emuspawn
@emuspawn@orbiting.observer
I’m David. I live in Tacoma, Washington. I do square foot gardening, home automation with Home Assistant, and have too many cats.
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 1 day ago:
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 2 days ago:
Welcome to the Fediverse! Thanks for the post, I love your authorial tone!
- Comment on stylish 1 week ago:
Alligators steal hats all the time?
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 2 weeks ago:
No, they don’t, I pulled it out of my butt. I rewrote my original draft and that slipped in. NVME wouldn’t make sense unless you were powering them up every few months for updates.
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
If you buy your LTO drive new, then yes they rip you a new one, for sure! Buy it used…but it still will cost you a few hundred. Like I said, if money is not a concern. If losing the encryption key is a concern, then USB is still your best bet. Make two, keep them simple and unencrypted, stick em in two different safes, update them regularly. And print the documentation with pictures!
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 3 weeks ago:
The other thing is if I get hit by a bus and no one can work out how to decrypt a backup or whatever. Documentation, documentation, documentation. No matter what system you have, make sure your loved ones have a detailed, image-heavy, easy to follow guide on how restorations work - at the file level, at the VM level, at whatever level you are using.
That being said, DVDs actually have quite a short shelf life, all things considered. I’d be more inclined to use a pair of archival strength USB NVME drive, updated and tested routinely(quarterly, yearly, whatever makes sense). Or even an LTO tape, if you want to purchase the drive and some tapes.
You can put your backups in something like VeraCrypt. Set an insanely long password, encoded in a QR code, printed on paper. Store it in the same secured location you store your USB drives (or elsewhere, if you have a security posture).
You may also consider, if money is not a concern, a cloud VPS or other online file storage, similarly encrypted. This can provide an easy URL to access for the less tech-savvy, along with secured credentials for recovery efforts. Depending on what your successors might need to access, this could be a very straightforward way to log into a website and download what they need in an emergency.
- Comment on Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds 3 months ago:
Universe would die before monkey with keyboard writes Shakespeare, study finds Maybe the monkey can be a little less of a dick, for science?!
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 3 months ago:
That’s a pretty good question. I 💯 agree that it can fall into authoritarian colonial bullshit, and in fact that’s probably what I was thinking of in terms of ‘defining’ vs ‘advancing’. I’ll invoke the case of the ‘Sad Puppies’, a bunch of lame ass white men who were super mad that the Hugos were overwhelmingly going to ‘not white men’ (read: interesting BIPOC voices everyone loves and gasp…women?!).
I would probably claim the Sad Puppies tried to define culture.
The rest of the attendees advanced it by telling them to fuck right off.
- Comment on Stop Wasting Pumpkins! 3 months ago:
Pumpkins Georg, who lives in spooky bog & disposes of over 15 million pumpkins every day, is an outlier and should not have been counted.
- Comment on Nostalgia and remake culture 3 months ago:
Is defining culture the same as advancing culture?
- Comment on Learning Botany 3 months ago:
kale is a delicious vegetable
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KALE DOESN’T EXIST IT’S CABBAGE ALL THE WAY DOWN
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^AND^ ^NEITHER^ ^DO^ ^VEGETABLES^
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- Comment on mmm baklava 4 months ago:
geologists get hot and bothered about balacmagma
- Comment on Resource efficient AI model for LocalAI 4 months ago:
try pfizer/poppy-lrud-normal-128, run it straight offff your neural chip and feed it 1 GB RAM you’ll be gud2go
- Comment on Fallout 4 is a great game with big flaws 4 months ago:
I’m on Team Crosspost, although duplicates marginally annoy me too. Because of the low content volume and the potentially fractured nature of Lemmy means more people will see it in the event of blocked instances. Although, I hope crosspost combining becomes a thing like alex@lemmy.ml mentioned.
