tetris11

I think I'm bad at communicating the usual wink I have in my tone when I disagree with people: https://lemmy.ml/post/21428751/14330685

Holds up a triangle and nods

using forks no less

I would genuinely love to see your setup/RC scripts if that's something you can share without doxxing yourself

systems which do not merely operate, but have active agents ("operatives" if you will) that act in murder/plot intrigues in the background to keep the systems running. The less you know the better.

superdeterminism

Is that like supermarionation?

I used to do that too, but then I learned how to gently build enthusiasm and also when to know the signs of when they're losing interest.

turkey, circa 2000

I was talking with a techhead from the 80s about what he did when his tape drives failed and the folly that is keeping data alive on a system that doesn't need to be. His foolproof backup storage is as follows.

1. At Christmas buy a new hard drive. If Moore's law allows, it should be double what you currently have
2. Put your current backup hardrive into a SATA drive slot. Copy over backup into new hard drive.
3. Write with a sharpie the date at which this was done on the harddrive. The new hard drive is your current backup.
4. Place the now old backup into your drawer and forget about it.
5. On New Years Day, load each of the drives into a SATA drive slot and fix any filesystem issues.
6. Put them back into the drawer. Go to step 1.

When I said "No", the tone wasn't "No. You are wrong. Prepare for assimilation.", it was a gentle musical inflection of "nooo, here have a sandwich and let me tell you about the butterflies I love so much."

bah, humbug

My ex liked to sing jingles and quote adverts to me when we went on long road trip somewhere as a joke, and I guess hearing those same jingles/adverts now makes me miss her terribly.

Also this lives rent free in my head:

If you don't want your summer to be lame and icky
Pick up the phone and call me
(I'm Vicky!)