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emuspawn David From Space @orbiting.observer

I'm David. I live in Tacoma, Washington. I do square foot gardening, home automation with Home Assistant, and have too many cats.

You think you saw me behind some ferns? You just might have!

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Steam Deck Gaming News #2
  • Welcome to the Fediverse! Thanks for the post, I love your authorial tone!

  • u n d e r w a t e r i n e r t i a /// 癒 し a l o e from я e v e я s e o s m o s i s by y o u r d i s c o v e r y

    cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1216355

    > Happy Friday! Don't forget to slather on the 【ALOE!】

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    u n d e r w a t e r i n e r t i a /// 癒 し a l o e from я e v e я s e o s m o s i s by y o u r d i s c o v e r y

    Happy Friday! Don't forget to slather on the 【ALOE!】

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    A relatable situation
  • Surely this one last permutation.....

  • Managing windows and focusing specific apps on Linux?
  • I know you said Gnome, but if you are willing to look at Plasma, I've just started using Bismuth on KDE Plasma and I think it can do at least a chunk of that. It can set particular sizes with Window Rules, it looks to have a quite robust shortcut system, including resizing windows, swapping, rotating, or changing layouts. As for the focus vs open, KRunner lets you choose the active application when you type it's name. There's also this: https://github.com/academo/ww-run-raise but I have not used it and cannot vouch for that.

  • We'll fix it later
  • Don't worry, if the bridge breaks there are two backup bridges conveniently located close by!

  • DYINGINLOVE from Eyephone // DMT-156 by Aquababe

    dmttapes.bandcamp.com DYINGINLOVE, by Aquababe

    from the album Eyephone // DMT-156

    DYINGINLOVE, by Aquababe

    cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1199998

    > Happy Friday!

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    DYINGINLOVE from Eyephone // DMT-156 by Aquababe

    dmttapes.bandcamp.com DYINGINLOVE, by Aquababe

    from the album Eyephone // DMT-156

    DYINGINLOVE, by Aquababe

    Happy Friday!

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    stylish
  • Alligators steal hats all the time?

  • Restoring wildlife habitats in wealthy nations could drive extinctions in species-rich regions
  • Holy shit guys, it's not the wild and out of control global consumption that's the problem, it's those mean ole conservationists forcing production to poorer nations. Limitless growth at all costs, right? Certainly can't discuss producing less so we can protect more biodiversity worldwide - even in less wealthy places.

  • ジャングルに深く-INTRO from インタラクティブ百科事典 by PACIFICO CORP/国際

    pentium2.bandcamp.com ジャングルに深く-INTRO, by PACIFICO CORP/国際

    from the album インタラクティブ百科事典

    ジャングルに深く-INTRO, by PACIFICO CORP/国際

    cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1182062

    > Are you a fan of world beats and non-comprehensible lyrics and also this song? > > While not vaporwave, I urge you to check out Deep Forest: Boheme and Deep Forest: Pacifique, two amazing albums.

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    ジャングルに深く-INTRO from インタラクティブ百科事典 by PACIFICO CORP/国際

    pentium2.bandcamp.com ジャングルに深く-INTRO, by PACIFICO CORP/国際

    from the album インタラクティブ百科事典

    ジャングルに深く-INTRO, by PACIFICO CORP/国際

    Are you a fan of world beats and non-comprehensible lyrics and also this song?

    While not vaporwave, I urge you to check out Deep Forest: Boheme and Deep Forest: Pacifique, two amazing albums.

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    What do people use for a shelf-stable backup
  • No, they don't, I pulled it out of my butt. I rewrote my original draft and that slipped in. NVME wouldn't make sense unless you were powering them up every few months for updates.

  • What do people use for a shelf-stable backup
  • If you buy your LTO drive new, then yes they rip you a new one, for sure! Buy it used...but it still will cost you a few hundred. Like I said, if money is not a concern. If losing the encryption key is a concern, then USB is still your best bet. Make two, keep them simple and unencrypted, stick em in two different safes, update them regularly. And print the documentation with pictures!

  • What do people use for a shelf-stable backup
  • The other thing is if I get hit by a bus and no one can work out how to decrypt a backup or whatever.

    Documentation, documentation, documentation. No matter what system you have, make sure your loved ones have a detailed, image-heavy, easy to follow guide on how restorations work - at the file level, at the VM level, at whatever level you are using.

    That being said, DVDs actually have quite a short shelf life, all things considered. I'd be more inclined to use a pair of archival strength USB NVME drive, updated and tested routinely(quarterly, yearly, whatever makes sense). Or even an LTO tape, if you want to purchase the drive and some tapes.

    You can put your backups in something like VeraCrypt. Set an insanely long password, encoded in a QR code, printed on paper. Store it in the same secured location you store your USB drives (or elsewhere, if you have a security posture).

    You may also consider, if money is not a concern, a cloud VPS or other online file storage, similarly encrypted. This can provide an easy URL to access for the less tech-savvy, along with secured credentials for recovery efforts. Depending on what your successors might need to access, this could be a very straightforward way to log into a website and download what they need in an emergency.

