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I'm just wildly pleased with the switch to #NixOS.

My Pi was super dead after the latest storm related power issues, even the external drive doesn't power up properly anymore.

So I hacked together a deploy script and repurposed the mini PC I wasn't actually using. A couple days later and now I've got #HomeAssistant back up in a container, centralized my admin and backed it up to version control.

"Maybe someday" automation items were accessible immediately. I love it.

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For those who are interested: This is going well but it is a far longer process than I have done before. Usually I would resize all the disks and install the operating system and then restore the vital data from a backup drive.

This time I have elected to restore everything from my cloud based encrypted backup. This is 300+ GB in size. It's proving to be a long slow process which is annoying but also a really good test of my backup/restore process.

I expected it to be faster. I have restored multi-GB sized chunks of data
using this backup solution with no speed issues. This, however, is crawling. I have 70gb restored after ~7 hours time.

When I last set up my laptop a couple of years ago I didn't give enough space to the root partition. As a consequence I am running into difficulties when working with databases > 5gb in size. As a result I will be blowing it away completely and doing a full disk reconfiguration and re-install.

The plan is to give the root partition 30GB (prob a bit of overkill) and split out the /var directory onto its own 30GB (perhaps even bigger) partition which should give me enough space.

I know I am a geek as I am quite looking forward to this work.

Got a driving lesson this morning. Dreading it, literally gut wrenching anxiety. I hate this so much. I'm so SICK of doubting myself.

So, I'll try to be my own Samwise today...encouraging and enthusiastic self talk, and carrying myself with strength and determination!

#LearningToDriveSUCKS! #BeYourOwnSamwiseGamgee #LordOfTheRingsAffirmations #Geekery #Tolkien #Affirmations #WellbeingThroughSpecialInterests