Do you feel guilty when your phone battery goes below 40%?

• Yes, oh shit, I need to charge!
• No, fuckit, let it run dead.

And this is news?

It seems to me that YT has been doing that for quite a while already.

Did you know that corn dogs aren’t made of real dogs?

True story, I wrote the article on it somewhere…

https://lemmy.world/post/26354109

Instructions unclear, shoves a stick up the rat’s ass…

Licensed to whom exactly?

If you gotta space out the link to avoid spam filters, it’s a fucking scam.

I’d describe them as Bo Burnham…

https://youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

Interesting. I’ll tell ya what though, he was anything but a Christian, nor were his brothers.

A huge 3 leaf clover on the side of a dude’s neck, solid filled in green of course. Not to mention the other random tattoos on his face and stuff, but seriously, a 3 leaf clover? Why not a 4 leaf?..

Either Meredith doesn’t even know where the clitoris is, or she just likes things a bit different than most women I’ve ever been with. 🤷‍♂️

I’ll see myself out now.

The way I’m organizing the main backups to start with is with folder names such as 20250505 Laptop Backup, 20250508 Media Backup, etc.

Eventually I plan on organizing things in bulk folders with simple straightforward names such as Movies, Music, Game ROMs, Virtual Machines, etc.

Yes, thankfully I already got all my main files, music and movies backed up. Right now I’m backing up my software, games, emulator ROMs, etc.

Hopefully that drive finishes backing up before the weather gets bad, cuz I’m definitely shutting things down when there’s lightning around…

Thank you, at least someone understands my stubbornness. 👍

That’s just it, there is no setup, except Linux Mint as the main system. It’s literally a physical bucket of discs and drives in all sorts of various formats…

Please do explain then.

I have multiple drives with various differing directory trees.

‘An’ drive? I mean like 10+ drives, looking to do a master backup.

Don’t put it past me, I already have before.

Also, try converting Big Endian vs Little Endian ROM file formats. I spent many months doing that, via goodtools.

I’m not in any hurry to accidentally overwrite a ROM that’s been corrected for consistency in my archives because some automatic sync software might think they’re supposed to be the same file.

Block level dedupe doesn’t account for random data at the end of the last block. I want a byte for byte hash level and folder comparison, with the file slack space nulled out. I also want to consolidate all related files into logically organized folders, not just a bunch of random folders titled ‘20250505 Backup Turd’

I also have numerous drives with similar folder structures, some just minimalized to fit smaller drives. I also have archives from friends, based on the original structure from like 10 years ago, but their file system structures have varied from mine over the years.

Not my code, I didn’t even have internet access when I started programming.

I don’t even want this data encrypted. Quite the opposite actually.

This is mostly the category of files getting deleted from the Internet Archive every day. I want to preserve what I got before it gets erased…

I get the concept of block level reduplication, no problem.

But some of these drives came from friends that reorganized their copy of files their own way, while I took my main branch they copied from and salvaged damaged files.

Ever heard of goodtools? I’ve spent an awful lot of time salvaging corrupt video game console ROMs. I have all of Atari 2600, most of NES and SNES, a number of N64 and a number of PSP games, along with a lot of other stuff.

I ain’t about to play headgames on what I have and haven’t salvaged already, I must keep track of what device stores what, what filename is what, and what dates are what.

I want an organized file/folder structure. I didn’t spend the past 20+ years to trust everything to automation.