Keep a journal.

I have a single journal for daily events, in excel of all things.

I have a title column, date, related to (Linux, Tailscale, Health, etc) then a Notes column. This way I can filter on the related to column and search it.

I have links to OneNote pages (or just titles), and could easily do the same with Obsidian or anything else. There are years of notes in it now. Anything I’ve fixed is in there, so easy to find again with my own wording (which is how it started, then I realized keeping a separate personal journal made it harder to see things in general, or connections specifically) .

On my phone I use an app called… Memento. It’s like excel, but designed for a simpler UI. Easy for me to create new databases on a whim, or simply add info to one.

I believe many people witg ADHD have a working memory deficit too, so getting new info into long term memory is more crucial for them.

I also agree that handwritten is generally best for journals/notes like this, I just needed it to be searchable.

If it’s worth remembering, it’s worth writing down.

Quote of the day there.

Because I cook, and need that stuff back. I don’t have all day, I gotta cook again in a few hours.

What are you trying to guard against with backups? It sounds like your greatest concern is data loss from hardware failure.

The 3-2-1 approach exists because it addresses the different concerns about data loss: hardware failures, accidental deletion, physical disaster.

That drive in your safe isn’t a good backup - drives fail just as often when offline as online (I believe they fail more often when powered off, but I don’t have data to support that). That safe isn’t waterproof, and it’s fire resistance is designed to protect paper, not hard drives.

If this data is important enough to back up, then it’s worth having an off site copy of your backup. Backblaze is one way, but there are a number of cloud based storages that will work (Hetznet, etc).

As to your Windows/Linux concern, just have a consistent data storage location, treat that location as authoritative, and perform backups from there. For example - I have a server, a NAS, and an always-on external drive as part of my data duplication. The server is authoritative, laptops and phones continuously sync to it via Syncthing or Resilio Sync, and it duplicates to the NAS and external drives on a schedule. I never touch the NAS or external drives. The server also has a cloud backup.

From a cooling standpoint, you probably don’t want go any smaller than a Small Form Factor desktop. These are large enough to have a proper heatsink and fan on the cpu, enough space for a dedicated video card, have the motherboard connections for a card, large enough power supply, and can support a case fan.

Mini desktops have minimal cooling capacity, definitely no case fan.

For example, I run a Dell SFF (OptiPlex 7050) as a server for virtual machines, Jellyfin host, file server, and media converter. It’s an older machine with an 80 watt power supply (barely enough for my use case), no case fan, and the stock cooler/fan is fortunately well designed.

That stock cooler also evacuates the case, but can’t move enough air to keep the large drive I installed at reasonable temps. Adding a case fan (centrifugal, which can handle restrictions) dropped the drive temps by more than 20F.

Without the sizeable cpu cooler and it’s fan, there’s no way to keep the cpu cool when doing anything more than basic desktop functions. A mini pc would quickly overheat, unless it had a good fan.

Hahahaha

Geez, man, read a book. Or even a Wikipedia page

You’re advocating rule by mob over rule of law… You know, like the French Revolution

Hahaha.

I just replaced a 20 year old dishwasher with it’s newer equivalent: it has a grand total of 3 cycle options.

Screw this surveillance nonsense. Why does a dishwasher need connectivity? It’s a box that sprays water.

A friend has one that the fastest cycle is 1.5 hours. One cycle is four hours… Wtf?

Holy shit, that’s insane…1992? Back then setting up a drive meant configuring interleave and some other stuff.

Wow, that says a lot for Bandcamp

There’s and endless supply of guides for ripping.

On Windows just use Exact Audio Copy - It can pull all the track info from multiple sources. I forget what I used on Linux.

Thanks for that link, I’ve long wondered the origin of OK!

Marketing.

Go back to the Apple/PC ads in the 90’s,where the Apple guy was hip, and the PC guy was an old fuddy-duddy in a brown suit.

Apple has always traded on the slickness of their products. They often claim to be the “first” at something, when they really just developed the first seriously marketable version.

iPhone wasn’t the first smartphone by years. Just the first one that was slick enough for consumers to bite on, when a year before it was geeky to have such a device.

I may consider “many adults”… I still get grief about it from older adults (I’m talking people in their 40’s and older). Though either of us could be correct.

These are people who can’t be bothered with how things work, but… are amazing at what they do. So it’s an interesting circumstance to observe, and I haven’t come to any strong conclusions.

A type of document?

Now I’m really confused.

Wtf if a ChoMo?

There’s no comparison between the two.

iOS - you can do only what Apple says you can do.

Android - whatever you want, mostly. And so many devs working on it outside of Google, it’s only a matter of time before Google’s restrictions are undone.

Keep in mind, people outside Google have worked on it for 15 years now. There’s a lot of non-Google expertise.

But… Whether it’s worth it is up to you. I use an iPhone for work, because they manage it so I can’t do anything beyond what they permit, even if it’s an Android. I need to make calls and use the tools the company provides. So iPhone. It’s simple, it “just works”.

But for personal, I do a lot of stuff that simply isn’t possible on iOS.

That’s no different than saying the universe is a simulation.

You can’t prove a negative.

The positive assertion is “we live in a simulation”. All that can be done is gather evidence to support this assertion.

I do none of those things, so I’m fucked.

Haha, hello me in my 30’s!

Air will stagnate in a confined space - even with the PC fans, as they’re designed to move air, not generate pressure.

I find it really annoying that pc makers defaulted to fans instead of compressor wheels, which can move the same volume of air with less noise, in my experience… Technically regular fans are less noisy for the same CFM but I’ve found in most PC’s you need far more fan to achieve the airflow needed because they lack static pressure.