Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

@Aminorjourney - Visibility means EVERYTHING. Loving the trans visibility....

@Andy - So when Celeste came out, a co-worker really pushed hard for me to get it. I did, and it was SUPER hard. To the point I stopped enjoying the game.

I made a social media post about it, not angry or anything, just "it's way above my skill level" and one of the developers contacted me and said "Hey, use the assist mode. That's why it's there. Not to tell you you suck, but to make the game enjoyable." HE then friended me on my switch, and I finished the game and was super DUPER happy with it.

If it gets to be too much, use the assist mode. It'll make the game super enjoyable, cause it gets nuts.

@Mondobizarrro @Nil - The Whole Trial of a Time Lord arc? Or the Mysterious Planet story?

So I go grocery shopping on Friday. Should I make my usual Fancy Pants Meal? Or play around with the air fryer. If I do the air fryer, WHAT SHOULD I PLAY AROUND WITH? :D

Today I "vapor locked." It's a mindset I get into when something just grabs my attention and doesn't let go. I had chores to do, and stuff to set up, and I NEVER got to it. Why?

So I've got my Big Backup coming at the end of the year, and I decided to use RAR compression. Seeing that there was a RAR implementation for Linux, I figured I could just use that Linux version over the WinRAR version.

But since WinRAR was a graphical program, and RAR was command line, I'd have to experiment and find out what switches and commands and all sorts of fun I'd need to make the WinRAR compression work in Linux. That took me nearly six hours of experimenting and backing and forthing and I eventually got it.

When I was done, I was still supercharged on trying to get my backups in order for the 1st, and began organizing my cluttered desktop into more organized directories and going through my Organized Backups for a little cleanup (the unorganized backups are...a nightmare). Next thing I know it's 1AM.

Here's where things start getting wierd. I had one more thing I needed to and that was finish up organizing my digitized books. Just basically sorting them into Fiction and Non-Fiction. And that's when the "vapor lock" started to fade. Suddenly I wanted to be doing ANYTHING other than organizing books.

I ate dinner, watched a movie, chatted with a friend, all the while trying to get my brain to Just Finish This Last Thing Before Bed. And more and more, I just didn't want to finish it. I was bored, distractable.

How funny that basically ten hours of time goes by in a flash with a huge amount of work, and then the next two go by at a crawl of me just trying to sort 100 books into Fiction or Non-Fiction and my brain doing anything it can to not do it.

Anyways, it's done, and I plan to keep file changes to a minimum until the 1st. On the first, I'll reinstall all the systems for a nice clean operating system (the plan is to refresh the OSes every two years moving forward), and once that's done, do the year-end backups. That'll take a few days, if not a week (power outages permitting).

Vapor-locking rarely happens, but when it does I can move mountains - as long as moving mountains is what interests me when it hits.

@MorningSong - I've found a good set of strings for RAR archiving that worked for me. I actually installed WinRAR on a Windows partition, clicked all the buttons and clicks I use for my yearly updates, and found the corresponding strings. I think I managed it!

Incremental Monthly Home Directory Backup
rar a -m5 -r -s -v5370000 -x/home/dolari/.local/share/Trash/ -ep2 -ol -rr -taYYYYMMDDHHSS -tbYYYYMMDDHHSS "YYMM Incremental Nayru Home Directory Backup.rar" /home/dolari/

Incremental Monthly Backup:
rar a -m5 -r -s -v5370000 -x"/mnt/The Archive/Videos/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/00_DUMP/Videos/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/.Trash-1000/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/Working Directory/" -ep2 -ol -rr -taYYYYMMDDHHSS -tbYYYYMMDDHHSS "YYMM Incremental Backup.rar" "/mnt/The Archive"

Full Home Directory Backup
rar a -m5 -r -s -v5370000 -x/home/dolari/.local/share/Trash/ -ep2 -ol -rr "YYMM Nayru Home Directory Backup.rar" /home/dolari/

Full Yearly Backup
rar a -m5 -r -s -v5370000 -x"/mnt/The Archive/Videos/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/00_DU

Tom Smothers
1937-2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HshZ5p5R0QY

::opens Threads::
::Threads defaults to "For You"::
::immediately loads a transphobic post::

"How is this in any way 'For Me?'"

::hits block::

Looks like I got it!

Home Directory Backup
rar a -m5 -r -s -v5370000 -x/home/dolari/.local/share/Trash. -x/home/dolari/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/ -ep2 -ol -rr "YYMM Nayru Home Directory Backup.rar" /home/dolari/

Incremental backups:
rar a -m5 -r -s -v5370000 -x"/mnt/The Archive/Videos/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/00_DUMP/Videos/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/.Trash-1000/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/Working Directory/" -ep2 -ol -rr -taYYYYMMDDHHSS "YYMM Incremental Backup.rar" "/mnt/The Archive"

Full Yearly Backup
rar a -m5 -r -s -v5370000 -x"/mnt/The Archive/Videos/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/00_DUMP/Videos/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/.Trash-1000/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/Working Directory/" -ep2 -ol -rr "YYYMM Full Backup.rar" "/mnt/The Archive"

@vertigo - Looks like I got it!

Home Directory Backup
rar a -m5 -r -s -v5370000 -x/home/dolari/.local/share/Trash. -x/home/dolari/.var/app/com.valvesoftware.Steam/ -ep2 -ol -rr "YYMM Nayru Home Directory Backup.rar" /home/dolari/

Incremental backups:
rar a -m5 -r -s -v5370000 -x"/mnt/The Archive/Videos/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/00_DUMP/Videos/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/.Trash-1000/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/Working Directory/" -ep2 -ol -rr -taYYYYMMDDHHSS "YYMM Incremental Backup.rar" "/mnt/The Archive"

Full Yearly Backup
rar a -m5 -r -s -v5370000 -x"/mnt/The Archive/Videos/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/00_DUMP/Videos/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/.Trash-1000/" -x"/mnt/The Archive/Working Directory/" -ep2 -ol -rr "YYYMM Full Backup.rar" "/mnt/The Archive"

@MorningSong - THANK YOU for that link though. Shows that RAR is the better compression! I guess I just need to figure out what my miles long command line it's gonna be. :)

@MorningSong - For a while I used 7Zip, but I stopped about a decade ago when an archive broke and there were zero recovery options for it. I looked into it again after someone told me that 7Zip was better compression, and thier recovery irons were a bit...arcane.

https://www.7-zip.org/recover.html

@vertigo - there is a RAR implementation for Linux but it's all command line and I was trying to avoid a mile long typing adventure for all the options I use in WinRAR (File Roller will use RAR once it's installed but won't give you a lot of the advanced features I need). Plus if TAR.XZ gives better compression I'd take "waiting to find the file" hit.

Saved the seafood marinara by basically picking out the seafood, and adding it to storebought marinara. :)

Yuck has become YUM!

@Frances_Larina - I'm hoping one will open up out here. There's still a sit down pizza hut in Bellevue. I went there once expecting the old treatment, I got the drive-thru treatment at a table....