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Toots are ephemeral, subject to deletion on a whim.

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.
Location Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Birthday 2022-11-01
Pronouns he / him (EN)
Photography https://eh.fauxtographer.ca/@another
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6mo
Are there any on fedi for Alberta?
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@ghorwood The photographer in me is in slight rapture over the picture on that article. All the pieces leaping up from the double fist slam.

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@ghorwood A leading cause of couch potato-ism. No spoons left for executive function.
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@ghorwood As one does. I'm heading to the local greenhouse this coming weekend to get their big pots of tomato plants with fruit already on them, for half off. Couldn't be arsed to start from seed again, having done that some years back. I don't do anything with them other than make sandwiches so that works for me.
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@ghorwood GenX looks at this warning and says ... whatever, man.
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Remember back in the 80s where you had dust covers for computers, including keyboards and screens, because they got turned off for a good portion of the time (like when sleeping, at school/work, etc?

Also, no eating at the computer desk.

Well. I have peanut butter on my laptop. I may or may not have straight up licked my trackpad and keyboard.
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7mo
After Andor, Rogue One seems very shallow and cartoony.
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@Gumberculese I always have in the back of my head the memory of a production array in the datacenter that had additional drives fail due to the heavier I/o during a raid rebuild. Thankfully didn't have to test the backups that time but it was butt puckering.
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First mow
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Two weeks ago we were travelling LHR -> YYC

The extra $$ for premium economy for a long flight is well worth it. Extra leg and shoulder room.
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@Gumberculese My desktop external array has a cold spare nearby, just in case. I've changed the array type from 10 to 5 recently to get some more usable space (which required a full wipe and restore, yay for the real test of backups).

The desktop is one of the last intel based iMac, and I maxed its ram out quite a while ago. It's just now starting to creak under load from Capture One etc when working with my photos. It's also not upgradable to the last several revs of MacOS.

Might be replacing both in the next few years, but for. now they are chugging along fine. Probably some future version of my photo tools will force the computer upgrade before hardware failure does. Drives ... seem to be ok for heading to ten years in service. (Famous last words, waiting for the catastrophic all drives going bad in a week or something).
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@cks Mine are spinning rust. Home use just isn't very stressful compared to servers that get hammered with databases and hundreds of virtual machines general io. I remember having cold spares sitting right in the colocation cages ready to pop in asap so the arrays would have time to recover by the time the vendor got around to bringing a replacement. Most weeks, even months, nothing failed. Other times we'd have a week where they were getting eaten like candy.
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How many run time hours do you have on your drives? My desktop's direct attached thunderbolt array has about 72K hours (8+ years) under its belt. I run a scrub every 6 months or so and haven't found any bad blocks yet. It's also backed up on a regular schedule.
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@SecularJeffrey A chicken in every pot!
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Importing ~500 GB of raw vacation photos sure did take a while. Hours. Capture one wanted to do a bunch of processing to generate previews and such during import. Now backing them up in triplicate with my usual flow before starting work on tagging and ranking.
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Airport security theatre today decided my tiny beard scissors with 1/4 or shorter blades with super obvious blunt tips tips were not ok to take on a plane.

Even after I stabbed my palm quite hard without breaking the skin.

Can’t even open wide enough to cut anything more than a baby finger maybe.

Then there was the language barrier of course with what they wanted me to do. Eventually threw them out but I think they wanted me to check them as non cabin baggage somehow.
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Copying a week of vacation photos to a backup drive, just in case. Once a , always a sysadmin.
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On an Egypt trip with a small tour group organized by a fellow Canadian. She’s a little frazzled and the language issues twixt her and our local guide gives extreme Fawlty Towers vibes (Basil vs Manuel). Extra entertainment for me.
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Deleted my Amazon.com a while back, other than ghost AWS zero bill issue. Deleted my amazon.ca account just now.

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Around in circles with deletion request. I’ll just block them and move on.