restic to a local server and to cloud storage. it varies by device, but usually just everything in /home/. The rest of the operating system should be reproducible, whether through images, ansible, nix, or guix, given the information in /home/.

scheduling is done through systemd, usually (or the non-systemd equivalent). I use BackBlaze now, but I switch around occasionally. restic has policy based snapshot removal, and a prune option.

2006 is here, it wants it’s IDF targeting UNIFIL back. Just like back then, I don’t think anything more than strongly worded ltters are going to happen.

It doesn’t seem like there’s any enforcement method, just “social influence”.

In other words, they made a scoreboard.

I mean, I understand the difficulty conceptually, I’ve even seen friends struggle with it, but “understanding” is a whole 'nother ball game. I’ve had more struggle in the other direction, perhaps that’s why.

You could try using Hashicorp’s Packer to generate images repeatably (usually more meant for cloud images though). Or NixOS (like others have mention), or Guix (like NixOS, but better in some ways, worse in others). You could make it an Ansible playbook, which would let you both make configured images, and just configure machines that already have an OS.

I do something similar with archiso, fwiw, but that only works with Arch Linux.

Would you want to change your distribution, or just keep Debian with some tools to automate?

I know there’s been a few people talking about weight loss stuff on the Hexbear megathreads, you’d surely be in good company.

Is there anything in particular that makes keeping that weight loss difficult?

It is indeed a shame that this community is inactive, but maybe c/fitness or c/self_improvement on Hexbear could be of help?

I’m on the web on computer, and I see the alt text when I hover over the image.

Annas archive exists

Make a plugin to a non-vim editor that properly emulates the vim experience, with the non-vim GUI.

Or, if that doesn’t work well enough, fork them.

Failing that, you could just accept your fate. I love my neovim install.

It’s a bit of a false dichotomy, there’s a broad spectrum in both.

A lot of the benefit of religion doesn’t come from the beliefs itself, but the community around them. You could just have a community built around other things, or even a religion that doesn’t mandate theism (UU’s and Quakers come to mind, they have fairly large atheist populations. There’s also less “serious” religions, like TST).

It’s not really something we can do, sadly. Reddit closing it’s API was more about getting money than actually stopping it’s use as a training set.

Having an allow-list is a start though, as it means that a company can’t just make an instance and suck all the data out through that. Common corporate crawlers could be added to the robots.txt, but that would mean that you might not be able to find lemmy instances in search results. We could make it against ToS, but what are we going to do, sue the massive corporation? They have plenty of lawyer and payout money, so very little would fundamentally change.

Ultimately, if content can be served to us, it can be served to them.

Well, it really depends on what exactly you’re looking for. Really, the best country to move to is the one where you have a job and a backup lined up. Look around the foreign job market, see if something matches up with your skills. English is a really common language, so sometimes you won’t even need to learn the language to get your foot in the door. You will probably need to learn the language of the country you go to, though.

Be careful though, just because it’s not America doesn’t mean it’s safer, and just because it’s safer now doesn’t mean it’ll be safer later (like of the US coups or invades the country you picked, or any multitude of other events that could make the situation unstable).

I imagine you want somewhere that’s more amenable to you politics as well, so I would go with either Vietnam or China. Cuba is very cool, but sanctions have cut it off enough that it might be difficult to find work with the America-centric skills you have. With Vietnam and China, they aren’t really sanctioned the way Cuba is. You could easily work on most American projects in China, and they probably have domestic equivalent to basically everything we have here. If you want a lot of the benefits of China, but without the great firewall or other minor inconveniences, Vietnam is a nice option. You could also go to Hong Kong or one of the other formerly colonized cities, they have a lot of the benefits of China, with many of the conveniences of the West.

Ultimately, you should do a lot of research. Moving countries is one of the more difficult things a person can do, especially if you want to live there long-term. Research your family history, research the job opportunities (plenty of people will be willing to scam you, and might not even live in the country the claim to. over the internet, anything is possible), research medication (some medication isn’t legal, or is really hard to get, in some parts of the world), and make sure this is really what you want.

Also, if you do move to a foreign country, try to keep your American citizenship (assuming you have one). Even if you don’t want to live in America, and disagree with most everything America does, American citizenship and an American passport are very powerful. As an American, it’s easier to get visas for other countries, border checkpoints are a little bit easier to get through, and American citizenship grants a number of legal protections. Your passport is also your lifeline if you ever need to get out, for some reason. The American consulate in most countries is fairly helpful.

Exciting! Sort of interestingly, I never dual booted or anything, I just jumped straight to Linux.

Honestly, it’s really not that bad. Linux has come a long way since I started out, and while I usually make it harder for myself than it needs to be, I’ve seen young middle schoolers installing and using Linux, I’ve seen retired professional musicians with no technical background install and use Linux. Especially with all these new fancy atomic desktops, like Silverblue, Bazzite, and Kinoite. Admittedly, I have managed to break a Kinoite installation (doing stuff I probably shouldn’t have been doing), but fixing it felt magical. Just roll back to when it wasn’t borked, then update it.

I did a lot of not so nice things to that installation (it was a bit of a test, to see how fragile it was), and it’s still running now!

imo you should, before nuking your account, make a backup of everything you said, and maybe some of the surrounding context, and then host it on a website. Just make sure your website is all properly indexed, and shows up when you use the right search terms. I have no idea what the legality of such an undertaking would be, but it would be cool. Or, if you don’t want to bother with that, you could try writing some blog posts based off of the correct answers you gave to obscure questions.

But really, it all depends on what you did with you Reddit account. If you answered people’s obscure questions, you should keep that information. Would someone look up a question you answered? Did you talk a lot in more technical subreddits? Did those arguments you have result in any positive change? But if you spent all your time on big threads with thousands of other people replying, or did a bunch of lurking, maybe your account isn’t worth keeping.

If you account is only of value to you, maybe just downoad a copy of everyhting you’ve said on there, then nuke your account with some tool.

significant other, probably

I almost thought you were that bot that changes youtube links to invidious ones, lol.

Yeah, those tend to be good (well, tux.pizza is a bit of an exception, it shows the error that the others fixed). It’s a little annoying that a lot of the invidious instances that work won’t show up when you do the “switch instance” thing on an instance that doesn’t work, but it makes a bit of sense, not wanting to get overwhelmed, or trying to not get too noticed.

Yeah, youtube breaks things all too frequently, and a lot of the time these projects can’t push out updates fast enough. A lot of invidious instances sadly don’t work (as of the last time I checked them, a few days ago), but a few usually work because they merge patches before upstream does. inv[dot]nadeko[dot]net comes to mind.

Some banking apps won’t run without SafetyNet (technically now Play Integrity). Pure AOSP doesn’t have it, and AOSP distributions with sandboxed play services or whatever usually fail the hardware attestation requirements. There are some other reasons banking apps won’t work, but a lot of it is similar stuff.