confusedpuppy

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confusedpuppy @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4天前

I've been working on a script for the past month which mounts and unmounts encrypted drives from a terminal command line. I've finally reached a state where I'm happy with it and feel it's quite complete.

I made it to help safely automate the backup of all the devices on my home network while helping me feel more secure about my encrypted drives. Mainly by ensuring I still need to type in my passphrase for each encrypted drive and making sure my encrypted drives are reencrypted after the backup data transfer is complete.

I'm now tempted to rewrite my first script in the same format as this current script so that it would be easier to add more features to it that's been sitting in the back of my mind.

4天前

should I go back to my old job now that several people, some of them more knowledgeable than me have told me they don't understand my decision to quit it?

confusedpuppy @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4天前

It may be that people are bothered by seeing someone take decisions differently than they do, they might feel their own decisions being implicitly questioned, so they might be reacting in a way that reaffirms their own values.

In my last job, I rarely worked overtime. My coworkers always gave me a hard time about leaving on time. Always claimed I was leaving early. They had absolutely no reason to treat me the way they did because none of them were in a management position.

A lot of them gave me a hard time for doing a job differently. I was quicker, more organized and often my work quality was just as good or sometimes better than their work quality.

Reflecting on their behavior now that I've left, it's quite clear to me that me prioritizing my personal life over work made them insecure about themselves. Not listening to their forced, unasked and unwanted advice made them insecure about themselves. Working in a way that made sense to myself made them insecure about themselves.

Guess what trend I started to piece together long after I left that awful place. When someone defies another person's personal truth or reality, that has the potential to cause the other person to feel insecure about themselves. It seems like they can't stand that someone else is able to do the things that they themselves are afraid of trying in the first place. Those people would rather drag you back into the same hole they are in. They don't want your personal success or happiness to remind them of their own personal insecurities.

I've spent the last few years learning to be comfortable in myself when dealing with other people's insecurities. Nothing I do will ever satisfy insecure people so I try my best to not let their words bother me. Their insecurities and feelings are not my problem. With those people, I end up giving them short and vague responses until they leave me alone. They don't deserve anything more.

4天前

PSA: Don't use nextcloud's auto upload on the android app as a backup

confusedpuppy @lemmy.dbzer0.com 4天前

There's a few things I backup from my phone.

Music downloaded from Seeker
Youtube audio downloaded from YTDLnis
Backups of Termux
Notes in plain text
Backups from certain apps that make their own backup data
Pictures that I have sorted and want to saved

I have an Android phone so I use Termux as a terminal emulator. I use ssh and passwordless keys to make transfers simpler and quicker.

Although this is closer to a backup process and not like SyncThing where it's syncing a folder between two devices. I don't believe rsync is capable of acting like SyncThing but I'm tempted to dig into rsync more and see if I can put something basic together one day.

5天前

PSA: Don't use nextcloud's auto upload on the android app as a backup

confusedpuppy @lemmy.dbzer0.com 5天前

I do something similar using only rsync. I've had nothing but headaches whenever I used automated file syncing programs. The bare bones aspect of just using rsync has made it a much more consistent experience.

I found using automated file syncing programs have too much complexity under the hood that just seems to lead to more time troubleshooting issues.

6天前

Honestly, we're just looking to go in a new direction with different positions.

confusedpuppy @lemmy.dbzer0.com 6天前

Aaah sorry, I thought the earlier comment initially came off as dismissive towards my friend. All good.

I don't recall what my friend said but dude got kicked out of the glow-in-the-dark mini golf place and she got to have his drink for free before finding her safe friends again. Problem solved itself fortunately.

6天前

Honestly, we're just looking to go in a new direction with different positions.

confusedpuppy @lemmy.dbzer0.com 6天前

She called someone who she trusts in a time when she needed support. I made sure she was safe, calm and around people she felt safe being around for the rest of the night.

Before that night, we became our own little mental health support group so of course I'm going to make sure she feels safe after dealing with some unhinged shit like how that guy was acting.

Also she lives in a different country, her life is her own as much as my life is my own in my own country. It's possible for two people to be friends, care for each other and not expect to be in an intimate or romantic relationship with each other.

6天前

Honestly, we're just looking to go in a new direction with different positions.

confusedpuppy @lemmy.dbzer0.com 6天前

I had a friend call me one night because she said no to a guy and he started threatening to kill himself. Like damn. That's some insane guilt-tripping, manipulative bullshit right out the gate. And this wasn't the first time this happened to her too.

1周前

What useless advice have you had?

After an eventful night, my sister and her (now ex) fiancé told me I had it too good to be sad. Then my sister told me something significant that happened to our family 20 years earlier. She wanted me to feel guilty for something I didn't do at a time when my child brain didn't even start to form long term memories. It was as if telling me all this was justification enough for me to never be sad ever.

Since then she's never tried to have a relationship with me but she puts on a damn good act for everyone else pretending we are closer than we actually are to each other.

She's the main reason why today I'm so good at identifying and dealing with manipulators. Thanks for that, I guess.

1周前

Is not you. I'm just lazy.

Another option that's available is hosting your own Kiwix instance and downloading the Arch Wiki .zim file.

I have a few other .zim's from the Kiwix library including Alpine Wiki, Stack Overflow, Man pages and a full copy of Wikipedia. There's a lot available at that Kiwix library which can make for a good offline digital library.

1周前

they live

Danke für die große Wurst!

1周前

Amber the programming language compiled to Bash, 0.5.1 release

I've been writing POSIX scripts as a sort of hobby and don't really have any Bash experience but I think I can still give some insight. Hopefully what I say is accurate but this is what I've learned so far.

