My scheme might come useful to somebody.

On the home server, there is a 2 Tb solid state drive and a 2 Tb spinning drive. Stuff goes on the SSD, it’s a regular ext4 volume mounted at /work. The spinning drive is configured to spin down after 10 min when not in use.

Once a week a script mounts the spinny one, runs an rsync from SSD to it, then unmounts. Thus the spinny one only runs about 20 min per week: it’s going to last forever. If the SSD borks it’s easily replaced and repopulated.

Thumb-key by Lemmy’s own dessalines. I even contributed a layout early on, and it’s still there.

Thanks for this 😊 It certainly wasn’t easy to let the muse go, here’s hoping you will manage it smoothly - or better, find a way to keep the flame going ❣️

Music. I played piano since very young, started making tracks on 4-track and the Amiga around 10 years old, kept going deeper with the demoscene and playing in + recording bands. Went on to do a music degree, got a job making music…

Hobby became serious, then it turned into a ball and chain. I turned around, did a second degree and started working in a different field. Thought I’d keep music as a hobby, but now it presents a different face: no point in making tracks if nobody but me ever listens, nor is there point in producing other people for free with all the invested time most likely never being too fruitful.

I did find a new hobby though. Working out is the antithesis to working on art projects. Put an hour in, get an hour’s worth of gains back. Love it :D

We got ‘taste masks’ now that can simulate eating any delicacy, even in slow motion, without a single calorie to burn afterwards. You just scan the food with this wireless scanner.

muusikoiden.net

Finnish board for musicians. The marketplace is still where the real deals are at.

The meta aspect of ‘shit’ has to be up there.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=igh9iO5BxBo

I found it valuable. Read it in a reading circle exercise as part of some leadership class, where everybody took a pick of a book and did a presentation.

Now, everyone else’s books seemed to be about bunching up ‘different’ individuals in categories and drawing up strategies to get along (or ably lead) these. I said I’d present last and opened with ‘We’ve heard a multitude of ways to classify different people. My book came in at a totally opposite angle, finding the things that are true for all of us and teaching how to work with that.’ IMO a much better angle.

I’ve made plenty by printing the design onto Hydroprint ‘paper’ and cutting by hand. Just doing text is extra easy, just take your pick from the Stencil section at dafont.com.

This is a good one! I have a piece of virgin wheel tread used to re-tread heavy duty truck tires. Afraid of losing it, it’s quite the treasure :D

Becoming a father at 28, after realising that is what I want from life; going deeper into the realm of love, wanting to live out the unconditional, unfaltering love for my own offspring. Finding the perfect person to go down that rabbit hole with, getting married, and less than a year later we have our first child.

It was all so easy and natural, made manifest by two people sharing this simple dream. A solid foundation was cast, I got to see firsthand that I can do this just as good as I hoped.

Something also happened before in my mid-20s. I was on a bit of a blue streak. Ended up taking an introductory course to zen sitting meditation. Two sessions was enough. Realised there’s a photocopier in my head that spews out thoughts, some of them ugly. I couldn’t turn it off, but I could refrain from reading the papers. Found inner peace right there and it has stuck.