  • 85% discount from ゴールデンウィーク by PARCO

    seikomart.bandcamp.com 85% discount, by PARCO

    from the album ゴールデンウィーク

    85% discount, by PARCO

    cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1165360

    >"In the late aughts, vaporwave was invented.This has made a lot of people angry, and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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    85% discount from ゴールデンウィーク by PARCO

    seikomart.bandcamp.com 85% discount, by PARCO

    from the album ゴールデンウィーク

    85% discount, by PARCO

    >"In the late aughts, vaporwave was invented.This has made a lot of people angry, and been widely regarded as a bad move."

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    非常に特別な人 from superkelly素晴らしいです by // P E N T I U M 2 // ダニ

    pentium2.bandcamp.com 非常に特別な人, by // P E N T I U M 2 // ダニ

    from the album superkelly素晴らしいです

    非常に特別な人, by // P E N T I U M 2 //  ダニ

    cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1153063

    >How can vaporwave be real if our minds are not real?

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    非常に特別な人 from superkelly素晴らしいです by // P E N T I U M 2 // ダニ

    pentium2.bandcamp.com 非常に特別な人, by // P E N T I U M 2 // ダニ

    from the album superkelly素晴らしいです

    非常に特別な人, by // P E N T I U M 2 //  ダニ

    >How can vaporwave be real if our minds are not real?

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    Gunnerkrigg Court - Chapter 97: Page 11
  • She'll bloody cut you, she will.

  • 【don some hightops and chill】 ソニーとの楽しい時間

    cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1146284

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    【don some hightops and chill】 ソニーとの楽しい時間

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    First self-hosted post!
  • Receiving signal up in low earth orbit! Congrats!

  • I don't understand the purpose of some selfhosting
  • Sounds like you should get a basic low power linux box going!

  • ***"Does your instance still not allow uploads?"*** Okay, let's test that with some Jim Benton cartoons, sourced from my Google Drive...
  • Okay, then yes - I can see it all! I can see the title post, AND the 9 panel shows up. Clicking the link also loads the picture in Boost.

  • ***"Does your instance still not allow uploads?"*** Okay, let's test that with some Jim Benton cartoons, sourced from my Google Drive...
  • Hello, thanks for your ongoing image stuggles~

    On Alexanderite, the second comic shows:

    However on Boost and the default Lemmy front end it does not:

  • 0:59 from ᴄɪᴛʏ ᴏғ ᴍᴇ by M4 Vaporwave

    m4sound.bandcamp.com 0:59, by M4 Vaporwave

    from the album ᴄɪᴛʏ ᴏғ ᴍᴇ

    0:59, by M4 Vaporwave

    cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1137086

    > Happy Friday, vaporwavitians!

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    0:59 from ᴄɪᴛʏ ᴏғ ᴍᴇ by M4 Vaporwave

    m4sound.bandcamp.com 0:59, by M4 Vaporwave

    from the album ᴄɪᴛʏ ᴏғ ᴍᴇ

    0:59, by M4 Vaporwave

    Happy Friday, vaporwavitians!

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    Miez chilling in her cat crate like it's the most normal thing ever
  • They be grace, they be elegance, hey those cats a' sitting two a' pence!

  • SPECIAL  ☆ from L​i​f​e E​n​t​e​r​p​r​i​s​e​s // DMT​-​134 by Dante Mars Ajeto!

    dmttapes.bandcamp.com SPECIAL  ☆, by Dante Mars Ajeto!

    from the album Life Enterprises // DMT-134

    SPECIAL  ☆, by Dante Mars Ajeto!

    cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1123143

    Ceterum autem censeo Vaporwave esse delendam. > -Cato the Elder, probably

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    SPECIAL  ☆ from L​i​f​e E​n​t​e​r​p​r​i​s​e​s // DMT​-​134 by Dante Mars Ajeto!

    dmttapes.bandcamp.com SPECIAL  ☆, by Dante Mars Ajeto!

    from the album Life Enterprises // DMT-134

    SPECIAL  ☆, by Dante Mars Ajeto!

    Ceterum autem censeo Vaporwave esse delendam. > -Cato the Elder, probably

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    000 from 2009grind by bootlegbby

    cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1108580

    > Happy Friday! This whole album is quite excellent.

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    000 from 2009grind by bootlegbby

    Happy Friday! This whole album is quite excellent.

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    cross-posted from: https://orbiting.observer/post/1094081

    >Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly ninety million miles, is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think vaporwave is a pretty neat idea. This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small, green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole, it wasn't the small, green pieces of paper which were unhappy. And so the problem remained, and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones who listened to vaporwave. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans. And then one day, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl, sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no-one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass and so the idea was lost forever.

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    >Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western spiral arm of the galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this, at a distance of roughly ninety million miles, is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think vaporwave is a pretty neat idea. This planet has, or had, a problem, which was this. Most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small, green pieces of paper, which is odd, because on the whole, it wasn't the small, green pieces of paper which were unhappy. And so the problem remained, and lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones who listened to vaporwave. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place, and some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no-one should ever have left the oceans. And then one day, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl, sitting on her own in a small cafe in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no-one would have to get nailed to anything. Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass and so the idea was lost forever.

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