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cimoreneI finally got around to reinstalling Linux Mint on my laptop last week so that I could back up the last two years of photos. Going through the photos of 2024-2025 was wild. Wax and I have both been in such a fog of depression that we sometimes barely remembered the things in them, and it all feels vague and like a long time ago. Haha, great.
Anyway, the process of updating my laptop didn't go as planned.
First Tristana threw the external on the floor while it was in the act of copying, thus more-or-less bricking it (a computer repair store MIGHT be able to recover the data). It's possible that there wasn't very much on it that we don't have elsewhere, but I'm not quite sure without taking apart both desktops to access my hds from Wax's to check.
And then signing into Firefox went wrong and it failed to sync my bookmarks, even though they're all there still in the mobile version. The backup of my ff profile that contained the bookmarks was on the external but had not copied before The Incident. So I need to try removing and reinstalling the browser before I have to give up and move them manually, because apparently even though sync refusing to work is a not-uncommon issue, going by the support threads everywhere, they actually removed the "export bookmarks" button! At least that explains why I couldn't find it. But, like... why?! That button cost nothing! So the 'workaround' when the only working copy of them is on mobile is to open the bookmarks and fucking individually select every one and then "share" them, which makes them a text list, and then you can manually add the html to the list in order to make a file the other copy of the browser can read. ðŸ«
Needless to say, I did consider switching browsers, but that feels like too many more steps to tackle at the moment.
Anyway, the process of updating my laptop didn't go as planned.
First Tristana threw the external on the floor while it was in the act of copying, thus more-or-less bricking it (a computer repair store MIGHT be able to recover the data). It's possible that there wasn't very much on it that we don't have elsewhere, but I'm not quite sure without taking apart both desktops to access my hds from Wax's to check.
And then signing into Firefox went wrong and it failed to sync my bookmarks, even though they're all there still in the mobile version. The backup of my ff profile that contained the bookmarks was on the external but had not copied before The Incident. So I need to try removing and reinstalling the browser before I have to give up and move them manually, because apparently even though sync refusing to work is a not-uncommon issue, going by the support threads everywhere, they actually removed the "export bookmarks" button! At least that explains why I couldn't find it. But, like... why?! That button cost nothing! So the 'workaround' when the only working copy of them is on mobile is to open the bookmarks and fucking individually select every one and then "share" them, which makes them a text list, and then you can manually add the html to the list in order to make a file the other copy of the browser can read. ðŸ«
Needless to say, I did consider switching browsers, but that feels like too many more steps to tackle at the moment.
