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hot take on input methods (with sources! that I can't find right now because my brain is out of brainergy) 

mice are difficult to learn and difficult to use, especially for people with injuries or disabilities

this is a major reason why smartphones and tablets have gotten very popular - touch input is much, much less taxing

I need to unfollow people for my own sake, there's too much on my timeline.

If I unfollow you, I'm sorry for doing that to you

me: I should unfollow some people, my timeline's too active
my timeline: almost exclusively consists of my friends and people I find interesting and don't want to unfollow

backup comparison 

hecking neat - the second backup only took 3 minutes

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backup comparison 

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original backup
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Duration: 59 minutes 16.23 seconds

168.86GB → 106.51GB (deduplicated)

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new backup
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Duration: 37 minutes 59.90 seconds

123.01GB → 87.66GB (deduplicated)

much better!

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hey lana.zone is gonna expire in a few days, i'm not gonna renew it, it's $24/yr, does anyone else want it so it doesn't go back to the registrar and possibly gets squatted? i don't want it anymore

backup worked!

but it also backed up a bunch of games, which was wasteful. so I'm doing it again, but asking it to exclude game directories

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trying out backups with borg

I'm gonna go have a shower while I wait, see you later, lovelies

joke with foul language 

did you just call me a bitch? Excuse me???

How dare you...

I'm a botch - I mess everything up

It's important to realize that some things you may think of as absolute truth are in fact subjective and other people's first hand experiences may sharply disagree with yours. The world is a complex place.

fragments of an Alternate Universe :: Computing 

or what if

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