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  • It’s mostly been explained.

    Basically it’s content delivery networks. Caching. That ad, from start to finish, has been queued up and loaded and played for thousands of people near you. This is less frequently the case with some show that you’re streaming.

    It’s the same reason that if you were to go watch trending YouTube videos, they will load up a lot faster than if you find some niche YouTube video from 12 years ago that no one’s watched in a decade.



  • If you’ll be running Linux and trying to use steam to run games, at all, avoid the 14th gen is.

    If not, the 14th gen i9 is your bet.

    Something with Proton, the layer that makes steam work with Linux, has been causing tons of people a lot of grief myself included. Any games that rely heavily on vulkan shaders will cause my whole system to crash under heavy load. It’s a known thing and Intel still seems clueless as to what to do to resolve it, afaik.














  • Okay. Your laptop can’t ping or SSH into the server. First, figure out if the problem is one-way. Can the server ping the laptop, or is it just dead in both directions?

    You mentioned all other devices communicate normally—do they all fail to reach the laptop, or is the issue isolated to the laptop and server pair?

    Physically check the server and confirm both IP addresses to ensure you’re not chasing the wrong info. Once you’ve got the correct IPs, ping the laptop from the server’s side. If the server can’t reach it either, you know this isn’t just a laptop-to-server problem.

    Also, did you set up a firewall on the laptop? That’s worth looking into. And yes, it’s annoying, but try the simple stuff: disconnect and reconnect your laptop’s Wi-Fi, reboot it, even run sudo apt update just to rule out anything weird. Start with these basics before moving on to more complicated troubleshooting.