Space and SSH

19 December 2025

Space

I would like to have the space to live on a perpetual Saturday.

Perpetual Saturday

Saturdays are special. They have potential, they are less rushed, they feel so much better. Sundays are good too, but there is a certain Sabbatine relaxation that does not feel good to extend.

Saturdays are more forgiving. No one cares if you sleep in until 10 on Saturday. But if you pull that on a weekday, you're a bum (societally speaking).

Saturdays are always pregnant with potential. They are magnificent.

I would ideally live in a way that every day feels like Saturday.

Space to Think

Saturdays have space to think. Space is important to thinking. You cannot have a deep inner dialogue or intellectual thoughts while being constantly thwarted by impending stressors. All work and no play, they say.

Up until lately, I had been spaceless for the past three months. Do not let yourself fall into such a situation! It is painful. A constipation of the brain. Not pleasant at all.

"[Many of the students have] diarreah of the mouth and constipation of the brain." One of my esteemed former colleagues. Granted, this type of cerebral constipation is unrelated to being too stressed to think. I thought it was apropos nontheless.

Making Space

I suppose it would be incredibly prudent to make space to think. I will sound like a FIRE guru by saying 'minimize expenses'.

I would rather work for thirty hours and get paid the same rather than get a 25% raise (at least conceptually). It would be even better to be able to choose. I'm sick of working an industrial schedule in a world where more man-hours doesn't necessarily mean more productivity.

Space Created.

SSH

I've been having disk problems with my NAS. I believe my enclosure is failing. It somehow loses connection while writing things, which, as imagined, is most certainly no-bueno for file integrity. I discovered this while copying a disk backup onto my NAS which was so rudely interrupted by my drive going read-only.

It was an alarming discovery to make.

Thankfully, I recognize that it may be failing instead of merely wondering "huh, why did this disk go read-only?"

As I write this, my other drive just went only. My enclosure is dying, ffs. Time for a 5-hour scrub.

I should probably buy a new one.

This is perhaps the third time it's happened. I'm power cycling and letting the drives cool. Maybe (as I say to the users) they just need a quick nap.

Recovery tools

BTRFS's recovery tools seem brute-force-ish compared to ye-olde `fsck`. I'm sure there's some critical piece of information that I'm missing, but it seems much less elegant. I've also had worse luck with it, so YMMV.

SSH Keys

SSH is so cool. Most /user/s don't even know the power of ssh. Ten-year-old me wouldn't believe you if you said you could access a computer remotely. Ten-year-old me would have been close to a /user/, but with better reading comprehension.