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Kernel image (vmlinuz...) on /boot has always the same date/time across different compilations. Where is it specified?

After digging a lot, in parallel endorsed by Stephen Kitt's comment, I found the Fedora documentation that explains how mtime for the packages are set on the link below: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/...
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Why doesn't Journald store kernel messages for as long as other messages are kept?

-k for journalctl implies -b -0, i.e., it shows only infos from the current boot. The messages are there; just not displayed. See man journalctl's information on how to pick the ranges that you get ...
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vgcreate: Cannot use /dev/vdb1: device has a signature

vgcreate is detecting that /dev/vdb1 either has a LVM PV signature that indicates it already is or has been part of some other Volume Group, or that there is some non-LVM filesystem on it. A LVM ...
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Wi-Fi not working and Wi-Fi Settings not visible in Settings on Linux

After going through all these steps we spoke in the comments, if the Wi-Fi still doesn't work, it looks like there might be a hardware defect. Check if the Wi-Fi module is installed and active: Run ...
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Wi-Fi not working and Wi-Fi Settings not visible in Settings on Linux

Since the WiFi adapter does not appear in the lspci listing, it seems to have been completely disconnected from the PCIe bus. Some laptops have a mechanical switch or function key for "flight ...
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Unable to extend fedora Server VirtualBox Volume (lvm2)

Ok thanks to Marcus I checked the filesystem and it was xfs so instead of using resize2fs I had to use xfs_growfs instead. sudo xfs_growfs -d /dev/fedora/root
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How to get OpenVPN's remote peer external (real) IP address?

If the IP address is not in the output of nmcli connection show, then as far as I can tell the best source would be inspecting the established TCP connections: port 1194 for OpenVPN, e.g. via ss --tcp ...
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How to reinstall GRUB on a different device/partition?

The fact that the firmware boot menu can display names of operating systems indicates you have an UEFI-capable system, currently booting in UEFI native mode. My guess is that may be one small ...
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ssh remote port forwarding in systemd

I would add -N option. As per man ssh -N Do not execute a remote command. This is useful for just forwarding ports. Refer to the description of SessionType in ssh_config(5) for details.
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Do i have to do restart the audit daemon manually after fedora regular update?

As you have restarted the system, there is no need to run any systemctl daemon-reload. You can still check the status of auditd service with systemctl status auditd
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Fstab does not mount on boot btrfs with subvolumes but "mount -a" does it

I found problem. In mount flags I misspelled compression flag compress=zst:6. It should be compress=zstd:6. For some reason it stopped subvolumes from mounting on boot but mount -a still did the trick....
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