Where’s the one where I’m getting so much work done but it’s not the work I’m supposed to be doing?

Huh, I seem to have woken in 2011

Searching old.reddit.com is getting harder. If you try to site search it on google, it gives you new reddit links.

Old seems to be blocked, as in other search engines it just gives you no results.

Luckily Kagi lets you add rewrite rules so you can filter site:reddit.com and then have reddit.com rewritten to old.reddit.com, but man reddit are fighting against people using the old site.

My friend quit his job and has been making indie games since 2015. It’s been 20 years

If it has been 20 years since 2015 then I think I overslept.

Made up spellings are bad, but good luck searching for anything that isn’t a made up spelling or two words put together.

Buying on Ali Express:

• Buy for $2
• Click on item
• $75 shipping cost
• No way to sort by total cost

I think versioning is the better option.

are you writing about losing the backUp drive?

No, losing your main version. Imagine you have a computer with syncthing and a server where it syncs to. If you chose no deletions, then it will sync all files to the server but all the stuff you deleted (draft documents, random files, photos from that time your kid held the camera button on your phone down and took 3000 photos in 30 seconds) will be deleted from your computer but still there on your server.

When you computer gets struck by lightning and everything is destroyed but the server is fine, now you have to re-sort out all your files because all the stuff you deleted is still on the server version.

Your suggestion of enabling the option to keep previous versions is probably cleaner. Personally I prefer to keep previous versions and deduplicate to save space.

Yes, if you go with something like syncthing, have it also sync to a server where you run borg backup so you get the incremental backup.

Yip you can do that but then it’s messy! And what if you overwrite a file by accident?

And if you do lose your hard drive then you have a weird state to restore from.

I’d much prefer the ability to restore to a point in time that comes with something like borg.

Remember sync isn’t a good backup. You’re thinking of loss of drives but if this is important data you need to also consider mistakes.

If you accidentally delete files you shouldn’t, you don’t want this deletion to sync to all your copies so it’s gone for good and the backup doesn’t help.

Personally I use borgmatic to keep incremental, deduplicated backups. Then I can go back to previous states.

If you install nextcloud all in one, it comes with a backup solution (also borg based). Then devices don’t need a copy of every file. But you’ll want your server to have a backup drive for this.

I then sync my borg backup to a backblaze b2 bucket for offsite, encrypted backup using rclone. That then meets the 3 2 1 backup plan.

I notice you mention Jellyfin. I don’t back up my Jellyfin media, the cloud storage for that could get very expensive and I could get it again if I needed it.

Just to make sure we are on the same page, the dongle I’m talking about is plugged into your PC for wireless controllers to connect to, it’s not an adapter to make wired controllers wireless (I don’t know if that exists).

We use xbox one controllers. Good quality, well supported. I don’t know what you think is pricy but the controllers seem pretty good value to me. $50USD for a wireless one, less for wired but I do think wireless is worth it.

I have a wireless dongle and 3 controllers, haven’t tried Bluetooth in this setup.

Yeah if I’ve read it and not responded, you’re not getting a response. I forgot as soon as I looked away.

That looks awesome! Thanks for the rabbit hole 😅

Everyone sharing their Ctrl+R tips, here’s my Control+R question:

How does scope work? Some command history only seems to exist in certain tabs.

Also sometimes I Ctrl+R in a tab then the command is there but I forget I need a different one first, so I ctrl+c but the next time I search for that original command somehow it doesn’t exist anymore.

I’m using the default terminal on Nobara (fedora based).

Just checking, because I learnt to type before I worked this out, and because surely someone reading doesn’t know: press tab. Bash will fill in file names from your current directory.

E.g. say you have files fred1file, fred2file, jim.

Type f then press tab, it will fill to “fred”. Then press 2 and press tab again and it will fill the full “fred2file”.

Have a play, it works in heaps of situations.

There is so much to like!

I think my favourite is when you go through the files in a team then click “Copy link”. It thinks, thinks, thinks, then when it’s done it has a big green tick but doesn’t actually copy the link until you click a second copy link button.

But I do quite like how when you find the file you want and switch to a chat then it loses your place. And as far as I can tell, there’s no way to bookmark a folder, which is great.

Long story short I love how it tries to do everything instead of being good at one thing!

Yeah cause my work computer limits onedrive storage to like 100mb and downloads is one if the only places where I have write access and it doesn’t go to onedrive.

I think PieFed has only recently got an API for apps to connect to, hence the surge.

I had a friend who had a whole scrap book of notes for Myst. I wasn’t dedicated enough 😅