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Gemini Links 17/08/2024: Distractions and Finding a Backup Solution

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 17, 2024

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Contents

Gemini* and Gopher

Personal/Opinions

Saturday Picnic

I'm looking forward to lunch tomorrow. I have a little routine I like to do on the weekends in the summer or whenever the weather is nice. It's simple. I make some lunch, pack it up with a water bottle and take it down to a local park that has some nice views[1]. And I eat my lunch sitting outside in the shade of a tree. It's nice. Often I will bring a book.

🔤SpellBinding: CEYINXG Wordo: FETOR

Hybrid Shadows - Arrested

Someone who likes my story Hybrid Shadows put emailed me, and gave me a script that downloads the entire story and combines them into a beautifully formatted PDF.

He also gave me some constructive criticism, very much appreciated! I just wanted to say thank you!

Technology and Free Software

Removing a Distraction

I telecommute to work, which is based in a different part of the country from where I live. The company gave me a dock to use with my work laptop, and I set up the dock on my desk in the home office I share with my wife. I'd previously only used this desk for my personal desktop computer.

Having my personal computer right next to my work computer is extremely distracting. If I boot that thing up once, half my attention is gone for the rest of the day. I struggle with self-discipline when it comes to using personal devices during work hours.

Finding a Backup Solution

Recently I realised that my data is in far too few places. Worse than that, I realised that I've lost far too much data through being careless like this. I realised that if I still want the data that I have now in the future I need to put some sort of system in place. Particularly, I'd like to be able to look back on the things I've made and done now in a few decades time. Also, as a content creator I feel it important to have an archive of my work since I can't trust platforms to keep it.

blogging via typewriter? How about writing via file-transfer?

So, I have CricketWireless, it is a 5gb plan, so no Hotspot option, which means my laptop (the HP14, cool-y named x2600) is an offline device. I keep it on Airplane Mode, and just transfer any/all new documents/content/etc over to it via USB-C and the phone.

On my phone (moto G) I have a single file in the Downloads section, called transfer-1.txt. I can plug my phone into my laptop, open this file on the Debian Text Editor on Debian 12, and start typing. Then, it is right there ready to go on the phone to copy/paste into Midnight.pub, Write.as, anywhere and everywhere I see fit. A File Transfer Blog Protocol! lmao!

* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.