Sure. But MInt doesn’t do dist-.upgrade at all. Or it didn’t when I tried some years ago. IDK what the situation is now, but then Mint’s FAQ said you’d have to do a fresh install.
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You should be proud of yourself. I’ve never seen dist-upgrade go wrong since woody - and I’ve upgraded quite a few machines. Did you ever bother reading the release notes for a new major version?
Debian has been doing so since forever without breaking. I tried Mint when it was the latest shit on a new laptop and was quite fond of it. Until it was time to update. I chose to upgrade - to plain, old Debian that had been running on my servers, workstations and PCs since 2002 and still does. How a Debian-derived distro could fuck up the one thing that makes Deian stand out -the nearly unbreakable packet management system- still is beyond my understanding.
See, we have another funny guy here who does not want to read his verified information.
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retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org•Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988 — 'The Cube' would be used to develop the WWW, Doom, and Quake
7·4 months agoYes. I developed a weakness for ancient workstations in the early 2000s and had all sort of shit. A few SUNs, SGIs (Octane, e320, Indigo2), an IBM multiprocessor machine (with distinct Xeon CPUs) and HPs but I could never get my hands on a next.
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test@lemmy.ml•Coal making a comeback as US datacenters demand power
1·4 months agoNever! I demand power! Death to datacenters! Join the DR. COLOSSUS movement!
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Science Memes@mander.xyz•i enjoy high fructose corn syrup tooEnglish
83·4 months agoIf you can’t kill it or fuck it then eat it. It’s that easy.
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Privacy@programming.dev•Chat Control is "like a malware on your device" – Signal slams the EU proposal to scan your private chats
15·4 months ago“Like”? It literally is.
B-TR3E@feddit.orgtoHacker News@lemmy.bestiver.se•Why some USB C cables work, or not, J-LinkEnglish
2·5 months agoUSB-C - the one standard to replace all standards. Just one kind of cable required to connect anything with everything. Halleloooyah! Praise USB-C-sus!
My ass. Not only do I have four different kinds of USB-cables clogging up my drawers, now I also have two visibly different kinds of the “unified” new standard plus at least three nominally identical but electrically different kinds that will fuck up some devices’ recharging and some devices’ communication functions. FUCK YOU, INDUSTRY GROUPS! I’ll plead for mandatory ISO standards for fucking EVERYTHING and the death penalty for anyone even critizing standardization. I don’t see any other way to clean up this bloody mess. I’ll go and found a fucking homicidal global standartising terror group! With dirty bombs and hookers! Wait for my gofundme…
Wow! $HTTP(USER_AGENT) in a website. Can’t wait for the app.
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retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org•Why was Windows 3.0’s WinHelp called an online help system when it ran offline?
6·5 months agoBecause you didn’t have to look up in the printed documentation to find some useless explanation of everything except your actual problem.
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Fediverse memes@feddit.uk•They Need to Try New Things More OftenEnglish
2·5 months agoSysiphos has nothing to construct anything. It’s just him and the rock and the hill, forever. Also, the gods wouldn’t let him ease the curse that’s on him without punishment. The main concept behind ancient Greek and Roman myths is not to mess with the gods. They’ve got theit own business and don’t care about human affairs.
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Fediverse memes@feddit.uk•They Need to Try New Things More OftenEnglish
3·5 months agoDon’t forget there’s one monent every time Sysiphos rolls the rock up and down the hill when his world is perfect. That’s when he’s on top and for a second everything is in balance.
Unlikely. The interference from the electric motor just worked because analog TVs used to recieve a (weak) analog signal via antenna. That doesn’t apply to the HDMI/RF connector. I suspect the CRT might not be able to deal with the HDMI converter’s line frequency. Also., I don’t know if the CRT has a separate composite input - if you go in via the antenna input be sure to set the converter to RF, not to composite output if possible. Composite and RF signal are not the same.
Becquerelles! At least where I live. ☹️
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High Strangeness@lemmy.ml•When Scotland was the world's UFO hot spot - BBCEnglish
1·6 months agoI wonder if there’s a connection to a hypothetically increasing use of thermometers in local distilleries during the 1990s and early 2000s…
can be fixed using:
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Linux.zip@lemmy.zip•GParted Live 1.7.0 Linux distro drops 32-bit support and improves device handlingEnglish
2·7 months agoNo binutils, coreutils, shell, vcs etc? I’d expect a full distro to be at least mostly POSIX compatible. But even so, “Kernel and file systems” doesn’t make much sense because the file systems already are in the kernel. And a kernel without userspace will miss anything to communicate with because that all is in userspace.
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Linux.zip@lemmy.zip•GParted Live 1.7.0 Linux distro drops 32-bit support and improves device handlingEnglish
4·7 months agoCalling GParted a distro is quite a bit over the top, IMO. It’s a bootable partition manager. A pretty good one but still a partition manager. Even if it has a stripped down Linux kernel under the hood (running anything else would be pointless as file systems are almost exclusively implemented in the kernel).





You mean a M575S? Because the 585 is just a common mouse. Finding old (obsolete, abandoned) logos as stickers is really hard. The fact that adhesives don’t last forever and ink of all sorts will fade in sunlight doesn’t help either. You best chance might be to find somebody with screen printing equipment. (Nothing to do with screenshots!) Repair cafes, hacking spaces and the like often have them and many are also offering workshops for very little money. You might even get a small screen printing device (screens, press, roller, paint plus photoreactive paste, more than good enough for stickers) for little money. The printing process for a simple two to four colour logo is ridiculously easy.
Another way is scanning or otherwise acquiring the logos, optionally transforming them to SVG to soften the edges and having a copy shop, repro workshop or print shop print them on adhesive foil. Don’t be too cheap or you’ll end up with stickers that will drastically fade in realtively short time.