Official Blunder Discussion

Dire need of help on root. I thought the user was pretty easy…everybody saying root is the easy part but I can’t for the life of me find it. I’ve got a shell with f***** user. Linpeas doesn’t finish the scan, so looking through what it gives me, I don’t see anything in particular. I’ve found a couple of CVEs but there are people saying you should only have to type two commands and if you’re uploading stuff, you’re on the wrong track.
[+] Searching specific hashes inside files - less false positives (limit 70)
That’s as far as Linpeas gets me. I’m probably missing something above that, but I’m definitely not able to get anything past that. Please help, point me to the correct John Hammond Video, or any kind of nudge would be greatly helpful.

ps - I’m also on the EU vpn. I worked on it all last weekend using the US vpn but was disconnected nearly every three minutes. Thanks to anybody that will help.