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Weeknotes 38

Good evening, morning, or night. Can I perfectly remember everything I've done this week? Probably not. Can I make a damn good effort? Meh, I suppose.

The new(!!) categorisation this week is: "things by price"

What did I do this week...

  1. For Free
  2. For between £0 and £10
  3. For between £10 and £20
  4. For more than £20
  5. The End

For Free

For between £0 and £10

For between £10 and £20

Only one thing here. Maybe I should've picked my category ranges better. But, it's one with a lot of thoughts, so it oughtn't look out of place.

I bought a 1 TB hard drive for my computer. I had a spare spinny disk slot, and who doesn't always have spare SATA ports.

The plan is to use it for backups. I found out about https://syncthing.net/ from https://switching.software/ and am rethinking how I back up files. Instead of putting them on the cloud on Google Drive and OneDrive, why shouldn't I just... store my files on my computer. Ultimately, I only have a few gigabytes, so it seems fine. The only "problem" is losing the data, which is where syncthing comes in.

With it, I can sync a folder (or multiple) between devices, so I can have "all of my files" (i.e., documents) on: my computer, my laptop, my phone (it has a weird amount of free disk space), and my server.

That seems well-enough backup opportunity should any of the devices go kaput. And, it feels good to store my files in my places.

Also, as an optional extra, I might make one folder accessible via nginx on my server, so if I put a file in there, it will sync to my server, and then be available to anyone via a URL to my server. That'd be neat, and pretty easy to set up.

I'm not sure of the best way to lay out my files. Currently, I have four folders: "documents", "exports", "photos", and "server". I shan't explain what they're for, because I'm bored of this now.

For more than £20

The End

note about pronouns: above, I use "I" excessively. This is mainly because I like the pattern it makes for every bullet to start with it. However, most of what I talk about is in fact done with, helped by, or otherwise involved with other people. I thought it was important to note. Society is other people.

try not to fall over

until next week

alifeee

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