Might have missed the mechanic to grab the car. Fingers crossed he left it outside ๐ค๐พ
Edit: nvm it's waiting for me!!!!
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Just don't grab the corrola.
Instructions unclear. Grabbed a ~~koala~~ drop bear.
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Went to The Glen, came out with a bag full of soju and snacks after eating skewers and onigiri while there. Mmmhmm!
What flavours of soju?
Ps. There's a yogurt one that tastes like yakult
I've currently got lychee, apple, passionfruit, peach, original, guava in the fridge. I want to try honeydew melon but haven't found it yet. Haven't tried any of the yoghurt flavoured ones, but did once try a choc mint one which was very, very confusing for my mouth. What's your fav? I had a strawberry one last weekend, wish I'd nabbed another of that! Boyo is currently in love with jelly sake, so we got some peach, apple and plum cans of that!
They're all my favourite. Strawberry is good. Peach and plum probably my least favourites. I need to try passionfruit now.
Life lesson for today. When you buy a remnant of corduroy to make something, please please please zigzag the edges BEFORE pre-washing it. I am now going to have to run a cleaning cycle on my washing machine which I did not plan to do today. The lint was abominable.
Got flowers todayโฆ Nothing like feeling you are seen. ๐ค
Also, they are massiveโฆ Like I had to dig out my 50+ cm vase for them.
Feel absolutely blessed. A millions miles from how Iโve felt the last couple of days.
Those look absolutely amazing, where are they from as I'd like to order something similar for my partner?
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Lovely!
Thanks, CEO! ๐ค
Movie Review. Moon with Sam Rockwell. Pretty harrowing . I love how these guys are still so very human. Will watch again, I expect it's one of those movies that you think about.
3.5 hobbits
TV Review. Benidorm. Amazon.
I just couldn't watch it so I watched every first episode and the last. Too histrionic for me but I can see how this series is made with love and respect for those who like the all inclusive holiday camp holidays.
2 hobbits tho it must have appealed to many as it had 10 series made.
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Watermelon salad and some grilled bacon and hardboiled eggs please Bacon
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Coronation chicken sandwich please chef! Think I've asked for this before but have mad cravings for one.
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I regret nothing...
Yeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaa.
I'm old now ๐
Edit: perfect time to listen to Grace by Jeff Buckley over breakfast โค๏ธ
Happy birthday ๐ here's to a year of contentment
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I feel like I should save and back up any pictures or music I want to keep onto a hard drive and maybe even have a few versions.
Annoyed that I havenโt done so already because itโs a complete no brainer but life has basically been survival mode for a very long time and any kind of organisation has fallen by the wayside. Even now it seems like a mammoth task.
Physical media just seems like a sensible way to go. I envy the people who are organised and disciplined enough to โgo cavemanโ, and also the people who can wrangle Linux.
While going through saving old pictures to my computer I found some of my old art. Doxable so I wonโt post it.
But how the hell is it better and more prolific than my art now? To be fair it was basically just copying pictures I liked but thereโs some original stuff in there. And back then I didnโt have access to any of the resources I do now, no education on fundamentals other than some completely forgotten lessons as a kid, nothing. I didnโt know to do frames or shapes. I just did the contour lines and paid close attention to the space between them. The hands are a bit wonky but I drew hands wtf.
I guess itโs just elbow grease. Which Iโm currently so very short on ๐ฎโ๐จ
Hands are super super hard so wow. I can only dream of spending the time to do that.
Your art is yours and so your creation. It's not a competition and so love your pieces. Bet yours are better than mine!
Also on the local storage, buy a NAS and drives. Will cost you some monies but has many other use cases. I can help you here, I love mine and all the other stuff it can do.
Also, Google cloud storage if your on android is cheap if you want stuff backed up that isn't local (I'm very pro local and have about 70TB now).
Yeah I was surprised I even dared to go for it. I guess I hadnโt heard people saying it was hard so I wasnโt scared to try, and if it wasnโt good it was a skill issue so just try harder.
Thanks, I could use any tips. Iโm still getting into the habit of backups and probably donโt know how to use a NAS.
