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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • And no, I have not tested it because I don’t know how I’m actually supposed to do that.

    depends on what you backup and how.

    if it’s just “dumb” files (videos, music pictures etc.), just retrieve them from your backups and check if you can open the files.

    complex stuff? probably try to rebuild the complex stuff from a backup and check if it works as expected and is in the state you expect it to be in. how to do that really depends on the complex stuff.

    i’d guess for most people it’s enough to make sure to backup dumb files and configurations, so they can rebuild their stuff rather than being able to restore a complex system in exactly the same state it was in before bad things happened.







  • This is why i listen to audiobooks or radio plays to fall asleep to.

    They are engaging enough to stop the noise but i can still fall asleep listening.

    Works good for me, atleast most of the time*.

    *Damn you Will Patton for reading Stephen King novells in such a gripping way, you are banned from bedtime listening!


  • I think i have roughly three categories for this.

    Needs: i need food/ my meds/ a train ticket to get to work

    Wants: stuff that i want for me beyond the needs, e.g. hobby stuff like a tripod if one is into photography or dinner in a nice restaurant from time to time

    Desires: stuff thats purely for pleasure. Like candy, or a new phone if the old one is still working or very expensive hobby related material, like that carbon tripod with all the bells and whistles, or material i allready own plenty of, like video games.

    Asking myself if something is still a want vs a desire stopped some impulse buys, but this desires very very tempting





  • https://jsommers.github.io/cbook/cbook.pdf

    Might be a good way for someone who is familiar with a higher level language.

    Than there is of course “The C Programming Language” by Ritchie and Kernighan and “advanced programming in the unix enviroment” by stevens and rago.

    So, i’d guess just get your feet wet with small stuff. Find out how to take arguments from the command line, or read a file, maybe programm a simple guess the number game. After you are more familiar with the syntax and so on you could look into using your c code in a higher level language. For python you’d have to look into ctypes for that.