A great local shoe store experience in Navsari

Initially, I didn’t want to write this post, but then a thought from some deep recesses of my mind came afloat,

Big online marketplaces and big franchises spend a ton of money on promoting themselves while small local businesses can’t, so why not spread the word around when you discover something good locally?

I was wondering around a backstreet in a small south Gujarat town called Navsari when my eyes spotted a lovely looking shoe store.

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How to assign persistent network interface names on Debian

Problem:

You have configured the network in your Debian install via the /etc/network/interfaces file and everything seems to work, except the name of your configured network interface keeps changing after every reboot and that is resulting in the network being down. How do you assign persistent network interface name to fix this issue?

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An alternative method to upgrade to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish)

I recently upgraded my installation of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish). Ubuntu comes with a bundled tool to handle the upgrade process, but I decided to do it a bit differently. This method is a bit more manual compared to the default Ubuntu method but, in my view, it gives more transparency and more control over the upgrade process. Here is how one can upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish),

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