The Haves and the Have Nots have always been at war. Occasionally there are agreements struck, but the Haves always want more.

This exactly. I’d use rsync to sync a directory to a location to then be backed up by kopia, but I wouldn’t use rsync exclusively for backups.

As I approach 40 I’ve been trying to make fashion choices that are something like ‘stylish aloof professor’ but I’m always worried that I end up in the ‘douchebag psuedointellectual buffoon’ category like this chode of a human being.

They are. Lots of motherboards still include these. There are a lot of special PS/2 input devices that are still around in business/industrial settings and gamers sometimes need them for use with flight sticks, steering wheels, mechanical keyboards etc.

Usually it’s a combo port now instead of a separate port for keyboard/mouse.

Your package is set to arrive between the hours of 0 and -2,147,483,647.

Definitely do not do tapes.

I’d also recommend Backblaze. Their S3 compatible storage is pretty affordable. I backup to a Kopia repo and then replicate to Backblaze nightly.

Tapes require so much more work to keep up to date and mght not even be cheaper over time.

I use GarHAge which uses open hardware and software and was pretty easy and cheap too. https://github.com/marthoc/GarHAge

Yup, I messed it up. I edited my post to be the correct way around.

Hemingway used to say “Write drunk, edit sober.” I’ve modernized that a bit for my own personal philosophy:

Code drunk. Debug drunk. Merge drunk.

I guess let me know when the revolution starts or when you figure out how to overthrow the two party system since they are clearly identical and equally bad.

Now I’m a big brain enlightened centrist who can feel good and smart about doing absolutely nothing to help anyone.

Thank you for the information, you can lecture me all about how much worse Democrats are when we share a cell in El Salvador.

I can’t wait to see the exact same argument play out every day in the Right Wing Gulag while a bunch of people try to convince me that the Left Wing Gulags would have been just as bad.

OpenSUSE gives out cute little chameleon plushies and if that’s wrong I don’t want to be right.

I never update my spell book and nothing bad has ever happened.

Help. Infernal imps somehow got inside my sanctum and used my scrying orb to send rude messages to the rest of the Circle.

Normally I could do this ritual with a single symbol but there is no support for primordial glyphs in this arcane framework unless you rewrite the whole thing in Elder Speech.

Okay so let’s accept the premise of this post for a minute: “Both major political parties in the US are equally bad.”

What am I supposed to do now? What action can I take to facilitate change?

I’d argue that this is a perspective that simply isn’t helpful even if true. I think it’s an excuse to tune out instead of getting engaged. I think it’s an excuse to wish for a better future instead of putting in the real work it takes to make systemic changes that can actually improve people’s lives. It’s a perspective that encourages doing nothing because ‘nothing matters anyway’.

I suppose I don’t see that as a productive perspective? You’re not offering any solutions or actions to take to enact the change you want to see besides doing nothing until we collectively figure out how to have a revolution.

The system is flawed. Maybe you’re right that it is fundamentally broken and cannot be reformed but disengaging from voting only supports the status quo and those that are already in power. I think it’s worth it to vote for candidates that share some of the same values as me even if they aren’t perfect while continuing to put political pressure on leaders that are not serving the public effectively. I would vote for someone one day and join a protest against them the next day, I do not see that as a contradiction. That is just being civically engaged.

Also I know I’m probably coming in hot here but I’m truly not mad or upset. I think these are the sorts of conversations on Lemmy that are really great and hard to have in other settings. I appreciate your thoughtful responses. It seems like we’re pretty aligned on what the problems are. I’m very open to solutions that don’t involve harming others but if you aren’t a voter I’d strongly encourage you to consider voting, though I agree that voting alone will not solve every problem.

I have gotten a couple meetings to be something we ‘skip by default’ where we keep it on the calendar but someone only starts the meeting if they actually need something.

Dramatically cut down on meetings without any problems so far. Now it’s just occasional and way shorter because we get straight to business and then drop the call.

Yeah, probably an unfair take on my part to chalk it up to age instead of emotional maturity.

Nihilism is just so unproductive. I used to think that attitudes like that were such a smart and obvious response to the absurd state of the world but it’s just an excuse to not engage with reality or accept personal responsibility.