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A Culture Mind. Because I want to live in the Culture and if you have one mind, it can make others.

I've been kind of liking Brave Search lately, even though I'm not really a fan of the browser.

I use Quickemu for mine, makes it really quick and easy to get a new system up and running.

For the Wikipedia part, it's surprisingly simple. I just used Kiwix and grabbed a copy, it's only about 100gb or so. You can also use it to get offline copies of other stuff, like Project Gutenberg.

Yeah same here lol. Already got Wikipedia and backup copies of all my books, as well as enough TV and movies to last a good long while. Also an entire offline copy of Project Gutenberg.

Same for the UK and Canada too.

Also, Operation Paperclip. A good chunk of post-war US prosperity was built on the work of Nazis who escaped justice and moved there.

I find it's great for doing all the piddly day-to-day crap that I don't want to put much brain power into, like writing cover letters and emailing the bank or whatever.

I think as long as it's used sparingly it can free you up to do stuff you'd rather be doing, but IMO where people go wrong is when they use it to do the stuff they want to be doing as well.

Yeah I own 1 and 2, all I need is a button that's like "click this to get the rest of it" and I'll do it. But I haven't picked up 3 because I don't want to spend an hour figuring out how to buy the fucking thing that will probably end up not getting me all the content anyway.

When I saw the title my brain immediately went "Hitman" before I even read the rest of it lol.

I own the first two, but I haven't bought the third one because I literally don't understand the process of how you're supposed to buy it.

At this point, I can only assume they they don't want people to purchase their game for some reason.

I assume in this context the benefit using LUKS is that even if someone does recover data from the drive, they'd just get encrypted data which is unreadable? If so, I hadn't considered that before!

I will say, the timing and the way that all panned out was awfully convenient.

Oh yeah that's way better lol

I had a boss who asked me about a similar thing, their computer was going slow. I saw them checking their email by booting up their (quite old) Mac, launching a VM which loaded a full Windows installation, then opening Outlook inside Windows. I asked about it, and apparently they used to have a PC and Outlook set up for their email, then at some point had switched to Mac and somehow landed on that as the solution. I told them you can just install Outlook directly onto the Mac and they said I was being unhelpful lol.

Yeah I think the Democrats would have lost no matter who they ran IMO. I think Trump won the second that assassin missed and he did the fist pump in front of the American flag. That's exactly the sort of shit people eat up.

And it's funny that Biden's all pissy about it because I think he actually did play it the best way he could to benefit himself personally - by dropping out he wins no matter what. If Harris had won, he'd have looked heroic for stepping aside and 'putting country before himself' or whatever, and now that she lost, he can just say "well I would have won if I'd stayed" which you can't really prove definitively one way or the other.

I think they're going to pull a strategy of just doing everything so fast that people won't have time to react properly to anything before the next, worse things comes along. Trump virtually admitting that Musk interfered with voting machines yesterday, Nazi Salute today, 200+ executive orders dropping tomorrow. Sort of like a Gish gallop of Nazism.

Hmm, I have no idea to be honest! I just back up to an external drive. It does look like you can rsync to anything you have SSH access to, but I've never tried it personally.

Yeah same here, my current uptime is 3.5 hours lol

I’m interested in the rsync part for backups, do you have a good guide or video for that? Thanks

I don't really have a guide or anything for it to hand, but essentially what that alias is doing is:

• rsync = running rsync
• --ignore-existing = as you might have guessed, this tells rsync not to copy a file if it already exists at the destination.
• -rav = additional arguments. r = recursive, IE also copy subfolders. a = archive mode, preserves things like symlinks etc. and v = verbose, just tells you extra info about what's going on.

So with that alias, I can just type rs [target folder] [destination folder] and it'll copy it across exactly as it is, ignore anything that's already there and tell me precisely what it's doing.

I do mine in Obsidian, I just have a folder for 'computer notes' and whenever I figure out a new thing I drop it in there.

Some stuff I use often I set up as an alias too. So for example I have alias yt='yt-dlp -f "bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4"' for my most commonly used yt-dlp settings, so now I can just do yt [URL of video] to quickly download something from YouTube. Or alias rs="sudo rsync --ignore-existing -rav" for my rsync settings for a specific backup folder I copy a lot.