Use btrfs-convert to convert ext4 to btrfs.

NTFS is 31 years old and not modern by any standard. Avoid if you care about your data.

Well, sure. If you did it wrong the first time around. For everyone else, just run “btrfs scrub <device>”

Use a modern filesystem that manages file integrity for you.

I use btrfs.

Don’t forget to scrub and checksum your drive before making backups. You don’t want to copy over rotten bits.

Same goes for the backup. And the backup’s backup.

I won a keg of beer on the entry ticket to a local beer festival.

A local hotel/chateau had organised it. They had failed with their marketing, and managed to pick the same weekend as a much larger beer festival in the same city.

I got ticket #26 on day 1, Saturday. I don’t think they sold more than ten tickets after me that day. I walked past with my dogs the following day and there were like four people there.

Oh, and I also won the demo competition at a local demoparty. First prize was a bag of chips and a brush for doing dishes.

And the 64k intro competition at the biggest demoparty at the time. First prize was a big-ass box of sponsored hardware - graphics cards and processors and stuff.

They planted two plum trees and one cherry tree. I picked so many plums this year. Still have a bunch on the freezer ready to go in pies. Made two batches of slivovice moonshine back in the fall just so they wouldn’t go to waste.

If you like what you we in the shadows, to might also enjoy “our flag means death”.

Created by and starring Waititi. Based on the true story of the gentleman pirate.

I remember when I bought my iPhone 3GS back in the day.

The only option was to buy it carrier locked on a one or two year plan in my country. Of course it was exclusive to a carrier that wasn’t my choice of carrier.

I signed up, put it in a drawer and waited for the imminent jailbreak and unlocked modem firmware. It dropped two weeks later. After that one year of payments they unlocked it through official means.

Pants and shoes I try and buy in-store.

I’ve got my go-to brands for shirts and underwear that I know fit well, so I usually just buy a shitload when my old ones are worn out.

Outerwear is 50/50%.

Most online retailers will let you try and return goods. In the EU you can return anything bought online within 2 weeks, no questions asked (by law).

A lot of fast fashion stores might just burn returns, others might sell them at an outlet. And it cuts into they already thin margins. I try to avoid returns.

Not quite Schrödinger’s cat, but in programming we have Heisenbugs named after Schrödinger’s peer.

It’s when you have a bug/crash that is not reproducible when debugging it. Might be that you’re reading some memory that you’re not supposed to, and the debugger just sets it up differently. Maybe you have a race condition that just never happens with the debugger attached.

Knew several as I was wrapping up uni. Had lots of fun partying and doing local trips with them.

I married one and moved to her home country for a few years. Now we live together in a third country.

All I see is refitting sailboats and retro video game history.

Just about to go to bed with 2h51min screen time.

Baby won’t nap unless she’s in the stroller, so a lot of that is Pokémon Go while trying to get baby to go down for a nap.

I’d try Bodom, population 0, if other than cities are allowed.

Or possibly Santa’s village, population 2 (if you exclude the elves)

It was a shiny EGA card.

On an 8-bit ISA bus, with a whopping 64kB of VRAM. It could display an amazing 16 colours on one screen.

My friend who had a CGA card was so jelly with his four eye-soaring neon colours.

If we’re talking accelerated graphics, I bought a voodoo 2 with 8mb of RAM which linked up to my ATI Mach 64 2d-card.

I plugged one in today. I left the screws loose. Ironically I moved it between two computers that couldn’t originally do VGA.

I re-organised my leisure desk. My C64 sometimes hooks up to a TFT thanks to my turbo chameleon 64 cartridge.

Today I hooked my C64 up to my CRT instead. I needed that TFT for my Amiga 1200 which has DVI-I out thanks to my indivision flickerfixer. But I have a DVI->VGA adapter to use that same cable.

All my troubles seemed so far away?

I was staring at that username for quite a bit after reading the comment saying that it was in their username. I did not get it, either.

Even knowing that there’s a trans flag, and that that’s what is in the username, I wouldn’t know what pronouns to use.

Plenty of options for dual SIM phones here, too.

Which makes it even more convenient to just pop in a local SIM while traveling.

Not so much sailing, but being miserable living on a boat while refitting it on a shoe string budget and no skills. I think this is a suitable entry point to their channel - Wildlings sailing.