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Clickbait indeed, I actually clicked because I knew it was wrong.

The true story is that the server started in 1993 as Debian 0.93R5, getting upgrades from time to time, the last one being Jessie to Bullseye.

I expected some bullshit or parody, but here, it is genuinely impressive.

But i386 is the architecture, and until now, none of the upgrades have changed that.

The actual title is not the inspid word soup deposited atop this thread.

Yeah @dang this title is terrible. Maybe "Upgrading from x86 Debian Jessie directly to x64 Bullseye" would be better?

The original title is: chiark’s skip-skip-cross-up-grade

Since that isn't very informative, I tried to simplify the first sentence: Two weeks ago I upgraded chiark from Debian jessie i386 to bullseye amd64, after nearly 30 years running Debian i386. This went really quite well, in fact!

Realizing now the feet is going from i386 to amd64, rather than an old debian version upgrade.

Unfortunately I can't change the title.

Yeah, my big feeling is it's become a philosophical question as to where it's the same server after so many updates/upgrades.