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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • My kmymoney file goes on an old compact flash memory card.

    My home directory (including that file), /etc, databases, and a few other things get backed up weekly on to a USB stick.

    Media raid array is automatically backed up to a large drive in another computer each evening. (The raid5 array isn’t that large. It was when I built it, but now I can buy a single drive that is nearly as large as the array…)

    Pictures are backed up to Amazon’s glacier deep freeze. I pay about $1/month to back up all of my pictures. I intend to put other important things there too but haven’t gotten there yet.



  • I have a computer in the basement that I pretty much only use for Zwift (an online cycling game). For whatever reason it doesn’t have that TPM chip, despite the fact that I bought it in 2021 or so. So it won’t upgrade to Win 11.

    But…it turns out Zwift runs great under WINE…so now it runs Debian with WINE. (Which probably wasn’t my best choice - should have gone with something a little more up to date - but it does work.)













  • Well, no, because there’s currently no way to do so. It’s a highway. But people ride a lot on both sides of the bridge, so it’s a logical connection.

    My bike club did a ride across Maryland last fall, and the Bay Bridge was one of two gaps we could not ride - from the border with West Virginia, to Ocean City. (The other gap was crossing Route 50 near Queenstown, MD - there’s just no safe way to cross the highway there. We got back in the car and got a lift for that.)


  • Here in Maryland, they built a new bridge that had a bike lane planned, then the governor unilaterally removed it. We’re stuck with that decision for 50 years at least.

    I said we should protest by riding across our every day, blocking the right lane (which was the “compromise”). The battle for that bridge is lost, but there’s another bridge replacement on the horizon that’s even more important for cyclists, and we need to make that point. (Bay Bridge)