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![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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.
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.
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Not sure where you are in your process of figuring this stuff out, but StackOverflow is one of my favorite things ever for online troubleshooting. In case you aren't familiar, AskUbuntu (https://askubuntu.com/) is their Ubuntu forum.
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My overall conclusion is that the company is profoundly untrustworthy, so use with caution. Monica talks about a couple of up-and-coming alternatives here.