POSIX is a standard, to say it as simple as possible, it sets the minimum requirements for environment, programs, commands and options for those commands with the purpose of having those commands be as portable as possible. That way a POSIX script will work on any POSIX compliant system. For example a POSIX script could work on Arch, Debian, on a Raspberry Pi or even Mac products. In theory if could work on windows too. If an Operating System ships with a POSIX compliant shell, you are very likely able to run a POSIX script.

Bash is a shell but it has a bunch of features that expand beyond the basic features set by the POSIX standard. Bash also has more features and flexibility for scripting which is why it's so common to see Bash scripts. Those scripting features are usually referred to as "bashisms." Since it expands on POSIX scripting, it can look similar to a POSIX script but would not work as intended if you ran a Bash script outside of a Bash shell.

With a lot of modern OS's, they would likely have Bash installed and you most likely don't need to worry about anything. However, Bash is not a standard and not required to be installed on every system.

If you care about your script working on as many systems as possible without the worry about what shell is being used, you will probably prefer writing a sh shell, POSIX compliant script.

Since POSIX shells and scripts work on a much more basic level, it can lack some depth and finding work arounds for issues can start to look unreadable/insane. A good example is how arrays are handled. POSIX is limited to one array where Bash has much better support for arrays.

There are advantages to using either but with the popularity of Bash, it's not really that big of a deal in the end.

1周前

It's Tuesday 12/02/2025. Hey, What's Going On!

It's time to finish or prep my Christmas presents.

I have two wooden mushrooms that I carved and sanded that are ready to be stained. I've been putting it off since October. It's not even that big of a deal or that much of a hassle but brain still procrastinates.

The last present is easier. A small jar of home grown weed. I don't even smoke much weed and prefer to vape. I just like growing weed plants because they are pretty and I really like the smell of the fresh flowers. I air dried them in the unused cold room in the basement this year and it worked amazingly. There was no smell for anyone to complain about and I didn't lose my whole harvest to mold this year.

1周前

Hey, autists. What's something that irritates you that absolutely nobody else/a severe minority seems to care about?

Motors. They are everywhere. Big motors, small motors, motors in every vehicle, motors in many home appliances, fans in many of your electronics, on the ceiling, in the walls, standing on the floors, inside, outside, you can hear them in the sky, or running down the tracks. Noisy, noisy motors and somehow it's all background noise to everyone else but me.

Is it summer time? Want to open a window and listen to the birds sing? Nah, fuck you it's the neighbour's air conditioning unit.

Am I crazy or is the rest of world crazy? Who knows. Here's a motor. Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

1周前

Well... I'm not a crosfitter... Yet...

I'm a north American who is currently around a number of vegans and they've all been quite respectful around non-vegans. These jokes/memes confuse me and one of the ways it makes sense to me is that's it's a projection. A mental twist to give themselves a moral high ground or less guilt to justify all their own talking about preparing and eating meat.

I'm more likely to hear a meat eater complain about how difficult it is to not eat meat. Some that I have been around act like it's the only source of protein available. It gives me the subtle vibe that they can't imagine other people in the world can be healthy by eating differently without meat.

Maybe it was true a number of years ago but I wasn't around many vegans back then so I have no personal experience either.

2周前

words to live by 🙏

My guild had so many tanks and off-tanks that I was always last pick as a tank but I still attended most raids. I made myself useful by getting every alchemy, cooking and first aid recipes along with damage and tanking for "oh shit" moments.

As a warrior, I had access to every gear so I used my first points on onyxia bags for all my bag slots. I carried random gear like the underwater breathing staff, a huge amount of potions (especially running potions), a wedding dress and a flame enchanted broom to beat people with while wearing a wedding dress. I had so many gimmick items to amuse people during any down time.

I had so many points that I suddenly went from a mix of random gear to a mix of really good random gear. It was fun to be a menace in PvP before PvP gear became the norm. Healers loved me because they liked playing with my life and I always quick to protect them. Enemies hated me because I'd get all the heals or I'd be the most annoying mosquito if they attacked my healers.

Lots of good memories from that time but MMO's never hit the same after that game. The people I met during that time were what made that it all special.

2周前

words to live by 🙏

I remember starting a Hunter because they could have pets but got real bored real quick. It felt too easy. After a bit of research, I changed to a warrior. At launch the warrior was the most under powered class.

Solo levelled my way to 60. Took me twice the time to get to level 60 because I kept going on adventures. Made it to Gadgetzan at some ridiculously low level (after many deaths). I also found a bunch of easter eggs before hitting 60 too.

I was allowed to be a DPS warrior in raids and at one point was matching or outdoing Rogues for damage. Used to speed run Stratholme and Scholomance as a fury Warrior because my healers loved the chaotic challenge of keeping me alive.

I had so much fun playing my own way and that probably contributed to why I had such good friends in the guild during that time. I had to quit because the expansions kept adding too much grind and it sucked having all that hard earned gear become pointless every new expansion :(

2周前

It's Thursday 11/27/2025. Hey, What's Going On!

I'm more interested in quality of life mods. I want to get mods that auto organize my backpacks so I don't spend so much time organizing.

I will also make a custom game that lowers food requirements and such so I can focus more on the story and combat.

Not much of an achievement hunter myself but I have 80% already from my first three play throughs. Not planning on running a bard but if I can get Alfira to teach me to play a weapon, I might try to get the 100 gold in tips achievement. I always keep forgetting about that one.

2周前

It's Thursday 11/27/2025. Hey, What's Going On!