Yeah, it's a good way to do it. I still rather use external. That way if anything corrupts my internal drives or my GPU plug lights on fire (like the horror stories I've been hearing about some of the newer GPUs) then at least my personal files are saved and completely separate.
As a bonus, I have it in a fireproof safe. Hopefully its insulated enough where it won't heat the drive up too much if I ever had a fire in my apartment.
I'm poor as all hell. Like I said, my adult teeth have always been fragile. My mother was mid-class and worked a lot of OT at the local mill. I think the dentist smooshed her into getting a gold one. I vaguely remember him saying that it was the overall longest lasting, since I was so young and I'd need it all my life. I guess in his defense I'm mid 30's now and never had a problem with it, so he could be right?
My left front tooth (the one between my actual front tooth and canine) is actually a cap that I can't even afford to get finished. It's been on for two years now. Basically covid hit and the dental office I was in went under. Then there was a 100-person waitlist to find ANY dentist in my area and I'm still waiting... Not to mention I've been laid off...
So yeah, I'm just as broke as most of my generation, lol.
Lol yeah, something like the colossus titan, but put a large underbite on him. Wish I could see what my actual physical skull looks like. I have a gold tooth in the back, too. Would be a gnarly skull.
I know this is days later, but having your personal, irreplaceable files backed up to external is just going to be a great practice to keep anyway. If your OS is your home, your external is your homeowner's insurance. Periodically update your backups. Timeshift is a great restore tool, but you should not rely solely on it.
I love it as a terminal to use to run background processes when I need them. For example, I use it for lowfi, a CLI app that plays lo-fi in your terminal. I can get into Kitty just as fast with Rofi.
Alt-Space, "kit", and enter. Boom. Its up in the same amount of time it would have taken me to move my hand to F12. Then I do my updates, grabbing packages, running my file manager, etc.
A long time ago, around 15-16. I was frequenting the dentist and they said it would be no problem.
I actually had to have my molars removed. Soft teeth in the family and bad childhood antibiotics have made my teeth very fragile. The dentist said my wisdom might move to my molars and they did.
Now both my bottom molars are actually my wisdom teeth. Another cool thing, because my adult teeth have been fragile all my life, their roots have grown up to my cheekbones to compensate. My x-rays are wild. I have the longest roots my dentist has ever seen.
Edit: Also not so cool. I had a root canal and it took 4 hours.
I lucked out. I never had to have my wisdom teeth removed. I had enough room for them.
I love Yakuake. If you head to the Yakuake settings, head to the Appearance tab and click Select New Skins, the Tabs Only skin would match your aesthetics perfectly. Its my favorite one. It does remove your settings button, but you can get back in with Ctrl-Shift-Comma if you decide you don't like it.
I use a Debrid service and still go out of my way to get the torrent and seed 3-4x. The only reason I don't use the torrents directly is that Stremio is just quick and easy on the TV for now. Once I get a pi setup on my TV, I'll be torrenting and watching via that while I seed.
Debrid is easy and convenient. That's it. However, I'm not a fan of Debrid, nor am I a fan of private tracker sites. Making something a paid service or a closed group invite only is, by definition, the complete opposite of what piracy is supposed to stand for. Leave that shit to capitalism, imo.
Basically, private and paid anything is for the birds, man. I'm still out here torrenting on public like a real buccaneer. Do I pay for a VPN? Yes. Its a necessity, especially if I want to open a port and make sure every peer can get to me. Other than that, I don't want to pay for shit. The only payment I condone is seeding.
I have insomnia. I sleep 4 hours at a time most days. Every tiny noise wakes me. Every bump my apartment neighbors make gives me heart palpitations. I can't even sleep with my partner's light snoring some nights. I can't keep a normal sleep schedule. I know what I'm talking about.
There are nights and days I can't sleep at all. The anxiety then builds and I can't sleep because now I'm way too past tired to be tired. Everything trembles in my vision and I see weird diagonal static everywhere I look. Light becomes too much for me to even bear and the migraines become intense.
And you know? I don't take it out on my partner. I worked with my doctor to fix it. Was the answer prescription drugs? Yes. It had to be. Nothing else would work. Dyphenhydramine sets off my RLS and SSRIs set off RLS in my arms for some reason.
I wouldn't have fucking weighed in if I didn't know what I was talking about. Step off with your assumption crap.
Edit: I'll keep the original message, but after reading it I realized I got way too heated and I want to apologize. As someone with severe anxiety, ADHD, and insomnia I just felt slighted. You didn't realize that I could have insomnia. I'm sorry for lashing out at you.
I just know the hell of insomnia all too well. I go down rabbit holes of anxiety and feel the pain of material existence on a daily basis. In order to sleep, I need to armor up, grab a sword, and prepare to fight a goddamn dragon some days, but I'll be damned if I let it control my life and my relationship.
Sigma... ligma...
...but no sugma yet.
My gf still uses the toilet paper roll/dryer sheet trick. The whole apartment smokes, but she likes to be discreet and respectful. She used to also burn incense, but I think the massive amount of incense she's burned during our time together has made me allergic. Every time I'm near one my throat gets narrow, my eyes water, and I can't stop coughing.
About a week ago I forgot my pipe so I took my brother-in-law's knife, dented a beer can, and stuck holes in it. Gen Z can hit that pen all they want, but I'll be the one still getting high when the apocalypse hits. These are not tricks. These are key survival tactics.