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Updating an old Ubuntu to a supported version

https://anonymoushash.vmbrasseur.com/2025/07/old-ubuntu-upgrade.html
1•vmbrasseur•5h ago

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dlcarrier•4h ago
I got that far behind once, except to fix it I told apt I was on the latest Ubuntu release and told it to update. It worked surprisingly well, except that after the upgrade, systemd would pause for exactly 60 seconds before sleeping or shutting down. I thought it was because of my shenanigans, but a fresh install had the same problem, so it was something in that release, and not my method of getting there. I never figured out what caused it, and ended up switching to MX Linux and using sys-v, which has been working great since. I deleted everything except the /usr/ folder and installed MX Linux on the same drive, so from a logged-in desktop everything was set up exactly as it had been in Ubuntu.

Anyway, within a distribution a "release" is really just a list of which version of any given package to use, and anything release-specific is expecting those versions. Even the difference between distributions is just package versions, plus which packages available and which are installed by default. Linux is just packages. If you can update all of the packages at once, you can effectively change which release you're on. If it fails half-way through though, you might be in trouble. You could boot off of a live flash drive, and use chroot to fix everything, but at that point you might as well just do a reinstall, from the live drive.

Show HN: Keep up with the world without information overload

https://www.a01ai.com/
1•vincentyyy•54s ago•0 comments

Bitwarden MCP server secures AI access to your passwords

https://nerds.xyz/2025/07/bitwarden-mcp-server-secure-ai/
1•thunderbong•1m ago•0 comments

ImageNet: A large-scale hierarchical image database (2009)

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5206848
1•sandwichsphinx•15m ago•0 comments

We should have more billionaires

https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1942992514954224025
2•hliyan•16m ago•2 comments

Realbasic (2000)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/06/12/realbasic/
1•geuis•20m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an agent to keep up with research

https://www.usebyline.com/
1•luhemarora•36m ago•0 comments

Brewer Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer_Island
1•twalichiewicz•36m ago•0 comments

Big Brother

https://bigbrother.fllics.com/en/
1•fllics•42m ago•0 comments

Australia is quietly introducing age checks for search engines like Google

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/age-verification-search-engines/105516256
14•ahonhn•42m ago•3 comments

The Lumina Probiotic May Cause Blindness in the Same Way as Methanol

https://substack.com/home/post/p-168042147
38•exolymph•44m ago•6 comments

Murdoch University student fights accusation of illegal AI use in assignment

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-11/murdoch-university-student-fights-accusation-of-ai-use/105518732
4•ahonhn•49m ago•0 comments

Data Science Weekly – Issue 607

https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-607
1•sebg•1h ago•0 comments

Qthreads – large numbers of threads conveniently and easily

https://github.com/sandialabs/qthreads
2•michaelsbradley•1h ago•0 comments

The computational cost of corporate rebranding

2•rileygersh•1h ago•0 comments

MemOS, the first 'memory operating system' that gives AI human-like recall

https://venturebeat.com/ai/chinese-researchers-unveil-memos-the-first-memory-operating-system-that-gives-ai-human-like-recall/
2•rancar2•1h ago•1 comments

"A heist": Senator calls out Texas for trying to steal shuttle from Smithsonian

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/its-a-heist-senator-calls-out-texas-for-trying-to-steal-shuttle-from-smithsonian/
14•LorenDB•1h ago•1 comments

Kinds of Knowledge Worth Remembering

https://domofutu.substack.com/p/7-kinds-of-knowledge-worth-remembering
2•domofutu•1h ago•0 comments

Astronomers detect first known 'death wish' planet

https://www.popsci.com/science/planet-death-wish/
3•domofutu•1h ago•0 comments

Full QuickJS Support for Nginx

https://blog.nginx.org/blog/quickjs-engine-support-for-njs
1•adius•1h ago•0 comments

PDF Barber – Split and Merge PDFs Online – Free Privacy-First PDF Tool

https://www.pdfbarber.com/
2•thunderbong•1h ago•0 comments

LLM Inference Handbook

https://bentoml.com/llm/
5•djhu9•1h ago•0 comments

Little videos are cooking our brains: How do we reclaim our attention?

https://www.vox.com/technology/419430/ai-tiktok-youtube-shorts-instagram-reels
7•ryan_j_naughton•1h ago•0 comments

I accidentally prompt-injected myself using Claude Code GitHub Actions:-S

https://twitter.com/kwuwon/status/1943497898429157459
3•exclipy•1h ago•0 comments

A Fundamental Unit of Intelligence [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dykkubb-Qus
1•surprisetalk•1h ago•0 comments

So why don't we pick the optimal query plan?

https://vondra.me/posts/so-why-dont-we-pick-the-optimal-query-plan/
1•b-man•1h ago•0 comments

Vetted Suppliers in 3 Minutes–See How AI Does It

https://www.riskify.net/
1•kevin_7•2h ago•1 comments

Figma's $300k Daily AWS Bill Isn't the Scandal You Think It Is

https://www.duckbillgroup.com/blog/figmas-300k-daily-aws-bill-isnt-the-scandal-you-think-it-is/
5•ankit01-oss•2h ago•2 comments

Severs Link Between Dollar and Gold (1971)

https://www.nytimes.com/1971/08/16/archives/severs-link-between-dollar-and-gold-a-world-effect-unilateral-us.html
1•sandwichsphinx•2h ago•0 comments

We asked 9 AI and agent builders about their top problems

https://unionailoop.substack.com/p/we-asked-9-ai-and-agent-builders
1•ablekh•2h ago•0 comments

Non-Concussive Head Impacts and Brain Microstructure, Chemistry and Function

https://sportsmedicine-open.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40798-025-00867-0
2•PaulHoule•2h ago•0 comments