... when all you can say is "oh, crap". I had 20.04 LTS downloaded and verified. It was burned to a thumb drive, the pure Linux way via dd. It installed perfectly, was running fine, and all that was left was to tweak some software and be off and running for another couple of years.
And then the motherboard, my rock of stability, the thing we had been through so much with, started blowing chunks. I'm pretty sure the new SSDs are alright, and thank goodness I still have my old Toshiba "playground" laptop. It's old and takes its own sweet time to do things, but it works and even is very good with the internet now that its borrowing big brother's Panda Wireless dongle with its two gigantic antennae. Another motherboard is on the way from Newegg, but it won't be the end game - low end ASRock and it will just use parts from "chunky", pending a new updated set of MB, CPU, RAM.
Another beautiful day in the neighborhood
And then the motherboard, my rock of stability, the thing we had been through so much with, started blowing chunks. I'm pretty sure the new SSDs are alright, and thank goodness I still have my old Toshiba "playground" laptop. It's old and takes its own sweet time to do things, but it works and even is very good with the internet now that its borrowing big brother's Panda Wireless dongle with its two gigantic antennae. Another motherboard is on the way from Newegg, but it won't be the end game - low end ASRock and it will just use parts from "chunky", pending a new updated set of MB, CPU, RAM.
Another beautiful day in the neighborhood
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