A month and a half ago I experienced a meltdown of my primary computer; a local computer repair shop could not repair it, and were a bit slow in informing me. A week or so ago I placed an order for a new computer equipped with the latest Fedora release of Linux, because at this age I want to skip the mucking about with Windows anything and the mucking about with installing Fedora. I asked them to salvage the hard drives and graphics card; on their own, they tried to access the SDD and, where the first shop failed, they succeeded. As the SDD was all over the place at the first shop, both the shop and I think they just got a bit lucky; they grasped the luck bull by both horns and pulled backups of /home.
After one false start, it appears their work has been successful. Vivaldi’s being stubborn about my home page, and I’m not near to finishing installing the backup, but at last I’m not slowed down by the work computer I’ve had to substitute.
What does this mean for you? Nothing? Not quite. I have access to my cache of pictures, which are mostly of our backyard. They’ll be inserted into random posts again. If I’m still happy in a few days, I’ll mention the name of the place. They’re new and need the business traffic, I’m sure.
And I’ll be less cranky now.
