And if editing fstab yourself is too daunting, there is also gnome-disk-utility which has a nice GUI for setting auto-mounts that edits fstab for you.

Good suggestion, but I just checked and my Wake-on-LAN settings are already disabled.

That sounds less like misconfigured DHCP and more like the wonky setup is preventing DHCP handshakes happening consistently, but could be several different issues, really.

What bothers me more is that the laptop doesn’t receive an IP address from my DHCP server over WiFi, while my wife’s Windows PC and my phone do. But that’s more likely due to a misconfigured DHCP server than the OS.

Do you have static DHCP IPs being handed out or do you mean it’s just not getting an IP from the DHCP pool? Because for static IPs with machines that sometimes connect via hardwire and sometimes connect via WiFi I always make sure to provision two separate IPs with the MAC addresses for ethernet and WiFi each assigned to the different IPs.

I have similar issues with even edited bluetooth config files occasionally being overwritten with a system update. Suddenly the way I had it set on purpose by editing the config file has been reverted back to the way I don’t want it.

Screen blanking, or rather screen blanking not functioning properly.

I have literally spent 9 months researching every possible angle and even going as far as buying some of those Edid Emulator passthroughs for each monitor to see if those helped. Tried disabling the Kscreen manager in KDE. Tried manually controlling it via CLI and DPMS. Tried different mice and keyboards to see if it was my inputs waking it up. Tried making sure all the monitors had their auto-select input option disabled. Nope, my monitors blank for a second or two and then unblank immediately. The issue is present in both X11 and Wayland.

I have had to jump through hoops to enable a screen saver in wayland. I have to turn my monitors off manually every night. It’s really frustrating. It seems like a really simple thing, but it’s like, literally all I want is consistent screen blanking and I have spent the better part of 9 months on and off trying to find a fucking solution to no avail. I still have no explanation for why they wake instantly, they don’t seem to be triggered by anything on the system, based on the logs.

I even made a post asking for help regarding it here on Lemmy about six months ago. No luck.

It drives me up the wall because I’m actually really good at researching and finding solutions for problems I’ve run into online. This one mystifies and eludes me and while seeming minor I feel like is a genuine pain in my ass.

Related: Have an old laptop running a server OS with no GUI and have no ability to disable the monitor since technically there isn’t any monitor rendering set up, so all commands to screen blank the monitor fail because there’s technically no monitor to turn off according to the system.

8 character personalized plate is allowed in North Carolina.

I feel so validated

yes.

definitely worth it

Ha, exactly, just like how Holmes dressed like Steve Jobs.

gay is so passé, pan is what’s in, man.

Alfred E. Neuman is the original vintage meme.

What other poor decisions are they making all the time?

See also: investment in Theranos.

These people are so easy to fucking scam with buzzwords and the right “look.”

*nods knowingly

Shepard.

what type of stuff you comment lol

Nothing of consequence!

Sometimes I feel like I spend too much time on this site, so I’m pretty glad to not see my name popping up in any of these comments, ha. Makes me feel less like a dingle with no life. (No offense intended to heavy posters, I’m just referring to how I feel about me. I wouldn’t ever think someone else who posted a lot was a dingle with no life, because a lot of people’s social lives happen online and that’s okay.)