Thank you, I’m glad people are enjoying them :)

I have to enjoy the little time I have with the family of doves because the babies go from eggs to flying in just over a months time. The parents are usually cautious when I first go outside but become much more lively when eating or playing music. They have such a calm, curious and caring nature about them.

I try my best to keep a garden that will attract lots of bugs, from the soil to the flowers and plants. Without them I wouldn’t have the food I want to grow. Lots of shiny beetles, dragonflies and crazy looking flies have been showing up lately :)

I was burying veggie scraps under the snow and leaves during the winter so it likely came from that, but I’ll keep that in mind when it comes time to harvest them :)

I didn’t add compost to this garden bed this year. I did throw all the household’s veggie scraps into that bed during the winter so it likely came from there.

My new compost pile is even lazier this summer as I just throw layers of veggie scraps with layers of greens from my garden cuttings. I’m pretty sure there’s more seeds in that pile somewhere.

Whatever happens, happens. Surprises are fun :)

Awesome, I had terrible luck starting seeds this year. At least I have something to harvest this year other than cucumbers, tomatoes and red mustard leaves.

My chaos garden is full of surprises this year

Ah, it sounds similar to how I want to set up my headerless Raspberry Pi 5. I’ve been slowly learning tmux as well but it’s nice to have detached sessions. I’ll eventually add WeeChat as a sort of IRC bouncer for myself.

Right now it’s just hosting a simple file server and a copy of Wikipedia. I’ve also been looking at BashWrite and Bash Static Site Generator as a simple command line blog to host for myself.

I quite enjoy the text only work environment. It’s far less distracting :)

Sounds good, I’ll check them out and see where I go from there :)

Yeah I don’t see any huge advantage in using a terminal browser over a full featured browser. However, I did notice that I don’t have to hide all those popup questions when I go to certain websites with troubleshooting questions.

Sometimes I just desire the reading the text without all the visual distractions that is present in our modern internet experience.

What was your experience with a terminal based linux setup? I imagine it as something extremely lightweight at the cost of convenience.

That sounds interesting. It sounds like it’s modular so can be built around extensions?

I’ve been using nano as my editor but I feel like I’m getting to the point where I might benefit from something a little more powerful.

I’ll download it later and see about learning the shortcuts at first. I have a couple other things I’m focused on right now before I get deep into learning and customizing emacs.

Having mutliple purposes in one program does seem convenient and something I would probably enjoy.

I haven’t actually tried anything involving emacs yet. I’m a bit intimidated to learn something new when I’m already focused on other things at the moment.

There’s only so many hours in the day to go down so many rabbit holes.

I can at least have a look at it, thanks for the suggestion.

In 2021, through a person at work I used to be friends with, I began talking to a queer girl from the UK through discord after that former friend bought her a the same game we were playing together. After the first night of us three playing together, her and I began talking.

For the next year, we talked mental health stuff and shared pet pictures with each other. After a year she came forward to tell me all the creepy shit that former friend was saying to her. I witnessed this creepy behaviour through a group video call we all had together. I saw how much it affected her and it really pissed me off. There was a bunch of stuff that happened afterwards but the end result is that we both no longer talk to the creepy weirdo anymore.

Afterwards, her and her partner both asked me to come visit them in the UK. I went and had a great time with them. They both treated me like a person, holding no unreasonable expectations from me and allowed me to just be me. Retuning home felt like I had been punched in the face. Where people labelled me and held me to those unspoken expectations.

After returning home, I looked for a therapist that worked with queer people and people who lived alternative lifestyles. During one of our first few sessions, my therapist gave me a bunch of queer meetup places to check out. It was at a halloween event that I ended up meeting another queer girl who I ended up becoming really close friends with.

Recently she invited me to a pride party at the end of pride month. I felt a bit out of place at first because I was going out with a group of lesbians but they were all welcoming, chill and accepting of me. I had such a great time that night. The more time I spend with my friend and the people I meet through her, the more I got to meet lovely and accepting people.

