<div dir="ltr"><div>One more thing to note is that I have piles of not so old 1 Tbyte drives which will need boot&nuked before I can give them away. perhaps I should deploy a RPi to do it ..</div><div><br></div><div>We still do some deliveries to Portobello if you need a drive or two. (or anyone else for that matter.) I keep looking at them and wondering what to do with them as they were stripped from lawyers' machines before lockdown, and I kept the newest drives and dismantled all the others for security. Now I only use SSD's</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone wants drives ask me nicely and I can bring them to the next if any pub meeting. (yes I don't do pub any more either)</div><div><br></div><div>Most of my other scrap hardware went to the recycling centres. Maybe we can do another scrap and salvage day this year..</div><div><br></div><div>Let me know on this or by email (still the same).</div><div><br></div><div>Mark<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 2 Jan 2023 at 08:45, Mark Turner <<a href="mailto:replicant.mark@gmail.com">replicant.mark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Andrew, I suggest looking at nix and nixos and keep all your files and important stuff on USB.</div><div><br></div><div>when you get used to it its really handy but may take you a while to get your head round.</div><div><br></div><div>I am looking at how flakes work - such an incredible useful tool, and putting the flake/nix thing into context by comparing with LFS (work in progress) it may take me some time as even with my 45 years computing experience, it still needs baby steps to use it properly and most of my time I have to do other manual stuff like dealing with customers family etc.</div><div><br></div><div>The best thing is its ability to load configuration from web/cloud, process scripts from external sources including git or ftp and provide consistent environments for development.</div><div><br></div><div>I first tried nixos when it was USB only and wrote back to the boot USB, have recently revisited and have it in my plan for kiosk computing. Its definitely worth looking into and learning for the future (though neither of us has many more working years left ..).</div><div><br></div><div>Good Luck<br></div><div>Mark<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 1 Jan 2023 at 18:25, Dick Bain <<a href="mailto:dick.bain@gmail.com" target="_blank">dick.bain@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, 1 Jan 2023 at 17:32, Andrew Ramage <<a href="mailto:andrew.ramage.1963@gmail.com" target="_blank">andrew.ramage.1963@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>That's the problem ... I get no text describing the problem. For
many months I have had problems updating my system.<br>
</p><br clear="all"></div></blockquote></div><div>I would definitely change the Distro, I have been using Mint for at least the last five years and have always been happy with updates but when I upgrade I download the new ISO and do a re-install (my home directory is a different partition, preserving all my data/settings)</div><div>I should add that I have only ever had relatively old second hand hardware, currently an AMD dual core E1-2100 with 3719600 kB RAM and 500Gb hdd</div><div>Dick<br></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">free/libre/open, software for the people by the people<br><a href="http://www.swlug.org" target="_blank">www.swlug.org</a> is a good place to go ;-)</div></div></div>
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