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I wouldn’t recommend a cover when it’s running as that would block air intake, increasing the likelihood of overheating.
An air purifier, though, would be beneficial. Once I get things rearranged in the next few months, I’ll be getting another myself for the computer to handle dust. As it is, I don’t have a good spot for one without risking tripping over the cord.
That reminds me, I need to dust tomorrow. It’s been several weeks since I dusted. I really need to get in the habit of dusting every week :/
Currently working on going through the wiki archive from Teams and I wanted to add a step here in the private thread for updating Ubuntu that may or may not still be necessary as it’s been a few years:
Then we need to change the mirror list since Linode’s mirrors are designed to exclude core packages to prevent you from upgrading:
sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.listHit “i” as that is for insert.
You’ll see Linode’s mirrors with the Ubuntu ones right underneath them with ## in front (I use two to denote the ones we want). Remove the ## from these and add ## in front of the Linode ones that are the line above.
The Ubuntu mirrors are already updated with the correct version name but we’ll need to update the Linode ones with the correct version name after the upgrade.
Type “:q: to close and save the file.
And finishing steps:
Afterwards, the upgrade is done so we’ll need to do some extra steps. First step is to fix Apache as it dies after the PHP version changes:
sudo a2dismod php<old version> sudo a2enmod php<new version> sudo apachectl configtest sudo systemctl restart apache2Finally, we need to fix the mirrors in /etc/apt/sources.list:
Comment the Ubuntu mirrors with ## that are right under Linode’s that have ## and uncomment the ## Linode mirrors, replacing the version name in them with the name from the Ubuntu ones. Ubuntu 20.04 is called focal for example.
Then we need to add back the Longview repository. Edit /etc/apt/sources.d (or something like that) and edit the longview file, updating the version name if necessary and uncommenting the mirror.
Edit:
Blech. It won’t let me make the post. Had it all typed up and hit submit and then it puked, telling me it’s a security problem so I lost all that work. 🙁
Will take a deep dive into it later, I suppose. /sigh
