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 Retro Boy is a simple Game Boy emulator written in Rust that can be played on the web. 2 weeks ago:
You′re walking in the woods
There’s no one around and your phone is dead
Out of the corner of your eye, you spot them
(Written in Rust)
They’re following you, about 30 feet back
They get down on all fours and break into a sprint
They’re gaining on you
“Written in Rust!”
You’re looking for your car but you′re all turned around
They’re almost upon you now
And you can see there’s blood on their face
My God, there′s blood everywhere!
Running for your life (from writing in Rust!)
They’re compiling a knife (it′s written in Rust!)
- Comment on a strong beak, of course 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Steam Deck Gaming News #2 5 weeks ago:
Welcome to the Fediverse! Thanks for the post, I love your authorial tone!
- Comment on stylish 1 month ago:
Alligators steal hats all the time?
- Comment on What do people use for a shelf-stable backup 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 5 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 5 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! 5 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 5 months ago:
Is defining culture the same as advancing culture?
- Comment on Learning Botany 5 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 5 months ago:
geologists get hot and bothered about balacmagma
- Comment on Resource efficient AI model for LocalAI 5 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 5 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.