I had an Ubuntu system eat itself Christmas Eve at 1am. I think an update pooched some folder permissions and wiped the firewall settings.
It started with “Huh, the network drives won’t mount”, progressed to containers failing to start with “hardware not found” GPU-related errors -oh yeah, I still have to check that and make sure it is working- and yadda yadda… 13 hours later I got services back up and running.
Oof, today I slept in until 10. Ahhhhh…



It used to be a driver could present a cashier’s check as proof of financial responsibility, but it was a pretty high sum. There is a similar system with some states where you can purchase a bond that satisfies the insurance requirements. It is quite unpopular though and presents a host of other problems and liabilities.