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Cake day: August 8th, 2023

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  • My last ever Nokia phone, a half way house between old Nokias and smartphones circa 2008.

    No touch screen, but could play music, videos, had a calendar etc.

    Absolute piece of garbage. Got super hot at times doing who-knows what, and had a software bug where the audio would completely stop working until you rebooted it… which meant that multiple times my morning alarm went off completely silently and I was late for work.

    Bought an iPhone 3GS as soon as my 1 year contract was up, Nokia were never relevant again after that era.


  • Definitely perfectly comfortable on Mint for day to day use… but would still struggle for anything that hasn’t got a GUI. Obviously can copy and paste commands but would like to be better than that.

    This is installed on my old computer and I upgraded to a M1 Mac as my main one, so this is more a hobby project and learning experience than a daily driver.

    Have had a lot of issues with previous installs from other distros failing, I think due to this Mac’s 2012 Intel/Nvidia hybrid graphics.






  • Thanks!

    I’ve nuked and started again with Linux so many times at this point.

    Did the usual ill-advised distro hopping instead of just using Mint, to see if the grass was greener… and it wasn’t.

    So many distros couldn’t even load the live USB and locked up with a black screen.

    Others would install… but then wouldn’t boot.

    Others ran for various amounts of time before failing after an update.

    At least now I’ve done what I should have done at the start and figured out Timeshift. If anything goes wrong again I’ll make sure I take the time to see if I can understand why, to learn from it.