Hmm, I have no idea to be honest! I just back up to an external drive. It does look like you can rsync to anything you have SSH access to, but I’ve never tried it personally.

Yeah same here, my current uptime is 3.5 hours lol

I’m interested in the rsync part for backups, do you have a good guide or video for that? Thanks

I don’t really have a guide or anything for it to hand, but essentially what that alias is doing is:

• rsync = running rsync
• --ignore-existing = as you might have guessed, this tells rsync not to copy a file if it already exists at the destination.
• -rav = additional arguments. r = recursive, IE also copy subfolders. a = archive mode, preserves things like symlinks etc. and v = verbose, just tells you extra info about what’s going on.

So with that alias, I can just type rs [target folder] [destination folder] and it’ll copy it across exactly as it is, ignore anything that’s already there and tell me precisely what it’s doing.

I do mine in Obsidian, I just have a folder for ‘computer notes’ and whenever I figure out a new thing I drop it in there.

Some stuff I use often I set up as an alias too. So for example I have alias yt='yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4"' for my most commonly used yt-dlp settings, so now I can just do yt [URL of video] to quickly download something from YouTube. Or alias rs="sudo rsync --ignore-existing -rav" for my rsync settings for a specific backup folder I copy a lot.

It does sort of solve the ‘blank page problem’ though IMO. It sometimes takes me ages to start something like a boring insurance letter because I open up LibreOffice and the blank page just makes me want to give up. If I have AI just fart out a letter and then I start to edit it, I’m already mid-project so it actually does save me some time in that way.

Yeah that’s how I use it, essentially as an office intern. I get it to write cover letters and all the other mindless piddly crap I don’t want to do so I can free up some time to do creative things or read a book or whatever. I think it has some legit utility in that regard.

And I mean he was also sentenced for 34 different felonies 4 days ago and it amounted to the judge just saying “off you go, you rascal” and sending him on his way scott-free. Why would another conviction be any different?

My main issue with the first game was that I felt like it didn’t respect my time. There were some missions where the game would send you miles away to get something or find a person, only for you to arrive there and have an NPC go “Nah it’s not here” and send you miles in the other direction and do the same thing, and sometimes arbitrarily dump like 6 bandits on you along the way that you had no hope of defeating, so you’d die and go all the way back to square one again. I had to bail on eventually because of that.

Hypothetical alternate reality: Bernie Sanders has won the presidency but hasn’t taken office yet, George W. Bush has just died and there’s just been a massive fire in Texas.

Sanders refuses to fly the flag at half mast for his inauguration, someone from his not-yet-in-power cabinet has told Texas it can fuck off for aid unless it becomes socialist, there’s a publicly published plan for an ultra-left-wing takeover of the country that he swore he’d never heard of until the day after he won the election when he suddenly went “Oh yeah we are doing that lol” and also Bill Gates is living in his house, has a cabinet position and is openly provoking friendly countries with overthrowing their governments.

How chill do we think the MAGA crowd would be in this scenario?

It stopped working for me recently. It’ll play the first 5 seconds or so of the video and then just freeze up.

Yeah I would classify it as sort of like if they released a new version of Windows where they removed all the bloat, made it not look hideous, and fixed every annoying decision they’d made over the last 30+ years in all aspects of everything across the entire OS lol. So basically if they removed literally everything that made it identifiable as Windows and replaced it with something not shit.

Yeah I literally just close the tab. Same if anything comes up with a paywall or login or weird capcha thing. Just like “ah fuck this” and move on lol.

IIRC Julian Assange had something like that set up. There used to be a file you could download from WikiLeaks that was encrypted and supposedly contained something very spicy, and if anything happened to him the password would be released somehow.

No idea if that’s still a thing or not though.

That’s what I was thinking too lol. Maybe he can syphon off some of the people who are looking for something even scummier than Reform to vote for.

Him stepping aside after the debate really was the smartest thing he could have done IMO, for him personally I mean.

That way, if Harris had won he could take credit for selflessly stepping aside and putting country first. And now that she lost he can just say “well I might have won, but you all forced me to quit” and there’s no way to prove it definitively either way.

Personally I think Trump won the moment that assassin clipped him and he stood up doing the fist pump in front of the flag. That photo was pure 80s movie cheese and people eat that shit up.

I’d love it to go to court and backfire so that it becomes illegal to trash talk your opponent. It’d kind of fuck up all political discourse but it would super fuck the Tories since that’s all they do.

Imagine how good Keir Starmer’s lawyer must be lol.

My theory: since all the big tech companies seem to be making “donations” and bending over backwards to do favours for Trump before he’s even in power, I suspect it’s going to eventually come out that he’s been selling exemptions to tariffs for companies who bend the knee.

Those companies will then only raise their prices by 50% instead of the 65% their competitors will have to do, and they’ll try to play it off as altruism.

Yeah now that MAGA is fully in charge and getting more popular, I feel like we’re about to really see which companies are full of shit with their pride marketing and which ones actually stick to their principles.

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