confusedpuppy

Frogcomposband is my favourite Angband varient. There's a huge amount of classes to pick from, towns with quests and once you get a hang of it, most of the interactions can be done by the number pad.

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.

A while ago I took the opportunity to go on a working holiday in Australia for 2 years. Somewhere in the first 1/4 of the first year I forgot my debit card's pin number. I couldn't get a new card because I'd have to go to a branch ATM to activate the card. Which was in Canada...

Fortunately I was able to use my credit card so I was able to survive the rest of my time there. As soon as I got back to Canada after my 2 years away, I went to an ATM and bam, remembered my PIN. I was able to get money. Which was great because I had my backpack stolen right before my 3 1/2 days Greyhound bus across Canada to get back home. I question how I'm still alive almost every day of my existence.

Thank you, with the people I'm going with, it'll be a lot of fun :)

I have no idea either, I was just invited out by my my friends. All I know is that it will be Shrek themed. Even the party description is vague on details. Which is fine by me. I like going into something with no expectations.

I think my friend and her partner are going to dress up as Donkey and the Dragon, another one as Shrek and myself as the gingerbread man.

Tomorrow looks like arts and crafts day before we head out for the night :)

Going to a Shrek rave with some friends. It's going to be so silly but I'm looking forward to it :)

I met one of my now closest friends at the end of a Halloween party just as things were shutting down and everyone was leaving.

As she was walking by, she randomly announced that she was going to see a band next week. One that I had already bought tickets for. We talked briefly and exchanged numbers. We saw the band together and hung out a few more times but I think after the third time we hung out, we knew we were best friends.

We both weren't even supposed to go to that Halloween party. Both of us had very different plans and somehow ended up at the party as something to do. The timing for us to meet was just so tiny and it doesn't even feel real sometimes.

https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis

It has a list of Text User Interfaces for terminals. Handy since I work in a terminal mostly with my network devices. A TUI for file management made life a lot easier for myself.

The dark arts is green and pretty

Sounds like what I've been doing manually for a while now as I learn more. For my desktop I have three scripts. One to install Alpine on full disk encryption. One for the initial setup up to the first required reboot and the last for the remaining setup plus transferring files.

I've been learning how to edit files with sed, cat, echo and tee commands to help automate everything from a fresh install.

Similar process for my Pi's except I just copy-paste blocks of commands through a terminal instead of a script.

To transfer files to all their proper directories, I have a whole system for that using rsync. I basically keep a bare-bones directory tree with only the files I have worked on. Then I have an rsync command to send all those files onto the Pi's file system in a way that retains all the files and folder's attributes.

I wrote an rsync tool for myself to help me keep all these commands in files that I can neatly organize. I use that tool so much that it's now my entire backup system. With a bunch of files organized with numbers, I can automate the backup of my phone, two pi's and laptop to a partition on my laptop, then an additional copy to my external SSD in one command. And I have very high confidence in my restores since I do that frequently while testing new stuff. I also failed a lot before to get that much confidence.

I have issues with over organization if you couldn't tell by now hahaha.

Container databases seem as simple as shutting down a container, running a backup and then starting the container again. Although my my experience is only from hosting a Lemmy/PieFed instance. I did make many backups and restores with no issues to the database. It all worked as I intended it to work.

I would imagine a similar process for non container databases. Stop, backup, restart. Although someone with more experience would be better to answer that.

I personally use rsync since I do most my work by command line these days. It's taken nearly half a year really understand it but it offers the flexibility I desire.

I have a small network with only a handful of devices. I keep all my incremental backups on encrypted partitions and encrypted detachable SSD's which I manually decrypt. Rsync is set up to use SSH so there's some form of encrypted transfers but that's not actually a priority for me, just an added benefit.

I also use rsync to sync files and directories while maintaining additional system attributes across multiple systems. That is to say, what's root or user accessible stays root or user accessible after the transfer is complete.

If I desired more protection, I'd probably look into Borg backup. Currently I just use encryption as an annoyance deterrence method. I also stick to the base Rsync command because every other option I tried brought with it complexities which have all failed me. I at least have a high level confidence in my backup/restore process now.