All I ever really wanted was to be accepted just as I am and it makes sense I could find that in queer spaces. I wish I could have found these queer spaces earlier but I have to remind myself that I’ve been working to undo the damage of capitalism and trauma by myself for most of my life. I could only do so much when the majority of how I treat other people today came from doing the opposite of what awful people do. If I had more examples of good people doing good things, I would have learned good habits faster.

As much as I hate the creepy weirdo that accidentally introduced me to the UK girl, if it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t have been pushed to engage with the queer community more. It would have been nice to meet wonderful people without all the traumatic experiences but it is what it is. At least now I have wonderful people in my life that love me just as I am. And they aren’t afraid to let me know how much they love me.

The dark arts is green and pretty

The uprising “long shot” scene is burned into my memory. It’s so chaotic and tense but so amazingly well done.

As boring as it may be, I prefer to just stick with Canadian produce. My food already has to travel great distances within Canada alone.

Granny Smith apples with dark green skin with white specks are my absolute favourite. Smaller Honey Crisps are my second favourite. I don’t think I get any other apples after those two.

I’ve noticed Canadian grown and commonly available produce in my area also includes rutabagas, radishes and mushrooms. Some greens like romaine lettuce has been available for a few weeks now too.

Unfortunately the majority of produce in the stores around me are still American.

I have a computer and 3 devices I wanted to transfer files between but every available solution was either too awkward which made things annoying, or too bulky with more than what I needed.

I ended up writing a long script (around 1000 lines but I’m generous with spacing so I can read my own code easily) using rsync to deal with transferring files and whole directories with a single command. I can even chain together multiple rsync commands back to back so that I can quickly transfer multiple files or directories in one command. Instead of trying to refer to a wall of text full of rsync commands, I can make something like this:

alias rtPHONEmedia="doas rtransfer /home/dell-pc/.sync/phone/.sync-phone_02_playlists /home/dell-pc/.sync/phone/.sync-phone_03_arbeit /home/dell-pc/.sync/phone/.sync-phone_04_albums /home/dell-pc/.sync/phone/.sync-phone_05_soulseek /home/dell-pc/.sync/phone/.sync-phone_06_youtube"

This will copy everything from a specific folders on my phone, and store them neatly organized into my storage partition on my computer SSD. This also includes all the necessary information including SSH username, address and ID keys.

I can then run alias rtARCHIVEfull="doas rtransfer /home/dell-pc/.sync/computer/.sync-computer_01_archive-full" to quickly copy that storage partition on my computer to my external backup SSD.

I use it so often. It’s especially nice because I can work on a file on my computer and quickly update the file to the remote address location, putting it directly where I need it to be immediately.

I took sudo out of the examples and disabled it by default within the script. I still have a personal use for it.

I keep a local backup on each device then transfer that backup to my desktop. Rsync requires root access to transfer files or directories with certain attributes over ssh. Otherwise the backup copy to my desktop is incomplete.

Fortunately I already coded in a toggle for requesting root since Termux on Android has no root by default. I just won’t note that in the readme file. That can be left for anyone who cares to read the code itself.

I use a lot of commands that either use the --delete option or require remote root access in order to preserve hard links and other attributes.

I didn’t know that was an issue. I was going from my own limited experience with linux.

I already set an option to disable the root requirement at the beginning of the script. Simply changing the value to 0 will disable it and will let rsync display it’s own errors.

What exactly makes it suspect so I know what I’m doing?

They are definitely dead. On the inside.

It took me a long time to be comfortable with the fact that people hated me. I eventually learned that I had the courage to do things they wish they could have done with their time. Instead they worked themselves into a life of constant pain and misery.

Not understanding why I received so much hate was a mindfuck itself. At least now I know I can be proud of my past actions. They were able to target their insecurities. In my opinion, words alone could never reach that deep.

If I spent all my time reaching my potential, I would have never had time to experience life. I know I made the right choices when I look into those dead, judgemental eyes. All the bullshit words in world could never bring a light back into those eyes.

It’s more in my fingers, but I also have a habit pushing myself too far every time I do something. It’s taken me over a year to stop pushing myself too hard when I ride a bike.

Everything in moderation and I’m pretty bad at moderation.