2Q26

2Q26 Dang. Still lagging on getting things written. So here's a flurry of updates that I cranked out in one sitting. It got a little long, so some sections got split out to post separately, and those will get posted as I finish editing them and get the images ready. Housekeeping Skip if you don't care about computers! The little Chromebook I was writing this blog on was giving me update errors. Turns out these units are hardcoded to EOL on a given date. This is based on the hardware, not when you bought it or which software is installed. All of these Dell 1130s stopped updating on the same day and effectively turned into e-waste. My desktop running Pop! OS has been pretty dang good, so I just copied the blog, including the Zola executable, over. And it works here too. Nothing to install. Nice. Meanwhile, what to do with the Chromebook? It's actually two Chromebooks, because the first one I received had a dead speaker jack, and the seller just sent me a new one and didn't want the bad…