Iโve got Google drive but my stuff is split over a few email addys and also I kinda donโt trust it not to fail :/
Iโve lost so much to crashes, been really slack. Sounds dumb because I managed to teach myself some stuff thatโs more advanced and took a short course on computer repair trying to get up to speed. But due to a weird long term laziness Iโm just not familiar or comfortable with the backup and restore processes which should be 101.
Hands again, omg, it's easy to draw shitty hands but even half decent ones I cannot do and I love drawing and have a dedicated art room and station... So well done โค๏ธ
NAS's are really simple these days, they're pretty much plug and play. I use QNAP but I know Synology are suited better to my personal use case. All my stuff on my QNAP is 1 click install, e.g. Plex. Everything is so easy, including personal media back ups.
If you're doing just data storage and media stuff an ARM cpu is completely fine with a just a GB of RAM, more is always better. But it's annoying when you're hacking and need to compile for ARM to spin up docker containers. So AMD or Intel x64 is best if you wanna go nuts at hacking at shit. And if not you can always supplement your NAS with NUC or more raspberry pis.
I don't think that'll be an issue for you. Think of them as mini dedicated servers for local backups and media storage and sharing that can be used for a lot more. They are a private local cloud. Again very very easy to use and have mobile apps.
So then it just getting the stuff you want onto those drives however you're comfortable. I prefer automated but it's obviously easier for anyone not in tech to do it manually with a drag and drop, or upload from the app.
RAID options are a choice too and should be read up on. I YOLO (only) 2 of my drives in RAID 0 which is going to trigger some people reading this but with a gigabit connection to Usenet I'd prefer the performance as it can be rebuilt.
The Google drive side, you could consolidate that and backup it to AWS S3 too and put it in cold storage? That's possibly too complex for you unless you like this kinda thing.
Losing things to crashes though is very abnormal. That's symptoms of many things so can you give more details?
Also having a NAS is ftw!... My partner is saying no to the full rack mount haha
Edit1: typos and sentence structure which still sucks. And if you don't understand any acronyms then happy to expand.
Edit2: Be aware this is going to cost you. If $1k bothers you walk away. Happy to price up your setup if you let me know your storage requirements.
Edit3: You can get cheaper solutions but in my experience they're unreliable and less extensible.
lol thatโs all Greek to me but thanks, Iโve made a note to try and figure it out.
Basically it was my own lack of planning and consistency. I was too lazy or distracted to backup consistently, head full of whatever I was busy with, or gave/lent my backed-up-on-cd music collection to someone else I didnโt stay in contact with. Then my computer would get a virus or a component would break and that was it. Or I lost stuff in moves, or a hard drive I kept to try and salvage later got irreparably damaged in storage.
I still have some kept drives I might try to get data off when I figure out how to do it safely. I know there are a few ways of doing data recovery and I have at least once managed to get a computer going again with a bootable Linux usb just long enough to grab the important stuff. Iโve even used it to rescue scan and find viruses that hid from the AV. Another time I manually put the drive in a drive enclosure.
But with some it might still be risky. I know at least one forces you to enter your Microsoft password to log in (at least while in the computer) which I donโt want to do on a compromised device. I havenโt tried to see if the Linux usb can bypass that or if thatโs guarded against. Iโm also not sure if thereโs any โprotectionsโ against accessing data while the drive is out of the machine but I do know that stuff exists with some hard drives so we will see.
Anything I know about computers I had to teach myself, so despite trying to catch up thereโs knowledge gaps and lack of experience with some things.
Idk the old drives arenโt urgent. I think for now Iโll focus on getting anything important and possibly time sensitive downloaded to local and then back it up to the hard drive I have, and the hard drives can wait til I have the brain space to deal with it.
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Happy birthday DT. I know a few people here have a birthday today and it's my boys' birthday too. As far as I'm concerned, November 16th can be like the horses birthday for DT
Happy Birthday, all fellow Scorpios! ๐ ๐๐ฅณ
Happy birthday to the DT and your boy!
Happy birthday to your son :)
I had a brain fart and thought you were joking that the DT was his sonโฆ even checked to see if you were talking to a mod.
I need more sleep
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