Hi, all this is very interesting... thank you for the tips.

I thought I knew what I was doing, but all of these replies suggest I haven't even started.

I, like most am just a general user who tries to keep the screen door shut, But I also like to have the lights off so I can't be seen too easily from outside to begin with.

I'm going to be busy... If I want to do this properly and not just blindly hacking away at configs in hope it might help or work better than a clean install.

I was trying to follow this guide, but my system either won't boot or blocks social websites... I can listen to web-radio stations but not get facebook to load. Firefox-latest...

I put this here as a warning, because it seems incomplete or not for a system connected to the www. (no offence intended, )
ref. https://madaidans-insecurities.github.i … el-modules

It seems some of the kernel commands I used from there to my grub config were stopping that social webpage connections.

this is the grub edits I had made, but restored my backup today...
/etc/default/grub

# If you change this file, run 'update-grub' afterwards to update
# /boot/grub/grub.cfg.
# GlennsPref 20230920 ipv6
# GlennsPref 20240209 hardening-tips

GRUB_DEFAULT=0
GRUB_TIMEOUT=4
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=`lsb_release -i -s`
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=tty12 vga=794 modeset.nouveau=0 nokmsboot ipv6.disable=1 security=none apparmor=0 amd_iommu=on slab_nomerge init_on_alloc=1 init_on_free=1 page_alloc.shuffle=1 pti=on oops=panic mce=0 page_poison=1"

# discover other os's
GRUB_DISABLE_OS_PROBER=false

GRUB_GFXMODE=1920x1080

GRUB_INIT_TUNE="400 440 1"
# resume=uuid errors... noresume "we don't susspend"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="noresume idle=nomwait"

GRUB_THEME=/usr/share/desktop-base/grub-themes/desktop-grub-theme/theme.txt

This morning I reverted to this... to get the system up.

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=tty12 vga=794 modeset.nouveau=0 nokmsboot ipv6.disable=1 security=none apparmor=0 amd_iommu=on slab_nomerge init_on_alloc=1 init_on_free=1 page_alloc.shuffle=1 pti=on oops=panic mce=0 page_poison=1"

btw, that enabled me to boot, but not connect to social pages. I had a longer version the day before, but I haven't got a copy of it to show you.

this is what I have now... wip,

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="console=tty12 vga=794 modeset.nouveau=0 nokmsboot ipv6.disable=1 security=none apparmor=0 amd_iommu=on"

amd_iommu is the only edit I have kept for today.

I also made a list of changes to /etc/sysctl.conf, but just "net.ipv4.icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts=1 # Ignore broadcast pings"

and to /etc/modules, a large list of /bin/false for unnecessary modules.

But, neither of the last 2 file edits stopped my boot or connection to the home wifi and social pages.

Anyhow, that's my observation so far.

I'll move on to the pages suggested here and take notes for my future research and actions.

Thank you again, bye for now.

I Love Gary Moore. Thin Lizzi played in aus, a free concert in the gardens. Gary was on that tour I believe.

I never heard of April Wine before... but I've heard the saying so many times, If You See Kay! never knew what it was about. Thank you.

I hardly slept last night reminiscing the old days... but I'm happy about it.

Eric Johnson I saw with Joe Satriani and Steve Vai (G3), brilliance, gold brilliance!

I first saw JS on his surfing... tour, with Stu Hamm. The drummer was fantastic too.

Joe went to give away one of his black strat-killers (Ibanez) guitars, but the security was so intense here back then, if you got up out of your chair, you were leaving or going to the rest room. And they were throwing people out for arguing with them. That was Queensland politics back then, a police state (Joe Bijelky Peterson, I don't care how he spelt his name, glad he's dead). My girlfriend and I were in the third row, If I jumped up to get the guitar, I would have missed the rest of the concert and probably got beaten up and the guitar smashed as well. Those were the days. Nobody took the guitar, Joe was stunned!

Wish I could play and understand music like those guys. Thank you for the memories and new music. I only just discovered Rust and Journmey in the last couple of years, lol. I must have been stoned or something.

America has some really cool love songs. That's where I started playing, on a gut string classical.

That vid of Triumph was amazing, 1984 was a great year for Rock music, imo.

One of the songs, and vocalist reminded me of Chickenfoot. :-)  (the way they sound...)

thanks. :-)

Maybe that is your problem. Its a plain text file...

Try editing the file. I believe those addresses are cisco DNS routers. <edit>it's cloudfare not cisco, my bad! </edit>

you may have to stop and start the network services to get it to use the new addresses.

Some use google dns... like 8.8.8.8 but it may not be as private as you might expect.

p.ps. I'm using Daedalus, but I also keep Beowulf and Chimaera in my sources list for easy access, and backports.

root@GamesBox:/root  apt update && apt upgrade -y && apt autoremove -y
Hit:1 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus InRelease                                                                                                      
Get:2 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/hardware:/razer/Debian_12  InRelease [1,519 B]                                                             
Get:3 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security InRelease [32.5 kB]                                                     
Get:4 http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/Debian_12  InRelease [1,552 B]                   
Hit:5 https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/debian bookworm InRelease                                                 
Hit:6 https://repo.nordvpn.com/deb/nordvpn/debian stable InRelease              
Hit:7 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-updates InRelease
Hit:8 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-backports InRelease
Hit:9 http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-proposed-updates InRelease
Hit:10 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera InRelease
Hit:11 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-backports InRelease
Get:12 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security InRelease [26.2 kB]
Hit:13 http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf InRelease
Get:14 http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-security InRelease [26.1 kB]
Hit:15 http://deb.devuan.org/merged beowulf-backports InRelease
Get:16 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security/main amd64 Packages [267 kB]
Get:17 http://deb.devuan.org/merged chimaera-security/main i386 Packages [266 kB]                                                                          
Fetched 621 kB in 7s (86.0 kB/s)                                                                                                                           
Reading package lists... Done
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root@GamesBox:/root  

