Oh, for sure.

I do what I can, which is better than not at all. Some days I put a lot in there, some days I can’t be bothered, and that’s ok. My spreadsheet has helped me find software fixes I’ve seen before, rather than relying on a web search. Plus it’ll have my notes with links to my own tools/folders, etc.

The phone app I find useful for health stuff, since I wont remember the last time a symptom occurred, or something new started - you never know when say a random pain in your thumb will be meaningful info.

Lol - I had to. Learn the same lesson.

Google Maps has been a great help to know when to go to places like the grocery store or gym.

Yea, I’m just not interested any more.

I used to want to understand people better, but it’s always the same old thing - everyone’s got a chip on their shoulder and it’s tiresome dealing with that.

I just wanna hang out and get to know you, but that chip really gets in the way.

Do you hear what you’re saying?

Dad has been supportive of you, and here you are condemning him.

Frankly, who he dates is none of your business. It’s legal, so you got nothing to say about it.

I mean the irony is palpable.

No

Yea, it’s nonsense to say “stone” means worked by human hands.

Here’s what Dictionary.com has to say:

the hard substance, formed of mineral matter, of which rocks consist.

a rock or particular piece or kind of rock, as a boulder or piece of agate.

a piece of rock quarried and worked into a specific size and shape for a particular purpose: building stone.

The etymology of stone indicates same:

stone(n.) “discrete piece of rock,” especially not a large one, Old English stan, which was used of common rocks, precious gems, concretions in the body, memorial stones, from Proto-Germanic *stainaz (source also of Old Norse steinn, Danish steen, Old Saxon sten, Old Frisian sten, Dutch steen, Old High German stein, German Stein, Gothic stains).

Anecdotal: I’ve never once heard anyone, ever, make this distinction. Stone and rock are synonymous.

Right?

Field hockey and LaCrosse balls are all the same, have to meet a spec.

Why not just make a spec stone, sell it, and license it with certification tests?

Yes.

Keep a journal.

I have a single journal for daily events, in excel of all things.

I have a title column, date, related to (Linux, Tailscale, Health, etc) then a Notes column. This way I can filter on the related to column and search it.

I have links to OneNote pages (or just titles), and could easily do the same with Obsidian or anything else. There are years of notes in it now. Anything I’ve fixed is in there, so easy to find again with my own wording (which is how it started, then I realized keeping a separate personal journal made it harder to see things in general, or connections specifically) .

On my phone I use an app called… Memento. It’s like excel, but designed for a simpler UI. Easy for me to create new databases on a whim, or simply add info to one.

I believe many people witg ADHD have a working memory deficit too, so getting new info into long term memory is more crucial for them.

I also agree that handwritten is generally best for journals/notes like this, I just needed it to be searchable.

If it’s worth remembering, it’s worth writing down.

Quote of the day there.

What are you trying to guard against with backups? It sounds like your greatest concern is data loss from hardware failure.

The 3-2-1 approach exists because it addresses the different concerns about data loss: hardware failures, accidental deletion, physical disaster.

That drive in your safe isn’t a good backup - drives fail just as often when offline as online (I believe they fail more often when powered off, but I don’t have data to support that). That safe isn’t waterproof, and it’s fire resistance is designed to protect paper, not hard drives.

If this data is important enough to back up, then it’s worth having an off site copy of your backup. Backblaze is one way, but there are a number of cloud based storages that will work (Hetznet, etc).

As to your Windows/Linux concern, just have a consistent data storage location, treat that location as authoritative, and perform backups from there. For example - I have a server, a NAS, and an always-on external drive as part of my data duplication. The server is authoritative, laptops and phones continuously sync to it via Syncthing or Resilio Sync, and it duplicates to the NAS and external drives on a schedule. I never touch the NAS or external drives. The server also has a cloud backup.

From a cooling standpoint, you probably don’t want go any smaller than a Small Form Factor desktop. These are large enough to have a proper heatsink and fan on the cpu, enough space for a dedicated video card, have the motherboard connections for a card, large enough power supply, and can support a case fan.

Mini desktops have minimal cooling capacity, definitely no case fan.

For example, I run a Dell SFF (OptiPlex 7050) as a server for virtual machines, Jellyfin host, file server, and media converter. It’s an older machine with an 80 watt power supply (barely enough for my use case), no case fan, and the stock cooler/fan is fortunately well designed.

That stock cooler also evacuates the case, but can’t move enough air to keep the large drive I installed at reasonable temps. Adding a case fan (centrifugal, which can handle restrictions) dropped the drive temps by more than 20F.

Without the sizeable cpu cooler and it’s fan, there’s no way to keep the cpu cool when doing anything more than basic desktop functions. A mini pc would quickly overheat, unless it had a good fan.

Hahahaha

Geez, man, read a book. Or even a Wikipedia page

You’re advocating rule by mob over rule of law… You know, like the French Revolution

Surveillance is too tempting, and the idiots of the world keep buying this crap.

Holy shit, that’s insane…1992? Back then setting up a drive meant configuring interleave and some other stuff.

Wow, that says a lot for Bandcamp

There’s and endless supply of guides for ripping.

On Windows just use Exact Audio Copy - It can pull all the track info from multiple sources. I forget what I used on Linux.

Right.

So someone riding around drunk on a barbie car with a suspended license, on the street is an ok thing.

🤦🏼

No, they aren’t arresting the 5 year Olds, and they explained it.

Typically when you find someone with a suspended license driving something like this barbie car, it’s a way they think they can get around the law.

This guy, to his credit, took it in stride.

Marketing.

Go back to the Apple/PC ads in the 90’s,where the Apple guy was hip, and the PC guy was an old fuddy-duddy in a brown suit.

Apple has always traded on the slickness of their products. They often claim to be the “first” at something, when they really just developed the first seriously marketable version.

iPhone wasn’t the first smartphone by years. Just the first one that was slick enough for consumers to bite on, when a year before it was geeky to have such a device.