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Cursing is when you use edgy filler words instead of saying something meaningful.
  • Ugh. There's a book about how to be a better boss, and one of the things it says is that adding a mild curse to otherwise normal speech will convince people you are being sincere. My boss read it.

    "Well, this damn job isn't going to build itself!"

    "Aw shit! Lunch is over! Back to work!"

    It was so awful.

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    How to save data for archive purposes?
  • This is actually a real problem... A lot of digital documents from the 90's and early 2000's are lost forever. Hard drives die over time, and nobody out there has come up with a good way to permanently archive all that stuff.

    I am a crazy person, so I have RAID, Ceph, and JBOD in various and sundry forms. Still, drives die.

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    Photo Solution Suggestions Needed
  • The two things that popped into my head are Immich and Nextcloud. I think Nextcloud is generally more useful, but Immich is more specifically targeted at Photos. As for how to synchronize it... Syncthing? Personally, I hate setting up Syncthing and so I don't really use it myself anymore, but once it's set up, it really does take care of itself. Poke the computer once a month to make sure it's still alive, and you're set.

    You could probably host Nextcloud at one site and just have a client computer at the next site set to auto sync everything.

    Been running NextCloud for a while, not for photos, but for just general Google Drive replacement.

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    What are you running in your home network?
  • Love my Nextcloud. It's my go-to for half a dozen workflows. Screw OneDrive. Screw Office. Screw Spotify. Screw Airdrop. Screw Netflix. Screw Google Photos. Screw Google Calendar... NextCloud.

    I have it on a bit better hardware than a Pi though.

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    anyone who uses Linux on apple silicon or another arm device
  • Ditto, except mine just died one day. I put it away for bed, woke up, flipped it open, Nada. Brick. I felt it was a bit slower than I'd like, but got pretty good battery life.

    Really tempted to try a Musebook, based on Risc-V, because apparently I'm a sucker for punishment.

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    Any “small-web” search engines?
  • Yeah, I did try that. Basically, if I doubled the memory I allocated, I gave it half again longer before it crashed, but it still crashed, eventually.

    It's no big deal, this was last year, I may try again one day. Loving Searxng though!

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    Any “small-web” search engines?
  • I tried running yacy for a while but it just ran for a bit less than a day then ran out of memory and crashed, over and over. Tried to figure out the problem, but it's niche enough that I couldn't get anywhere googling the issue.

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    How do you sit through an airplane flight without excruciating pain?
  • Mid Forties... 20 hour flight. Agony. No sleeping, got up a bunch of times, didn't stop joint pain, back pain... Ugh. Some people can't sit still for that long without issues.

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    Niche Distro Users: Why?
  • I shouldn't talk because I dip in and out, but I do that because I like the possibilities. Like, what if someone comes up with a concept, but no one tries it, and it turns out to really work? Like, I like immutability as a concept, so I've tried Silverblue, Kinoite, and Bazzite. If nobody gave it a go, then the concept would die on the vine.

    Also, I like seeing different ways of thinking about technology.

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  • My local library has a tech mentors program where you teach people how to work computers. I do it once every two weeks. It makes me feel like a rock star every time I go. If you're on Lemmy, you're qualified.

    Changed everything for me!

    Also looks good on a resume.

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    Dynamic IP - Self hosting
  • I have dyndns, have since they were 10$ a year, and I've gradually realized that my ISP changes my IP on average less than once a year...

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