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i use Arch Linux on my laptop and as fairly widely reported recently a new grub ,broke a few peoples Os's including mine. This grub: [andrew@darkstar:~]$ pacman -Qi grub (09-03 14:55) Name : grub Version : 2:2.06.r322.gd9b4638c5-3...

I updated Arch today using sudo pacman -Syu I saw a mention of to use new grub features to re-install it. That was a mistake. It failed to boot after that. My bacon was saved using super_grub2_disk_hybrid_2.04s1.iso which was on a Ventoy formated stick for first screw up then boot...

https://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-becomes-a-rolling-release-with-rolling-rhino/ that would have tempted me ,had they released it before i tried Arch. On a system where you have config that youv'e forgotten how you did it and forgotten whats lingering somewhere that you've also forgotten then...

Well nobody else started it so... I am going to put my pennies in from my experience in Ghana ; what I will state will be an Objective view based on "empirical observation" . So if anybody is offended, thats a Cognitive distortion problem you have. Nothing will be directly rude, or offensive...

After 2 years a new version of Slax was released today (11.2.0) by Tomas M : https://www.slax.org/

Holocaust memorial day, today 27th january - not from an angle of Politics nor religion just history and what man is capable of unless reminded

just discovered something to go with my hot chocolate : https://github.com/0xAX/linux-insides/blob/master/SUMMARY.md

https://blog.linuxmint.com/

This morning as if i didn't have enough on my plate I received a call direct to my virgin media landline. I don't know how these people got my number since i've only given it to a select few. A lady attempted to install remote software giving me verbal instructions. I played along (for a...

for any folks who likes testing out there : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fetchmirrorsgui upstream https://notabug.org/captainsensible/fetchMirrorsGui

From memory Nelson Muntz, used to be good on world event days- burger day and that sort of thing. hes not here so i've done it for him

https://www.fsf.org/news/lifes-better-together-when-you-avoid-windows-11

wife is in hospital and couldn't get through on whatsapp, but git through by direct call apparently

 

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/cobol-remains-alive-and-well-despite-its-age/

[a work in progress since my notes all over the place and needing a concat ] Our daughter 16 September is going to college ; between the 2 kids they have each a H.P stream laptop with 32gig hard drive. My wife asked me to a) look at them both b) make sure you can log in c) Assess if its...

From time to time I dabble in a bit of coding and just like google drive , github was a good a place as any to store it. That way I could, in case of hard drive going bad and no other back ups at least pick up from where i left off. Github was Ok , at least it was free . I didn't like the...

https://blog.elementary.io/elementary-os-6-odin-released/

Chianti an italian wine - i tried this 2020 from the vineyards of lidl . I didn't like it; not sure if its the grape "Sangiovese" or that it could be a blend of 80% Sangiovese and something else.

International Talk Like a Pirate Day will be September 19, 2021 if you have a WordPress Site , then on Sept 19 just download, put download in wp-contemt/plugins and activate . Then your existing posts will narrate like a Pirate : https://wordpress.org/plugins/ye-old-pirate/ The plugin is...