If you want to perform a custom Linux installation, such as would be needed for SNG7, on a Linode, there is a very good guide that one can follow to help you through the process.

However, if you try to follow the second phase of that document in order to make the Linode compatible with the Linode Manager, you may get unlucky as I did and stare at a black screen with a grub2> prompt after trying to boot it, after completing steps "Configure Group" and "Transfer your Root Filesystem to your Ext4 Disk".

The solution for me was to NOT follow step "Transfer your Root Filesystem to your Ext4 Disk", but instead do the following:

Make/Model: MINI Cooper John Cooper Works 2018
Colour: Thunder Grey Metallic with red roof
New?: New
Engine: 2.0l Turbocharged
Power/Torque: 170kW (228 BHP) / 350Nm (258 ft/lb)
Average Fuel Consumption: 5 - 7.5 l/100 km (Highway - City)
Performance: 0-100km/h in 6.3s, 246 km/h top speed
Transmission: 6 speed manual
Owned: April 2018 - Sep 2020

Notes:
Update: 20 Sep 2020 I returned my MINI JCW Monday last week, in favour of a new BMW M235i. That concludes the two and a half years I have spent with the last of three MINIs I have owned in succession. How was the experience? Ignoring the other crap, the car was probably one of the most practical cars I have ever owned.

It has good acceleration - not truly quick, but quick enough to make you smirk. It has a huge boot (or trunk for you North Americans), enough to fit about three computers, a chess table and lots of other stuff at once. It is extremely light on fuel - though that being said, they nerfed the tank size so the effective range has been decreased.

Sometimes when I wander the streets in search of beauty, I come across man's efforts to improve our function, our world. But looking at our attempts I wonder whether we are not doing more harm than good.

Compare that to a scene just 200m away... Surely we can do more to improve the visual impact our urban areas have?

I recently purchased a brand new 15" MacBook Pro 2017 with TouchBar fully maxed out. It has the latest software patches.

This is the third time in a month that I am greeted by this display when I open the lid after not being used for a couple of days, connected to the USB Type C charger:

At a recent lunch at the International Buddhist Temple in Richmond, I was presented with a menu I presume to be in Mandarin.

Clearly I cannot read Mandarin, so I decided to use Google Translate on my phone to translate the menu in real time: