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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Wil Wheaton is a stand up bloke.

    Many years ago I emailed him a horrible email calling him all kinds of names and he replied, in a nice but also boing flip kind of way that really put me in my place. I was a dumb kid at the time, he either figured that out or was just pure class.

    I apologised to him on Reddit a few years ago and he replied saying it was all cool. Wish more people in the world were like that.









  • I have a Nas running nextcloud for general ease of automatically backing up anything important from my phone or pc.

    Nextcloud and important things from the server are backed up using a tool called “restic” which honestly does not get enough mention here.

    Restic is amazing, it supports just about every cloud storage provider out there - could be Amazon S3 or backblaze, but it could also be OneDrive or Google drive. If you’ve got some cloud storage somewhere, restic will probably support it.

    Restic is super clever, it takes snapshots and only backs up any data that has changed - so it’s very space efficient and fast. I back up hourly, it only takes a few mins and if nothing has changed, there cost is also basically nothing. But you can pull back files from any snapshots you keep and when you delete a snapshot, it only deletes data that’s not used by any snapshot.

    This means you can have backups going back months or years at very little data cost. You can restore a full backup, or just a specific file if you need.

    Seriously, restic is amazing and more people need to know about it.