You could try finding changed config files by running:

sudo debsums -ac

Note that this won’t catch all. There are files that packages install and don’t touch afterwards. I my case for example it does catch that /etc/gdm3/custom.conf was modified to enable autologin among other things.

Wait you thought that meme was factual? 🫨 Even OP themselves said in that thread it was a joke he made to troll Canonical haters. !linuxmemes@lemmy.world is rarely factual.

Shit.

Not Windows

This sounds plausible. I have seen a few guides for headless use suggesting disabling the built-in remote desktop feature and setting up xrdp, xvnc or related and then trying to fixup that session.

My guess is that something related to the headless setup you had changed during upgrade - likely some package got obsoleted and removed. Then you got some default behaviour from the replacement package along with the rest of the setup.

If you don’t get the help needed to resolve this here, you should also post in askubuntu.com.

Get out with this noise. This is the same nonsense as “just install Linux” to a person with a Windows problem.

14.04 to 22.04 so far

Well I don’t know what OP is planning to use it as, but desktop VLC can cast to Chromecast on the LAN for example.

I don’t think you can. On the other hand, if you register a Google account, use a secondary user on your phone to login, install the app and activate the Chromecast, I think you can subsequently use it without the Google account. Delete the secondary user once you’re done with the setup. You wouldn’t have given Google any useful data and you’d have cost them some.

Anything but paying for the labor of a person to draw such a picture.

OK, let’s try it the dumb way 😅:

Profile, it includes the needed tasks.

Here, this is an export. Try importing it.

<TaskerData sr="" dvi="1" tv="6.3.13">
	<Profile sr="prof15" ve="2">
		<cdate>1699854512825</cdate>
		<edate>1700032681717</edate>
		<flags>8</flags>
		<id>15</id>
		<mid0>9</mid0>
		<mid1>11</mid1>
		<nme>Extra Dim</nme>
		<State sr="con0" ve="2">
			<code>186</code>
			<Int sr="arg0" val="2"/>
			<Str sr="arg1" ve="3">screen_brightness</Str>
			<Str sr="arg2" ve="3">1</Str>
		</State>
	</Profile>
	<Task sr="task11">
		<cdate>1699853059094</cdate>
		<edate>1718317181394</edate>
		<id>11</id>
		<nme>Extra Dim Off</nme>
		<pri>100</pri>
		<Action sr="act0" ve="7">
			<code>235</code>
			<Int sr="arg0" val="1"/>
			<Str sr="arg1" ve="3">reduce_bright_colors_activated</Str>
			<Str sr="arg2" ve="3">0</Str>
			<Int sr="arg3" val="0"/>
			<Str sr="arg4" ve="3"/>
		</Action>
	</Task>
	<Task sr="task9">
		<cdate>1699853059094</cdate>
		<edate>1726240594881</edate>
		<id>9</id>
		<nme>Extra Dim On</nme>
		<pri>100</pri>
		<Action sr="act0" ve="7">
			<code>235</code>
			<Int sr="arg0" val="1"/>
			<Str sr="arg1" ve="3">reduce_bright_colors_activated</Str>
			<Str sr="arg2" ve="3">1</Str>
			<Int sr="arg3" val="0"/>
			<Str sr="arg4" ve="3"/>
		</Action>
	</Task>
</TaskerData>

I already did that with Tasker. It’ll be welcome to have it built-in. :D

The software support hinges on SoC vendor support. You can only support it as long as the SoC vendor supports the SoC. Afterwards you can provide quasi support, for the upper OS layer only. Critical modem vulnerability past that point? SOL. I’m not aware of the current vendor support across brands but the last time I checked QC offered ~3 years and I think that’s from introduction of the SoC, not when it shipped in devices. I don’t know if anyone who sells their SoC offers longer support. It’s sad stuff.

Oh Boy, Here I Go Redesigning Again!

This is a bad interpretation from the outlet. VW has been fighting against tariffs for Chinese EVs.

If I go to any of the teams I interact with who program their components in C++ and proposed Rust or anything else, I’d get a similar reaction. They’re very good at C++ and they very rarely have memory and threading issues. 😂

Commitment issues.