Alright thanks, those are some good suggestions. And don’t get me wrong, the nas does technically work, I can do whole drive images, just not the differential file-level backups. What I really wanted was to be able to restore a single file quickly and easily. That was the dream 🙄

Ok, so I’m going to weigh in here because I have first-hand experience, but keep in mind I am a relative novice at self hosting.

I’ve been using a machine that has evolved over the years from primary gaming PC, to backup server, to Bitcoin rig, to Plex server, etc. Well I finally got tired of complex raid backup solutions and bought a 4 drive Synology nas. I figured I might as well just go with the name brand because I’d probably pay a bit more, but everything would work right away.

Everything did not work right away.

I fought so hard to get incremental backup working… So hard. But it just refuses to copy some files. It actually struggles with filenames! It can’t handle names that have too many characters or use certain characters. (Filenames that Windows and the MacOS have no problem with). So if I want that backup to work, it appears I have to rename hundreds of files on that PC and hope nothing breaks… While their hardware seems fine, I am thoroughly unimpressed with Synology’s software.

A friend of mine had a pretty shitty marriage, which ultimately led to a divorce. When he finally wanted to start dating again he figured he’d try tinder. Used the app to hook up just once, decided to start dating the woman, ended up marrying her, they’re happy to this day. I think they’ve been together 6 years or so, maybe married for 4.

I think he had planned to use it to hook up with a lot of people, but he couldn’t escape his monogamous nature. He wasn’t really gonna sleep with a bunch of women and never speak to them again, I don’t think he could.

Well, if you’re just in it for the points, I’d recommend telling jokes, that’s pretty reliable. But, just an observation here, what I’m seeing in this thread is your having real conversations. Making the kinds of comments that might just as soon get a downvote, not the witty one liners that are guaranteed karma. So I wonder if that’s really why you’re commenting, or if maybe there’s something else you’re getting out of it. Could be worth considering.

Wait, if people are a waste of time, why bother commenting online? If you don’t get anything out of interacting with the people close to you, what are you getting out of interacting with strangers?

Just to be clear, I’m not trying to land a sick burn here, I’m honestly curious.

Yeah, in the 80s they had crack. Not as easy to sell as social media, but it’ll also fuck you up. In the 50s the KKK and their brand of racism was mainstream, that also fucked people up. I guess my point is, yeah, things are different now, but they’re also kinda the same. And the solution is kinda the same too. Garbage in - garbage out; if you want to be a good person, live a good life, don’t consume shit. Don’t consume this terrible content and you won’t let yourself be influenced by terrible content.

Going out into the world is essentially the only way to meet people. Try it, see what happens.

Though, I was talking about ways to disconnect, things to do; how to enjoy life without social media. If you’re only focused on meeting people though, well actually I still recommend clubs and hobbies.

Ok, so you can go out all the time without “going out” all the time. You don’t have to go shopping or to bars or expensive events, there are cheap activities out there. Parks are a good option, go for a walk, take photos of wildlife, go fishing, fly a kite. Or get into biking, or juggling, parkour. Or join a club, book clubs or film clubs are a lot of fun not expensive and you get to meet people and have real conversations. Go to your local library, they can tell you about upcoming free events, it connect you with clubs, or communities. While you’re there, ask the library if they have cheap or free tickets to things like museums or zoos, they often do.

There are a whole lot of ways to disconnect, but one thing is absolutely certain, you’re stuck on social media because you’re using social media. Just stop using it and it can’t trap you or control you. You can stay in touch with people with text messaging and phone calls, it totally still works. Also, a good reason to disconnect is just to distance yourself from “the algorithm”, don’t let some machine tell you what it thinks you should like, figure out what you like for yourself.

My dad used to make bread as Christmas gifts. December 23-24 the kitchen would just be a bread factory. And honestly, his freshly baked loaves were super impressive and they felt like personal gifts, something that someone actually put time and effort into.

Also, I think the holidays were stressful, and the process of making bread brought some zen like calm.

Ok, let’s use that example. So imagine you had a large square of rubber and you drew a coordinate plane on it. Then you drew a line segment between points (1,1) and (3,1). You can stretch the rubber until it’s significantly longer, but your line is always exactly 2 units long, even if the rubber stretches.

The thing is, space is the geometry of the universe, it’s what all the various particles in the universe are bound to. Matter isn’t fixed to any point relative to other matter, it’s fixed to a point in space. So if space bends, matter bends with it.

This is how/why orbits work. Gravity is mass warping spacetime. Fast objects like photons sail right on by most stars with their courses barely changed. But slower moving objects like planets are experiencing this local warping of spacetime for a longer period, so it affects them more over time. The thing to note though, is that the planets, and photons are both following newtons first law, they’re traveling in a straight line unless acted upon by another object. The reason the planet orbits the star is that the star has warped space such that (given speed the planet is traveling) an orbit is a straight line.

Another problem is that the laws of cosmic expansion affects the wire itself. There would be no tugging force between the two bodies. Connecting the two bodies imposes a constraint on them, disrupting the Hubble flow.

This was my first thought on the matter. My understanding at least, is that the expansion of the universe is not really galaxies moving away from each other, but rather the space between the galaxies expanding (stretching). So if a mythril wire ran far across that space between galaxies, one of two things would most likely happen. Either the space would not expand almost like it’s pinned in place by the existence of matter in that region, or the space would continue to expand and the mythril wire would appear to stretch with it, though actually it would be remaining entirely still, either way, the wire would not be unspooling at all.

Ok, I get that. But what’s the water for?

What kind of products are commonly seen exciting the exhaust of an old car?

Well… his recordings are great?

Which time? I mean it’s sort of a time honored tradition…

Which I guess, means that burning the library of Alexandria is in itself an expression of culture.

These bodies are complete shit. Evolution consistently results in biological forms that barely work. That’s what it does, it produces a bare minimum viable product, so that’s what we are.

This jumble of nerves and synapses and hormones and gut bacteria that we call a mind is a huge fucking tangled mess. Truthfully, it’s tragic that we have to live in these bargain bin bodies that break down constantly and often didn’t work right from the start.

I don’t have an uplifting end to this rant.

We’re all in it together?

Bring back Ethernet ports everywhere! Ethernet 4 all!

Seriously dude, I thought we talked about this.

Having typed out long urls by hand, I appreciate the QR code.

That said, they aren’t applicable everywhere, they shouldn’t be used everywhere.

Beets

Bears

Battlestar Galactica?