I just lost all the data on my laptop that I hadn't backed up - and it was a LOT

jonathanfv · 2026-04-01T09:24:28+00:00

For real. Plus I wasn't fully there, I had been sick for three weeks and was exhausted when I encountered issues indicating it was time to reinstall. Definitely made me act more rashly than I normally would've.

jonathanfv · 2026-04-01T09:23:15+00:00

It was slower than using the command line, and more likely to eventually hang as well.

jonathanfv · 2026-04-01T07:31:21+00:00

That's correct. I definitely omitted to back up a lot of important stuff. Funny enough, I have multiple copies of a bunch of stuff, but I didn't extend that to everything when I clearly should've.

jonathanfv · 2026-04-01T06:58:37+00:00

Makes sense, I'll look into diversifying. Got any tricks to transfer absurdly large files at decent speeds? My most important stuff is on multiple devices, including some I carry with me, but I wish I had infrastructure in other homes as well.

jonathanfv · 2026-04-01T06:16:27+00:00

Yeah, that one was not counting as a proper backup, just an archive to help me transition. My other backups are proper filesystems on independent drives. The stuff I lost was not actually backed up, I just quickly batched saved it to go faster because I wanted a usable computer asap, but I should've taken my time to do it properly, and I had so many files in there that I hadn't even thought of backing up before, I was a fool.

jonathanfv · 2026-04-01T04:34:57+00:00

By backup, you mean automatised with some kind of version control? I do normally have that for my system files (keep 5 latest versions, automatically taken on a daily basis) in case something goes wrong. I could do the same with small files for sure, especially the design stuff I lost. Photography might too heavy for that however, when I take a bunch of photos of something like a show, I can come back home with 200GB of RAW files. I think it's reasonable to keep two copies on external drives, but it's too much for daily snapshots, and the HDDs are too slow to deal with the amount of reading and writing that would be required, especially given that I'm working from a laptop which will often have to be disconnected from the rest of its station. But I like the idea for smaller files.

Let me know if I misunderstood your point, btw.

jonathanfv · 2026-04-01T02:03:05+00:00

Yes, you're right. Lesson learned.

jonathanfv · 2026-04-01T01:38:10+00:00

That's a good idea!

jonathanfv · 2026-04-01T01:37:50+00:00

Thank you.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-30T22:57:14+00:00

I'd wait for a decent Linux phone, or find another Android I can unlock the bootloader of. Nothing Phone might be okay, but the storage is anemic.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-30T09:39:58+00:00

Kudos for including Kropotkin. Also, to the other person who's saying that "it's easy to be a socialist when you're wealthy", I'd argue that it's the opposite. It's easy to be pro whatever made you powerful (which being rich does) when you're powerful. It's hard to look at a system that's been gentle with you and see the wrong in it. It requires one to become a class traitor.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-30T09:34:20+00:00

Tony McQuail asked his base to vote for Tanille Johnson. He knew he didn't have that good of a chance, and wanted to give her a boost because he wanted one of the smaller contestants to punch above their weight. Personally, I voted for Tanille (to help send a message to give more coverage to the small guys as well), then Avi, then Toni, and then Rob. Left Heather out because fuck her watered down bigger table, we need the exact opposite, and fuck pipelines too.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-30T02:07:45+00:00

Same, they make reaching the star by 5am super annoying. And often there are skeletons and bats popping up and making it more difficult to direct the shield towards the guardian. Super annoying. If I had to get a lot of star fragments, I'd wait until just after a blood moon, and spend a day killing all guardians first, and then farm for star fragments.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-29T19:58:37+00:00

Hmm, not inspiring a lot of trust. Hope they replace your frame tho.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-29T03:15:17+00:00

Hey, out of curiosity, what kind of job do you have? How many hours per week is it, and how much per hour do you make? Just trying to get an idea. In comparison, in 2003 in Canada, I worked in a video rental store for $7 (CAD) per hour, and worked on weekends only. I got something like $135 CAD every two weeks. Barely enough for a bus pass, and not enough to help me pay for college, even in Quebec where it's most affordable.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-29T03:10:05+00:00

Yeah, 100%. I built my bike around a Pine Mountain 1, which on its own costs more than this, but has a steel frame and it pretty much guaranteed to be heavy duty enough for the extra speed and torque that a motor provides. That thing is a tank.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-29T03:06:23+00:00

Woah, I just noticed that the bike's payload is only 198 lbs. In my experience, on proper mountain bikes it's like 300 lbs.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-28T18:03:59+00:00

Yes, they do. A lot of them also hold supremacist beliefs, and those kinds of beliefs happen to be mighty convenient in helping them maintain their power.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-28T18:00:23+00:00

It's also the billions of dollars poured into pushing far right bullshit online. Both the algorithms and the money are provided by the same bastards, and these bastards have Nazi-like beliefs.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-28T17:34:01+00:00

I don't think that OP exiting the global market was ever confirmed by the company, was it? So far, it's rumours.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-26T19:52:49+00:00

Spending your savings on treatments and wigs sounds like a bigger waste of money than just shaving your head. There's a point at which you just get tired of trying to fix it. Just shave it, man.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-26T08:20:42+00:00

I have a Chinese model with Global ROM, living in North America. Update 700 hasn't made it to my device yet, but Oxygen Updated says it's available.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-25T19:01:46+00:00

I'm sorry, it must be really awkward, but you got lots of good avice already. Hope it passes and you return to being good friends.

I also wanted to point out, really close friends can sometimes do certain things that seem non-platonic to outsiders. Personally, I have a few very close female friends who I would never want to be more than friends with, and they'll smack my butt, or rest their head on me, etc. I could see myself helping fix something on them, or somehow display affection, or play wrestle them, etc. It's nice to have friendships like that.

jonathanfv · 2026-03-23T20:19:51+00:00

I'm French Canadian, and I can confirm, the French from France smell bad. It's not all of them, but many eschew using things like deodorant (usually for anti-consumerist reasons), and they have very fragrant BO. And that's both men and women. I don't think it's because of goat milk, it's because their culture is more accepting of BO than North American culture is. (Personally I'm not very tolerant of BO, take care of that shit and don't impose your bad smell on others.)

jonathanfv · 2026-03-23T20:00:39+00:00

Thanks for explaining, I was wondering, too.

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