{"id":35414,"date":"2023-09-30T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T20:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=35414"},"modified":"2023-09-30T16:20:30","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T20:20:30","slug":"oh-yeah-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2023\/09\/oh-yeah-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, yeah, September"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rather abruptly I realized, just a short while ago, that it was the last day of September and thus time for the end-of-month abstract. Only thing was, I didn’t have anything in mind, much less prepared, and couldn’t do a lot to remedy this situation, because the computer has once again gone spacey and I’m in the process of unspaceying it. So we’re going with this grab shot from, I dunno, two weeks ago? Probably less, but whatever. It’s not autumn here at all, but the heatwave and drought caused this American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua<\/em>) to get colorful early. I probably should have cropped in very tight on some aspect that looked more abstract, but I’m not going to.<\/p>\n

It is also International Podcast Day (no, really,) and I had intended to put one together, but again, not happening. Maybe in a couple of days. I know I’ve done absolutely none for this year, but I also haven’t had a decent topic and haven’t formulated a formula, or regular topics or anything of that nature.<\/p>\n

Right now, I’m grumbling because a)<\/em> I just reformatted the computer system not all that long ago, b)<\/em> I had system backups that simply could not be restored because the system was completely down, and as I discovered, they have a specific format that cannot be accessed from an outside source, c)<\/em> what I thought<\/em> was the issue before, was not, and d)<\/em> I have countless programs with specific formats and profiles that have now all got to be reproduced from scratch. This includes the thumbnail program, so even going through photos (which are heavily<\/em> backed up, and not through someone’s idea of a backup program either, but under complete manual control,) is frustrating because the damn program doesn’t follow the specific commands that I’d created and gotten used to.<\/p>\n

I have not been able to track down the culprit at this point and might not ever, but there are indications that it’s related to either Linux Mint 21.2, or recent upgrades to the Mesa packages, so I’d recommend avoiding both at least until later versions. I’m not the least impressed with Timeshift either, which was supposed<\/em> to be maintaining system backups to prevent what I’ve been doing for the past three days and turned out to be worthless, even though I could access the backup files from an external disk reader. I could go on, but suffice to say it may be quiet for a few days. Tomorrow’s Tripod Holes, however, is in the bag, written a week before and thus already scheduled in WordPress. And I have a handful of recent photos, some of which may peek in here and there when I get tired of reformatting shit. We’ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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