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Can anyone explain to me why, all of a sudden, my trusted and fairly new laptop decided it didn’t feel like going on the internet?

My phone? Online.
My tablet? No problem.
The laptop? Cheerfully connected to Wi-Fi… and then just stopped there. Like a tourist who gets to the airport and refuses to board the plane.

Clearly, the problem wasn’t the Wi-Fi. No, the laptop had entered diva mode.

💻 The Evening Battle

Following the wise counsel of Le Chat (my ever-patient AI troubleshooter), I put on my digital plumber’s hat:

• Flushed the DNS cache.
• Renewed the DHCP lease.
• Double-checked every network setting twice.

Result? Nothing. My laptop remained as stubborn as a cat ignoring a food bowl that isn’t filled to the brim.

Frustrated, I abandoned the fight and went to bed.

💻 The Dawn of Hope

At the crack of dawn, I picked up the laptop again and once more sought wisdom from Le Chat.

“Create a new user profile,” it advised.
I did.
And by jove—it worked!

Which meant only one thing: my main user profile had gone rogue.

💻 The Smoking Gun

Back on my regular account, I looked closer and spotted something sneaky: some weird VPN was trying to log in. A VPN I never asked for, never installed, and certainly never invited to the party.

Deleting it wasn’t easy—it clung on like bubblegum under a shoe—but after erasing the configuration, my internet connection magically came back to life.

💻 The Mystery Remains

How did this phantom VPN appear?

• A bit of spam?
• A side-effect of the last beta update?
• Or maybe just a bored laptop playing tricks on me?

I’ll never know. But from now on, I’ll keep a sharp eye on my system settings. Because if my laptop is going to moonlight as a VPN hobbyist, I’d at least like to be informed.

💻 Lesson Learned

When technology misbehaves:

• Don’t panic.
• Don’t throw the laptop out of the window.
• Do consult Le Chat.

And above all—if a mysterious VPN shows up uninvited, delete it faster than you’d delete your browser history before lending out your computer.

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