My laptop now finally refuses to connect to the company wifi, and here i am browsing bitbucket on my phone

I didn't expect me to be productive today anyway, but that's another rant.

why is it refusing to connect?

@JoshBent it's one of those wifi's with peap-configuration, that means you got to enter an unsername too and accept the certificate. My laptop couldn't verify the certificate first and i had to search in the depths of the mint ui how to turn off verification.
Then i had to open cinnamon instead of i3 because only cinnamon displays a warning because of the untrusted certificate. After clicking accept i can finally connect and switch back to i3.

Now i don't even come that far and i don't know why.

@JoshBent honest speaking, i don't even care at this point. We were promised machines to work with until 1.6.2018, but it's a startup and everything gets delayed

@YouAreAPIRate

sounds annoying, but weren't you just able to fetch either wpa_supplicant_gui to do it or just set eap=peap in your wifi config?

haven't had to mess with that tbh, so only remember vaguely what others did

@JoshBent i don't have wpa_supplicant_gui installed, to do so i would need wifi and for that i need wpa_supplicant_gui.
And i'm 75% sure editing the config files doesn't help even if i could find them. It worked perfectly fine last week and i didn't change anything. Maybe that's the punishment for irregular upgrading and a lot of ppa's added.

@YouAreAPIRate oh yeah lol, the irony in that 😅

@JoshBent update: after swtiching desktops for the nth time and trying to connect for the xth time, it finally worked. I have no idea what was different now...

What makes this funny is the fact that i wanted to connect to my android ap. I wanted to get the latest changes on my laptop so i cloned the repo on my phone via termux and extracted the commits via git bundle. Then i wanted to connect my laptop to my android ap and send the file via nc. At that point my laptop mysteriously connected to the company wifi again. But i still connected to my phone and did it my way, just for the sake of being cool.

@YouAreAPIRate the magical restart or switch, always works 🙃

@JoshBent i did restart my laptop twice, but it was as effective as a magicarp using splash. Now i let time pass and it works. I feel betrayed.

Well I'm switching to gitlab and...Oh your talking about bitbucket I see proceed.

@infiniteshroom lets be fair, microsoft will need months or years to ruin github. Switching to gitlab is a panic reaction, as if you don't have weeks to see how things turn out.

Gitlab or bitbucket, i don't care. My company just so happened to choose bitbucket. You can get nearly all ci/cd-integrations everywhere anyway.