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diagnostics: no false positive errors

During the hackathon, while discussing with a FreedomBox user who did not have much experience with GNU/Linux or servers, I learned that the way a beginner user responds to failing diagnostics is very different compared to expert users.

If an expert user sees a diagnostic failure, they will check if the app's functionality is working as expected, and then they can ignore the failure and continue using the app.

But for a beginner, they may think that they cannot use the app until the failing diagnostic is fixed.

When a FreedomBox and its apps are running as expected, there should not be any diagnostic failures. The diagnostics that cause false positives should be either fixed or removed.

This is a generic issue that can point to other specific issues.

Current failures:

Edited by James Valleroy