Pretty much why everyone just uses json or, heaven forbid, plain text for trivial data.

Aaah, SOAP.

Yo dawg, I heard you like XML over HTTP so I put XML over HTTP in your XML over HTTP.

I meant extreme for this very specific case. If every other features of the product is satisfactory for OP then dumping the whole product is extreme.

No product is perfect in every way for every customer. Modifying a product that you’ve already bought is an entirely reasonable thing to do.

Returning it seems extreme to me… But I’m happy modding things like that.

Stick a piece of paper or card over the button/LED such that you can still depress it… Iterate/repeat until you’re satisfied.

Apostrophe catastrophe.

Oh, there are forks: #2.

Gnome makes absolutely no promises of version compatibility for extensions.

You’re stuck waiting for an extension dev to update to support the new gnome version.

Police snipers were stationed on a nearby rooftop

JFC.

Police: oops we shot someone we didn’t have to.

Also Police: perhaps shooting more people we don’t have to will make things better.

That server’s root access is now vulnerable to a compromise of the systems that have the private key.

Grunka lunka doobee dee-dedient

Do not ask about the secret ingredient

Better dead than autistic.

/S

Farmers

Reap what they sow

Nice.

On the context of a node package,

It’s probably a package with one five line function, and a poor implementation at that.

An alternative, if you have console access, to doing that root password dance, is:

1. Drop to rescue/emergency/single-user mode.
2. Do your changes to the user account
3. Drop back to multiuser mode.

Now that’s ineffable

Luck of the Fryish.

… named for his uncle…

Quick, throw it in the soup before Fry notices.

They my go to to quickly triage a problem being caused by SEL or not.

Not quite. But sorta, yeah.

Learning to “not fuck with it” or ways to do so and rollback are valid lessons themselves.

Being able to segregate “production” and “development” environments is very valuable.

100%

The alternative being variations on:

Hi my name is [redacted], I have [X] years experience.

Please run sfc /scannow.

You can find more help at [Irrelevant KB URL].

Please rank me 5 stars.

Ticket closed

Theoretically one could also prohibit rebooting.

IIRC kexec is pivot_root but for the kernel.