I guess we are in reverse timelines. I’ve built about 10 keyboards, but its been about 5 years since I built my last one.

The Iris is my favorite.

Whatever you do, don’t start down the path of customizing a Linux distro.

Started messing with NixOS in December and it has been the bittersweet curse of a never ending things to do.

• More and more of my config now tracks 0 day releases with custom bug fixes.
• Started writing my own Gnome Shell.
• Started adding support to my favorite TypeScript framework for GJS (Gnome JS) for my shell.
• Started writing a a parser combinator to parse GJS stack traces.
• Started writing custom source map library for GJS so I know where my errors are.
• Started writing a custom test runner because none of the modern ones work on GJS.
• Started writing widgets for my new shell.
• My veovim config is now its own software suite.
• Started writing syntax tree parsers for poorly supported query languages we use at work.
• Coding style is enforced with huge linter rule configs and custom plugins.
• Sleep is now at 75% of what it was.
• My wife is now working double what she did because I’m always busy.
• My kids think I’m crazy.
• My work has doubled their expectations because they think I’m some inhuman wizard.
• The walls of reality are crumbling down.
• Brb my morning NixOS update is failing to build (again).

One method depends on your storage provider. Rsync may have incremental snapshots, but I haven’t looked because my storage provider has it.

Sometimes a separate tool like rsnapshot (but probably not rsnapshot itself as I dont think its hard links interact well with rsync) might be used to manage snapshots locally that are then rsynced.

On to storage providers or back ends. I use B2 Backblaze configured to never delete. When a file changes it uploads the new version and renames the old version with a timestamp and hides it. Rsync has tools to recover the old file versions or delete any history. Again, it only uploads the changed files so its not full snapshots.

Yes. You compose a crypted vault over your storage vault. I pay about $1/mo for B2 Backblaze. Around 150G last I checked.

Important stuff (about 150G) is synced to all my machines and a b2 Backblaze bucket.

I have a rented seed box for those low seeder torrents.

The stuff I can download again is only on a mirrored lvm pool with an lvmcache. I don’t have any redundancy for my monerod data which is on an nvme.

I’m moving towards an immutable OS with 30 days of snapshots. While not the main reason, it does push one to practicing better sync habits.

I believe you will see OOM errors in journalctl. Also considered a systemd service or something to restart the process?

Glad you figured it out though!

Didn’t specify if it was the same show. Could be 3 first seasons.

And not have to wait for a maintainer to update the package to have the latest version.

Not op but I’ve moved on to nixos, or I use nix for managing the home folder on Ubuntu / Darwin machines.

Disclaimer: I’m a software dev not a sys admin, though I manage a number of machines for dev and home lab stuff.

After the high learning curve, its so much easier keeping my systems in sync.

Super easy to rollback on a bad upgrade.

With UBI, its assumed to be part of a surplus economy is my understanding? Use some of the remaining surplus to pay workers who want a marginally improved quality of life (no billionaires to limit wealth hoarding).

Offer child care to those who wish to have a career, maintain a community garden, teach part time, etc.

Optionally or additionally, provide enough funding to allow for passion projects.

Fund open projects for those who want to work together to push the limits of humanity.

If I didn’t have to slog and worry about keeping a roof over my family’s head and food on the table, I’d be dedicating all my spare time to space exploration instead of making APIs for some company.

Overly simple and likely impossible to implement, but there are ways to enable finding a purpose outside of art and culture.

5x work shirts, 5x work pants, bagged/black t-shirts and fisherman pants for home, all black socks. L1 cache is the drier. L2 is the shelf next to the drier. There is nothing beyond L2.

Just use rclone. Its bidirectional sync is kinda meh last I tested it, so I do manual syncs in each direction. Otherwise its awesome. Can even encrypt your stuff with your own key.

Supports a bunch of backends. There is an androind client called Round Sync with cron-like scheduling to keep my phone backed up.

Grew up in a religious household with 8 years of private school operated by a religious institution in the states.

Never really believed and went full atheist around 13 years old.

Good feelings about something not on the bad list (usually something sexual) they take as a message from god. In other words, if they want something that benefits them, those feelings are used to justify their shit behavior because its some divine touch making them feel that way.

At least that’s been my experience. I wouldn’t trust them either.

Can try installing Avahi on the RPi (may come on the default image). It will advertise .local over mDNS / DNS-SD. I believe Avahi will advertise on link local if there is no default route to the internet.

Your system may automatically resolve the domain if its able to pickup the mDNS records to SSH in. Been a couple years since I’ve done it, so I could be forgetting a nuanced detail, but I vaguely remember just ‘plug and play’ if internet for the RPi wasn’t required.

Roughly 4 out of 5 companies I’ve seen that have received investments in my industry in the past 5 years have been Israel R&D startup companies.

Not my wheel house, but if I had to guess, the ruling class in the states has a lot of investments tied up in Israel.

Take with a grain of salt, as this is just an anecdotal observation.

That’s a rite of passage for anyone working on Cisco’s shit TUI. At least its gotten better with some of the newer stuff. IOS-XR supported commits and diffing.

Accidentally announced a /12 of IPv6 on a bad copy-paste of a /127.

Started appending a verification line after interface configs to make sure I never missed a trailing character again.

Took 3 months for anyone to notice (circa 2015).

My NAS is an mATX mobo with an i5, 64G RAM, 8 disk drives, 3 nvme drives, and an ARC GPU for video transcoding.

Disk drives are all mirrored. One nvme runs NixOS which is easy enough to redeploy if the drive dies. One nvme is cache on top of the disk drives. Last nvme I use for temp fast storage like Jellyfin transcoding.

Its more of a combo NAS/server as I run most self hosted apps on it (tor node, monero node, jellyfin, *arr stack, etc).

You pay for what you use. I have somewhere around 120-140GB and get a bill every 2 months. I think it has to be near a dollar you owe for them to invoice.

Be mindful of the class A/B/C transactions at the bottom of the page with pricing. I paid about $0.60 when I first set everything up in Class C transactions. I haven’t gone over the free 2500 or whatever they give you since.

I don’t use it quite like Dropbox with a watch daemon. I have an encrypted local back up I mount with rclone, do my work, then use rclone again to sync to b2 when I unmount it.

I wouldn’t use to version control some project I’m working on where files change frequently. Those transactions would probably kill the cost savings at some point.

For android there is RoundSync. It automatically backs up folders of your choice on a schedule. Not on any app store. It must be installed by downloading the apk from GitHub.

There is also Cryptomator as an alternative. I used it for years without issue, but prefer rclone for more control over my work stream. Think I paid a one time license of $10 for desktop and another $10 for mobile.

Dropbox is only a good deal if you use near peak storage and/or do a lot of data transfers.

I was paying $120/yr for 2TB. Now I’m on B2 Backblaze. On paper Dropbox was cheaper per GB, but with my usage pattern I’m paying like $1.00 every other month.