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Troubleshooting a Discourse Update on DigitalOcean: Resolving Unresolvable Errors

For the past three years, I've maintained a Discourse server on a DigitalOcean Droplet. Recently, I decided to update it with some of the latest Discourse features. What I anticipated to be a straightforward update process turned into several days of frustrating setbacks. The version of Discourse I was running was already three years old, so I assumed that running the built-in "Update" feature would suffice. However, after clicking the update button, the progress bar sluggishly crawled forward over the next half hour, only to display the dreaded message: "Error – Update Failed." The logs provided little to no help, but based on my experience with other software updates via GIT, I suspected that the failure might be due to the repository head still being called "Master." In recent years, there has been a shift away from using "Master" as the repository head, with "Main" becoming the preferred term. Despite trying several methods

A 50 Year Battery means no more lugging that brick around.

That's right, imagine buying your new cell phone and you never have to charge it, yet it never runs out of power.  That might not be so far fetched any more, not if a Chinese technology called BetaVolt delivers on it's promises - and by all accounts that looks to be the case. It can be as small as a coin and multiple batteries can be combined to output higher wattages.  This has the potential to be a game changers in the battery universe.