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hit another cool milestone with digital independence... 
got all of my (MAGI01, current laptop) files copied on the new (MAGI02) laptop! \o/

yes i'm a eva nerd lol. the steam deck is MAGI03 fwiw.

for context: MAGI01 is the linux laptop i brought in 2022 or so; and i've always backed it up monthly with my trusty ass 1TB western digital hard drive (since 2009(!)) using ubuntu's native backup system.

i've always backed up monthly (never felt the need to backup more than that) but technically i wasn't quite sure in case if a total crash that it was going to restore everything. thankfully as of today i learned that i can use that WD hard drive and simply copy 01's files over onto 02 as easily as one button click via the very same backup system. (and if the backup drive -> copies over to 02, backup drive -> 01 is fine.)

back when i had to send in MAGI01 (two or so years ago?) to fix the chassis when an old battery swelled, i realized that i was kinda out of luck if my main laptop went FUBAR. so since then, i've wanted a backup fully-useable linux so that way the whole workflow is basically identical if one of the two computers ever dies suddenly.  like if 02 dies? i can switch that day back to 01 and keep drawing lol.

it sounds like a lot but the backup process itself is kinda... stupid simple? two button presses, and then i leave it alone for an hour or three (only that long if it's doing a from-scratch backup, which it sometimes does to avoid file corruption, but it takes care of that automatically).

beauty of it is that if the WD backup hard drive crashes; i have and have successfully used filezilla as a backup-to-the-backup file transfer. :3c (using it to move files to the steam deck, which is another linux). so the only way i would be truly up a creek is very literally 3 computers all goes at once (and i have one more old WD hard drive at a grandparent's house in case if there was a fire, so like, not even that).

AND NOTHING'S IN THE CLOUD, it's all offline and i have to manually approve updates, so no forced enshittification, or creepy surveillance data scanning ♥ ~ eat shit big tech lol lmao

next steps: i don't have the mental bandwidth for it right now after the work of the "full scale" backing up, but next month after the monthly (small) backup, i'll take the time to do the long-awaited update & upgrade for MAGI01 since it's hideously outdated lol. little nervous for that but like, this is why i'm taking all these careful prep steps.

i've had a mini essay in my mind for a bit of the cultural differences between programmers and artists and where the culture clashes with creative work may have come from; with artists having an additive mindset, and programmers taking a subtractive mindset.

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I forgot to do my April links roundup because that month was ~*hairy*~ bandwidth-wise, but here's my collection of links saved from then. :) 

- radio.garden - listen to the radio station...from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world, via web browser. a whole new medium entirely accessible from the seat. (this plus live captioning would be so cool to have in the background while designing something??) 

- understanding snapewives (video essay) - a dear friend tossed this over; found it fascinating, incredibly nuanced, more sympathetic to selfshipping than it looks like on the surface (being one myself) while being able to keep an academic point of view about this (and adjacent) topics.

- text.blogosphere - a HN-skinned curation of (text) blog posts, based on submitted time.

- https://web.archive.org/web/20190731055246/https://tinyletter.com/hypotext/letters/can-humanism-scale - vertigo, scale, systems thinking, made me think about the world in a new way.

- found this blog through the hilarious 'installing every firefox extension (at the same time)' post, and thought the web design rules so much. lots of great web links to peruse through at the bottom. :)

- i was curious if it was possible to reverse-engineer the vague amount of RSS subscribers one has (given my art RSS has been around for a while) while still being privacy-respecting, and it is indeed, somewhat possible.

- IRC channel searcher - want to move to IRC soon, this is a fantastic IRC-general resource blog, but also a way to search up topics and active/popular channels much like google circa 2005. ohhh i want to get my FE-specific channel up there soon...

i am having an utter blast watching DMC S2, good lord, now this is a proper introduction into the franchise. :D  about to watch e4 but procrastinating because i'm screenshotting the shit out of the last two eps currently.

this is going to sound weird but hear me out: in vibes it's almost like if voltron and hellsing ultimate had a baby hellspawn and it was actually really solid. lightly campy (not as much as hellsing; frankly i don't think anyone could make hellsing these days), but in a "modern western anime" vibe sense. no need to watch S1; there's easter eggs to be sure but i went in with no more knowledge than general osmosis from doujin and it's still solid plot wise.

also don't be surprised to see a nell icon here before too long lol