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All right so. If you are unlucky enough to follow me on twitter as well as here, you will know that yesterday I attempted to upgrade to Ubuntu 16.04.
Long, agonising story short, I ended up having to do a clean install of the new OS. Which is what I should have done to begin with. Because this feels familiar enough that I think I remember doing it last time.
However. The clean install decided that what used to be my home drive is now a separate drive and, while I had a backup of my home drive (and thus was able to restore it so I could have my precious bookmarks, etc.), it's almost a month out of date, because I didn't think to back it up again before I started. DON'T DO WHAT I DID, FOLKS*.
So I have an up-to-date version of my stuff, but I can't restore it because, even if it's possible, I don't know how! (I suppose I could copy and paste, but I don't think that's how that works).
(Actually, it turns out I could back that drive up with Ubuntu's backup tool. I might do that but not right now because uuuuugggghhh I have had enough of computers right now!)
(I much prefer Linux over Windows for a heck of a lot of reasons, but I feel nowhere near competent with it, principally because all the code frikken scares me! I can barely change directories in the terminal. I have no idea how you compile code. I know the walkthroughs and stuff on the internet are meant to be written in simple terms and stuff, but I see a whole bunch of code and I come out in a cold sweat. Nine times out of ten, this is because I just don't know what it does. I still freak out when I have to install Ubuntu, and I've done it five times now).
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Mum's been watching old episodes of Cadfael (because she watched it back when it first aired, and has a fondness for the stories). Sean Pertwee is in the first series (though sadly not in any other; his character gets bodyswapped no less than TWICE for no reason I can fathom. Other actorly work, I can only assume). It was kind of hilarious seeing him with hair, because I think he's always had a shaven head in like, everything else I've ever seen him in?
(I'm sad he's not in the later series but eh, beggars can't be choosers).
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All right, I really don't have anything else to say, so I'm going to hit post.
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*This is my caveat about a lot of stuff in life, but especially where tech's concerned. It'll probably be my epitaph, along with FUCK YOU, AUTOCORRECT!
Long, agonising story short, I ended up having to do a clean install of the new OS. Which is what I should have done to begin with. Because this feels familiar enough that I think I remember doing it last time.
However. The clean install decided that what used to be my home drive is now a separate drive and, while I had a backup of my home drive (and thus was able to restore it so I could have my precious bookmarks, etc.), it's almost a month out of date, because I didn't think to back it up again before I started. DON'T DO WHAT I DID, FOLKS*.
So I have an up-to-date version of my stuff, but I can't restore it because, even if it's possible, I don't know how! (I suppose I could copy and paste, but I don't think that's how that works).
(Actually, it turns out I could back that drive up with Ubuntu's backup tool. I might do that but not right now because uuuuugggghhh I have had enough of computers right now!)
(I much prefer Linux over Windows for a heck of a lot of reasons, but I feel nowhere near competent with it, principally because all the code frikken scares me! I can barely change directories in the terminal. I have no idea how you compile code. I know the walkthroughs and stuff on the internet are meant to be written in simple terms and stuff, but I see a whole bunch of code and I come out in a cold sweat. Nine times out of ten, this is because I just don't know what it does. I still freak out when I have to install Ubuntu, and I've done it five times now).
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Mum's been watching old episodes of Cadfael (because she watched it back when it first aired, and has a fondness for the stories). Sean Pertwee is in the first series (though sadly not in any other; his character gets bodyswapped no less than TWICE for no reason I can fathom. Other actorly work, I can only assume). It was kind of hilarious seeing him with hair, because I think he's always had a shaven head in like, everything else I've ever seen him in?
(I'm sad he's not in the later series but eh, beggars can't be choosers).
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All right, I really don't have anything else to say, so I'm going to hit post.
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*This is my caveat about a lot of stuff in life, but especially where tech's concerned. It'll probably be my epitaph, along with FUCK YOU, AUTOCORRECT!