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Only Sharts🇨🇦 @scuttlebutt@farticle.cloud

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Born at 323 ppm. Living at the crossroads of the Butlerian Jihad and Idiocracy.

I've been terminally online for ~40 years, long before the big endless scroll. I've seen things some people wouldn't believe. 1200 baud modems on fire from Usenet flame wars. I watched c-news servers stutter at the mere mention of Kibo. All those moments will be lost in AI slop, like tears in rain. Time to deshittify.
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@RevXenoFact Happy Birthday, "Bob"
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@ZenHeathen I think it is exposed by some api, and a bit of searching around I found a tool : emojos.in/beige.party

edit: it uses this api
beige.party/api/v1/custom_emojis
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@acf It feels ludicrious to be typing this at you from an imac with 64GB of ram, given what was possible with such low end hardware 40 years ago.
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@ZenHeathen sticks head through fence to munch on grass on other side
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@acf To be honest, I've not looked at Amiga hardware in decades and that some have pcmia bus (or bus adaptors) is interesting. I started and ended with an og A1000 (with additional 256KB on front expansion, and 2.5MB on side). It and a few floppy drives were enough to run a BBS in the background while I did my day to day.
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@ZenHeathen Like, TimeMachine on the desk, NAS across the room. NAS usb backup. Offsite/Offline NAS usb backup . Offsite NAS cloud backup. It's a bit ridiculous, but I'm not losing my photos.
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@acf boingball
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@ZenHeathen I have good, recent, verified backup. YOLO, but within reason lol.
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First disk replacement completed a-ok. Second one underway with 8hr eta. I'm not even sure this enclosure is supposed to be hot-swap capable but I did so on the second replacement anyways. (First one I did with the host powered off)

edit: I looked up the model and yes it's advertised as hot swap capable
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@LRRRonEarth mastodon.social/@jetsons/116535700121722067
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@jake4480 mastodon.social/@jetsons/116486474703541606
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"Look at this photograph"

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First up is the lengthy replace on disk at a time and wait for the raid rebuild, repeat 3x. ETA is bouncing around but looks like about 9.5 - 10.5 hours for each of these.
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New first Time Machine backup completed, which consumed 50% of the backup drive. Daily delta shouldn't be that much, but we'll worry about it later.

In the mean time, my external raid with all the important stuff has drives well past their rated lifespan. So, I bought four new ones and will put the old ones in an old NAS and try to do Time Machine across the LAN to it. Wish me luck.
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@LRRRonEarth mastodon.social/@jetsons/116534604601090949
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I love how about every 6-9 months my desktop's time machine drive fills up and doesn't want to clean up after itself. Manual intervention is required and I have not had great luck with 'tmutil delete' reliably freeing up space. Erase and start from scratch works though.

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@ZenHeathen Enterprise = you get some sort of service level agreement and you pay big bucks for that.
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Received a notice in the mail of a class action lawsuit against some discount brokers etc etc. Went to the website and entered the claim id, pin, and clicked ya ya on a few things.

I await my three cents in reparations.
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@ZenHeathen The snow shovel stays ready at the door until end of May.
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The pens are still sitting in the drying-out mug with the paper towel in the bottom. I should get round-tuit and reassemble them, put them away,