. I also save them, like the Fitts interview posted a while back. PM me if you'd like to exchange some links.

I agree. Was searching another topic and one result was the OSTechNix article with that "may reach a 5% market share" quote. Got curious as I hadn't known the Linux desktop market had increased that much.

Glad the link helped, torquebar. For future reference, that link and many more were from searching the message you posted, 'Establishing connection to PulseAudio. Please wait...' (without quotes). And searching 'linux Xonar-STX-III' may resolve the sound card problem. Eg: this was the first of many hits from the Xonar search: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/solved- … ntu/135742 

Unless it's cutting-edge-new hardware or software, it's kinda rare to find a Linux problem others haven't found, and resolved.

Good luck.

This help?

https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic … nt-launch/

Maybe one of several deb versions of libavformat58 at pkgs.org works?