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    WIFI connection slow - what to do?

    yes the router, but it was replaced several times. what I meant is the technology behind it, you know nowadays where I live either optical fiber or satellite cables are used... yes others also had the same issue, on their phones they lost connection many times during the day... then it must be...
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    WIFI connection slow - what to do?

    its working great again, maybe it was the updates on my laptop making problems, I dont know, but for a few days its working great, even my internet is only 10mbit and 10 years old
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    WIFI connection slow - what to do?

    yes, 1 to 2 people are using the wifi, the internet we bought is like ten years old, its 10mbit, and we never changed since then... but now, for more than a week its working great again, I dont know why... maybe its the updates on my laptop...
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    WIFI connection slow - what to do?

    Hi A few months back I installed on my almost 10 year old laptop Linux Mint. Everything worked great until recently, maybe 1 or 2 months, my browsers are extremely laggy, chrome and firefox. My wifi connection disconnects and reconnects several times within an hour. Videos take forever to play...
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    I ran smartctl reallocated_sector_ct shows a raw value of 0. current_pending_sector shows a raw value of 48. i did research on that: 0 is good and over 0 is bad... over 0 indicates harddrive failure is near. now i am trying a way to fix that
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    I cancelled it, because almost one hour passed and nothing happened anymore... i tried some other things but without success, like deleting cache, deleting old kernels
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    ./boot needs 1.8gb ./var needs 3.4gb is this normal? so what should I delete?
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    my bad, it is continuing... more blocks are being added
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    how can knowing this help the problem I tried it. I am stuck now. nothing moves anymore
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    how can knowing this help the problem?
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    I have left 350gb left of 460gb
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    Is my harddrive dying? initramfs(SOLVED)

    hello I have been running Linux Mint 20 on my Laptop for about a year. The laptop is about 7 years old, it was a windows laptop before. A few months ago, it always showed the "initramfs". With little research I was able to fix this booting problem "fsck". It worked well. But in the last few...
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    Terminal shows a warning while installing: Not on PATH - how to fix? (SOLVED)

    thx that worked. stay safe and healthy out there!
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    Terminal shows a warning while installing: Not on PATH - how to fix? (SOLVED)

    I am trying to install "youtube-dl" and this warning is shown in my command line: WARNING: The script youtube-dl is installed in '/home/linuxmint/.local/bin' which is not on PATH. Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location...
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    laptop starts itself after a few seconds after switching off?

    yes wifi is deactivated when wol is disabled in the bios, I think I didnt explain that clearly. and wake on usb is also disabled... now I have found something more: when the laptop is charging, it doesnt boot itself after shutting down. I clicked all buttons on the laptop, clicked the mousepad...
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