could not get netmask from lease

I'm sitting in a hotel lobby and the Ubuntu Acer Nitro 5 won't connect to the hotel wifi, although my android phone connected fine. According to syslog "could not get netmask from lease". This post isn't a fix, just an ugly workaround. This "lease" message points the unacquainted me towards a DHCP issue, which is … Continue reading could not get netmask from lease →

Can’t log into Azure tenant after resetting Microsoft authenticator

Organisations which manage identities and user authentication with Office365 account use single sign on for web-, desktop- and mobile apps. The user experience usually consists of a web-based login form and a second-factor notification on the Microsoft authenticator app or an SMS sent to the phone. Microsoft login screen The authenticator app can manage multiple … Continue reading Can’t log into Azure tenant after resetting Microsoft authenticator →

Driver does not support any RC mode compatible with selected options (supported modes: CQP)

Rendering a video with KDEnlive 22.08.1 under Ubuntu 22.04 on the Acer Nitro5 with the hardware accelerated VAAPI Intel H264 profile aborts with this error: Driver does not support any RC mode compatible with selected options (supported modes: CQP). I'm not deep enough into the KDEnlive architecture to understand what I'm doing, my superficial understanding … Continue reading Driver does not support any RC mode compatible with selected options (supported modes: CQP) →

Acer Nitro 5 power button broken in Ubuntu 20.04

Update 2023.03.17: a reader of this blog, W0CKY, came up with a much better solution: sudo setkeycodes 55 116 I packaged that into a script: #!/bin/bash if [[ $EUID -ne 0 ]]; then echo re-running as root exec sudo /bin/bash "$0" "$@" else echo rewriting key codes setkeycodes 55 116 fi ... configured sudoers to … Continue reading Acer Nitro 5 power button broken in Ubuntu 20.04 →