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Onomatopoeia
joined 8 months ago
Keep a journal.
I have a single journal for daily events, in excel of all things.
I have a title column, date, related to (Linux, Tailscale, Health, etc) then a Notes column. This way I can filter on the related to column and search it.
I have links to OneNote pages (or just titles), and could easily do the same with Obsidian or anything else. There are years of notes in it now. Anything I've fixed is in there, so easy to find again with my own wording (which is how it started, then I realized keeping a separate personal journal made it harder to see things in general, or connections specifically) .
On my phone I use an app called... Memento. It's like excel, but designed for a simpler UI. Easy for me to create new databases on a whim, or simply add info to one.
I believe many people witg ADHD have a working memory deficit too, so getting new info into long term memory is more crucial for them.
I also agree that handwritten is generally best for journals/notes like this, I just needed it to be searchable.
If it's worth remembering, it's worth writing down.
Quote of the day there.
No way! Color me shocked!
(Yes, that's sarcasm)
Because I cook, and need that stuff back. I don't have all day, I gotta cook again in a few hours.
I always forget which two are the same story, and agree it's better with Robert Mitchum - he just plays that part so well.
So if you think a Tensor 5-powered Pixel 10 will be usable in 7 years, while it may be still getting updates... I got oceanfront property in Colorado to sell you.
The only reason I'm on a Pixel 5 (which I bought last year - 2024) is because I couldn't run a recent enough version of Android on my 2017 phone.
Phone hardware has been pretty good since at least then. If I'm happy with this performance, the only reason it would get reduced is by bloat in the OS and apps.
And in this case, his religion was real.
Ok, I snorted. Have your updoot
What are you trying to guard against with backups? It sounds like your greatest concern is data loss from hardware failure.
The 3-2-1 approach exists because it addresses the different concerns about data loss: hardware failures, accidental deletion, physical disaster.
That drive in your safe isn't a good backup - drives fail just as often when offline as online (I believe they fail more often when powered off, but I don't have data to support that). That safe isn't waterproof, and it's fire resistance is designed to protect paper, not hard drives.
If this data is important enough to back up, then it's worth having an off site copy of your backup. Backblaze is one way, but there are a number of cloud based storages that will work (Hetznet, etc).
As to your Windows/Linux concern, just have a consistent data storage location, treat that location as authoritative, and perform backups from there. For example - I have a server, a NAS, and an always-on external drive as part of my data duplication. The server is authoritative, laptops and phones continuously sync to it via Syncthing or Resilio Sync, and it duplicates to the NAS and external drives on a schedule. I never touch the NAS or external drives. The server also has a cloud backup.
Not just GSM - any phone would do it, GSM was just more noticeable (I had a CDMA phone since 1996, all of them did this until about 2006).
I may buy a cheap trinket merely as a memento, so it can hang on a keychain or sit on a shelf... as a reminder of the experience.