confusedpuppy

I use rsync too. It's older and from what I understand was designed at a time when data storage was much smaller so it may not be as fast as other backup options. It also doesn't have encrypted backups like other backup options (I think).

Rsync has been the most reliable option for me though. Every syncing option I've tried seems too complicated and breaks down every time I look away. Since my entire backup size is around 550gb and I'm not concerned with encrypted backups, I think rsync just works just fine.

I even created my own tool that puts my rsync commands into easy to read/modify files so I can organize my most common transfers. I can easily backup my phone, HomeAssistant server, home server and computer to my two backup locations in a single alias or cronjob now.

A bit of a pain to learning how to make proper backups that restore successfully every time, but once I figured it out, I've been very confident in my backup strategy.

I was planning on using weechat and the relay extension for a simple, all-in-one package. Currently I just use IRC for tech support, especially with Alpine linux.

Biboumi seems like a good idea if I wanted to set up a server and I'll keep it bookmarked. I'm still back and forth about an IRC server so that idea has gone into the bonus category for now. I think Snikket would be a service that's far more accessible and easier to share with the people I want using it.

I do like that it has xmpp support. I assume it would go well with Snikket.

I've decided to stop using Podman for the moment since it was not allowing me internet to access my services. I'll try again later when the motivation comes back.

Other than that, I've been slowly working on security, reliability and maintenance. For the moment I am happy with my device's own security which I just finished last week. If I need extra security at this point, it will most likely be from a third party service but I don't intend on having a known presence so I may get by just being unknown and obscure.

Ddclient on Alpine linux works very strangely so I made a script to check that it's still updating my IP address and force restart it if necessary. Combined it with my targetted backups script to make the beginning of a maintenance script.

The last two steps are to setup an IRC client + IRC bouncer and a Snikket service and I'll be happy. Anything I add after that is simply a bonus I can tinker with for fun but I'm looking forward writing for my blog without technical issues floating in the back of my mind.

I'm happy that in the last 3-5 years that I have been meeting the type of people I want to be around.

All my new friends have been treating me the way I have always wished to be treated. Which is the same way I try to treat everyone else. They also happen to be a very specific type of people that is completely unexpected to me but I'm so happy to have met them anyways. I love them all so much.

I was staying at a hostel in Sydney and It was just me and English girl just chilling in the common area. It was sort of exposed to the outdoors since there was no doors, just an entrance. It just lead to the sheltered outdoor area but each dorm room had their own heavy door.

We both found out that day that the big roaches that roam there knew how to fly. Not well. Like it struggled to carry it's own weight. We both had time to react and do something. We both just watched in horror as it flew right into her hair.

Whenever I think about the movie Children of Men, all I can think is that the answer to the Human Project's question was microplastics.

Instead of asking why women couldn't have children anymore, they should have been checking men for forever confetti in their balls.

That on it's own is fine.

But I said no. I shouldn't have to say no more than once because it's annoying to continually say no. It is weird that they put nearly two weeks of effort into trying to get me to do something when I already said no.

We already worked a physically demanding job and I rode a bike to and from work. I was already happy with my body but they weren't happy with my arms.

I'm quite fortunate enough to have found people who appreciate my hugs. Not quite bros. Or maybe they are. Depends on peoples perspective. In any case, my arms just fine as they are for them :)

I've had a lifetime of people labeling me as something and trying to enforce that label on me. When I eventually do something that sits outside of that label, those same people get angry at me for breaking the expectations that they set for me. Expectations that they never explicitly told me but assumed because of that label they placed on me.

As a result, I pushed back by "delabelling" myself, mostly. If I must label myself, I attempt to use the most broad term possible as to avoid cornering myself. Sometimes it's too easy to use a label as a conversational shortcut.

As a personal result, I tend to avoid labeling others. In my mind that puts me on even level with the people around me. It avoids me talking to specific groups of people and allows others to participate in the discussion, no matter how those other people view or identify themselves.

I've watched how words, labels and categorizations have become weaponized and used to divide people. Which is absurdity. Words are ever evolving and dying so to me it seems pointless to allow words to strongly influence me.

These days I surround myself with people who are able to show me who they are over people who spend their energy telling me who they are. Real confidence doesn't need to waste their time on only words. Those words should add to that person as a whole. That's how I want to view another person.

Not trying to convince you to change your mind, I do see the value in using words or labels to find community, especially in times like these. I think you seem open to at least seeing where my unorthodox views come from.

I tend to ignore terms like neurotypical and neurodiverse because I just view everyone as neurodiverse. And if everyone is neurodiverse, then nobody is neurodiverse. That just means to me that people are people. Some more insecure than others.

I also think that everyone is gay. Which means I personally don't really view anyone as gay, just people doing normal people things no matter who they love. Some people just happen to be insecure as fuck about loving another person.

What I do see are a lot of insecure people attempting to set and enforce normal behaviour because they are afraid of being weird while ignoring the fact that being alive is the most weird and pointless experience ever.

Gotta have a little fun with the weird, pointlessness of existence, that's what can make life beautiful and interesting :)

I was just having some fun by pointing out that women aren't the only mythical creature whose signals are hard to read.

I do agree with your last point thoroughly, bullshitters do be bullshittin' it. A lot. Too much I would say.