I back up all user data, for me that’s some folders in /var, all of /etc (don’t need everything, but it’s small enough), mysqldumps and pgsqldumps of my databases and the output of dpkg --get-selections. And the backup script itself.

Everything is rsynced to a server in another location.

I want to switch to Borg backup but haven’t found the time yet.

For the first time in forever I am playing multiple games at the same time.

Lands of Lore: Throne of Chaos. I had that game as a kid but I don’t think I ever got any further than the first enemy. And it’s amazing! The whole game is dubbed. And it has four protagonists to choose from, each with their individual voice lines about basically any situation or item you come across. And all the NPC’s lines match them and they address you by name.

And the graphics are super beautiful. Pixel graphics but with great details and animations. Like when you get your spellbook you get a super elaborate T-1000-like animation of some droplets forming a scroll.

X-Wing via XWVM: The old X-Wing game with updated graphics and quality of life improvements. Just awesome! It’s still an alpha but basically plays like a beta. I have hardly any bugs, just occasional crashes, and none are game breaking. And supposedly they are already pretty far along with TIE Fighter compatibility. Can’t wait to play that. TIE Fighter TC is nice and all, but stuffing everything into the X-Wing Alliance engine feels pretty clunky while XWVM just works.

Cyberpunk 2077: My son bought it on sale and I wanted to try it as well, although I don’t really like cyberpunk. Too realistic. But the game is great. Plays like a combination of Deus Ex and GTA. I’d say it feels more like the original Deus Ex than the newer Deus Ex games. Maybe with slightly less open levels. But not much.

Limbo and Inside: The games are about to be delisted from GOG so I got them quickly. It’s chill to play which suits me well. Love it so far.

At school we had an anonymous grievances box. So that the kids could safely air their grievances. It was rarely used. But one day a note read “I don’t want to be called Willy anymore.” And amazingly it worked. Even the biggest bullies and class trolls called him William from that day on.

When I applied for a job at this company, my last interview was with “Joe”. For everyone else I got the first and last name. And email addresses were also [email protected]. But not for Joe. Joe’s was just [email protected].

Same company after I was hired. I got on at about the same time as Peter-Michael. Whom we all called Peter-Michael. Because he was introduced as Peter-Michael. A few months in he revealed that he’s only Peter-Michael at work. Everyone else just calls him Peter. It just happened like that because he used his full name on his application and then went with it.

I know several people who go with their second name as their usual name when around friends. Either because they like it more or sometimes because the parents chose that order because secondname-firstname sounded weird.

Gotta check if my GPU even supports CEC.

HDMI-CEC seems to be currently unsupported. So you won’t be able to use your TV’s remote yet.

Nice! The revival is further along than I thought. Can’t wait to put it on my Steam Deck. And maybe my desktop PC will move into the living room in the near future. Would be the perfect timing.

Probably then it’s trying to find real humans before throwing you back down to the bots.

Meh, spacetime curvature has so little effect that it actually does come down to measurement accuracy. And if you go to the scale of the whole universe it is flat as far as we currently know.

Now I wonder how LISA will handle curvature changes due to sun, earth and moon moving around, or if they won’t make enough of a difference.

The universe being non euclidian needs some extraordinary evidence.

Wat?

Plus, their equivalent of the AUR, the open build system, can actually be used to build packages for any system.

Yes, but that would involve choosing a password manager, setting up the password manager, learning how to use the password manager and remembering to use the password manager.

With SEPA transfer your choice of “card” is totally irrelevant. This has been a thing for decades (at least half a century, even before SEPA existed) to transfer money from one account to another. It’s easy and straightened. Nowadays it’s even quick.

I never understood why people felt a need for PayPal when you could just as easily send someone money. And if you wanted something with more customer protection there’s “Bankeinzug” for which I don’t even know if an English word exists. You basically give a company permission to pull the money from your account. In case of fraudulent activity you can retroactively revoke that permission.

I’m reminded of when my boss asked me whether our entry test was too hard after getting several submissions that wouldn’t even run.

Sometimes prospective employees are just shit.

There literally are forums with ActivityPub support. Bumping is not some magic feature of forums. If you sort on Lemmy by activity you can get exactly the same behaviour.

And bumping is even often frowned upon because it pollutes active discussions. It’s just people abusing how those forums sort threads.

Then why are there post types for just text or images? Because it isn’t just a link aggregator. Same thing with Reddit. It hasn’t been a pure link aggregator for decades.

Light sabers follow a similar overall principle of ‘plasma bolt contained by some kind of coherence field’… but they use totally different internals to generate both the plasma and coherence field, and can seemingly just… do this nearly infinitely, never needing to ‘reload’, never running out of energy.

In the comics taking place tens of thousands of years before the movies the Jedi have to carry large energy cells with them. They are attached with long cables to the hilts.

They aren’t lasers, though. That’s just a colloquial term. Like how we call large language models AI.

Rowling striking again with her TERF views that only integrated GPUs matter.