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Yay for the fiddler - but have a rock-solid fallback

2 replies · 1,552 views · Started 01 July 2010

With my tongue slightly in cheek and with the news that sheds(!) are now firmly back in fashion, I wanted to mention a growing trend in the tech world - that of fiddling, customising and tweaking. Of devices, of their firmware and of their software. It's all huge fun, of course, but if you want to keep your life on track and blood pressure down then I'd suggest having a second, fallback device, also synced to everything you know and love...

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It's also very handy to be one step back off the bleeding edge 😊

The Debian Linux distribution has "unstable" and "testing" repositories for exactly that reason, and they both come with "if they trash your server, don't come grumbling to us" warnings attached.

Your suggestion to use hx4 instead of hx6-speed is another case in point.

I make it a point of sanity to never buy generation 1, unless it's been proven for a year.

And then I make it a point of fun to fiddle.

My take.

The bottom line is you have to know what you're doing first, as well as keep backups.