yay unreleased distros! at least I'm back to nouveau

also the dns problem is no more with the upgrade

...oh wait

badp@Delta:~$ cat /etc/resolv.conf
# Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8)
#     DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE BY HAND -- YOUR CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN
nameserver 8.8.8.8

lol. My changes will be overwritten... someday... in six months... when I'll have forgotten about this.

but it's okay because now dig @127.0.1.1 actually works.

so I'm just one Unity away from a working system! Hooray.

If I had a few million rep for every question I nearly asked, I'd have at least a few million rep.

Sometimes taking the time to put your question into words allows you to think of it in a different way - I've often finished writing a question on Stack Overflow only to suddenly be struck with the solution before clicking "submit".

@NathanOsman Yeah, most of my question-writing on SO ends in me realising I've made a huge mistake or I figure out the problem.

Usually comes when I'm para-quoting my code for public consumption. My comments would probably get me banned.

People say that swearing is lazy and unimaginative but if they saw some of my longer blockcomment rants about other people's programming mid-code, they'd see I've got plenty of imagination.

(Provided that the question isn't too localized or something.)