A Nod to the Past
Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre.
Canon EOS R7 with RF-S 18-150mm lens.
Processed using Apple Photos.

#BedsSteam #Shuttleworth #Canon #blackandwhite #monochrome

A Victorian Trot
Bedfordshire Steam & Country Fayre.
Canon EOS R7 with RF-S 18-150mm lens.
Processed using Apple Photos.

#BedsSteam #Equestrian #Horse #Shuttleworth #Canon

A sit-down with Ubuntu founder Mark 'SABDFL' #Shuttleworth - https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/11/mark_shuttleworth_ubuntu_interview/ "Talking to the distro's self-appointed benevolent dictator for life about 20 years of #Ubuntu" always interesting bloke

Mir ist ja eine c't als Belegexemplar zugefallen, und es ist wie nach 20 Jahren(!) eine alte Freundin zu treffen, die sich sogar ganz erstaunlich treu geblieben ist. Besonders gut gefällt mir, dass sie nicht in Werbung ersäuft. Aber Leute, zieht ihr euch wirklich im 14-Tages-Rhythmus diese unglaublichen Textwüsten rein? Ich werde mir das #Shuttleworth-Interview mit meinem #CreativeCommons-Foto darin heute vornehmen, da ich Kunden habe, die nach #Ubuntu-Strategiedingen fragen, aber uff. 🤯

Oof, what a ride!
I finally forced myself to do some upgrade and maintenance tasks on the server (the actual system, not just individual services when inevitable).

Gallery software #Piwigo => plain sailing, even less issues than anticipated to deal with
#NextCloud => pretty much the same, even though it needed several iterations due to me having been 2 (still supported) major versions behind
Wife's #Moodle => also major version upgrade, still no issues at all. A couple git commands, call the update script, all done and dusted
#Cubecoders' #AMP => yyeeeah... no, all good! One of the #Minecraft instances didn't completely upgrade automatically but giving it a slight manual poke also fixed that. Great!
#Akkoma => Oh right, that uses Erlang and since I installed via git instead of a binary distribution I need to run the build scripts again. Shouldn't be too bad, the upgrade instructions are fairly straightforward. AS LONG AS YOU DON'T RUN INTO PROBLEMS! 😨

Idiot me - against knowing better - was too lazy to make a backup before attempting the upgrade. Result was crashes right on service startup. Something with mismatching keys and stuff. Did I already mention I'm an idiot? Well in case I didn't: I'M AN IDIOT!
Okay, time to straighten up, no use in moaning over spilled milk. Best way to approach this problem? First try to get #Ubuntu up to date so I won't run into more issues than necessary should I need to install stuff for rectifying the Akkoma issue. On login the MOTD warned about having reached EOL for this release... Oh. Yeah right, I upgraded to a non-LTS release at one point to satisfy Akkoma's dependencies. Time to learn the lesson that those releases only get 9 months of support and after that any onboard means for dist-upgrades simply fail unless you let #Shuttleworth into your wallet for some superduper subscription plan for stuff that's freely available on the internet as #opensource. How convenient!

[== Fastforward through roughly 3h of teaching new indecent vocabulary to neighbours but eventually succeeding in getting the system to update without sending money to a South African millionaire while thinking about my options should the instance turn out to not be recoverable with my abilities ==]

Finally! Do a restart and then gather a status report.
[== Oh those long, long minutes till the SSHd becomes reachable again after the forced disconnect for reboot... Is everything going well? Should I preemptively pull up the management panel of the hosting provider? ==]
Yes, we're back! Pull up syslog to see what exactly Akkoma is complaining abo--
Huh? No errors, everything started flawlessly. Wait, even Akkoma?! *quickly checks browser* Yep, even Akkoma, as if nothing had ever happened 🤯

I think I need a therapeutic #whisky now.