@catvalente I'm just vaguely rooting for them to mutually annihilate like matter & anti-matter and be out of the blast range

@thomasfuchs Man, I bought all of these at the school book fair and alas I have no idea where they went. But I definitely typed in all the programs and thought I was a secret agent hacker

@madcap @thomasfuchs Yeah, didn't that one have like a kind of space invaders clone in it? I remember the program having some sort of ship shaped like >O<

@alisynthesis A problem is that "community" has come to mean "topic" to many folks - and was even kind of advertised as such around here.

Problem is that not all (or even most) Mastodon instances have anything to do with any particular focus on a topic or even any central reason to gather. Many do, many are just random folks coming together for a vague vibe.

Like, a lot of instances are actually just "bars" or "pubs". There are sports bars, and then there are bars that just sort of have a certain crowd that maybe only makes sense to the crowd itself.

@cwebber I don't think the Brands like it, unless maybe they're branded tits

@cwebber 🤔 I think that should work? Though I think you need to post the tits with like an innocuous caption like "what's your oatmeal topping today?"

(oh no topping might be too lewd 😳)

@danhon hi dan

All throughout this morning’s meetings, Cosmo has been dragging and dropping this feather toy on my feet and I’ve been trying to nonchalantly keep him entertained off-camera

(ignore the very dirty floor and unattractive feet)

@socketwench @eaton We have such constructs of punctuation to show you

@cwebber brb, setting up a honeypot instance named sweetbabyrays.zone populated entirely with fake LLM-generated toots and tits

Apparently part of my offsite backup scheme now entails regularly RMA’ing drives to Seagate?

Just hoping I can get the replacement for Drive 2 up to speed in the RAID array before Drive 1 also fails. (Seems unlikely?) 🫠

I bought 4 identical drives at the same time, so I'm wondering if they're all bound for failure soon? Ugh.

My scheme tends to be 2 drives in the NAS in RAID. One drive in a USB enclosure for periodic backups from the NAS. One drive in an anti-static bag somewhere else, occasionally swapped into the USB enclosure.

Unfortunately, one of the drives died back in May and its RMA replacement is serving as off-site backup somewhere inconveniently far from me at the moment.

But I guess that means I'll only lose 2 months of random crap I hopefully don't care much about. I have a few gigs of cloud backup for very essential stuff like Obsidian notes and misc important docs.

@Macross Well, the problem is I didn't expect 2 drives to trend toward failure within the same 30 hour period

@Macross Guess I need RAID level make-sure-all-your-drives-come-from-different-batches

I guess, embrace the impermanence of all things and just keep juggling storage media like chainsaws while keeping backups stashed in lots of places