That's fantastic. I once played Sister Golden Hair for my little sister at her wedding reception, I was sweating bullets and quaking inside, and messed it up a few times... when I finished I asked, "want me to do it again?" they all shook their heads and laughed. It was a great experience, first public performance with a PA, but thankfully all friends and family. lol.

Yeah, bragbook is a farce!

The list of bands and types of music I appreciate is too long to list,
I'd forget some of the best and that would not be fair to all those wonderful musicians who shaped my life.
I haven't heard of Triumph... thanks, I look into that.

There's a special kind of bliss I experience when engaged in playing music, and singing (and whistling too).
In a world of Tech I have that escape.

Currently I'm teaching myself some finger picking, Dust in the Wind, by Kansas... and Landslide by Fleetwood Mac. It excites my brain. ;-)

When it comes to playback quallity, I rip my cd's to flac and really don't have change any eq settings. But I do have mp3's for in the car... it's so noisy it dosen't really matter, it seems my memory of the tunes fills in the gaps. Getting a constant volume level across all tracks and albums is the hardest part I feel.

I hope you had a good vacation, a break from work is a necessity these days more and more for our mental health.

Thank you for your replies, you put a smile on my face and lighten my moods this time of a morning (here in Australia).

(Off-topic, Off-topic)
My biggest concern now-a-days is securing my system from being hacked, facebook I think...(and maybe forums like this one LQ) I'm saving that for another post here... to help others and maybe get some advice as well, but it seems that when I ask, something is knocking on the doors... testing me. Like all my fans shut off yesterday just after I refused a so called friend of a friend a senseless conversation, that I think was meant to enable them/it to distract me while they mined my account and system. My cpu overheated and auto shutdown was initiated, thankfully that was immediate, but when I rebooted the bios reported overheating... and all the fansettings were OFF!. I'm not sure how to ask or how to compose the statement/question appropriately. anyhow, I'll get to that soon.

aluma, what was/is the name of your pop group? I have some demos I put up on Jamendo.

These recording were mostly done to test equipment, and are not even demo quality, but just hard and fast recordings some of the songs I have written.

I can only find one song up there now, but here it is...
https://www.jamendo.com/track/570749/reita

ps, here's the rest... some were done with friends. https://www.jamendo.com/album/65893/no-edits
all the best, Regards Glenn

Hi, here are MY most frequently used message lookups...

cat /home/glenn/.xsession-errors | grep -i "(EE)\|(??)|fail \|segfault"
cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i "(WW)\|(EE)\|(??)"
cat /var/log/syslog | tail

you may use the same lookups with dmesg,  and swap the filtering around to search for a match of what your looking for.

I also have sys-type logs sent to tty11 & tty12 so I can easily switch to those consoles and see if anything has changed.

I hope this gives you some tips to work with.

all the best, GlennW (aka, GlennsPref)

I bought it off a IT tech friend when he upgraded his life. ;-)

I am not satisfied with the sound, headphone socket broken.

But if I use my USB sound device the sound is good.

Mine also has a nVidia 750m graphics, but haven't got it working as far as I can remember it defaults to the intel ....

Congrats with the tube amp, I have an el84 18w marshal clone on the shelf waiting for me to get organised. I really love this stuff! :-)

I only use the laptop when travelling and when I have broken my main desktop system.

But the keyboard lights work as expected, dimming, full on and off. and it's quite fast, even for 10yo.

I have no secrets, just privacy issues from advertisers. (mostly to save on bandwidth)

I agree with Andre4freedom. I also get an error message that a service has no stop. But it does not affect the general operation of my 'stable' system.

I also use open-rc but with sddm with kde5/plasma.

I also turn off all services I do not want to start at boot, like mail, printing, brail and other accessibility apps, like speak and screen-readers..

The bleeding edge is exciting, I used to live there too.

I have an ASUS RJ552 touch-screen laptop. It came with win8 installed... I have no problems with everything working. fyi.

I bought it second-hand from a tech friend...

the only probs is battery life and the speakers sound off balance, and the headphone socket...

but works perfectly with my usb sound box.. Edirole UA-25EX.

This is just info... I'm running Daedalus on it as well as my desktop.

Hi, this is from the far-outside... but,

Have you considered installing a kernel that works and then getting the source and rebuilding a kernel just for your computer?

like make oldconfig...new kernel with old kernel settings.

There are quite a few different ways, but make old can be made to work, also make ...

here is a snippet of some notes I have... but I haven't had to compile my own kernel for a long time now. So your mileage may vary.

* Restart config...

"localmodconfig" make target. It does pretty much what you ask—it determines what modules you have running, and generates a .config making sure those modules are built. The 

"localyesconfig" target will compile those modules statically into the kernel rather than creating modules.

make
make modules
make install

You may look this up on the web. kernel.org comes to mind.