In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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Yeah... Heh. We'll make great pets.
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Yeah, it's just a cute riff on everyone's line from Star Trek. "Beam me up Scotty."
Hehe... yeah. I knew it. Just agreein', was all.Quote:
The other one I saved that I find funny is, "No matter how subtle a wizard might be. A knife between the shoulders will definitely cramp his style."
Yes, in regard to that one it is twisted but I like it.
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Yeah, as I say to a lot of people, "I knew that."
And like I said the second one is twisted but malicious. :evil grin:
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Out in a bit on a confused weather day. Sun is out but around clouds. Will take umbrella in case and wear my jacket. Stupid weather.
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Still going as full-on as I can manage.
SIX, your decluttering is a thing of awesomeness!
I hope to follow your example.
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Hehe...
It doesn't feel awesome while I'm doing it. To pack up all the trash and get it outside would have only taken me 20 minutes, but the whole round took two very long days.
It's really nice having all that crap up off the floor and most of it outside staged for trash pickup now.
Maybe I'll get a little painting done today. I dunno though. Been running around here like a chicken with its head cut off for a few days and it's dark and gloomy outside.
I might just mess around on the computer today. Initial backup tests were a failure. After spending a few days moving things and trying to set up a 2nd computer with everything backed up brick-by-brick isn't going to work because of 2 external forces I wasn't aware of until I tried doing it that way.
I've managed to clear off a 500GB hard drive for a cloning procedure which is about 90% done with the 2nd verification step.
Assuming that works as planned, I need to then make some adjustments that I was afraid of messing with when I only had one working system. Once that's done, I'm going to be creating a disk image to clone other drives with, and I should get the result I'm looking for. I'm also in the process of cleaning a 2nd 500GB hard drive for a 3rd test when all of that is done.
ETA: The good news is that even done the wrong way, a majority of my stuff works. I'm also able to make great use of a computer my dad gave me to throw away a few years ago. I'd never seen such a bargain-bin DELL computer before. I knew it was a low-end mini-tower and I wasn't expecting much inside, but I was shocked when I saw the laptop-style plug to it with just a little nobby that goes into the back. This thing is so low power it doesn't even need a power supply.
That thing turned out to be a great way to test this stuff out. It was damn near worthless if you were trying to run Windows on it even back in 2024 or whenever I got it, but it flies with Linux installed. It's still too low-powered to really do much with my stuff, but it will give me valuable data for testing and should aid in the cloning process until I have the final image.
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Heh....
This is where the limitations of my outdated tech really begin to show themselves.
There are more than a few.
I forgot I had a lot of things pointing to my stupid-huge hard drive when it got to be too much data for these little 500GB drives I've been working with, so I kind of spooked myself with the initial results after the clone until I remembered that.
If I had a few spare 1TB drives and everything here was USB3.0, I'd be getting all of this done so much quicker. Now I get to see over the network what went wrong this time. At least network navigation shouldn't be slower than usual while I'm doing it.
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All outside stuff done for today and I really didn't need my jacket and I sure didn't need my umbrella.
Got some papers put away that weren't order. Straightened them out but still more to deal with.
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Man... Symlinks are tricky. (Linux's "System Links", the otherwise vastly superior alternative to Windows shortcuts).
I actually had quite a few more in there by the time I was finished than I thought I'd added. They have become a problem during the clone process, but I just finally figured out not nearly as big of an issue as I feared until only about 5 minutes ago.
The thing is, they're COMPLETELY invisible to end users in Windows. Even when using WinSCP or another FTP program. It's as if they simply don't exist at all.
So what's the problem?
Well... I need those folder locations. A ton of data is built around specific media and data being in very specific folders. So when I try to copy over either legit files, or 0kb dummy files with the full name and extention as placeholders for the huge files on small drives, I don't like seeing Windows give some generic error about the files that I'm trying to copy no longer existing on the drive that I'm trying to copy them from.
Now that I know what's actually going on, I don't believe that is what it was saying, but you can tell that I'm way far enough down the rabbit hole that the people at Windows didn't bother putting the Dummy Gloss over the weeds that nobody but me is likely to get themselves tangled up in.
I finally broke down and had a look at it from the Linux side and yep... There they are. In every place where I'm missing data, it's because I was using Symlinks to the stupid-huge drive for big stuff.
And even though Symlinks are completely invisible in Windows, they're still very much there. Broken Symlinks that point to a huge hard drive that doesn't even exist on this new computer, sharing the exact same name as the folders I need to make.
So I just have to find all of them now and delete them before putting the actual bits I need there for the "Torso".
