Re: What's Wrong With LinuxMint ?
Rich <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.misc |
|---|---|
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
c186282 <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8/18/26 04:10, vallor wrote: >> At 18 Aug 2026 06:05:55 GMT, rbowman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 01:44:51 -0400, c186282 wrote: >>> >>>> Tried FFox and Chromium the past few days. The site is ULTRA-slow, >>>> useless. >>> >>> Brave browser. Went to the site, paged through the instructions, went to >>> the Cinnamon download, selected the Clarkson mirror, and the download >>> started immediately. Canceled the download. >>> >>> Like I've said before you have a lot more problems than the average bear. >> >> Well, his clock is off -- probably not enough to effect TLS, but >> figuring that out is above my current paygrade. >> >> Dear Mr. c-cipher, >> >> Please run: >> >> $ ntpdate -q time.nist.gov >> >> And post what you see. Mine says: >> >> 2026-08-18 01:06:57.105142 (-0700) +0.000209 +/- 0.016759 time.nist.gov 132.163.96.6 s1 no-leap > > > Checked, MY clock is dead on. > > Anyway, they took away my hardwire and gave me a 5G where the > antenna is many miles away. Weak signal almost always, perhaps > packet errors too. > > But why the Mint site so notably ??? Perhaps Mint's servers were put on the other side of another 5G gateway? > Weirdness spanned DAYS too. Or, perhaps the AI bots were busying downloading, in parallel, every file offered on the Mint website, over-saturating Mint's outbound network link.