Adventures in Computer Repair

Sometimes, the solution is not chasing after increasingly bizarre and complicated permutations of rsync. Sometimes the solution is getting a damned USB drive and transferring your Firefox profile manually. This solution appears to have captured only about half of my browser history and preferences, and I'm going to have to manually reset a *lot* of my NoScript whitelist, but it got the session and the bookmarks, which were the relevant things.

I'm very proud of myself, though; after benign_cremator gave up trying to talk me through the rsync permutations and decided he'd just come over tomorrow to see what it was doing, I persevered through Google until I found an alternate solution.

On the bright side, spending a lot of time being talked through use of the command line via text message has given me a much better sense of what it *does*. Also my old laptop, which is superior to my new laptop, is functioning again. (The aforementioned rsync permutations were the tail end of a much more involved process involving several hours of benign_cremator dissecting my laptop and putting it back together again to put in a new keyboard. Don't spill water in your laptop keyboard.) Old laptop can now take its rightful place as my primary computer. Eventually we're going to set up a system of regular backups from this one to the new one so I have redundancy.