I’m on Wayland these days, but if you happen to be using X11 this is the homebrew solution I used to use:

xdotool type --delay 50 "$(xclip -o -sel c)"

The --delay argument specifies the delay in milliseconds between keystrokes; if you go too low on that it tends to break things.

Interested to see what solrize comes up with because this method definitely has drawbacks – no way to interrupt it and if you accidentally paste something large it takes a long time to finish due to the forced delays.

I’ve never really had the need for a Wayland version, but I don’t see why subbing ydotool for xdotool and wl-paste for xclip wouldn’t work.

I don’t think that’s what’s happening here. As far as I know it’s an issue with a driver installed on the computers, not with anything trying to reach out to an external server. If that were the case you’d expect it to fail to boot any time you don’t have an Internet connection.

Windows is bad but it’s not that bad yet.

Looks like the laptops are able to be recovered with a bit of finagling, so fortunately they haven’t bricked everything.

And yeah staged updates or even just… some testing? Not sure how this one slipped through.