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

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

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!)

“whilst I concur wholeheartedly with the detailed rebuttal you have given, I alas remain uncertain, caged by the incongruous gut feeling that compels me.”

Probably Don Quixote. It started off really well, but it devolved towards the end into this long-unending self-referential rant full of name-drops and exposition, and I could barely follow any of it and pushing through that was a huge chore.

I later learned I had read a bad translation, and that there is one good translation out there I should try, but the whole thing has left a bad taste in my mouth and I don’t want to go anywhere near that book again.

I think I had the same feeling the first time I read Sirens of Titan. Then I read it a few years later, and it just clicked and I was enthralled by the long crazy ride.

I hope you’re joking.

Martin knows how to write people. He can create the most vile, repulsive, irredeemable characters known to man and then teaches them mercy, honour, and sacrifice by forcing them into situations where they have to question who they are.

He redeems the irredeemable, not only in the text, but also outside of it by merit of the sheer humanism he expresses in his works.

I learned a lot about humanity, mercy, and forgiveness just by reading his books. No other author has come close to reaching me in such ways.

“Repent Harlequin!”

He is an insufferable narcissistic nobhead, but his writing is punchy and definitely interesting.

I thought the film was good.

No, King writes well. It’s very much from the heart and you can relate to the emotions he lays down effortlessly on every page. I think his strength is creating mysteries, and his weakness is over-explaining said mysteries.

I feel that a lot with Heinlein. Starts good with an interesting premise, becomes weirdly sexual, and the ending leaves you wondering whether the premise even mattered.

one can always dream

Ah I see, thanks for the context

https://www.streetsahead.info/

there were two videos you could have linked, and you linked the right one.

whats the joke here. Streets ahead is a popular real estate agent here

I have a bamboo plant that seems to thrive on my neglect

lmao, great comment