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The AI companies are inbreeding intentionally now? Wonderful!

It’s a sure sign of a healthy non-bubble economy when a random Substack post can cause a stock market crash.

Turns out organisms are mostly made up of elements that are very common in the environment, which makes sense if you think about it.

That’s odd, maybe it has to do with symlinks? Adding --dereference to the du command will count the file size of the files referenced by symlinks. If that doesn’t show anything abnormal, I’d compare the directory sizes between your home directory and the rsync backup and try to find where they differ significantly. If it does show a much larger size, narrow down the location of the relevant symlinks (may be a hidden directory) and either delete them or exclude them from the rsync.

You can rerun the du command with --count-links to count hardlinks multiple times. If that shows >780GiB you have a lot of hardlinks somewhere, which you can narrow down by rerunning the command on each of the subdirectories in your home directory.

Your options would be to delete the hardlinks to decrease your total file size, exclude them from the rsync with --exclude, or repartition your SSD to a filesystem that supports hardlinks.

BTRFS supports compression and deduplication, so the actual disk space used might be less than the total size of your home directory. I’d run du -sh --apparent-size /home/sbird to check how large your home dir actually is. If it’s larger than 780 GiB, there’s your problem. Otherwise there might be hardlinks which rsync is copying multiple times; add the -H flag to copy hardlinks as hardlinks.

Felt kinda sad about it, but I feel sad most days so it’s not really any different. Hung out with a friend which was nice.

The color the baby will be? I think they usually come out pretty red.

The copyright doesn’t apply to the event of Vance being booed itself, it applies to that specific video recording of it. Sure the video creator is a dick for getting it taken down, but they’re within their legal rights to.

Your own email domain + an account at a privacy respecting email service is more than worth it. Avoids the privacy nightmare that is using Google/Microsoft for your email, and gives you the flexibility to change email providers on a whim if your current one starts doing anything you don’t like.

Online backups should be an absolute last resort in the case of something catastrophic like a house fire, not your only copy of important data. Losing them should just mean a little less redundancy in that regard.

It was never a free feature; they used to only allow up to 2X speed. Not that that justifies it at all of course.

If you want to avoid being marked as spam I’d just go with .com, it’s as mainstream as you’ll get and only $10/year or so from a good registrar.

+1 for mailbox.org, been using them for nearly a year and am quite happy with their service. Do note that their web UI is mediocre so you’ll probably want to use a mail client.

And definitely use a custom domain, they’re super cheap and allow for so much more flexibility (such as dedicated emails for different services).

Not really, but dying in a car crash sounds like an awful way to go.

Sort your data into stuff you absolutely need to keep (personal files and such) and stuff you’d be okay with losing (less important files, device backups, downloads you can redownload, etc). Then only back up the former. As for backup medium, ServerPartDeals often has some pretty good deals on storage; they were selling refurbished 12TB drives for $80 a pop a while back.

Most people aren’t choosing to enable OneDrive; it’s enabled by default, and not obvious how to disable.

Step 1: Sell shirt that requires new bras

Step 2: Sell new bras

Step 3: Profit?

A Falcon 9 does a pretty good job.

People are too used to using the downvote button as an “I dislike this” button, and that carries over here. Solid unpopular opinion though; I wholeheartedly disagree.