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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • Smart things my “stupid” dog does:

    1. I have a box with gamepads, remotes and headphones next to the coch. My dog knows thats off-limits to him. If he wants attention and I ignore him long enough, he will then start to paw at the box. Sort of to say “Look at me…look what I’m doing…I’m touching the box…can’t ignore me now…”

    2. Anytime he does something super cute, the microsecond when I point my phone camera at him, he will turn away. Not if I suddenly reach for my phone, not if I’m just scrolling, but literally as soon as I want to tap the shutter button. It’s become quite a challenge to try and sneakily take pictures of him.

    3. Both my wife and me work from home 9-5. He will pretty much sleep during that time and not be much of a bother. Around 6 we have Dinner, and then take him for a walk for him to do his business. After that we relax in front of the TV. He pretty much knows we’ll watch about two episodes of some show, then step outside for a smoke. So as soon as the second episode stops, he’s already on top of us, begging for attention.











  • How much data in total do you need to backup?

    Secondly, backups need to be setup to happen automatically, otherwise you will forget about them.

    In terms of NAS, you could just get a raspberry pi, and attach a big portable drive via USB. Should be small enough so you can carry it around, plus you can set it up to do automatic backups into the cloud.

    In fact, you can even setup different backup scripts that run, whenever you plug in a different drive into the raspberry pi. Each drive’s filesystem would have unique identifier ID, so you can easily create a script the reacts to whenever that drive is plugged in and run a different script when a different drive is plugged in. e.g. lets say you have one drive you always want to sync with the cloud, and another that you just want to sync with a drive on your NAS.

    Lastly, you should always consider how important is the stuff you are backing up really. If it’s easier to re-create/re-download from other sources as opposed to the time and effort for backup&restore, then that stuff doesn’t necessarily need to be backed up.