avidamoeba

There's nothing to buy, Linux is already in ECUs on the road. Elektrobit is just developing yet another option.

I thought I'd be the only lucky one here! 🥹

Yeah, this has been used in automotive for a long time.

As someone who's working with Elektrobit and software produced by them, both are hot, steaming garbage. I'm not envying anyone who swallows this bait. Mildly put, Elektrobit underdelivers both on time and quality of their commitments. I hope at least they're cheap but I don't have visibility in that area.

Sadly no. It sounds plausible, which is why I tried it. However there can be unreconcilable package dependencies and all apt can give you is a choice between one broken mess or another.

You might be able to do it if you bypassed apt. Perhaps if you get the list of packages the new OS needs, just download them with apt, then uninstall almost all dpkg packages with purge, then install the new ones.

Lenovo M90n or similar

Stupid 1

Made a 4-disk RAID10, back when 160GB disks were boss and I couldn't afford WD Raptors. Fiddled with some tune2fs options to make it even faster. After a reboot, fsck found some errors. Asked if I want to fix them. I said yes. It asked again for some more errors. I said yes. Eventually I jammed a screwdriver in the keyboard to accept every prompt. After a while of this a grim feeling came over me that fsck might not be doing me a favor. Stopped the machine. Booted into a live CD, mounted the fs, a good number of music and other files were gone. Luckily the corruption wiped mostly larger files like audio and video which were replaceable. I started making backups after that.

Here's what 160GB disks sequential read benchmarks used to look like:

Stupid 2

Around the same time I tried to convert Debian to Ubuntu by replacing the Debian repos in apt with Ubuntu's and following with dist-upgrade.

It depends on whether you like your OS to be boring or not. If you like it boring and the LTS kernel works for you, use it.

I think I found one that has the pins. It's by OWC and I think they've "solved" the fact that it can be dangerous if the wrong thing plugs into it by permanently tethering it to their USB-C cable.

Flutter - nice.

I was surprised to see the default compose file not force the user to specify an external directory for the database.

Can't do it at will when it contains third party proprietary code. They have to reimplement what Insyde wrote for them first.

But otherwise yes.