emuspawn

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[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 1 points 3 hours ago

I will check out Polonium! Thanks!

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 3 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

I know you said Gnome, but if you are willing to look at Plasma, I've just started using Bismuth on KDE Plasma and I think it can do at least a chunk of that. It can set particular sizes with Window Rules, it looks to have a quite robust shortcut system, including resizing windows, swapping, rotating, or changing layouts. As for the focus vs open, KRunner lets you choose the active application when you type it's name. There's also this: https://github.com/academo/ww-run-raise but I have not used it and cannot vouch for that.

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 8 points 18 hours ago

Don't worry, if the bridge breaks there are two backup bridges conveniently located close by!

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 6 points 1 day ago (5 children)

Alligators steal hats all the time?

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 4 points 6 days ago

Holy shit guys, it's not the wild and out of control global consumption that's the problem, it's those mean ole conservationists forcing production to poorer nations. Limitless growth at all costs, right? Certainly can't discuss producing less so we can protect more biodiversity worldwide - even in less wealthy places.

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 1 points 1 week ago

No, they don't, I pulled it out of my butt. I rewrote my original draft and that slipped in. NVME wouldn't make sense unless you were powering them up every few months for updates.

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If you buy your LTO drive new, then yes they rip you a new one, for sure! Buy it used...but it still will cost you a few hundred. Like I said, if money is not a concern. If losing the encryption key is a concern, then USB is still your best bet. Make two, keep them simple and unencrypted, stick em in two different safes, update them regularly. And print the documentation with pictures!

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

The other thing is if I get hit by a bus and no one can work out how to decrypt a backup or whatever.

Documentation, documentation, documentation. No matter what system you have, make sure your loved ones have a detailed, image-heavy, easy to follow guide on how restorations work - at the file level, at the VM level, at whatever level you are using.

That being said, DVDs actually have quite a short shelf life, all things considered. I'd be more inclined to use a pair of archival strength USB NVME drive, updated and tested routinely(quarterly, yearly, whatever makes sense). Or even an LTO tape, if you want to purchase the drive and some tapes.

You can put your backups in something like VeraCrypt. Set an insanely long password, encoded in a QR code, printed on paper. Store it in the same secured location you store your USB drives (or elsewhere, if you have a security posture).

You may also consider, if money is not a concern, a cloud VPS or other online file storage, similarly encrypted. This can provide an easy URL to access for the less tech-savvy, along with secured credentials for recovery efforts. Depending on what your successors might need to access, this could be a very straightforward way to log into a website and download what they need in an emergency.

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Receiving signal up in low earth orbit! Congrats!

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 2 points 3 weeks ago

Sounds like you should get a basic low power linux box going!

 

cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1108580

Happy Friday! This whole album is quite excellent.

 

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Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly ninety million miles, is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think vaporwave is a pretty neat idea. This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small, green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole, it wasn't the small, green pieces of paper which were unhappy. And so the problem remained, and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones who listened to vaporwave. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans. And then one day, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl, sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no-one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass and so the idea was lost forever.

 

cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1079074

Happy Friday!

 

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Happy Friday!

 

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Do You Think Vaporwave Can Bloom on A Battlefield?

 

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Vlaporwave is my favorite flavor of vlapor.

https://pentium2.bandcamp.com/track/ft-babefake

 

cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1001824

Happy Friday, Happy Friday, vaporwaveretti!

 

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This one is interesting, as it's sort of not-purchasable. It was delisted a while ago. It also has a fun(?) story:

All songs were written and recorded by Eco Virtual on a laptop and mastered direct to cassette tape in 2010. The original files were lost shortly after leaving only one master tape, which was damaged. This audio recording is a digital conversion of what was left on that tape. All songs were composed for the documentary film 'Wildlife Canada' produced and directed by Eco Virtual.

I enjoyed watching the documentary, it's ~9 minutes. Maybe I even learned something? You can access the album download through archive.org: https://archive.org/details/ECOVIRTUAL-WILDLIFECANADA

Anyway, 'Salt Marsh' is my favorite track from this. Happy Friday, vaporwavers!

 

cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/971375

It's Friday, nostalgia huffers!

 

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Happy Friday, wave riders!

 

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Happy Friday, cassette heads!

 

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Happy Friday, Vaporwavites!

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