Drupal claims that updating sites from D8 to D9 is easy. That is true if you have no additional modules installed. But in the real world, it is really difficult. I have done 4 sites now, and all were somewhat different, alas. The issue is updating the modules, or removing those that cannot be updated to D9. Here is my procedure.

Make sure your D8 site is fully updated

Update everything to the latest Drupal8 (currently 8.9.6) version.

For many years now, I have been ripping my CDs to my computer and playing them using my Logitech Squeezebox Server (on my Linux computer) and listening to them via my Logitech Transporter players. However, time marches on, and now high-resolution audio is available on the internet via services such as Qobuz, Tidal, Spotify, etc. I highly recommend Qobuz, which offers audio streams up to 24-bit/192 kHz resolution. 

My neighbor, Dr Elaine Bunick is an Endocrinologist and Internal Medicine specialist, and she has been checking out all the facts about Covid 19. She gave me permission to post her recent talks.

Now that many of us are working from home, we are being bombarded with ads and offers to be safe, and use a VPN. This is a scare tactic. VPNs are totally redundant for MOST purposes.

What is a VPN?

A  Virtual private network (VPN) is a secure tunnel that encrypts traffic between its endpoints. If traffic is already encrypted between your computer and a destination, a VPN is totally redundant.

I have a bad back  and neck, and a good massage chair (MC) is a necessity. But they do not come cheap! I currently own two of the top-of-the-line Japanese MCs, and here is my thorough review of both of them.

As part of their "service," MyIDCare monitors your compromised passwords on the internet. But this is totally useless!

But, almost all of my 1000 different accounts use my e-mail address for my user ID, and this report does not identify the site in question, so there is nothing I can do about this!

If you were compromised by Equifax, take the $125 (+ $25.hour spent) rather than credit monitoring.

Introduction

The Evelo Aurora is the second electronic bike I have tried. (See my review of the Vanmoof S2.) Unlike the Vanmoof S2, the Evelo Aurora looks like an e-bike:

The Vanmoof Electrified S2 bike is from Holland, with a USA store in Brooklyn.

It is a very handsome bicycle:

Drupal 8 has integrated  other projects and modules into the Drupal Core. For example: Views, Symfony, and JQuery. Asz a result, whenever any of the included projects have an architecture change, or security issue, the Drupal Core must be updated, and there is not an automatic way of doing this. As a result, there have been a half-dozen Core updates in the past month, and it wastes 2–3 hours of my time whenever I must update my 6 sites. And this is if there are no bugs in the provided update, and all goes smoothly.

I have run out of room for CDs and records. All available wall space is taken, and cabinets can cost more than the music media. Hence, all of my music has now been transferred to my computer systems. I have about 120,000 tracks now, which take about 2 TB of storage. All newer tracks are in lossless Flac or M4a, and many are in high-resolution (24 bits up to 96 kHz). To be safe, I have FIVE copies of everything on different disks and different machines. (I have actually managed to lose three backups once...). I also have one copy in my vault.