# Upgrading to Ubuntu 26.04 (Python 3.14) Made Robot Lyrical-Dave's Life Messy

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**Tags:** lyrical, ubuntu26, python3\_14\
**Created:** [May 31, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/upgrading-to-ubuntu-26-04-python-3-14-made-robot-lyrical-daves-life-messy/55186 "2026-05-31T13:54:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 31, 2026, 1:54pm UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/upgrading-to-ubuntu-26-04-python-3-14-made-robot-lyrical-daves-life-messy/55186/1 "2026-05-31T13:54:03Z")

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Upgrading my ROS 2 GoPiGo3 robot Kilted-Dave to Ubuntu 26.04 exposed some familiar hurdles and a subtle new change in Python 3.14 that made the life of my registered digital entity as “Lyrical-Dave” messy.

My robots Carl, WaLI, and Dave are all embodiments of a mystical digital entity “tt” which I registered in 2014.

The story of the birth of “tt”, the lives of the digital entity, and how Ubuntu 26.04 with its new Python 3.14 interpreter made my ROS 2 GoPiGo3 robot Lyrical-Dave’s life very messy is a bit of a long read as it covers 12 years of digital object lives. [(The “messy” part is at the bottom of the page.)](https://github.com/slowrunner/slowrunner.github.io/blob/main/pages/Life_and_Lives_Of_My_Digital_Entity.md#when-digital-life-gets-messy)

[Life\_and\_Lives\_Of\_My\_Digital\_Entity](https://github.com/slowrunner/slowrunner.github.io/blob/main/pages/Life_and_Lives_Of_My_Digital_Entity.md)

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