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Apr. 19th, 2020 12:04 amA couple of years after the first one failed, one of the mains networking plugs that I bought in 2011 failed. Hmm, obviously I need to replace them, but with what? ( Read more... )
In other news: Never be the first on your block...
Partly because L is using another PC (running Debian Stable, accessing the files on this one over the wired ethernet) I fell prey to the temptation to install the beta of the next Ubuntu MATE version. (She would have moaned a lot about any changes, especially any of the problems, but having this one continue to file serve was extremely unlikely to change anything from her PC's perspective.)
It's actually gone quite well. Some stuff was removed in the process and won't reinstall, but nothing really important, and it's probably down to the way one thing wasn't set up properly and that should be fixed by the proper release next week. Probably...
In other news: Never be the first on your block...
Partly because L is using another PC (running Debian Stable, accessing the files on this one over the wired ethernet) I fell prey to the temptation to install the beta of the next Ubuntu MATE version. (She would have moaned a lot about any changes, especially any of the problems, but having this one continue to file serve was extremely unlikely to change anything from her PC's perspective.)
It's actually gone quite well. Some stuff was removed in the process and won't reinstall, but nothing really important, and it's probably down to the way one thing wasn't set up properly and that should be fixed by the proper release next week. Probably...