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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.

Mill Build Tool v1.0.0 Release Highlights

https://mill-build.org/blog/13-mill-build-tool-v1-0-0.html
1•lihaoyi•2m ago•0 comments

Pufferlib: Simplifying reinforcement learning for complex game environments

https://github.com/PufferAI/PufferLib
1•anjneymidha•3m ago•0 comments

Energy costs are rising. This state says tech companies must pay more

1•1vuio0pswjnm7•5m ago•0 comments

Giant, flightless bird is next target for de-extinction company Biosciences

https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/09/science/giant-moa-colossal-biosciences
1•lastdong•5m ago•0 comments

Kira (Short AI-Assisted Film on Human Cloning)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx8rMzlG29Q
1•quantisan•9m ago•0 comments

America's fastest-growing suburbs are about to get expensive

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/417892/suburbs-sunbelt-housing-affordability-yimby
3•littlexsparkee•12m ago•0 comments

LLMs are telepathy. We just don't know it yet

https://www.monarchwadia.com/pages/LlmsAreTelepathy.html
1•monarchwadia•14m ago•1 comments

Bitcoin Mining Costs Soar as Hashrate Hits Records: TheMinerMag

https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2025/06/16/bitcoin-mining-costs-soar-as-hashrate-hits-records-theminermag
1•PaulHoule•19m ago•0 comments

The Cost of AI Reliance

https://codebytom.blog/2025/07/09/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-reliance/
1•gpi•19m ago•0 comments

Phishing for Gemini: Google Gemini G-Suite Prompt Injection Vulnerability

https://0din.ai/blog/phishing-for-gemini
1•GenAIbughunter•21m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Keep up with the world without information overload

https://www.a01ai.com/
1•vincentyyy•23m ago•0 comments

Bitwarden MCP server secures AI access to your passwords

https://nerds.xyz/2025/07/bitwarden-mcp-server-secure-ai/
2•thunderbong•23m ago•1 comments

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

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/5206848
1•sandwichsphinx•38m ago•0 comments

We should have more billionaires

https://twitter.com/garrytan/status/1942992514954224025
2•hliyan•39m ago•4 comments

Realbasic (2000)

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/06/12/realbasic/
2•geuis•43m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Built an agent to keep up with research

https://www.usebyline.com/
1•luhemarora•59m ago•0 comments

Brewer Island

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer_Island
1•twalichiewicz•59m ago•0 comments

Big Brother

https://bigbrother.fllics.com/en/
1•fllics•1h 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
37•ahonhn•1h ago•16 comments

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

https://substack.com/home/post/p-168042147
53•exolymph•1h ago•15 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
5•ahonhn•1h 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•2 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
2•adius•2h ago•0 comments

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

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