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Unable to access shared folder using Virtualbox 6.0 (openSUSE)

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1 For my VM, I tried to set up a shared directory as follows: enter image description here However, using the terminal, I cannot seem to find the "/media/" directory under which the shared directory is supposed to be found. enter image description here I also have been unable to locate the shared directory directly: enter image description here Based on some previous answers here, I have: Installed Extension pack for 6.0.0 enter image description here Installed Guest Additions. enter image description here Edited the file /etc/group. Changed line vboxsf:x:999 and added at the end :myusername snd saved. enter image description here Restarted the VM multiple times. Removed Guest Additions and added them again. If you know anything that might help me, I would very much appreciate that.

My Ubuntu laptop fan spins at random moments

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0 My laptop originally came with windows 8.1 but after a year I started dual booting Ubuntu Mate. Everything was fine back then. One day I started playing heavy end games on my laptop that started the continues fan spinning which totally made sense. But after that I noticed that the fan never stopped spinning until I disabled "Fan always on" in bios which fixed the problem for ubuntu. But this also seemed to be a temporary fix. So I went to a store to get my laptop cleaned and along with it I added another ram stick to my laptop. So I have a 4 GB ram that came by default and an 8 GB ram stick that I inserted. After this incident, whenever I use Ubuntu my fan spins violently at random moments and then stops suddenly. I tried to look for solution on the internet but none seemed to work. Here is the