As frustrating as all this is, I'm really glad I'm doing all of it.
Because of my old tech, my cheap data plan and no ability to maintain a server on my end, things are going to have to go out peacemeal. I already knew that and I've planned ahead for it. The idea is to have everything modular and extremely easy to fit together on the other end.
Like Voltron.
But when all you've left yourself is male ends on everything, nothing joins up.
Oopsie.
At least I figured it out. After the first method of trying to do this failed, I kind of put all my eggs in this cloning basket because I don't have a 3rd idea.
Everything else appears to be fine so far, if not a little slow on this ancient piece of tech (from 2014, I just discovered). Hopefully I'll get to the point where I'm making the final clone image before crashing out.
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Yuck....
Just finished getting some 20 year old soda sugar off my fingers and then I get a good dose of battery acid on them.
I found 4 wireless game joystics in my attic I only vaguely remember buying back when I was at my last good job. Probably stopped using them only because they take AA batteries and aren't rechargable. I was amazed after all these years how well the first one I tried worked, and how easily the system recognized it. I didn't have to dig online for drivers or anything, which was pretty surprising to me considering it's wireless.
Then I tried the 2nd one and the buttons felt like they were glued together with honey. I managed to take it apart and clean it up and put it all back together without breaking anything and now I've got two that work like new without any failed buttons. Sticky all over on the inside. I don't think the fact that the area around the 4 buttons was concave and was basically just a bowl to hold liquid spilled on it until it had time to get inside the controller helped here.
I was drinking pretty heavy back then so I don't want to blame it on my brother, but that doesn't seem like something I would have done.
Leaving batteries in them is though. I opened up the 3rd controller and the Rayovacs insdie exploded all over the place to the point that it was just falling out and onto the floor. Lucky for me, the Duracells I had in the one in the first pair that didn't need cleaning were still intact. You get what you pay for.
I have to test out the other of the two seemingly identical USB recievers and see if it works with this pair. The two sets of controllers are very different, but both of the recievers appear to be exactly the same. I thought maybe they both worked on all 4 controllers, but maybe I just won the initial coin toss and I was using the right reciever for the right pair the first time around.
If I can't get the one that doesn't have battery acid all over it to work, I'm just going to throw both of them out and that will be an easy decision. But if it works, I'm probably going to spend some time tomorrow in the daylight trying to revive the other one.
These things are actually really high quality besides the fact you need batteries for them. I wasn't such a cheapskate back then, so that makes sense. If I can get all these working I'll have 2 backups, but in the meantime it's 2 less cords to trip over in the living room. I've got a nice set of rechargable duracells with 8 AA batteries too, so if I actually wanted to use these things it shouldn't be a big deal.
Nice.
Maybe I'll go through those Kindles tonight too and see which ones I'm going to keep and which I'm going to give away. I don't think I feel like messing with the Fire Sticks right now though. I have a feeling that just testing those out is going to be a PITA.
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Cool. I won't feel guilty about not cleaning out all that battery acid.
I vaguely remembered having wireless Playstation 2 controllers around that point, and these are those (they??? them???)...
That being said, I don't even know where my old PS2 is packed up right now and the receiver dongles might be packed in with that since I double checked and they were not with these controllers. That means that even though these controllers are capable of working on any PC, you can't actually connect them to a PC without an adapter that may or may not exist or some heavy physical modifications I'm not going to be doing.
And I haven't played the PS2 in so long I don't even remember having it unpacked since I've lived here, so it's not like I'm in desperate need of a controller for it where I'd spend hours trying to clean the acid off of it without even being able to test that I fixed it. No thanks. Just more trash is all...
Oh, and I found a DVD player in that crappy old computer that I could remove without leaving a gaping hole in the face plate since the computer had a door for it that stays closed unless the drive pushes it open, so now that thing is super lightweight.
Technically not really junk out of my house though since I plan on giving this thing away anyhow. It will never have need of that drive again, so I just removed it and tossed it out.
Maybe I'll try to get to bed at a reasonable hour tonight. I don't know. I've got a few more hours of actual hand-on work prepping that drive for what will hopefully be my final image, but after that it's just waiting around and I'm running out of other things I'd want to be doing when it's dark outside. I think all I really have is sorting through those kindles and fire sticks on the side at the moment, unless I want to go down in the cold basement and do some more painting.
I dunno... See where the night takes me I guess.
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Quote:Is that all???
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Hehe...
It doesn't feel awesome while I'm doing it. To pack up all the trash and get it outside would have only taken me 20 minutes, but the whole round took two very long days.
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