Use Restic backups to a local drive then sync that with something like rsync to ovhcloud cloud archive (not cold archive but that can work too). You can also skip the local copy but it’s better to have one and if you sync weekly it gives you opportunities to do things like cull photos you took too many of before it slaps them all up. There are plenty of GUI based restic interfaces now if you want a quick check or browse. Use healthchecks.io to monitor the cronjobs and alert you if they aren’t working.

Abefinder/Neofinder is great for cataloging but it costs money. If you do a limited backup it’s good to know what you had. I use tape formatted to LTFS and Neofind both the source and the finished tape.

I had an ex once tell me my own story back to me as if it happened to her first hand. I didn’t tell her and just went uh huh. But I think she was confused why I didn’t find the story funny. Which she thought was hilarious when she had heard the story from me.

Goddammit Donut!

Truly terrifying. But fun to briefly ponder. The book is quite a humbling read and put my mood in a different state for a week afterwards. Among the theories about everything being an accident. There is a chapter about how the Higgs Boson isn’t quite where it should be by our current understanding possibly by accident, and if even one Boson were to correct it’s location by a gigantic energy event there would be a chain reaction that would mean the entire universe would be obliterated.

Yeah. When I read it, my life overall hasn’t been that bad and my immediate thought was a sort of mystical comfort that the end isn’t always an end. Then a few minutes later I thought, what if you had have been human trafficked or some other terrible nightmare. To repeat forever. If there is any truth to it we need to do all efforts to eliminate it today.

I’m not a physicist but I think the physics behind it is that they have observed some atoms instantly revert back to a previous state that they have been in. If it’s possible that given a long enough time line one atom can go back at random any atom can and sort of like a random dice role. When infinity is in an equation anything that happens even in a 1-1billionth chance will happen because of infinity rerolls. That all atoms in the universe at random and at the same time revert back to a previous state they were in. The book doesn’t like to comment too much on whether the theory is viable or not just that it exists.

There is a great book by Katie Mack called The End of Everything. She runs through all the top theories like this. It’s quite enjoyable.

One of the theories about the universe repeating has that ponderous nature that if this moment will be repeated forever any good thing you can do help someone will be repeated forever so if you have a choice to help or not you should think about that action being cemented forever. She doesn’t go into free will and such, there are many other theories.

I’m often surprised how much of an asshat people can be, shouting from what is likely the most valuable portable possession they own. Be a damn shame if something should happen to it.

“…and who’s bringing what.” I love that line.

Hi, I’ve had a good experience with the G6 dome cams. Works well. The door bell has been difficult. It works better on android than iPhone. Talking to people at the door sucks on iPhone (quiet voice from the phone to the door person) it has been a bug for some time they haven’t fixed. Google forums of people complaining about not working or quiet voice. If all you want is video recording on the door bell it’s good enough. But frequently interacting with multiple phones and guests gets frustrating on the G4 Pro.

I wonder why current consumer HDD’s don’t have NVME connectors on them. Like I know speeding up the bus isn’t going to make the spinning rust access faster but the cache ram would probably benefit from not being capped at 550MBps

I agree. I believe that if I know the answer and it’s simple I should just help people out. A couple of days ago, I thought I’d try asking chatgpt a relatively simple cli string of commands. I knew most of it but couldn’t get it right. It just told me the answer in one succinct paragraph. Afterwards I thought “woah it didn’t even snark and cast shade on me for asking, it just handed it over without gate keeping superiority.” What a refreshing experience.

It’s not free but it’s awesome and cheap. Setup a WebDAV share and join it using “Mountainduck.io”. It connects to everything like SMB but I find WebDAV’s multichannel is more performant in the long run. Checks notes Win/Mac only sorry.

Fun fact for Aussies. The largest retirement fund in Australia is Australian Super. Probably no surprise their standard balanced offering invests in Elbit Systems and weapons companies. But in 2025 they reclassified their ethical “Socially Conscious” investment from “Include companies that make more than 10% profit from” weapons shady shit. To now read “No more than 50%” and that’s profit not turnover. Also both their socially conscious and Aware Super ethical both include Palantir among their investments. So basically any investment in them is an investment in all the BS.

I’ve read on the internet some people export their Spotify to a YouTube playlist to then pass through Parabolic and enter the result into Navidrome. Maybe as a feature you could add a Spotify to YT playlist creator somehow.

I switched to Fastmail about 2 years ago and have been happy with it. Does everything I want and it is quick and smooth like it’s name.

Ignore. Empathy is hot.

Remember you aren’t just backing up the data but also backing up the hours of effort it takes to rebuild and get it how you want. If frequently backing up just the service OS you can store heaps for $2 on offerings like OVH cold archive.

Remove yourself from the backup you’ll forget or it will be inconvenient the week it blows up, so automate it, check the automation monthly. Don’t care that the 2nd cold backup takes ages if you have a quicker main backup.

Fireproof safes aren’t melt heatproof. Don’t rely on a local house backups for fireproofing.

I’m a self hoster, and hate subscription services but I believe cloud storage for use with a compressed encrypted backup makes sense.

Backup media and other stuff separately to avoid one large slow monolithic backup.

I’m glad that worked for you. Everything changed in 2008. I would say the old cycles of the market and PE valuation rationality is gone in favour of meme stock style gambling. I think that anything written prior to 2008 on the subject is less useful and the yearly value taking cycle is only still maintained by the old school investors. Some who want some sort of comfort in their approach and want to believe they can make it work. Those people are just handing money to each other now while the billionaires just gamble large sums for bragging rights.

And build your own shelter with the results.