- Comment on Shigeru Miyamoto comments on AI, says "Nintendo would rather go in a different direction" 5 months ago:
- Comment on I think Sims is a dead franchise now 5 months ago:
Will Wright! We need you, now more than ever! We need simulation games! We need llamas! We need a great vision of weird fun you can have! Will Wright is…Will Wright is apparently busy with an AI powered game that looks extremely vaporware. ~Nooooo…~
- Comment on Roblox gets banned indefinitely in Turkey over “child exploitation” 6 months ago:
The children yearn for the mines
- Comment on 8 Minutes 6 months ago:
When there is a total solar eclipse, the temperature does drop dramatically. But it might not be detectable on the other side right away for sure.
- Comment on Sad 9 months ago:
Don’t worry, I’m sure we can come up with a way to explode the sun much sooner than that.
- Comment on Eurekadumpite 10 months ago:
- Comment on space 10 months ago:
I mean, it’s the space-time continuum, it’s connected! As the documentary Stargate SG-1 shows, we’re well acquainted with spatial and chronological drift over interstellar distances.
- Comment on self-defence deez nuts 10 months ago:
The Botany of Desire is a fantastic book and also documentary that discusses, in some part, plants being desirable to humans as a selective force. Plant species that humans value have a higher likelihood of surviving because we use them for agriculture, ensuring their ongoing existence. Everything from tea to teonanácatl!
- Comment on ah, conservation 10 months ago:
Unfortunately so. They are an Eastern US species that has been moving ever westward. And they are, in bird law terms, ‘huge dicks’. They’ve been systematically kicking Spotted Owls out of their traditional roosting spots for about a decade now. Spotted Owls are pushovers, so they’ve been losing breeding ground. And barred owls are not just dicks to other birds, they don’t like humans much either.
- Comment on Bartender Qualifications 1 year ago:
It’s fairly known in the Enterprise IT world; like others say, it does induce drinking.
- Comment on OCB 1 year ago:
C’mon man, don’t be a square.
- Comment on How on earth do you water your plants in macrame hangers? 1 year ago:
Some people put ice cubes straight in the pot, so it’s a slower absorption. You could also just have a ‘watering towel’ that you can throw on the floor under the plants if you water them in place? Finally, if you can get them to the sink easily, maybe you could use a glass watering globe to slide through the plant matter?
- Comment on My Home Server software stack 1 year ago:
ABSOLUTELY.
Never use one source for critical data! One backup is no backups! No backups is playing with the entropic forces of the universe!
- Have at least three copies of your data - primary, backup, and offsite backup.
- Store the copies on at least two different media types.
- Keep at least one of those copies offsite - what if your house or datacenter burned down?
If you don’t care about recovering your photos, by all means use an actively changing project as your sole means of data storage!
- Comment on Anyone here Garden? 1 year ago:
I like the concept, here’s a few questions!
- What’s the form factor of your project?
- Will it be waterproof or just a housing for the electronics?
- Is it wall powered or battery?
I’ve been looking at setting up soil monitors for my garden, although I’m wanting them to report to Home Assistant. I’d prefer a Zigbee or Z-Wave monitor, but it seems bluetooth or rolling your own seems to be the way to go right now.
- Comment on WEEKLY DISCUSSION OCT 2-8 History of Medicine 1 year ago:
Penicillin is arguably the most helpful medical discovery of the 20th century. It was discovered in 1928 as the active agent in a mould that can destroy and inhibit bacteria. Humans wind up with so many nasty bacterial infections like pneumonia that previously might just kill you, now were treatable! Not only did we discover (and eventually, mass produce) this particular drug, but it also kick started a whole new family of antibiotics for treating diseases.
Of course, we do eventually wind up some issues with antibiotic resistances of bacteria and some people wind up allergic, but at the time of discovery it must have truly seemed a panacea. Note that the Penicillium genus was known to be doing something against infections since the late 1880’s, but the exact mechanism had not been identified.
- Comment on 20+ hours in and my ADHD ass STILL can't figure out how the hell I'm supposed to repair my ship. The "REPAIR" icon is always greyed-out. Help! 1 year ago:
Do you have Ship Parts in your cargo hold? Pushing 0 should let you repair. Also a Ship Services Technician will gladly take 1000 credits to repair as well