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… That sounds interesting. Especially if it can go and fetch all of the installers for me to have a local repo of my own.

The deduping is a little difficult. Obv matching files are caught with regular dedupe tools, but I’ve been meaning to make a script to use fingerprinting (dejavu is the library I think?) to find matches. Problem is the fingerprints are about as big as the music files themselves.

“unsorted” folder contains input. “Music” folder has full library; any imports must go through beets. rsync to remote backups; one scripted/automatic, one manual & password-protected. Restores (needed once or twice) are done with beets import, but whatever flag that does “just import, don’t tag”

… I have no idea but I would imagine there’s a large overlap with the vacuums

Some Canadian politicians made a fuss about it but walked that back. I don’t know of any actual national bans, and most people aren’t going to know what it is at a glance anyway. Worst I can think of is the trend of some politician events banning “flipper zeroes and raspberry pis” (which is also controversial/stupid) so maybe don’t take it with you if you’re business travel involves political rallies.

Yeah it started at $169

It has gone up $30, which isn’t so bad relatively.

Flipper zero.

At the very least it has built-in universal power, volume, channel, and maybe some other buttons. Now that I think about it though, I bet I could make a companion app so your phone acts like the TV remote and sends the signal over the flipper via Bluetooth.

Plus you can store your hotel key, garage remote, and who knows what else in it. It’s a really cool little tool to have.

Yeah but it would point out each of the hops the user goes through before reaching home, yes? I’m just trying to help visualize where all the bottlenecks could be

Apologies for the lack of detail but I want to make sure you know about the tool traceroute. The speed at which you connect depends on every node between your remote location and home, plus there will be some overhead with whatever tools are involved.

At some point, you gotta just accept that things are gone and start hunting for the next radroach to eat. I guess the corpo speak for this is acceptable loses and/or risk management.

In the most extreme cases, the final backup of my most important files are on my phone. With all the compromises we’re forced to make there, I still refuse to buy one without an SD card slot, so I have swappable 1TB with me at all times. Importantly, it’s also not the Source of Truth, so if it’s lost I’m still recoverable, but if it’s the last piece of electronics above sea level at least I still have that.

But for power management, I just have some UPSes that sustain a graceful shutdown and that’s about it. If I’m on the lam, I would rather the 20TB of manga and anarchist zines be destroyed (read: crypto keys lost) than try to figure out how to carry it with me. Maybe the offsite backup strategy will finally get tested once I’ve established an alternate identity.

I think when people want to remotely decrypt fde the usual advice is installing dropbear SSH to remotely enter the password. Sorry for not providing links but it should be easy to find.