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Cake day: June 9th, 2024

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  • I started off with nextcloud on bare metal on my Raspberry Pi and there was a lot that I could never configure quite right on the server side of things. Stuff like getting the right memory usage dialed in for the web server. I moved to NextCloudPi and it solved a lot of those problems for me. But it looks like the maintainer is not wanting to maintain it forever.

    Someday, I will migrate to nextcloud AIO, but I’m not looking forward to the migration.








  • Wasn’t his art inspired by a psychedelic trip of some kind?

    Can’t find him saying it outright but this is interesting:

    SECONDS: What is the relationship of your art to psychedelia?
    
    GIGER: I think there’s a relationship. Not so in the colors but I have some older works that look very psychedelic.
    
    SECONDS: What have drugs done for the art world?
    
    GIGER: You know, drugs are forbidden in Switzerland. Even psychedelic drugs that open you up are forbidden. LSD was invented by Albert Hoffman, who is Swiss. He had his first psychedelic experience on a bicycle, after accidentally getting some LSD on his fingers. He didn’t know what he had discovered. He was looking for something that would help women in labor. He changed the world. Many artists symbolize the psychedelic experience with a bicycle. This man is now 88 years old. I met him about six months ago. He’s very healthy and intelligent. Each day, he hangs upside down with his wife for half an hour, like a bat, in gravity boots.
    
    SECONDS: You know Timothy Leary too, right?
    
    GIGER: Yes, but not too well. When he was in Switzerland, he was looking for a place to hide because they wanted to put him in jail. My father was a pharmacist and knew Leary was in trouble. He was not very excited about Leary being in Switzerland, so I didn’t tell him I was trying to get help for him. He wouldn’t have been pleased.