@dbucklin@www.davebucklin.com a fun read indeed, thanks for sharing. The author has other interesting stuff, it’s a good site!

@bender@twtxt.net That’s what I suspected. I compared the text, including the alt text for the image. I guess I didn’t read it carefully enough.

No worries @aelaraji@aelaraji.com, it happens to the best of us.

This is a fun read: https://ploum.net/the-computer-built-to-last-50-years/

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org dear lord, that’s nuts. Now, when he is driving they don’t show the driver. Still, seemingly a feat!

Quite the acrobatic piece: https://youtu.be/p5GU_BvvHso

We had a nice sunset: https://lyse.isobeef.org/abendhimmel-2024-05-03/

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@bender@twtxt.net Rest assured, it was really disgusting.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org this almost made me choke:

But on the flipside, we’ve also been abused as dumpsters again. Some asshole brought us a deep fryer. With the oil still in it. Unfortunately, we discovered that too late.

@sorenpeter@darch.dk that’s finicky. Got to make it more robust! :-)

Wow, it’s crazy how many people already delivered donations for our scout flea market today. Collecting and delivering officially starts tomorrow, today was just the setup. Covering the floor of the town’s multipurpose hall, transporting and arranging beer tables and benches, setting up sign, that sort of thing.

But on the flipside, we’ve also been abused as dumpsters again. Some asshole brought us a deep fryer. With the oil still in it. Unfortunately, we discovered that too late.

The big work starts tomorrow morning at 8:30. And the flea market where we actually sell the stuff is on Sunday. It’s gonna be a hell of a weekend.

@Prologic@twtxt.net can you pleas fix this line in your twtxt.txt:
# follow = dbucklin@www.davebucklin.com https://www.davebucklin.com/twtxt.txt?nick=dbucklin

It is cause this weird effect on my timeline, where you are now called dbucklin
http://darch.dk/timeline/?profile=https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt

@mckinley@twtxt.net I have a custom .tmux.conf that makes it very easy to use the multiplexer, but I agree, Zellij seems pretty robust, and intuitive. I like it! Tried compiling it, as with everything Rust, it failed miserably. Good thing there is a binary release I could download to try!

Yeah, I was correct. He originally posted “and image”, and I replied to that one. Then he edited the twt, changing it to “an image”, and you replied.

@mckinley@twtxt.net because the OP edited the twt, after Yarn had already cached it. I replied to the original one, you replied to the edited version (o vice versa, haven’t checked).

Why are there two threads for the same post? #2hhvp2a #kz5qjza

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com I’m definitely putting that in the list. I like tmux but I just can’t wrap my head around the controls. This looks more like a tiling window manager.

@prologic@twtxt.net under maintenance now.

(That hard disk was in a Windows box and there was no such thing as RAID or anything similar. Didn’t have the money for fancy stuff anyway.)

@mckinley@twtxt.net Yes, over 20 years ago, a hard disk died. Not completely, only some parts of it, but it was enough to destroy ~30 GB or something like that.

I bought a lot of DVDs over time and many of them have become unreadable. Star Trek DS9 is among the victims, parts of TNG, parts of X-Files. Really annoying. I didn’t have the required disk space to make backups and, honestly, didn’t think they would die so quickly. When/if I buy movies these days, I either make a backup right away or I treat those DVDs as “will die soon”. 🫤

CDs regularly die, too, although not as often as DVDs.

And of course, lots of floppy disks are dead now. 😂🫤

@bender@twtxt.net Yep, it’s pass. 👍

@mckinley@twtxt.net When typesetting our graduation newspaper (“Abizeitung” as we call it), I destroyed the work of a whole day. :-D

I plugged in the USB stick of my mate (exact same model as mine) to do a backup of that day’s work. Since mine was already plugged in, the mount path /media/USB_DISK or whatever it was already existed. Throughout the day I saved everything on my drive (I don’t know the reason for that anymore). The newly plugged in thumb drive then got automatically mounted by Konqueror as /media/USB_DISK2 or something like that. I wanted to show off my other mate how cool Linux was and how quickly the command line was able to get things done. By force of habit I cded into the wrong path to first rm -rf *, so that there was room for the new stuff. Indeed, the data was ruined super quickly.

When I noticed my fuckup I aborted immediately, but it was already too late. I went to the family computer to research recovery tools. All the files I was able to restore were corrupted. The Scribus XML files ended somewhere in the middle. So then we decided to redo all the work instead of wasting more time trying to fill in the missing XML. Unsurprisingly, it turned out that not only the last closing tags were missing, much more of the contents disappeared. I remember that I gladly noticed the second typesetting round went much faster. :-)

I could be totally wrong here, but I think one problem was that write operations to external devices were not immediately synced, one had to expicitly flush the write cache, e.g. by umounting it properly. Early on in the typesetting process we decided to have each page or spread as separate *.sla, because a) our computers were not powerful enough to handle a large project and b) once the layout template was cast in stone, we could easily work in parallel and join everything in the end. That helped to limit the damage to just my work. My mate’s was still there I believe.

Oh yeah, that’s certainly the best strategy, @bender@twtxt.net! ;-)

@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Is that a terminal multiplexer? If so, which one? I suspect it says at the top but I can’t quite read the text.

@bender@twtxt.net Fair point… :)

@prologic@twtxt.net Planning it ahead of time is all well and good if you have the money to buy 6 or 8 hard drives at once. I really don’t, and I want to mirror the whole thing offsite anyway. Mergerfs will let me do it now, and I’ll buy a drive each for SnapRAID in short order.

@prologic@twtxt.net how old is the actual appliance? You can replace disks all you want/need, but the life of the appliance itself is finite.