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FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

So… this is Linux… You could try restarting the specific service. If that works. The advice was dumb and it was a software problem.

If it doesn’t, it was some type of weird hardware problem.

In my experience, though simply toggling the antenna (using the gui widget next to the clock, or gui settings-> Bluetooth off) works

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FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You can restart services in Windows too but directing someone who is bad with tech would take too long, so it’s common to tell them to just restart.

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- FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Eh, as long as you know the service in question, you can restart it. Windows…. Doesn’t trust the user that much.
  
  This includes the kernel…. No… thst doesn’t end well…
  
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  - FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    No, you’d tell them to restart a specific service (like print spooler) for whatever issue they’re having.
    
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notasandwich1948@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I once had rsync going and didn’t want to stop it. my xorg somehow died, managed to restart that from ssh keeping the rsync running. had to use something to move the rsyncs to a screen first. kinda cool how you can almost always just restart parts of Linux instead of the whole thing

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